Keepers of the Story, Stewards of the Trail SM
Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation
2020 Annual Meeting
Home Places and New Spaces
August 3-5, 2020
- Virtual Tours
- Lewis & Clark Exploratory Center
- Monticello Visitor's Center
- James and Dolly Madison's Montpelier
- Charlottesville’s Downtown Mall
- "Home Places and New Spaces" a film featuring homes and sites of key expedition people.
- Presentations
- Dr. Elizabeth Chew answers "What happened to the University of Virginia Lewis and Clark artifacts".
- "A Vote for Democracy: Online Learning," by Alexandria Searls.
- Dr. Jeffrey Hantman presents "A contemporary view of Monacan country in 1803" with overviews of what came before and after for Native Americans in Virginia
- "The Corps of Discovery and Thomas Jefferson: Prehistory and Aftermath," the third annual Moulton Lecture delivered by Dr. J. Jefferson Looney
- "Re-imagining America: The Maps of Lewis and Clark," by Carolyn Ives Gilman.
- Happy hour with shared historic recipes
- Exclusive online auction
- Awards ceremony
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Proceed Online
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