An Evening with Dayton Duncan
7:30 - 8:30 pm March 30, 2004
Gaiser Hall, Clark College, Vancouver
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Clark College, as a lead agency with co-sponsorship from the Washington
State Historical Society, Lewis & Clark Trail Heritage Foundation,
Lewis & Clark Bicentennial Committee Vancouver/Clark County, Bank
of Clark County and the Clark College Foundation, are proud to sponsor
an evening with Dayton Duncan, scheduled for Tuesday, March 30th between
7:30 - 8:30 PM in Gaiser Hall. This event is free to the public. Duncan
will speak on the Corps of Discovery's historic vote at Station Camp,
where Lewis & Clark broke from military protocol and encouraged each
corps member to vote on their choice for the location of the 1805-1806
winter camp. "The Vote" is considered to be a historic event
in the evolution of American Democracy and Duncan will comment on how
it defined the development of the Corps of Discovery and its relationship
to America's future. Duncan is an award-winning author and filmmaker. He
is the author of nine books, including Out West: A Journey Through Lewis
and Clark's America;
Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery; and the forthcoming
Scenes of Visionary Enchantment: Reflections on Lewis and Clark. For
more than a decade he has also been involved with the documentary filmmaker
Ken Burns as a writer and producer. He and Burns collaborated on acclaimed
PBS documentaries such as Lewis & Clark, Mark Twain, The West, and
most recently, Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip. He is currently
at work with Burns on a major documentary series on the history of the
national parks.
Dayton Duncan was born and raised in a small town in Iowa,
then went east for college, graduating from the University of Pennsylvania
with
a degree in German Literature. From there he went to New Hampshire,
where he worked for The Keene Sentinel as a reporter, editor and editorial
writer. Articles by Duncan have appeared in the New York Times, the
Boston
Globe, the Chicago Tribune, the Old Farmer's Almanac, and American
Heritage magazine. He also has been a fellow at Harvard's Shorenstein
Center for
Press, Politics and Public Policy. In 1998, President Clinton appointed
him as chairman of the American Heritage Rivers Advisory Committee;
and Secretary of Interior Bruce Babbitt appointed him to the board of
directors
of the National Parks Foundation.
Dayton Duncan lives in Walpole, New
Hampshire with his wife, Dianne, and two children.
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