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White Bird presents Echoes of Discovery, A Bicentennial Commemoration of the Lewis & Clark Journey. Saturday, September 17, 2005: Project Bandaloop will complete the second of two dance performance movements at the St. John's Bridge and Cathedral Park in Portland, Oregon. The project will feature two site-specific artistic performances from the structure of the St. John's Bridge, complete with lighting and a musical score. For more information, contact Duncan Rotch, Development Coordinator, White Bird, 503.245.1600 ext. 204, www.whitebird.org. (7/27/04)

OMSI Presents New Large Format Film: LEWIS & CLARK: GREAT JOURNEY WEST. Currently showing at OMSI’s Omnimax Theater (Portland, Oregon) at noon, 2, and 4 daily with additional shows at 8 pm on Saturday and Sunday. OMSI’s fall hours begin September 7, during which time the film will show at 4 p.m. Tuesdays through Sundays, with additional showings at 7 pm on Fridays and Saturdays. "Lewis & Clark: Great Journey West" was produced by National Geographic Television and Film and is presented by Eddie Bauer, Inc. in association with the Suzanne and Walter Scott Foundation. The film is endorsed by the National Council of the Bicentennial. OMNIMAX Theater: (503) 797-4640. (7/26/04)

Lewis and Clark Saltmakers Return, July 16-18 and August 20-22, 2004, west end of Avenue U, Seaside, Oregon. Come and meet members of the Lewis and Clark Expedition on the beach as they make salt from seawater. Historical interpreters will be working continuously 24 hours a day from 5:00 PM Friday to 5:00 PM Sunday. The "Saltmakers Return" is a fun interactive learning opportunity for the whole family. For more information, call Fort Clatsop National Memorial Park at (503) 861-2471 ext. 214 or the Seaside Museum and Historical Society at (503) 738-7065. (7/21/04)

The Journey Continues Symposium at Lewis & Clark College. Upcoming events include Encounters: The New Worlds of Lewis and Clark, An Institute for Northwest Teachers, August 8-13. Join Clay Jenkinson, Christopher Zinn, Janet Bixby, and others, in this interdisciplinary study of Lewis and Clark's complex encounters with people, alien landscapes, and self. Encounters is offered free to teachers; continuing education credit is available. See www.thejourneycontinues.org for more details. (7/12/04)

Ongoing Events

OMSI Presents New Large Format Film: LEWIS & CLARK: GREAT JOURNEY WEST. Currently showing at OMSI’s Omnimax Theater (Portland, Oregon) at noon, 2, and 4 daily with additional shows at 8 pm on Saturday and Sunday. OMSI’s fall hours begin September 7, during which time the film will show at 4 p.m. Tuesdays through Sundays, with additional showings at 7 pm on Fridays and Saturdays. "Lewis & Clark: Great Journey West" was produced by National Geographic Television and Film and is presented by Eddie Bauer, Inc. in association with the Suzanne and Walter Scott Foundation. The film is endorsed by the National Council of the Bicentennial. OMNIMAX Theater: (503) 797-4640.

September 2003 - September 2006: Lewis and Clark College Educational Programming. Lewis and Clark College is designing educational programs for adults that emphasize the lasting legacy of the expedition in the context of the American Enlightenment that celebrated the primacy of reason over tradition, fostered the discovery of natural laws, encouraged the collection of objects, ideas, and information. These annual educational symposiums and exhibits will engage diverse audiences in exploring the expedition’s intellectual legacy. During each year of the Bicentennial observance, the College will mount programs around an annual theme.  Contact: Sherry Manning, Lewis & Clark College, (503) 768-7207.

Cargo Exhibit, May 22, 2004 - mid-2006: The Columbia Gorge Discovery Center in The Dalles, Oregon, brings to life the material goods, the science, and the technology of the Lewis & Clark expedition through replicas and period pieces representing the 30 tons of supplies that was required for their journey. For the first time, this inventory will transfer words from the journals to the actual objects transported and gathered by Lewis and Clark. It will open at the Discovery Center in the spring of 2004 and continue through the fall of 2006. Two small components of the Cargo exhibit went up in October, 2003: Indian Presents and Kids Corner. Contact: Renee Walasavage at 541-296-8600. www.gorgediscovery.org

Summer 2004: Cathlapotle Plankhouse Project. A cooperative volunteer group, spearheaded by the Lewis & Clark Bicentennial Committee of Vancouver/Clark County, plans to construct an authentic replica of a Chinookan-style cedar plankhouse at the Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge in Ridgefield, Washington. Archeologists have studied the remains of the six cedar plankhouses that once stood at Cathlapotle and this recreation and associated education programs will enable visitors to explore how the people of Cathlapotle used the natural resources around them for survival. Of special interest will be the actual construction overseen by the Chinook Tribe which will begin this summer. Contact: Arlene Johnson at (360) 906-7110, web site www.lewisriver.com/ridgefield/wildlife/cathlapotle/.

The Rivers Discovery Project will commemorate Lewis and Clark’s journey along the Columbia, Willamette, and Sandy Rivers through the installation of interpretive signs at 14 historically significant sites. Currently, these important sites either do not have signs explaining their importance, or the signs are damaged or inaccurate. The new interpretive signs will describe the Corps of Discovery’s activities at each site, as well as explain the site’s tribal and environmental importance, and they are constructed to last indefinitely. Signs will be installed at Rooster Rock, Lewis & Clark State Park, Dabney State Park, Cottonwood Beach, Portland International Airport, Government Island, Ryan’s Point, Kelley Point Park, Cathedral Park, University of Portland, Post Office Lake, Ridgefield Wildlife Reserve, and Sauvie Island. Contact Angela Sanders, LCBO Project Manager, (503) 234-7023, [email protected].

Sustainable Northwest is planning two “Corps of Discovery” field tours for 60 to 70 business and civic leaders, including elected officials and senior agency staff, representing a diverse range of communities, interests, and perspectives. These will be two- or three-day cruises on the Columbia River, with side trips to sites of interest, designed to provide firsthand experience of the river and the nexus of crucial economic and environmental issues. The objective of this project is to encourage intensive debate of issues by high-level decision makers in a “safe” setting, leading towards a vision-action consensus on sustainability and the future of the region. In addition to the field tours, Sustainable Northwest will host a media exercise geared to focus the public’s attention on sustaining our region’s rich environmental resources. Participating media will commit to assign a reporter to the identified issue, and to publish a specified number of stories over the course of a year—while retaining full editorial control over content. This initiative will involve newspapers, radio, and TV stations for a sustained campaign. These features will be jointly published as a report on the state of sustainability in the region and archived on a central web server. Thoughtful and collaborative treatment of the issues in the media will help move public debate beyond today’s hot button issues to our shared long-term goals for the river and region. Contact: John Harrington (503) 221-6911 ext. 105. www.sustainablenorthwest.com.

Lewis & Clark Landscapes Project: The Trust for Public Land, Friends of the Columbia Gorge and the Sierra Club will co-sponsor a project to build public support for protecting Gorge open spaces through federal land acquisition. Recent legislation has encouraged willing sellers in the Gorge to offer the Forest Service 187 parcels totaling 6,700 acres, including a Lewis & Clark campsite across from Memaloose Island. The Forest Service has three years to make offers to buy these lands or the land will convert to a zoning that will allow more development and increased logging and mining in the Gorge. The goal of the Landscapes Project is to see 3,000-4,000 acres of private lands move into public ownership by 2005. Contact: Kevin Gorman, Executive Director, Friends of the Columbia Gorge, at (503) 241-3762 x104, web site www.gorgefriends.org.

“Sacagawea” Children’s Play: This original Oregon Children’s Theater production kicked off Oregon’s bicentennial commemoration in January, 2003, in Portland’s Keller Auditorium. Dignitaries, educators, parents and children all concluded it a complete hit. Accompanied by the Oregon Trail Band, this one-hour production tells of Sacagawea’s life along the trail to the Pacific Ocean. Plans are being discussed to downsize the production and run it during the north coast’s national signature event in mid-November, 2005. Contact: Stan Foote, Artistic Director, web site www.octc.org.

Educational Programming at Lewis & Clark College: Yearly symposia sponsored by the College at various venues in the Portland area. Contact: Sherry Manning at (503) 768-7207 or [email protected]. For a complete listing, go to: www.thejourneycontinues.org/.

Astoria Column Visitor’s Center: The Friends of Astoria Column have worked for several years to develop significant upgrades to the Astoria Column and its grounds, as well as constructing a visitor’s center on the site. Their goal is to have all the site upgrades completed in 2005. For more information, go to www.oregoncoast.com/Astorcol/Astorcol.htm.

Maya Lin’s ‘Confluence Project’: This bi-state project involves placing Maya Lin-designed pieces in the confluences of the rivers the original Corps of Discovery paddled two hundred years ago. Sites include the confluences of the Clearwater and Snake, Snake and Columbia, Columbia and Sandy, Columbia and Willamette, and Columbia and Pacific Ocean, to name a few of the seven sites. The first structure, a land bridge, will be located at Fort Vancouver and will connect the Fort property to the Columbia, crossing a major highway. All projects are scheduled for completion by 2006. Contact: Jane Jacobsen, Executive Director, at (360) 693-0123 or [email protected], web site www.confluenceproject.org.

2004 Events

Lewis & Clark Explorer Shuttle, June 14 to September 6, 2004: Sunset Empire Transportation District and Pacific Transit System will begin operating the Lewis & Clark Explorer Shuttle for the 2004, 2005 and 2006 summer seasons. The shuttle connects Lewis & Clark sites in the region, including Fort Clatsop National Memorial to communities from Long Beach, Washington to Cannon Beach, Oregon. Purchase tickets at (800) 967-2283 or http://reservations.nps.gov.

July 2004: Oregon, My Oregon, new, permanent exhibit opening at the Oregon Historical Society, 1200 SW Park Avenue, Portland, Oregon. One area is devoted to the Lewis & Clark Expedition.

July 13 and 15, 2004: Oregon Forest Resources Institute is hosting tours of the forests seen by Lewis & Clark. For more information, visit their webpage: www.oregonforests.org.

July 16-18, 2004 and August 20-22, 2004: Fort Clatsop First-Person Interpreter Program. The First-Person Interpreter—or “living history”—program will train actors to portray members of the Corps of Discovery at Fort Clatsop. These actors will, in turn, educate and entertain visitors with reenactments of the Corps’ daily life at the Fort and nearby Salt Camp in Seaside, as well as answer questions about the Fort’s history. Contact Jill Harding, Fort Clatsop, (503) 861-4421, web site www.nps.gov/focl.

July 16-18 and August 20-22, 2004, Lewis and Clark Saltmakers Return, west end of Avenue U, Seaside, Oregon. Come and meet members of the Lewis and Clark Expedition on the beach as they make salt from seawater. Historical interpreters will be working continuously 24 hours a day from 5:00 PM Friday to 5:00 PM Sunday. The "Saltmakers Return" is a fun interactive learning opportunity for the whole family. For more information, call Fort Clatsop National Memorial Park at (503) 861-2471 ext. 214 or the Seaside Museum and Historical Society at (503) 738-7065.

July 18-22, 2004: Teachers eligible for Wallowa Workshop on Lewis and Clark among Northwest Indians. Scholarships to attend a unique multicultural workshop are available, thanks to grants received by Joseph School District. Focus is on lessons learned by Lewis & Clark and the native peoples they met 200 years ago that still apply to students today. The 5-day event is designed so teachers can bring their families for a vacation at Wallowa Lake near Joseph, Oregon. Teachers interested in applying for a workshop scholarship should e-mail Rhonda Shirley, Principal, Joseph Elementary School, or Larry McClure, Lewis & Clark Trail Heritage Foundation.

August 1-6, 2004: Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America: “Lessons of Lewis & Clark: Ecological Exploration of Inhabited Landscapes.” Portland, Oregon. Deadline for applications for symposia is Sept. 15, 2003. For more information, see website at www.esa.org/portland/proposal.html or contact Program Chair Dr. Thomas W. Swetnam, Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, phone (520) 621-2112.

August 8-13, 2004: Encounters: the New Worlds of Lewis and Clark, An Institute for Northwest Teachers, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Oregon. Presented by Lewis & Clark College Bicentennial Programs, Lewis & Clark College Graduate School of Education, and the Oregon Council for the Humanities. For more information, please contact Susie Meserve, Oregon Council for the Humanities, 812 SW Washington, Suite 225, Portland, OR 97205, (503) 241-0543, (800) 725-0543 (statewide), or by e-mail: [email protected].

August 20-22, 2004: Fort Clatsop First-Person Interpreter Program. The First-Person Interpreter—or “living history”—program will train actors to portray members of the Corps of Discovery at Fort Clatsop. These actors will, in turn, educate and entertain visitors with reenactments of the Corps’ daily life at the Fort and nearby Salt Camp in Seaside, as well as answer questions about the Fort’s history. Contact Jill Harding, Fort Clatsop, (503) 861-4421, web site www.nps.gov/focl.

August 20-22, 2004, Lewis and Clark Saltmakers Return, west end of Avenue U, Seaside, Oregon. Come and meet members of the Lewis and Clark Expedition on the beach as they make salt from seawater. Historical interpreters will be working continuously 24 hours a day from 5:00 PM Friday to 5:00 PM Sunday. The "Saltmakers Return" is a fun interactive learning opportunity for the whole family. For more information, call Fort Clatsop National Memorial Park at (503) 861-2471 ext. 214 or the Seaside Museum and Historical Society at (503) 738-7065.

September 2004: Discovering the Rivers of Lewis and Clark, tentatively scheduled to open at the Oregon Historical Society, 1200 SW Park Avenue, Portland, Oregon. Focus on the water route of Lewis and Clark, and the status of those rivers today.

Portland State University: The Oregon Legacy of Lewis & Clark. September 20-23, 2004 and March-September 2005: Lewis & Clark Educational Tours with Portland State University. Tales from the Trail: The Story of the Impact of Lewis and Clark on the Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest. Portland State University is offering a series of four-day tours on the history of the Oregon Territory and the state of Oregon following the 1804-06 expedition led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. For more information, visit their website at www.extended.pdx.edu/lc/.

The Journey Continues Symposium at Lewis & Clark College. Upcoming events include Encounters - Second Symposium in the Bicentennial Series, September 30-October 2. Keynote speaker N. Scott Momaday opens this exploration of the peoples, landscapes, and growing examinations of self that Lewis and Clark "encountered" in the course of their Expedition. Lectures and panel discussions with scholars, a former NASA astronaut, and a contemporary adventurer round out this event. See www.thejourneycontinues.org for more details.

December 2004: Before Lewis and Clark: Mapping the Pacific Northwest, opens at the Oregon Historical Society, 1200 SW Park Avenue, Portland, Oregon. This exhibit includes pre-1805 printed works on early exploration and mapping of the Oregon Country.

2005-06 Events

January 22 - May 29, 2005: People of the River Exhibit, Portland Art Museum. This exhibition, which opens at the Portland Art Museum in January 2005, is the first ever to focus specifically on the magnificent arts and culture of the direct ancestors of tribal groups that today live in the Umatilla, Yakama, Warm Springs, Grand Ronde, and Chinook communities. In addition to objects from the Museum’s outstanding Native American collection, objects will be borrowed from several museums and private collections including the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution; the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago; Burke Museum, Seattle; and Maryhill Museum, among others. People of the River is also the focal point for comprehensive, ongoing, educational outreach programming, including the Discovery Project, an innovative education program that provides a broad perspective on life in Oregon around the time of the Lewis and Clark expedition. Initiated by the Portland Art Museum, the collaborative Discovery Project will bring K-12 school children to Portland from underserved districts throughout Oregon to participate in an intensive two-day program of active learning experiences at the Museum, the Oregon Historical Society, the World Forestry Center, the Oregon Zoo and other organizations. Contact Diane Durston, Portland Art Museum, (503) 276-4314 about the Discovery Project. For tickets and general information: (503) 226-2811, website www.portlandartmuseum.org

Portland State University: The Oregon Legacy of Lewis & Clark. March-September 2005: Lewis & Clark Educational Tours with Portland State University. Tales from the Trail: The Story of the Impact of Lewis and Clark on the Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest. Portland State University is offering a series of four-day tours on the history of the Oregon Territory and the state of Oregon following the 1804-06 expedition led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. For more information, visit their website at www.extended.pdx.edu/lc/.

Spring 2005: Tribal Lifeways Technology Exhibit. This live, interactive presentation is sponsored by the Tamástslikt Cultural Institute which is the museum and cultural repository for the Umatilla, Walla Walla and Cayuse Tribes located near Pendleton, Oregon. The exhibit will be in an outdoor environment where visitors will see the Tribal culture, with its ancient traditions, alive and talking. Literally talking, as Tribal members skilled in those traditional crafts and arts, will discuss their activities with the visitors, answering questions and informing them. The Village will include several mini-encampments flowing in a circular progression through time. Village staff interpreters will treat visitors to the sound and interpretation of the Native language, as they present information. The immediacy of the experience will provide the opportunity for visitors to engage in extended dialogue with the interpreters while learning about Tribal survival technologies and traditions in much the same manner as the first non-Indian visitors did. Contact Charles Denight, (541) 966-1973, web site www.tamastslikt.com.

April 2005: Lewis and Clark Exposition opens at the Oregon Historical Society, 1200 SW Park Avenue, Portland, Oregon. With posters, photographs and memorabilia, this exhibit looks at the 1905 celebration that helped shape a city.

SOLV’s ‘Down by the Riverside' Program: May 22, 2005 (& 2006): This annual statewide waterway enhancement, cleanup and appreciation project began in 1996 after record flooding hit the state leaving behind tons of debris. In 2004, 2005 and 2006, SOLV’s volunteers will cleanup vast swathes of both the Oregon and Washington sides of the Columbia River in time for the surge in tourism along the river during the bicentennial. Contact: Erin Peters at: (503) 844-9571 or go to their website: www.solv.org.

August 5-10, 2005: 37th Annual Meeting, National Lewis & Clark Trail Heritage Foundation, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Oregon. Accommodations, meetings, public forums and final banquet will held on the college campus. Pre-conference meetings of the National Lewis & Clark Bicentennial Council and the board of directors of the foundation will also take place on the campus. Pre and post field trips are being planned around the conference theme “Gateway to the Pacific”. Chairman have been assigned for the various committees and brain-storming is underway to finalize programs, speakers, field trips and coordination with the Washington State Chapter of the foundation. Approximately 13 to 15% of the 2700 members will attend. Contact: Oregon Chapter President, Jay Rasmussen.

White Bird presents Echoes of Discovery, A Bicentennial Commemoration of the Lewis & Clark Journey. Saturday, September 17, 2005: Project Bandaloop will complete the second of two dance performance movements at the St. John's Bridge and Cathedral Park in Portland, Oregon. The project will feature two site-specific artistic performances from the structure of the St. John's Bridge, complete with lighting and a musical score. For more information, contact Duncan Rotch, Development Coordinator, White Bird, 503.245.1600 ext. 204, www.whitebird.org.

Fall 2005: Fort-to-the-Sea Trail. The National Park Service plans to construct a 5-1/2 mile Fort-to-the-Sea Trail replicating the route taken by the Corps of Discovery as they traversed the landscape around Fort Clatsop Memorial near Astoria, Oregon, down to the Pacific Ocean. Although the trail has been planned since 1955, the upcoming Bicentennial has focused attention on making this trail a reality. Ribbon-cutting is scheduled for the fall of 2005. Contact Jill Harding, Fort Clatsop, (503) 861-4421.

Fall 2005 & Spring 2006: Corps of Discovery II. Corps II, as it is commonly referred to, is a traveling exhibit highlighting the tribes that Lewis & Clark encountered along their journey sponsored by the National Park Service. It’s composed of two tents. One is an exhibit space where visitors use hand-held audio guides as they view pictures of the various tribes the Corps of Discovery encountered 200 years ago. The second tent, The Tent of Many Voices is a venue for artists, musicians, lecturers, etc. The Corps II tents are hosted along the Lewis & Clark Trail by communities large and small and are scheduled in communities roughly 200 years after the original Corps visited the areas. For a complete schedule, by location, of the Oregon and Washington sites, contact Barbara Allen at 503-768-7444. For general information on Corps II, go to www.nps.gov/lecl/CorpsII/Corps2.htm.

November 11, 2005 - March 11, 2006: Lewis and Clark: The National Bicentennial Exhibition. The Oregon Historical Society will be the only museum on the west coast to host the most unique, exciting, and comprehensive exhibit of Lewis and Clark Expedition artifacts, artwork, and documents ever assembled. This project’s focus on exhibition fabrication, education program development, and visitor service activities is designed to enhance the public’s understanding and the appreciation of these cultural resources. When Lewis and Clark: The National Bicentennial Exhibition opens in Portland on November 11, 2005 for its four-month show, at least 125,000 visitors will cherish hundreds of Lewis and Clark national treasures, reunited for the first time since the 1804-06 journey. Contact: Sharon Blus at (503) 306-5229, web site www.ohs.org.

November 11 - 15, 2005: Destination: The Pacific. This is Oregon’s Bicentennial Signature Event, one of 14 sanctioned by the National Council of the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial. Contact Destination: The Pacific at (503) 861-4403.

Link to more Signature Event information.

2005 - 2006: Corps of Discovery II. The National Park Service’s traveling education exhibit will recreate the journey of Lewis and Clark by retracing the original historic trail on the dates chronicled in the journals, 200 years later. This exhibit will make its debut in Oregon in 2005-2006. Actual sites and venues are still being determined. Contact: Carol MyBryant, NPS, (402) 514-9311.

2005 - 2006: Tamástslikt Cultural Institute Projects and Exhibits. Currently in the formation stages, Tamástslikt Cultural Institute is creating a small-scale interpretive drama based on the negotiations of the Walla Walla Treaty of 1855 and the modern impact the resulting treaties have had on Native American tribes today.

Conferences

2004: October 22-24, 16th Annual Washington State Heritage Conference in Richland, Washington themed “Lewis & Clark: Tools for Planning, Partnerships, and Opportunities.” For more information, contact Gary Schalliol at (253) 377-6278.

September 27-October 2, 2005: National Trust's National Preservation Conference, Portland, Oregon. For more information, visit their website at www.nationaltrust.org. (6/11/04)

Calendar updated June 23, 2004