Date: February 6, 2021

Time: 01:00 PM - 08:49:36 PM

Leading: Glen Kirkpatrick

Phone: 503-829-4292

Email: glen9774@gmail.com

Online Event via: Zoom

Dec 6th, 3:00PM Pacific 

Please join us via Zoom for our annual meeting, featuring Mark Jordan, who will speak on “L&C’s Near Misses”.  Following the presentation, Oregon Chapter President Glen Kirkpatrick will preside over our annual meeting.

How Lucky are those Men — and Women? Mr. Jordan will tell stories about near disasters that could have ended the Expedition or significantly compromised its ability to succeed or resulted in the death of its participants. What danger or disaster lurked for the Expedition? Does one of the Captains almost die? More than once? Does their fully loaded keelboat almost disappear? Could they have lost Sacajawea? Grizzly attacks? Fierce savages? What kind of serious accidents did they narrowly avoid? Is it true that only one man died? Learn about these exciting adventures of 31 men, one teenage girl and her infant son.

Mark Jordan has scoured the journals and the literature of the Lewis and Clark Expedition for the last 35 years. He has traveled the explorers’ route in car, on foot and in his canoe. He has written about the expedition and has lectured at the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation meetings both nationally and locally.  He has taught the Expedition at the California State University of the East Bay, the University of South Carolina Beaufort, Santa Clara University and the University of California Berkeley for the Osher Life-Long Learning Institute. Mr. Jordan has extensive wilderness experience, having canoed across Canada to Hudson Bay, and on other rivers in Canada and the United States. In 2020, he was awarded the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation Meritorious Achievement Award for bringing the Expedition to a broad public.

[Past Event: Zoom Connection Info Removed]

Date: from 2020-8-27 

Time: 01:00 PM - 2:30 PM 

Coordinator: Glen Kirkpatrick 

Coordinator Contact: 503-829-4292, glen9774@gmail.com 

Leader(s): Sarah Cawley, Lou Ritten 

This will be a Zoom virtual meeting (details to join below)

Sarah and Lou will present ideas for the future of the National LCTHF and its relationship to local chapters.

• Please bring something for our annual silent auction.

"The Literary Corp of Discovery: The Impact of Lewis & Clark and the American Imagination" presented by Library Director Doug Erickson. From Thomas Jefferson's hand-selected traveling library for Meriwether Lewis, to the artistic and literary impact of the Corp of Discovery on 19th century America, the Lewis & Clark Expedition has had a rich cultural history. This talk will explore these areas using multiple visual and textual examples of the influences and effects of America's most famous expedition.

Doug Erickson is the Library Director of the West Linn Public Library Previous to his present position at West Linn, Doug Erickson had been Associate Director of the Watzek Library, and Head of Special Collections and Archives at Lewis & Clark College from 1991-2015. He is co-author of five books including, William Stafford : an Exhibit Catalog and Bibliography (Lewis and Clark College: Ash Creek Press, 2000), The Literature of the Lewis and Clark Expedition A Bibliography and Essays (Lewis and Clark College, 2003), and Jefferson's Western Explorations: Discoveries Made in Exploring the Missouri, Red River and Washita by Captains Lewis and Clark, Doctor Sibley, and William Dunbar (Arthur H. Clark, 2004). William Stafford, A Bibliography, (Oak Knoll Press, 2013)

He has curated, lectured, and written text for exhibits on the American West that have been mounted at the Library of Congress, M.I.T, University of Virginia, CUNY- Graduate Center, The Jefferson Library at Monticello, American Philosophical Society, Academy of Science, Boston Athenaeum, University of Washington, University of Oregon, and The University of San Francisco. Doug has also been on this American Life, OPB, and Good Morning America, and been a research consultant for ABC Entertainment, PBS, HBO, Ken Burns Florentine Films, and other media and entertainment outlets.

Doug has served as a consultant for academic researchers and organization including, The Smithsonian, The Library of Congress, National Public Radio, Yale University, The University of California-Berkeley, and Stanford University. He has also taught courses on the American West, as well as on Archives and Special Collections at Portland State University, Emporia State University, and the University of Illinois, and been a consultant to many government agencies, universities and colleges, business, and non profits regarding Lewis and Clark, Archival Management, Books, and Libraries.

He is the past president of the NorthWest Area Archivists Association, Mountain Writers Series, and past vice president of the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation's Oregon Chapter.

More Info: http://westlinnoregon.gov/library/hours-and-directions