A Lewis and Clark year

Tuesday, April 29, 2003

For one weekend in November, the historic buildings in downtown Cape Girardeau will have some company from the past. Women and bearded men wearing 1803 fashions will walk about downtown, street musicians will play popular tunes of the day, horses and wagons and mules will parade down Main Street, the Mass that Sunday at Old St. Vincent's Church will be celebrated in Latin, and two men resembling explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark will arrive at founder Don Louis Lorimier's trading post called the Red House.

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