November 24, 2003

Lewis and Clark Bicentennial

Photos by Don Frazier and Chris Smith

Louis and Clark re-enactors Glenn Kinder of Scott City, Wally Allstun of Cape Girardeau, Donald Clingingsmith of Sedgewickville, Brandon Suchman of Cape Girardeau and Constance Kinder of Scott City chatted while relaxing around their campfire Saturday, Nov. 22, 2003.

Don Louis Lorimier, played by Mayor Jay Knudtson, greeted Meriwether Lewis, played by Scott Mandrell, in front of the Red House on Nov. 23, 2003, two centuries after Lewis first visited Cape.

Re-enactors portraying the men who traveled with Lewis and Clark stood at attention on Sunday.

Three Bears, a member of the Shawnee Nation Indian tribe from Ohio, demonstrated making an arrowhead on Saturday.

From left, Josh Bohnert, Joe Baumann, Aimee Brown, Lauren Cook, and Kathleen Mulcrone, played the part of early settlers.

St. Charles Fife and Drum Corps, of St. Charles, Mo., marched in front of the Red House.

Blacksmiths Bo McCutcheon, left, and John Abernathy made forks.

John Koch of Cape Girardeau, left, explained to a group of people on Saturday how the early settlers used muskets for hunting.

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