Show Me Center
Tuesday, May 7 7:30-8:30 a.m. -- Registration, coffee
8:30-8:45 a.m.-- Welcome and introductions: Doug Eiken, executive director, Missouri Lewis & Clark Bicentennial Commission
Opening remarks: To be announced
8:45-9:30 a.m. -- Opening presentations:
Lewis and Clark in Southeast Missouri -- Jim Denny
Red House Interpretive Center -- Jane Randol Jackson
Mississippi County Lewis and Clark activities -- Silvey Barker/Tom Graham
9:30-10:15 a.m. -- National events and statewide activities (Part 1):
St. Charles Re-enactment Group -- Peter Geery, Discovery Expedition
Corps of Discovery II in Missouri -- NPS, to be announced
Missouri Historical Society traveling exhibits -- Dr. Robert Archibald, Missouri Historical Society
Secretary of State map exhibit -- Dr. Ken Winn, Missouri State Archives
10:15-10:30 a.m. -- Break with coffee, juice and snacks
10:30-11 a.m. -- Diversity and the Lewis and Clark Commemoration -- Sheila Bercier-Liese and Dr. Barbara Woods
11 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. -- National events and statewide activities (Part 2):
Lewis & Clark Bicentennial Commission Task Force activities -- Frank Wesley, Missouri Lewis & Clark Bicentennial Commission
Agency updates -- Various agency representatives
Illinois Lewis & Clark Commission activities -- Brian Widaman, Illinois Lewis & Clark Commission
12:15-12:45 p.m. -- Lunch
12:45-1 p.m. -- Networking and exhibit hall
1- 2:45 p.m.
Forum No. 1, Mississippi River events coordination
Forum No. 2 -- Educational opportunities
Forum No. 3 -- Addressing diversity within Lewis and Clark activities
2:45-3:15 p.m. -- Break
3:15-4 p.m. -- Forum reports, questions and answers
4-4:15 p.m. -- Closing remarks
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