January 2008 LEWIS & CLARK TRAIL HERITAGE FOUNDATION--OREGON CHAPTER

Newsletter Date Oregon Chapter—Lewis & Clark Trail Heritage Foundation

January 2008 President’s Corner

• President’s Corner: Larry McClure Our well-attended Holiday dinner was another great success, thanks in large • Fort Vancouver 2/9 measure to Dick & Cathy Hohnbaum • Visit the website and the authentic beaver and bear www.or-lcthf.org tastes and spirits brought by Keith Hay • Time to Renew! and Mike Carrick. The 2007 annual Check your mailing label

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Speaker Bob Cromwell and chapter president Larry McClure at the Holiday Dinner.

Inside this issue: meeting at L & C College was another reminder that our work to protect and interpret the Trail never ends. Chapter Activities 2 We had to postpone our scheduled Former chapter president Keith Hay provided welcome for David Szymanski, new PCC Offering 2 authentic Lewis & Clark Trail fare: elk, duck, Archaeology Courses deer, beaver, bear, and—supposedly—dog. (Continued on page 3)

2008 Chapter Events- 2 Save These Dates Behind-the-Scenes Tour of Fort Vancouver — February 9 Our behind-the-scenes The tour will include a tour, will be at the nearby Time to Renew Your 2 Membership for 2008 tour of Fort Vancouver short lecture about the Grant House. Tour cost: will begin at 10 AM on history of the fort, a $5; buy your own lunch. Inventory Project 3 Sat., 2/9/08. We will visit to the archives led For more reservations con- view some of the 2 mil- by the chief curator, tact Thelma Haggenmiller Chapter Board 3 lion artifacts in the fort’s and a guided tour at 503-659-5590 or collection and learn around the fort’s inte- thelma.haggenmiller Wintering Over at 4 Fort Clatsop about their significance. rior. Lunch, after the @msn.com. Oregon Chapter—Lewis & Clark Trail Heritage Foundation Page 2 TIME TO RENEW! CHAPTER ACTIVITIES If your label shows “2007”, send your EXPLORE MORE! For more information 2008 membership and to share YOUR ideas dues ($10 individual, Thelma Haggenmiller about potential Explore $16 family) to: and Lyn Trainer have More! activities, contact Glen Kirkpatrick launched Explore More!, Thelma Haggenmiller a series of chapter trips at 503-659-5590; 32523 S. Wright Rd. which will include a Thelma,haggenmiller Molalla, OR 97038 Lewis & Clark connec- Mark Johnson, Margaret- @msn.com, or tion but also help mem- Miller, and Sid Stoffel Lyn Trainer at bers learn about other after the July 2007 Ca- melendym2004 historical and cultural noe Paddle—another is @yahoo.com events that happened scheduled for 7/19/08. since that time.

Wintering-Over at PCC To Offer Archaeology Sessions Fort Clatsop (see p. 4) Curious about Pacific Archaeology” taught by For those who want to Northwest archaeology? experienced archaeolo- dig further, a training on Joseph Field (Phil Huff), William Clark (Tom Learn more at two gists, will include archae- field excavation and Wilson), George Gibson courses sponsored by ology basics as well as in- methods, site mapping, (Mark Johnson), and Oregon Archaeological formation on artifacts, cataloging, and Seaman (Dolly) at the gate of the new fort with Society. laws and ethics, North- compass reading will be Nathaniel Pryor (Matt west archaeology and held on four consecutive Hensley) and George “Archaeology for the rock art, stewardship and Saturdays beginning Drouillard (Jim Curious” basic training volunteering. Feb. 16. Class size is lim- Phillips) in the parade series will be offered ground. ited—reserve early. For 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Feb. 2 Participants should questions or reservations, and Feb. 9 at Portland bring their lunches to Oregon Chapter contact Jennifer Kozik, Name Badges Community College’s each session and arrive at 503-645-5353 or jennifer- Rock Creek Campus 9:30 a.m. for the [email protected], or visit Send $10 and your building 7 room 121. first class in order to www.oregonarchaeological.org. name (as you want it check in and pick up to appear) to Dick This “Introduction to course materials. Hohnbaum, 6916 Pacific Northwest Wheatland Lane N., Keizer, OR 97303 2008 Chapter Events — Save These Dates and Check the Website! Feb. 9 Fort Vancouver May Cathlapotle Plank July 19 Canoe Paddle Archaeology Tour (see p. 1) House and Archaeology Visit our website for April Columbia Gorge June Sauvie’s Island more details, and contact Wildflower Tour Hike and Tour Larry McClure with ideas or offers to help! January 2008 Page 3 INVENTORY PROJECT PROCEEDS ON Chapter Board www.or-lcthf.org Our chapter is collecting Please visit the chapter There is far more information on over 100 website for full informa- Officers: L&C information Oregon L&C sites, cen- tion about the project. Larry McClure, President ’09 Doug Erickson, Vice President ’08 available on our ters, collections, artwork, http://or-lcthf.org/ Ted Kaye, Secretary ’09 trails, and other related Projects/Inventory.html Dick Hohnbaum, Treasurer ’08 website! locations. Through on- Ted Kaye is leading this Directors: Please check it for the site visits, Chapter volun- Mike Carrick ’08, Gentry Cuts- teers are completing a project. Contact him for forth ’09, Thelma Haggenmiller latest updates on comprehensive data sheet details: ’10, Keith Hay ’10, Mark John- Chapter activities. [email protected]; son ’08, Glen Kirkpatrick ’09, and providing images, Ellie McClure ’08, Lyn Train- We’ll be sending fewer text, and observations 503-223-4660). er’10, Roger Wendlick ’09 about site conditions. Ex Officio: Ken Karsmizki postcards, so watch

We hope to complete the Please contact Larry McClure if the website for you have interest in serving on the project by the end of Chapter’s board or committees. updates! Summer 2008.

PRESIDENT’S CORNER … continued

(Continued from page 1) another reason we need to to the seat that Don had be vigilant. Proposed new vacated. superintendent of the federal interstate highway National Lewis and Clark rules recommend elimina- As we enter the Third Historic Park, who tion of signs that mark Century commemorating needed to stay at Fort historic trails. This would the Lewis and Clark Join our national Clatsop that week to mean we would no longer story, we now have a organization of oversee cleanup from see the “pointy finger” new book tracing the Keepers of the Story, fierce storms. Yet we did logo that so long has history of the fort at the Stewards of the Trail. enjoy an enthusiastic marked the Lewis and mouth of the Columbia. Fort Clatsop: Rebuilding an presentation by Bob Clark journey along I-5 Student Membership $30 Cromwell, an archaeolo- and I-84. Icon is well written by a Individual $49 gist at Fort Vancouver, Daily Astorian team. Family/International: $65 At the annual meeting, who traced the history of I look forward to the www.lewisandclark.org archeology at Fort Clat- two officers and two direc- tors were elected to new challenges that lie ahead has more information sop, including his own in 2008—particularly the about Publications, fascinating work there. terms, and we bade fare- well to hard-working direc- “Explore More” activities Library & Archives, Our member Glenn Har- tor Don Eppenbach, from proposed by new board Chapters, and Trail rison, who is also presi- Irrigon, who had retired members Lyn Trainer Stewardship. and Thelma Haggenmil- dent of the Oregon- after serving a record three National Headquarters Office California Trail Associa- full 3-year terms; Thelma ler. See you on the P.O. Box 3434 Trail! Great Falls, MT 59405 tion, has just alerted us of Haggenmiller was elected 406- 454-1234 888-701-3434 Oregon Chapter—Lewis & Clark Trail Heritage Foundation

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Lewis & Clark Trail Heritage Foundation

6916 Wheatland Lane N. Keizer, Oregon 97303

www.or-lcthf.org

January 2008

Wintering Over at Fort Clatsop Draws Big Crowds

Over 600 visitors partici- this site in December modern “conveniences”—- to The best way to interact pated in the December 1805 as the expedition them it is December 1805. with the people you meet 28-30, 2007 Wintering members are settling into The soldiers speak English during your visit is to carry Over event at Fort Clat- their nearly completed even though it is a second on a conversation just like sop, a first-person living Fort Clatsop winter camp. language to some of them, you would with anyone else history program. Corps Imagine yourself entering but not all of the civilians you’ve just met. Think members were portrayed a different culture. use much English. Feel free about what you would ask by members of the to take pictures. But, don’t a member of the Lewis & Pacific Northwest Living ask the members to pose for Clark Expedition. Historians (a segment of you—they won’t understand Destination: the Pacific). what you are talking about. Visitors were told... Direct any questions you How to interact with the A young visitor, Elias have about the expedition Expedition Members: Harding-Coe, trades with after December 1805, other William Clark (Tom Wilson). post-1805 history, or any Forget about the modern Bravo to the staff and In your interactions, travel questions about the things like the parking lot. interpretive volunteers remember the characters area, to the uniformed Imagine yourself visiting at Fort Clatsop! don’t recognize any of our guide.