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We bring history to you and take you back to
a time when the American Culture found roots through the Citizen
Soldiers who fought to see our young country grow and change.
Today Students and Adults alike can learn more about themselves as
members of various groups that each have their own systems of
belief, knowledge, values, and traditions that have contributed to
the growth and changes this country has seen and those still to
come.
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- Lewis and Clark Discovery Box
Presentation
The Oregon National Guard is using the Army Corps of
Engineer's Lewis and Clark Discovery Box for presentations being made available
free to schools and other organizations.
The Discovery Boxes include period-correct reproductions
of items that Lewis and Clark would have taken - or would have encountered along
the way - on their expedition from 1803-1806. Included in the Discovery Box are
a dress uniform with hat, a beaver skin, a grizzly bear footprint, a journal
with quills and powdered ink, a prickly pear and many other items.
The Lewis and Clark presentation team will bring these
boxes out to any school or adult organization for a free presentation. The team
shows a video presentation, speaks about the history of the Lewis and Clark
expedition and Army Values. The team also sets aside time for audience members
to experience what Lewis and Clark might have seen and done on their expedition
in the early 19th century by allowing individuals to interact with and examine
period correct items contained in the box. The presentation lasts about an hour
and a half, but can be shortened to fit any time frame.
The Lewis and Clark expedition, also known as the Corps of
Discovery, left Virginia on July 4, 1803, navigated and explored the Missouri,
Snake and Columbia River estuaries, and finally reached the Pacific Ocean, where
the expedition members built a fort near Astoria, Oregon, wintering there in
1805. The expedition's bicentennial commemoration was held from 2003-2006, with
Oregon's signature event taking place November 2005 at Fort Clatsop in Astoria,
Or.
If you are interested in having the presentation come to
your school or adult organization, please contact MAJ Alisha Hamel at Alisha.Hamel@us.army.mil,
or by phone at 503-584-2272.
"On behalf of the Board of
Directors for the Lewis & Clark Bicentennial in Oregon (LCBO), I write today
in support of the National Guard's Lewis & Clark educational program."
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Barbara Allen, Executive Director, LCBO
"Dear Major Hamel and
friends, The presentation was great. We'll have happy thoughts of it for a long
time. We loved the maps, too."
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Francie Davidson, Portland Adventist Elementary School
Finally, from the most important critic:
"You Rock! That was the best
presentation of Lewis and Clark EVER! I hope you come back sometime! Here are 5
things I know. 1. Sacagawea was kid-napped from her original tribe. 2. Captain
Clark named his first son "Merry Weather Lewis Clark." 3. They crossed
the Rocky Mountains. 4. York was the only colored man on the trip. 5.
Sacagawea's baby was raised by Captain Clark and died @ the age of 61."
Sincerely, Kayla
P.S. Thanks for the book & the Map
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4th grader at Wilkes Elem.,
Portland
Major Alisha Hamel
Lewis and Clark Special Projects Officer
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The Oregon National Guard has
added a new presentation! The World War II presentation is designed much
like the Lewis and Clark presentation and features Power Point slides,
Stories, and hands on with the World War II Footlocker. The authentic
footlocker contains World War II items that students can pick-up, try on,
touch and feel.
Students can
learn about Oregon’s involvement with the war through stories from the
41st Infantry
Division, the 104th Infantry
Division, Camp Adair and the Oregon bombings.
They can find out why the Army is not mentioned very often in
the Pacific and so much more! They can try on an authentic WWII
uniform jacket and hat, feel an authentic wool blanket used by the
soldiers, play with a “Clicker” a communication device, and other
authentic as well as replica WWII items.
You can contact us at 503-584-2272 or E-mail us at
cherie.cavallaro@us.army.mil
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