Speakers/Chatauquas
Interpretive Performance
Native Plants
Jerry/Mike Igo
P.O. Box 603
Mosier, OR 97040
This father and son team is members of the Native Plant Society of Oregon. Both are available for step-on guide services as well as speaking on the plants and work done at The Rock Fort Campsite by The Native Plant Society. Jerry Igo is a retired historian and botanist. He has lived in the Pacific Northwest for 70 years and has traveled extensively in this magnificent land. He has traveled the Lewis and Clark Trail by foot, bicycle, kayak and car and recorded the Scientific Collections of the Corps of Discovery 1804-1806, all videotaped where the expedition found them. For information or to book either of this team for a speaking engagement, write to the above address. The video is currently available at:
The Columbia Gorge Discovery Center
5000 Discovery Drive
The Dalles, OR 97058
(541) 296-8600
Interpretive Speaker
John Phillip
660 Carroll Rd.
Mosier, OR 97040
541-478-3743
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Experienced step-on guide services speaking on the Lewis and Clark and the Corps of Discovery 1804-1806, local farming practices, local river history, Native plants, and many other Mid-Columbia Region interesting facts and figures. Call me to provide your group a fun, yet educational tour of the Mid-Columbia area.
Sacagawea
Joyce Badgley Hunsaker
P.O. Box 772
Baker City, OR 97814-0772
(541) 523-2718
Each hour-long performance is scripted from documented historical sources. Research specific to subject matter in each locale is included, when possible. Performance is presented in first-person, costumed and propped in era-correct staging. Includes Q&A, plus bibliography sheet and suggested activity sheet for teachers and administrators.
Sgt. John Ordway
Arch Ellwein
P.O. Box 333
1005 15th Street SW • Sidney, MT 59270
(800) 482-5109
Sgt. John Ordway speaks in first person quoting from his own journals accompanied by music and sounds authentically reproduced by Makocke Recording Co. of Bismark, ND. The script includes asides based on other sources besides Ordway's journals. Props and costumes used in performance.
William Clark
Ritchie Doyle
911 ½ Cooley
Missoula, MT 59802
(406) 543-8463
The Recollections of William Clark: Mapping an American Empire is a living history presentation performed in period costume. It brings the audience face to face with Captain Clark.
Eddy Edmo
Native American Consultant
9430 N.E. Prescott
Portland, OR 97220
(503) 256-2257
Native American Storyteller, Eddy Edmo specializes in Northwest Tribal Legends, Poetry, Historical Drama and Workshops.
Music
The Trail Band Presents Lewis and Clark
Marv Ross
P.O. Box 5
Lake Oswego, OR 97034
(504) 636-0740
The Trail Band's performance, Lewis and Clark, features instrumental and vocal music from and about the era of the 1803-1806 expedition. Early American folk songs, French Canadian fiddle tunes, and classical works from Jefferson's library.
Charles Littleleaf
Music of the Heart on the Native American Flute
Redwood Productions
P.O. Box 1225
Warm Springs, OR 97761
(541) 553-1662
Music on the Web: www.littleleaf.com
Native American Flutes on the Web: www.nativeindianflutes.com
email: flute@littleleaf.com
Maker of fine Native American flutes and performer extraordinaire, Charles Littleleaf will bring tears to your eyes and joy to your hearts. Mr. Littleleaf has played extensively throughout the Pacific Northwest as well as European tours. For booking information contact Redwood Productions through the above information.
"Our actions today may someday, be the traditions of tomorrow. May we always learn from the elders of yesterday and the beautiful children of today. We are the students…they are the teacher. Earth is our Mother and we are all related. Let us strive to place ourselves in the palm of the Creator in all that we do."
Charles Littleleaf
The Montana Chorale
Ann Cogswell
1108 Adobe Drive
Great Falls, MT 59404
(406) 453-0248
The Montana Chorale has researched the music during the time of Lewis and Clark, known as the Jeffersonian period of American history. The Chorale has prepared a 90 minute performance of this unique music (ballads, play-party songs, folk tunes, humorous ditties and hymns. The Montana Chorale is a professional chamber choir of adult Montana musicians. Founded in 1976, the chorale tours communities large and small throughout Montana with an ensemble of 24 voices.
Theatre
The Vigilante Theatre Company
The Clark and Lewis Show
Marla Goodman
111 S. Grand, Suite 201
Bozeman, MT 59715
(406) 586-3897
History goes hysterical and myth meets its match in "The Clark and Lewis Show," a brand new comic yarn by Montana's all-original touring repertory theatre. Packed to the gunnels with accurate historical detail, and loaded with music, puppetry and hilariously goofy humor. When a over-zealous history buff rallies a motley crew of local talent for a history extravaganza, things go hilariously awry!
Education
Lewis & Clark Traveling Trunks
The Columbia Gorge Discovery Center
5000 Discovery Drive
The Dalles, OR, 97058
(541)296-8600
Fax: (541)298-8660
Four different themed traveling trunks on the Lewis & Clark Expedition are available for rent to educators from The Educator Resource Center at The Columbia Gorge Discovery Cebter. Call the Center for more information.
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