My husband and I are members of the Mouth of the Platte Study group in Council Bluffs, IA. We have attended about 5 years. We are parents of four grown children, 10 grandchildren, and 9 greatgrandchildren. The study of Lewis and Clark seems to have taken over a large part of our lives.
Besides making clothes for Biddle Bear, I am a quilt maker. I have done 4 Lewis and Clark full size quilts. Two of these were done in redwork embroidery, and two in patchwork and applique.
I have a degree in secondary education, history major and library science, native american minors. so I teach when I can. I teach and prepare materials for an adult class at our church.
This will be my 12th year doing this.
When I student taught in college, one of the classes was a Montana history class, during which the students for their final had to write out the travels of Lewis and Clark in chronological order. The results were not good. Did you know that the Corps of Discovery went up the Mississippi River, went around the Cape of Good Hope, and through the Panama Canal?
They ended up on the coast, but never made it back. So either I was not a good teacher, or they were trying to get my goat. But I had a good laugh.
Finding the obscure points of the Corps of Discovery seems to have become my goal. I have given talks to the group about the waterfalls, before Lewis and Clark, and other weird points.
Let’s hear from the rest of you.
Betty Smallen, moderator
.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
