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SPEAKERS AND PRESENTERS Supplied for Survival: Meriwether Lewis at Harpers Ferry |
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BILL BARKER Bill Barker has enjoyed portraying Thomas Jefferson in a variety of settings over the past sixteen years. He joined Colonial Williamsburg in 1993, and has appeared as a Thomas Jefferson "character interpreter" in many different venues, including the White House, the Palace of Versailles, and in programs aired on ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, and CNN. Publications which have featured Barker as Thomas Jefferson include Time, People, Southern Living, and Reader's Digest. |
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DICK CHEATHAM Dick Cheatham has been a professional living history character presenter for over 20 years, dating back to his work on the staff of the National Park Service in Virginia. He is a founder and director of Living History Associates, Ltd. in Richmond, Virginia – a speakers bureau for "people from America's past." A graduate of the Virginia Military Institute, he is a former school teacher, museum educator, and television reporter. Cheatham presently works as a weekly newspaper columnist and professional historian, and is a member of the National Speakers Association. |
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HASAN DAVIS Hasan Davis holds degrees from Berea College and is a graduate of the University of Kentucky College of Law. Through his business "Empowerment Solutions" he is a motivational speaker working with youth in schools, community agencies, and juvenile facilities. He also is chair of the Governor's Juvenile Justice Advisory Council for Kentucky. In his spare time he is a professional storyteller, performance artist, and poet. His current portrayal in the KHC Chatauqua program is "York," a slave and the only African American on Lewis and Clark's cross-country expedition. Davis lives in Berea, Kentucky. |
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BARBARA FIFER Barbara Fifer is an author and editor who lives in Helena, Montana. She has written "Going Along with Lewis and Clark", "Day-by-Day with Lewis and Clark", "Lewis and Clark Expedition Illustrated Glossary", "Wyoming's Historic Forts", and "Everyday Geography of the United States". She has also written the history sections of "Along the Trail with Lewis and Clark", a highly successful book combining a lively synopsis of the expedition's story with travel information and full-color maps by Joseph Mussulman. |
BOOK SIGNINGS: Along the Trail with Lewis and Clark Going Along with Lewis and Clark (for young people) Day-by-Day with Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 |
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DAVID & GINGER HILDEBRAND David and Ginger Hildebrand have been performing music professionally since 1980. During the past eight years they have done extensive research on colonial and federal period music, and have produced many programs which feature this repertory. Their performances have been sponsored by Colonial Williamsburg, the National Archives, and the Commission for the Bicentennial of the Constitution. They have also performed for numerous colleges, universities, and historical organizations. |
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JAMES HOLMBERG James J. Holmberg is Curator of Special Collections at the Filson Historical Society in Louisville, Kentucky. He specializes in the history of the Lewis & Clark Expedition and writes and lectures extensively on the subject. He is the editor of "Dear Brother: Letters of William Clark to Jonathan Clark" and has written the epilogue for the revised edition (2000) of Robert Betts's "In Search of York: The Slave who went to the Pacific with Lewis and Clark." |
BOOK SIGNINGS: Dear Brother: Letters of William Clark to Jonathan Clark In Search of York: The Slave Who Went to the Pacific
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KEN KARSMIZKI Ken Karsmizki is Assistant Director of Museum Operations at the Columbia Gorge Discover Center in The Dalles, Oregon. Ken has worked in the museum field since 1980 as curator, historian, and archaeologist. For the past 16 years, he as been engaged in an archaeological search for evidence of Lewis and Clark campsites. Karsmizki's archaeological search is the focus of a Discovery Channel documentary that first aired in June 2002. He is presently working with the History Channel on another documentary on the technological aspects of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. |
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GARY MOULTON Gary E. Moulton, Ph.D., is Thomas G. Sorensen Professor of History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and editor of the 13-volume "Journals of the Lewis & Clark Expedition" (completed in 1999). His research interests are historical editing, the exploration of the American West, and American Indians. He was a consultant for Ken Burns' 1997 documentary "Lewis and Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery" and is the author of the "Atlas of the Lewis and Clark Expedition." |
BOOK SIGNINGS: Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition The Lewis & Clark Journals: An American Epic of Discovery (abridgment of the 13-volume edition) |
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DANIEL SLOSBERG Daniel M. Slosberg, writer and performer of a one-man show, "Pierre Cruzatte: A Musical Journey Along the Lewis & Clark Trail," has been playing fiddle since age 5. After working as a professional musician, teacher, and school administrator in California, he embarked on his own "voyage of discovery," researching the life and times of fiddler Pierre Cruzatte and the music, song, and dance of the Lewis & Clark Expedition. Slosberg offers a unique depiction of the expedition's main boatman and fiddler in a show which has been called "a delightful program of music and monologue" (Mike Ferguson, "Baker City Herald"). |
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MERRITT ROE SMITH Merritt Roe Smith is the Leverett and William Cutten Professor of the History of Technology at M.I.T., and is the currrent Director of the Program in Science, Technology, and Society. His Ph.D. is from The Pennsylvania State University. His research focuses on the history of technological innovation and social change. His book, "Harpers Ferry Armory and the New Technology", published in 1977, received a number of awards and was nominated for the 1977 Pulitzer Prize in History. |
BOOK SIGNING: Harpers Ferry Armory and the New Technology |
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BOOK SIGNING: Lewis and Clark: An American Journey |
DANIEL BARRETT THORP Daniel Thorp is Associate Professor of History and Associate Chair of the Department of History at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. He is a graduate of Davidson College, with a masters and doctorate in Colonial American history from Johns Hopkins University. He is author of a number of articles on 18th and 19th century American history, and has written two books: "The Moravian Community in Colonial North Carolina" and "Lewis & Clark: An American Journey." |
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