Please join us for the Kentucky Lewis and Clark Community Meeting on Tuesday, March 28 at 1:30 p.m. at the Thomas D. Clark Center for Kentucky History in Frankfort. We’ll recap the history of the expedition and Kentucky’s role in it, highlight previous activities, and describe plans and opportunities for the homecoming celebration. We also want to hear ideas and plans about what your community can do to commemorate this American epic. Many Kentucky organizations will have table displays at the meeting featuring their Lewis and Clark connections and homecoming programming. Don’t miss the fun! Make plans to attend this important event!

Frankfort’s Lewis and Clark legacy will stand tall in 2006, as local leadership is making plans to celebrate the bicentennial of the return of Lewis and Clark through the region en route to Washington, D.C. Under the leadership of the Frankfort/Franklin County Tourist and Convention Commission and Ed Council, owner of Canoe Kentucky, a committee has been formed to plan and coordinate Lewis and Clark programming in fall of 2006. Festivities will commence in early October, which is the bicentennial of the Frankfort Paladium newspaper article that first announced the safe return of the Corps of Discovery. Programming will last until mid- November. Other Franklin County sites doing Lewis and Clark programming include Liberty Hall Historic Site, the Capitol City Museum, and Downtown Frankfort, Inc.

“. . . we loaded our canoes & at 1 P. M. left Fort Clatsop on our homeward bound journey. at this place we had wintered and remained from the 7th of Decr. 1805 to this day, and have lived as well as we had any right to expect, and we can Say that we were never one day without 3 meals of Some kind a day, either poor Elk meat or roots, notwithstanding the reputed fall of rain which has fallen almost continually . . .”