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Exhibits Will Visit County

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Posted 3/27/04

At least two traveling exhibits will visit the Howard County area in early June, commemorating the 200th anniversary of the Lewis & Clark expedition up the Missouri River. Rocheport, Boonville, …

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Exhibits Will Visit County

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At least two traveling exhibits will visit the Howard County area in early June, commemorating the 200th anniversary of the Lewis & Clark expedition up the Missouri River.
Rocheport, Boonville, and Glasgow will each host one or more of the shows.
At Old Franklin, a monument will be dedicated.
The Daughters of the American Revolution will dedicate a new Lewis & Clark monument at the small county park near the intersection of Highway 87 and the Katy Trail. That event will take place the morning of Saturday, June 5. It will be held immediately after the conclusion of a Lewis & Clark parade in Boonville, which starts at 10 a.m.
A wagon train will leave Petersburg, on Route Z in southwest Howard County, at 2 p.m. June 11. It will overnight at the Richard Carmack farm, on HoCo 315 just off Highway 87, south of Glasgow. There, it will offer a public chuck wagon dinner at 6 p.m.; and a dance with live music at 9 p.m.
The wagon train will arrive at Stump Island in Glasgow about noon June 12.
The Glasgow celebration, organized locally, will continue from June 9 through 12. A re-enactment of the Corps of Discovery expedition, with a replica keelboat, will arrive at Stump Island June 9 and leave June 11.
The Glasgow program also includes an art show, quilt show, pioneer dinner, period music, old-time fiddlers' contest, historic tours and old-time games for children.
The weekend of June 5 and 6, a Manitou Bluffs Project 'Exploration Outpost' will set up near the Katy Station in Rocheport. There will be a Lewis & Clark re-enactment, music, educational displays, and educational games for children.
The same group will visit Glasgow June 9 and 11.
The most ambitious touring exhibit is 'Corps of Discovery II,' produced by the National Park Service. It will set up in the parking lot of Laura Speed Elliott School, on Main Street in Boonville, June 11 through 14. There is no admission charge.
The show includes 'The Tents of Many Voices.'
Two tents will contain interpretive exhibits. The Tent of Many Voices will provide space for live demonstrations, lectures, cultural presentations, and audiovisual shows. Live performances will be offered in partnership with some American Indian tribes.
The Corps of Discovery II opened in Charlottesville, Va., in January of 2003. It's working its way down the Ohio River, up the Mississippi and Missouri River. Its progress is more or less synchronized with the dates Lewis & Clark reached selected points 200 years ago.
A locally-organized Boonville celebration will run from Thursday, June 3, through Sunday, June 6. It will include an art and flower show, a concert, a carnival, a beer garden, car show, historic tours, craft booths, and a barbecue cook-off.
A statue of Hannah Cole, prominent pioneer settler, will be dedicated in Morgan Street Park, at the corner of Main, at 3 p.m. Sunday, June 6.

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