admin | October 7, 2009
Meriwether Lewis, by his hand or someone else’s, died 200 years ago next Sunday. The Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation, based in Great Falls, was in Tennessee today to memorialize the event. Here’s the AP account: HOHENWALD, Tenn. — Two hundred years after he died mysteriously, explorer Meriwether Lewis was honored Wednesday as a [...]
admin | August 11, 2009
If you’re reading this, you probably know about the mystery that still surrounds Meriwether Lewis’ death on Oct. 11, 1809. Now Lewis and Clark writer/researcher Kira Gale of Omaha reports on her website: “Almost 200 collateral descendants of Meriwether Lewis have signed a petition asking for exhumation to determine the cause of his death–whether it [...]
admin | April 13, 2009
Granted, we can take centennials and bicentennials and sesquicentennials and the like too far. Every year there’s a crop of them. But consider 2009. – 400 years ago (1609), within a five-week summer span, Champlain journeyed onto the New York lake that bears his name and Henry Hudson floated into New York harbor, launching a [...]
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