“We’re happy to welcome the National Park Service and Corps of Discovery II to Glasgow and our local Lewis and Clark events,” said Betty Stone, a member of the Montana Lewis and Clark Commission and the local organizing committee.

While in Glasgow, Corps II joins the “Two Rivers Lewis and Clark Festival.” Opening ceremonies are set for 9 a.m. May 14 in the Tent of Many Voices at Corps of Discovery II.

“…the water of the river possesses a peculiar whiteness, being about the colour of a cup of tea with the admixture of a tablespoonful of milk. From the colour of it’s water we call it Milk river.”
-Capt. Lewis May 8, 1805

200th Anniversary of Lewis and Clark at the Milk and Missouri River Confluence

Join us for the dedication of a NOAA National Geodetic Survey Commemorative Lewis and Clark Marker at the US Army Corps of Engineers Milk River Observation Point. The dedication will take place exactly 200 years to the day of Capt. Lewis seeing and naming the Milk River from the top of today’s Tower Hill.

When: Sunday, May 8, 2005
Time: 10 a.m.
Where: At the Milk River Observation Point on Tower Hill above Fort Peck Dam

US Army Corps of Engineers Fort Peck,
NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey,
Glasgow Lewis and Clark Corp II Committee

You can also download a .pdf file of the brochure here.

Featured presenters in Glasgow include Jack Gladstone and Rob Quist with Odyssey West and the Vigilante Players dinner theater at the Cottonwood Inn. Programs in the Tent of Many Voices are scheduled on the hour. Special guests include Andrew McKean, Rick Strohmyer, John Pulasky, Arch Ellwein and American Indian drum and dance groups.

Just getting to Montana is a milestone for Corps II, said Betty Boyko, Assistant Superintendent of the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail. “Corps II has been on the road for more than two years so like Lewis and Clark we’re getting an idea of how vast this country is.”

Admission to Corps II is free. Hours of operation are 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, Monday and Tuesday and from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday. The Corps II site is just off U.S. Highway 2 in Glasgow.

Corps of Discovery II: 200 Years to the Future is on the road and headed to a Lewis and Clark Trail community near you. Corps II is a collaborative effort of federal, state and local entities and American Indian Nations. Led by the National Park Service, Corps II is named after the 1803-06 “Corps of Volunteers for Northwestern Discovery.” Corps II opened at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello near Charlottesville, Virginia, on January 14, 2003. Corps II is a mobile exhibit designed to provide visitors an introduction to the Lewis and Clark story, including the natural history, cultural resources and the people of our nation before, during and after the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

The traveling exhibit includes two tents with interpretive exhibits and a performance tent called the Tent of Many Voices. The Tent of Many Voices provides a 40- by 70-foot space for live demonstrations, lectures, cultural presentations and audio-visual programs. Live performances occur in partnership with American Indian tribes, state and local governments, the private sector and our partner federal agencies.

From a frozen mountaintop at Monticello, Corps II has visited dozens of communities in Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Maryland, Indiana, Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska and the Dakotas. In 2005 Corps II travels across the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean. In the spring of 2006 Corps II will travel from the Pacific Ocean back to St. Louis. The journey will make stops in large urban areas, American Indian Reservations, and small towns along the way.

Corps II serves as the unifying component for the Bicentennial commemoration of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. During the Bicentennial, the National Park Service will help link the American people with each other by providing the Corps II venue where we will listen to many voices share stories about impacts of the Lewis and Clark Expedition and how our nation has evolved in the past 200 years.