Step back in time with the Camas-Washougal Historical Society as they welcome local historian Tom Wilson, presenting his talk “Elk, Salt, and a Monstrous Fish: Lewis and Clark on the Lower Columbia,” on Saturday, November 21, at 2pm, at the Camas Police Department community room (the meeting is here due to the Two Rivers Heritage Museum facility being closed through March for major work, including changes to displays).
The presentation will focus on the roughly four months that Lewis and Clark spent near the mouth of the Columbia River. Wilson will be dressed in period clothing and bring a variety of replica items that were used on the expedition.
Wilson is a retired elementary teacher who taught in Astoria for 30 years. He began working with Fort Clatsop as a member of their curriculum advisory board more than 20 years ago. He then began to help write and edit the Park’s traveling trunk program which schools use throughout the United States. Wilson is a past president of the Pacific Northwest Living Historians, a group dedicated to presenting authentic history of the Pacific Northwest. He has been giving living history programs and talks in first and third person for more than 15 years, centering mostly on the Lewis and Clark expedition.
This CWHS meeting will also serve as the organization’s annual meeting and members will be asked to approve the Board of Directors for 2016.
