LEWIS AND CLARK EVENT AT NORTH DAKOTA HERITAGE CENTER FEATURES CHARACTERIZATIONS OF WILLIAM CLARK, YORK JUNE 18

A program featuring Great Plains Chautauqua characterizations of legendary explorer William Clark and his slave and childhood companion, York, will take place Tuesday, June 18 at 7 p.m. at the North Dakota Heritage Center in Bismarck.

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June 5, 2002
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LEWIS AND CLARK EVENT AT NORTH DAKOTA HERITAGE CENTER FEATURES
CHARACTERIZATIONS OF WILLIAM CLARK, YORK JUNE 18

BISMARCK - A program featuring Great Plains Chautauqua characterizations of legendary explorer William Clark and his slave and childhood companion, York, will take place Tuesday, June 18 at 7 p.m. at the North Dakota Heritage Center in Bismarck.

Free and open to the public, the program is sponsored by the State Historical Society of North Dakota and the North Dakota Humanities Council.

The program will explore the relationship between Clark, the co-leader of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, and York before, during and after the journey of 1803-06.

Entitled "Clark and York of the Corps of Discovery: Master and Slave and the Freedom of the New American West," it will feature Jeffrey Smith of Lindenwood University in St. Louis as William Clark, and Charles Everett Pace of Centre College in Kentucky as York.

Serving as the program's moderator and commentator will be Filson Historical Society historian James J. Holmberg of Louisville, Kentucky.

Holmberg is the author of the 2002 publication, Dear Brother: Letters of William Clark to Jonathan Clark, and a contributor to the republication of Robert Bett's In Search of York: The Slave Who Went to the Pacific with Lewis and Clark. Holmberg will have a book signing for both publications immediately following the program.

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