Lewis and Clark: Elora's Project - 01

On Thanksgiving Day 2014, Elora Lyda (Grady's Daughter) revisits her 2002 History Day project

This news item at upper right shows that Elora's Lewis & Clark Individual Exhibit won 1st Place in the CNUSD (Corona-Norco Unified School District) Raney Intermediate Junior Division -- from The Press-Enterprise Supplement, Spring 2002

Elora's Lewis & Clark project is displayed at her Raney Intermediate School classroom in Corona, California -- April 11, 2002

Here's a closer look at Elora's giant History Day exhibit board...

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Appearing above are two special features of this project 1)  Elora's collection of the most dramatic entries from the daily Journals of Captain Meriwether Lewis – See her complete 20-page book here:  The Lewis & Clark Journals 2)  A Shipment from the Wild Frontier:  This installation recreates a package full of amazing discoveries sent to President Jefferson while the expedition was still underway

They went to the Pacific Ocean; have brought some of the natives & curiosities of the countries through which they passed & only lost one man. – October 29, 1806, Newspaper Announcement


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Appearing above are two special features of this project

1)  Elora's collection of the most dramatic entries from the daily Journals of Captain Meriwether Lewis – See her complete 20-page book here:  The Lewis & Clark Journals

2)  A Shipment from the Wild Frontier:  This installation recreates a package full of amazing discoveries sent to President Jefferson while the expedition was still underway

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Elora working on her exhibit -- November 5, 2001

A Personal Connection:  Based on Native American oral history, Elora's great grandmother, Sarah Emaline Pyle Lyda (1906 - 1992), could trace her maternal lineage to an adventurous Blackfoot woman who became partners with a former crew member of the Lewis & Clark Expedition

Granny Sarah Lyda, a direct descendent of the Expedition, holding Elora's Aunt Laramée - 1951

Following Lewis & Clark's footsteps in Kansas City, Missouri – October 12, 2014
Clark's Point at Case Park

LEWIS AND CLARK

On September 15, 1806, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, returning from the Pacific, stood on this point and recorded in their journal that this was a commanding situation for a fort and that from the top of the hill you have a perfect command of the river. Here their men shot an elk and gathered custard apples or pawpaws.

June 26 - 29, 1804, on the Westward Journey they camped at the mouth of the Kansas.

The American Pioneer Trails Association and the Kansas City, Missouri, Board of Park Commissions – 1956

The Expedition had finally put to rest the dream of the "Northwest Passage," an easy water route across the entire continent. But they had found their own passage, and they did it with just one death early in the trip. This gave everyone the idea that the journey was safe, though actually the Corps of Discovery was just incredibly lucky. -- Elora Lyda, History Day Process Paper

See Elora's History Day written report here: L&C Process Paper

For more like this, go to Elora - 02 & 03 & 04 & 05 & 06 & 07 & 08 & 09