1st Saturday Lecture Series For 2010

Michael Dickey, Site Administrator, Arrow Rock State Historic Site. Author of Arrow Rock, Crossroads of the Missouri Frontier. Learn about the once powerful Missouria native nation that gave its name to the river, then to the state. Mike is authoring a new book about about the Missouri Indian Nation.

Dr. Debra Miles, Assistant General counsel for the Missouri Department of Mental Health. What was the adequacy of representation for slaves charged with capital crimes?  Based on Missouri court cases.

Dr. James Harlan, University of Missouri Geography Department, has published an acclaimed set of maps showing the route of Lewis & Clark through Missouri in 1804.  This presentation is based on survey notes taken in 1816 and 1817.

Mark Belwood has been interested in wildflowers since boyhood. He marks May 11 as a holiday on his calendar. It was on that day in 1987 that he discovered, after years of fruitless searching, a colony of Yellow Lady's Slipper Orchids on his family's farm in southern Saline County. He uses a digital camera, GPS receiver and mapping software to help record his observations.
Mark will present a modern-day perspective on the Tallgrass Prairie contrasted with historical perspectives. The presentation is illustrated with photographs taken of remnant Tallgrass Prairie flora within the Blackwater River and Lamine River watersheds of central Missouri.



The 1st Saturday Lecture Series is sponsored by the Friends of Arrow Rock Humanities Endowment which was funded by a $100,000 challenge grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.  Lectures are held at 10 a.m. at the Arrow Rock State Historic Site Visitors Center and are free and open to the public.