Tuesday, October 13, 1pm
Professor Arend Flick
*Dr Flick joins us virtually. We'll meet in the library.
Lewis and Clark historians and biographers understandably devote most of their attention to the period between 1803 and 1806, when the explorers were assembling the Corps of Discovery and journeying from St. Louis to the Pacific and back. Much of what has been written about their lives before that time is either superficial or inaccurate. In this talk, we’ll try to fill in this gap. We’ll be looking at the Virginia origins of Lewis and Clark—their childhood and young manhood, their families, the planter elite culture into which they were born—that shed considerable light on the men they eventually became. We’ll also save time for your questions related to any aspect of the Lewis and Clark story.
Arend Flick is a retired English and Humanities professor living in Southern California. He was born and grew up in Ohio (not far from where Lewis and Clark first met). A longtime member of the Lewis and Clark Trail Alliance, he co-edits its quarterly newsletter The Orderly Report and has written a number of articles for its scholarly journal, We Proceeded On. His book Out of Albemarle: the Fathers of Lewis and Clark is forthcoming from Washington State University Press. Another book, School of Experience: The Court-Martial of Meriwether Lewis, is under review by Kent State University Press.