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Schedule of Activities
(Activities take place in the Loews Hotel, unless otherwise noted.
All papers will be presented in the Loews Hotel, 2nd Floor Mezzanine
Regency Ballroom.)
Saturday, August 9th
Breakfast on your own
8:00 am - 5:00 pm Foundation Board Meeting (Howe Meeting
Room, 33rd Floor)
Pre -Meeting Tours (Depart from Loews Hotel, 12th Street
Doors)
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm Early Registration (2nd Floor Mezzanine)
1:30 pm - 5:00 pm Walking Tours, self-guided
1:30 pm - 5:00 pm Silhouettes - Have your Silhouette made
(2nd Floor Mezzanine)
1:30 pm - 5:00 pm Flower Press Demonstration (2nd Floor
Mezzanine)
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm Sextant Demonstration (2nd Floor Mezzanine)
6:30 pm - 9:00 pm Dinner at City Tavern Second Street
at Walnut
(Those with trolley tickets, be at the Loews Hotel 12th St. doors
at 6:15 pm)
Sunday, August 10th
Breakfast on your own
9 00 am - 5:00 pm Registration (2nd Floor Mezzanine)
9:00 am - 6:00 pm Vendors Fair (2nd Floor Mezzanine)
9:15 am Historic House Tour (Depart Loews Hotel, 12th St.
doors)
Walking Tours, self-guided
1:30 pm - 5:00 pm Silhouettes (2nd Floor Mezzanine)
1:30 pm - 5:00 pm Flower Press Demonstration (2nd Floor
Mezzanine)
3 :00 pm - 5:00 pm Sextant Demonstration (2nd Floor Mezzanine)
Paper Presentations
1:00 pm - 1:45 pm Philanthropy, Agricultural Reform and Republican
Political Economy, Shawn Kimmel
2:00 pm - 2:45 pm Philadelphia: Medical Mecca and Science’s
Hometown, Nancy V. Webster
3:00 pm - 3:45 pm “Our Future Metropolis”: Philadelphia
on the Edge of the 19th Century, Michal McMahon
4:00 pm - 4:45 pm Early Urban Water Supply in Philadelphia,
Jane Mork Gibson
Dinner on your own
6:30 pm - 7: 00 pm Social (Cash bar) (2nd Floor Mezzanine)
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Opening Keynote Event (2nd Floor Mezzanine,
Regency Ballroom)
Jefferson’s Philadelphia: Setting the Stage for Lewis
and Clark, Robert Peck
The Germantown Colonial Dancers - with John Burkhalter and Eugene
Roan
Monday, August 11th
Breakfast on your own
7:00 am - 6:00 pm Vendors Fair (2nd Floor Mezzanine)
8:00 am - 10:00 am Registration (2nd Floor Mezzanine)
8:30 am -10:00 am Opening of the 35th Annual Meeting (2nd
Floor Mezzanine, Regency Ballroom)
General Business Meeting
Presentation of the Colors - First Troop Philadelphia City
Cavalry
10:00 am -11 :00 am Welcome - Remarks by representatives
from the American Philosophical Society, the Academy of Natural
Sciences, the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, and the National
Park Service, Independence National Historic Park
11:30 am Red and Blue Tours depart (Loews Hotel, 12th St.
doors)
11:30 am -12:45 pm Yellow and Purple Groups Lunch, with
provided certificates
(Reading Terminal Market, 12th and Filbert)
Paper Presentations Yellow and Purple groups
1:00 pm -1:45 pm Quadrature of the Lune: Surveying the Life
of Andrew Ellicott, Barry Rauhauser
2:00 pm - 2:45 pm Lewis and Clark’s Contributions to Meteorological
Science, Terry Nathan
3:00 pm - 3:45 pm Mineral Productions of Every Kind: The Geological
Education of Meriwether Lewis, John Jengo
4:00 pm - 4:45 pm Dignified and Civil Inquiry: Dr. Caspar Wistar
in Philadelphia, the “Athens of the Western World,”
Nina P. Long
5:30 pm - 6:00 pm Social (Cash bar) (2nd Floor Mezzanine)
6:00 pm - 6:45 pm Dinner (2nd Floor Mezzanine, Regency
Ballroom)
7:00 pm - Student Essay Contest (2nd Floor Mezzanine, Regency
Ballroom)
Students read their winning entries
7:30 pm Panel Discussion, with book signing to follow
Unanswered Questions: What’s Next in Lewis and Clark Studies?
Moderator: Landon Jones
Panelists: Brian Hall, Barbara Oberg, Stephenie Ambrose Tubbs,
Michael Zuckerman
8:30 pm Foundation Awards and Surprise Presentation
Tuesday, August 12th
Breakfast on your own
7:30 am - 6:00 pm Vendors Fair (2nd Floor Mezzanine)
8:00 am Purple and Yellow Tours Depart (Loews Hotel, 12th
St. doors)
Paper Presentations. Red & Blue groups (2nd Floor
Mezzanine, Regency Ballroom)
8:00 am - 8:45 am Benjamin Rush , a Physician of the Enlightenment,
Charles Greifenstein
9:00 am – 9:45 am Displaying the Expanding Nation to Itself,
Brett Mizelle
10:00 am -10:45 am Supplies from Philadelphia, Frank Muhly,
LCTHF Board Member
11:00 am - 11:45 am Philadelphia 1803-1807: Planning, Provisioning,
Preserving, Leandra Holland
12:00 pm - 1:45 pm Red and Blue Groups Lunch, with provided
certificates (Reading Terminal Market, 12th and Filbert)
Paper Presentations - all groups (2nd Floor Mezzanine,
Regency Ballroom)
2:00 pm - 2:45 pm “I Never Yet Parted”: Bernard McMahon
and the Seeds of the Corps of Discovery, Rob Cox
3:00 pm - 3:45 pm Nineteenth Century Scientific Opinion of
Lewis and Clark, Andrew Lewis
4:00 pm– 4:45 pm Benjamin Smith Barton’s Elements
of Botany 1803, Eric v.d Luft
5:45 pm - 9:30 pm Herbarium Exhibit and Lecture (Academy
of Natural Sciences ANS)
5:45 pm Load Trolleys and depart (Loews Hotel, 12th St. doors)
6:15 – 8:00 pm Light Dinner (Cash bar) (ANS, Dinosaur
Hall)
and Exhibit of selected specimens from the Lewis &
Clark Herbarium
(Note: Food not allowed in exhibit area.)
8:15 pm Lecture on the Herbarium, (ANS Auditorium)
Gary Moulton and Ernie Schuyler
9:00 pm Depart for Loews Hotel
Wednesday, August 13th Breakfast on your own
7:30 am - 6:00 pm Vendors Fair (2nd Floor Mezzanine)
8:30 am - 9:15 am General Business Meeting (2nd Floor Mezzanine,
Regency Ballroom)
Paper Presentations
9:30 - 10:15 am Ethnobotanical and Medical Aspects of the Botanical
Specimens Collected by Lewis and Clark, Ara Der Marderosian
10:30 am - 11:15 am The Eminence of an Opulent City: Birch’s
Views and the Image of Philadelphia at the Turn of the 19th Century,
Emily T. Cooperman
11:30 am -12:15 am Performance, Christian Johnson
as Charles Willson Peale
12:15 pm Lunch, with provided certificates
Open Afternoon
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Book Signing (2nd Floor Mezzanine)
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm Social (Cash Bar) (2nd Floor Mezzanine)
5:30 pm - 6:15 pm Dinner (2nd Floor Mezzanine, Regency
Ballroom)
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm Closing of the 35th Annual Meeting
Foundation Program
Invitation to 36th Annual Meeting in Bismarck, North Dakota
Presentations: Botany Contest Winner
Composer’s Competition, winning composition performed
by Philadelphia Youth Sinfonia Orchestra.
Keynote Address - Reflections on Meriwether Lewis:
A Country Boy in the Big City, Dayton Duncan
Retiring the Colors - First Troop Philadelphia City
Cavalry
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