Wyoming Arts Council

The State Museum's upcoming lecutures

Uncategorized | December 5, 2007

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Life of prehistoric people living at high altitude is the subject of the Wyoming State Museum’s next lecture, December 13 at 7 p.m., in the Multi-purpose Room.

Titled “Life at 10,800 Feet: Late Prehistoric Alpine Archaeology in Northwest Wyoming,” the Richard Adams lecture will examine the Shoshone Indians who spent their summers at high altitudes in the mountains of the greater Yellowstone ecosystem. For more than 1000 years, these mountain-adapted people hunted bighorn sheep, dug abundant root crops, harvested whitebark pine nuts and constructed small villages at altitudes where few people today only visit.

Using vivid images, Adams will show the high mountains that were the preferred summertime destination, rather than a place to be avoided. Adams is a project director with the Office of the Wyoming State Archaeologist.

For more information about this or other Wyoming State Museum programs, please call 777-7022. The Wyoming State Museum is located in the Barrett Building, 2301 Central Avenue in Cheyenne.

John Voehl, an Abraham Lincoln presenter and historian, will present a living history performance at 4 p.m., December 14 at the Wyoming State Museum Multi-Purpose Room.

Voehl will also have on display copies of several of Lincoln’s writings including the Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg Address and other items. The public is invited to attend this presentation.

Voehl’s performance will take place after the first meeting of the Wyoming Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, also held at the State Museum.

The 14-member Wyoming Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission is the 14th state commission in the country. The purpose of the group is to engage Wyomingites in the celebration of Lincoln and his ideals of freedom, democracy and equal opportunity.
On February 12, the nation will officially begin a year-long celebration of the life of President Lincoln. The official bicentennial date of Lincoln’s birth is February 12, 2009.

The 14 members of the Commission, appointed by Gov. Dave Freudenthal, are: Ann Redman, Kara Hahn, Michell Howard, Mark Junge, Marirose Morris, Kathleen Urban and Supreme Court Justice Barton Voigt of Cheyenne; Tom Collins, Rick Ewig and Mike Massie of Laramie; Melvin Hamilton of Casper; David Kathka of Rock Springs; Linda Fabian of Wheatland; and Ken Roberts of Kemmerer.

For more information about the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commisison, please contact Mark Junge at 634-7462.

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