Top 10. Best Tourist Attractions in Saint Charles - Missouri
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Top 10. Best Tourist Attractions in Saint Charles - Missouri: St. Charles Historic District, Ameristar Casino St. Charles, Lewis and Clark Boat House and Nature Center, Fast Lane Classic Cars, First Missouri State Capitol State Historic Site, The Family Arena, Jaycee Park, August A. Busch Memorial Conservation Area, Missouri Artists on Main Gallery, Katy Trail State Park
The Missouri River crest at St. Charles
30.7Near this height, the base of the Lewis and Clark Boat House will begin flooding.
Flooding Missouri River @ St. Charles Mo. and the M/V Mr. LAMPTON
The drone video starts with a view of the Downtown main street area of Saint Charles Missouri. You can also see the Lewis and Clark Boathouse which is partially in the river and near the Hwy 70 bridge, you can see the Ameristar Casino. Mr. Lampton is headed upstream on the Missouri River passing the Saint Charles riverfront Frontier Park
LEWIS & CLARK BOAT HOUSE FLOOD JUNE 2, 2013
Missouri River floods at the Lewis & Clark Boat House in St. Charles, MO.
June 3, 2013/ 33.8ft.
Lewis And Clark Minutes: Interpretive Center
In Washburn North Dakota, Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center Executive Director Kristi Frieze presents an overview of Lewis and Clark's time in North Dakota.
Lewis and Clark Minutes presented slices of life encountered by Lewis and Clark on their historic exploration through the Mandan Nation territory in what was to become North Dakota. This Prairie Public Classic feature was first aired in 1997.
Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center, MT
MC Travelers went to Great Falls, MT and went to the Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center. A bigger on the inside kind of place, this Interpretive Center has a lot to offer. If your looking to learn more about Lewis and Clark this is the place to go. Plus if you want to catch amazing views of the many waterfalls of the Missouri River, this is the town to do it!
Lewis & Clark Center
Sioux City Lewis & Clark Interpretive Center in Sioux City, Iowa, has excellent dioramas and interactive displays. The center is just off Interstate 29 on the north side of the Missouri River.
Lewis and Clark Building Trades - House Built by the Students
New House completed by Lewis and Clark Career Center - Building Trades, 2014-2015. Quality custom home built primarily by high school students.
Fort Clatsop Museum - Lewis and Clark National Historical Park Visitors Center
St. Charles County town could become an island by Sunday.
If the river crests as expected, the only way out of town will be by boat.
William Clark Explorer Indian Agent Missisipi river Illinois St. Louis
recorded on March 13, 2013
Moving Image Archive Serge de Muller
Sticking my hand in strange holes at the Lewis And Clark Museum, Nebraska City, Nebraska
I kept sticking my hand in strange holes at the Lewis And Clark Museum, Nebraska City, Nebraska
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John C. Frémont | Wikipedia audio article
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John Charles Frémont or Fremont (January 21, 1813 – July 13, 1890) was an American explorer, politician, and soldier who, in 1856, became the first candidate of the Republican Party for the office of President of the United States. During the 1840s, when he led five expeditions into the American West, that era's penny press and admiring historians accorded Frémont the sobriquet The Pathfinder.During the Mexican–American War, Frémont, a major in the U.S. Army, took control of California from the California Republic in 1846. Frémont was convicted in court-martial for mutiny and insubordination over a conflict of who was the rightful military governor of California. After his sentence was commuted and he was reinstated by President Polk, Frémont resigned from the Army. Frémont led a private fourth expedition, which cost ten lives, seeking a rail route over the mountains around the 38th parallel in the winter of 1849. Afterwards, Frémont settled in California at Monterey while buying cheap land in the Sierra foothills. When gold was found on his Mariposa ranch, Frémont became a wealthy man during the California Gold Rush, but he was soon bogged down with lawsuits over land claims, between the dispossession of various land owners during the Mexican–American War and the explosion of Forty-Niners immigrating during the Rush. These cases were settled by the U.S. Supreme Court allowing Frémont to keep his property. Frémont's fifth and final privately funded expedition, between 1853 and 1854, surveyed a route for a transcontinental railroad. Frémont became one of the first two U.S. senators elected from the new state of California in 1850. Frémont was the first presidential candidate of the new Republican Party, carrying most of the North. He lost the 1856 presidential election to Democrat James Buchanan when Know Nothings split the vote. Democrats warned that his election would lead to civil war.During the American Civil War, he was given command of Department of the West by President Abraham Lincoln. Although Frémont had successes during his brief tenure as Commander of the Western Armies, he ran his department autocratically, and made hasty decisions without consulting Washington D.C. or President Lincoln. After Frémont's emancipation edict that freed slaves in his district, he was relieved of his command by President Lincoln for insubordination. In 1861, Frémont was the first commanding Union general who recognized in Brigadier General Ulysses S. Grant an iron will to fight and promoted him commander at the strategic base near Cairo, Illinois. Defeating the Confederates at Springfield, Frémont was the only Union General in the West to have a Union victory for 1861. After a brief service tenure in the Mountain Department in 1862, Frémont resided in New York, retiring from the Army in 1864. The same year Frémont was a presidential candidate for the Radical Democracy Party, but he resigned before the election. After the Civil War, Frémont's wealth declined after investing heavily and purchasing an unsuccessful Pacific Railroad in 1866, and lost much of his wealth during the Panic of 1873. Frémont served as Governor of Arizona from 1878 to 1881 appointed by President Rutherford B. Hayes. Frémont retired from politics and died destitute in New York City in 1890.
Historians portray Frémont as controversial, impetuous, and contradictory. Some scholars regard him as a military hero of significant accomplishment, while others view him as a failure who repeatedly defeated his own best purposes. The keys to Frémont's character and personality may lie in his being born illegitimately, his ambitious drive for success, self-justification, and passive-aggressive behavior. Frémont's published reports and maps produced from his explorations significantly contributed to massive American emigration overland into the West starting in the 1840s. In June 1846 ...
Emancipation in History and Memory - Panel Discussion
This event took place at the University of Virginia Rotunda on September 29, 2018.
Panelists:
Elizabeth R. Varon (Moderator)
Langbourne M. Williams Professor of American History
Associate Director, John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History
Edna Greene Medford
Professor of History, Howard University
Interim Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Howard University
Richard S. Newman
Professor of African American History, Environmental History, and the Early American Republic, Rochester Institute of Technology
Presented by:
John and Amy Griffin
The Office of the Vice President and Chief Officer for Diversity and Equity
The President's Commission on Slavery and the University
The Rotunda at the University of Virginia
John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History
University of Virginia Bicentennial
University of Virginia Library
Midwest residents struggle to protect homes from flooding Mississippi River
Portage des Sioux, Missouri
1. Wide of flooded road
2. Tight of flood sign
3. Tight of street sign
4. Wide of submerged street
5. Wide of home threatened by flood
6. Medium of home owner looking at water
7. Medium of flooded home
Alton, Illinois
8. Tight of street sign
9. Pan from grain silos to flooded street
10. Tight of water pumped from business
11. Reverse angle of hose
12. Wide of river covering road
13. Tight of debris in water
Grafton, Illinois
14. Submerged lighthouse
15. Submerged street sign
16. Medium of Grafton residents by flood
17. SOUNDBITE: (English) Pam Bick, Grafton Resident
I don't want to go anywhere. It might chase me out for a little while, but I'll probably come back if I can. If FEMA lets me, I'll definitely be back.
18. Wide of flooded street
19. Medium of boat pulling up to street signs
20. Medium of flooded businesses
STORYLINE:
Residents of the Midwest U.S. states were struggling to protect homes from the flooding Mississippi River on Sunday.
In Portage des Sioux, Missouri and Alton and Grafton in Illinois, waters flooded streets and came close to homes.
The water swamped a wide stretch of the Grafton, as well as the bigger city of Alton just downstream.
Grafton resident Pam Bick says the river can be beautiful and dangerous, but opted not to move away.
I don't want to go anywhere. It might chase me out for a little while, but I'll probably come back if I can. If FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) lets me, I'll definitely be back, she said.
Missouri Governor Matt Blunt said on Saturday that residents and businesses in seven counties were eligible for federal disaster assistance including Clark, Lewis, Lincoln, Marion, Pike, Ralls and St. Charles.
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Sestercentennial: Vintage Baseball Match
Travel back in time with this baseball match from the 1860s, featuring the Belleville Stags and your hometown St. Charles Explorers!
Voices and Visions Of St. Louis: Past, Present, Future Panel One: The Civil War(s) in St. Louis
From the Civil War to the recent troubles in Ferguson, St. Louis, Missouri is a city that has long been a site for conflict, division, and violence. It also has hosted an array of legal, political, social, and design experiments intended to transcend its contested present and past. With this forum, jointly mounted with the Sam Foxx School of Design at Washington University, we seek to stimulate a conversation about the city’s history and its present conditions, using methodologies and questions drawn from architecture, design, and planning as well as the arts, humanities and social sciences. The aim is to explore and debate issues of injustice, inequality, and racial exclusion in ways that have broader resonance for urban America and will open new terrains for constructive action. Topics include the history of modernist planning, the urban impacts of post-civil war politics and governance, the social and spatial correlates of racial exclusion, and the planning and design responses that have been proposed to counter these conditions.
Open to the public with a keynote on Wednesday evening and subsequent panels showcasing the perspectives of a wide array of actors and institutions who have made cities such as St. Louis what they are today; closing on Friday with an array of GSD-based exhibitions, projects, and presentations from GSD students and faculty.
Organized by Diane Davis, chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard GSD, with:
Eve Blau, adjunct professor, Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard GSD
Sylvester Brown, Journalist, St. Louis
Daniel D’Oca, Associate Professor in Practice of Urban Planning, Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard GSD; co-founder of Interboro Partners
Adrienne Davis, Vice Provost and William M. Van Cleve Professor of Law at Washington University in St. Louis
Jill Desimini, assistant professor, Department of Landscape Architecture, Harvard GSD
Catalina Freixas, assistant professor of architecture, Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis
Antonio French, Alderman of the 21st Ward, City of St. Louis
Margaret Garb, professor, Department of History at Washington University in St. Louis
Colin Gordon, professor, Department of History at University of Iowa
Toni Griffin, professor, Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard GSD
Joseph Heathcott, associate professor of urban studies, The New School/Parsons School of Design
Patty Heyda, assistant professor of architecture and urban design, Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis
Walter Johnson, professor, Department of African and African American Studies, and director of the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University
Eric Mumford, Rebecca and John Voyles Professor of Architecture, Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis
Jamilah Nasheed, Missouri State Senator
Jason Q. Purnell, assistant professor, Brown School, and faculty scholar in the Institute for Public Health at Washington University in St. Louis; and head of the “For the Sake of All” initiative
Ken Reardon, director of the Department of Urban Planning and Community Development at University of Massachusetts Boston
M. K. Stallings, Founder of UrbArts
Denise Ward-Brown, associate professor of art, Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis
Michael Willis, Architect, MWA Architects
Heather Woofter, Professor of Architecture and Chair of Architecture, Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis.
Washington Missouri
Washington Missouri is a sleepy little town along the Missouri River. Population 13,982 from the 2010 census. Founded by German Catholic immigrants the town's claims to fame are connections to the Lewis and Clark Expedition and the Missouri Meerschaum corn cob pipe popularized by Douglas McArthur. From Wikipedia: Named after George Washington after it came under American control, the town was first settled during the rule of the Spanish Empire. It was originally called St. John Meyer's Settlement and was the site of the Spanish log fort, San Juan del Misuri (1796--1803). Family and followers of Daniel Boone settled the area starting in 1799. In 1814 a ferry boat was licensed for crossing the Missouri River to the north and the settlement became known as Washington Landing. In 1827 a town was laid out, with sale of lots starting in 1829. The cost of land was waived if the buyer could build a substantial house within two years. This encouraged many new settlers. Substantial numbers of anti-slavery German families started moving to the town in 1833, and they soon overwhelmed the existing population of slaveowners. Washington became a strong supporter of the Union during the American Civil War. The town was ransacked by Confederate General Sterling Price's soldiers, but they were unable to keep control of the area and he retreated with them to Brazil. After the war, Washington became a railroad and steamboat transportation center. Its manufacturing industry while strong, it not as vibrant as it was decades ago. The town of Washington has 445 buildings on the National Register of Historic Places, a state record.[citation needed] Due to its historic charm, Washington has a growing heritage tourism industry, with visitors also attracted to the nearby Missouri Rhineland. Washington was the site for the third season of the television series Town Haul. The Missouri Meerschaum Company is a tobacco smoking pipe manufacturer located in Washington, Missouri. It is the world's oldest and largest manufacturer of corncob pipes. The company was founded in 1869 when Dutch-American woodworker Henry Tibbe began producing corncob pipes and selling them in his shop. Tibbes likened the pipes to meerschaum pipes and thus named them Missouri Meerschaum. In 1878 Tibbe patented his method of fireproofing the pipes by applying a plaster-like substance to the outside of the cob. In 1883 Tibbe and his son Anton applied for a U.S. Patent to trademark their Missouri Meerschaum pipe. In 1907 H. Tibbe & Son Co. became the Missouri Meerschaum Company. The Missouri Meerschaum Company's factory currently produces 5,000 pipes per day and ships these pipes to every U.S. state and several foreign countries.
LECTURE: Jeannie Kenmotsu, Ph.D. - September 5, 2019
Japanese Prints Abroad in Portland: The Mary Andrews Ladd Collection
Jeannie Kenmotsu, Ph.D., Japan Foundation Assistant Curator of Japanese Art, Portland Art Museum
Japanese woodblock prints were met with an enthusiastic audience abroad in the late-19th and early-20th centuries. In Europe and the United States, tens of thousands of prints were bought and sold, exhibitions and record-breaking auctions staged, and a new passion kindled for private collectors. Most of what we know about early American print collecting has been focused on the East Coast—donations that were the basis for the world-class museum collections in Boston, New York, and Chicago. Lesser-known but just as significant was the donation of the Mary Andrews Ladd collection of Japanese prints to the Portland Art Museum in 1932. Drawing on the Museum’s archives, period records, and the collection itself, this lecture explores this transformational gift of nearly 750 Edo-period (1603–1868) woodblock prints, and expand the story of early Japanese print collecting in the United States.
Co-sponsored by the Asian Art Council.
Full Blues Stanley Cup parade and rally in downtown St. Louis: Complete coverage
The Blues are Stanley Cup champions for the first time ever. The Cup and the team marched down Market Street, where thousands of fans lined up to witness history.
STORY:
HIGHLIGHTS:
Jordan Binnington: ‘You want some f****** emotion?!’:
Sights and sounds from Saturday's Blues parade and rally:
Full parade and rally:
Brett Hull’s beautiful rendition of ‘Gloria’:
Blues relive final moments of 2019 season:
Laila Anderson rides in the Blues parade:
Ryan O'Reilly: 'That was the coolest thing I've ever experienced’:
A view from the air over the Blues' championship rally:
Jordan Binnington: 'This city deserves it':
Colton Parayko on Laila: 'Everything about her is awesome':