November 18 at 9:00 am
Free
The Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center will host a free “Deck the Center: Holiday Ornament Decorating” from November 18 through December 22 during normal business hours.
Children are asked to stop in to decorate two wooden ornaments, one to hang on the Center’s community tree and one to take home. Everyone is welcome to celebrate the start of the holiday season with us.
Captains Lewis and Clark and their men would have been unfamiliar with the tradition of hanging ornaments from evergreen trees. Christmas trees and decoration wouldn’t become popular in the United States until the mid-1800s. The Captains usually celebrated the holiday with a discharge of firearms, singing and dancing, small gifts exchange, and “the best to eat that could be had” (according to Sgt. John Ordway).
The Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center/Betty Strong Encounter Center was built and is sustained by the Missouri River Historic Development Organization as a gift of history to the community. For more information call 712-224-5242. Find the Center at www.siouxcitylcic.com or www.facebook.com/sclandc.
