Western WFA Reunion -- Ft Clatsop
August 5-7, 2005


The 2005 Western WFA Reunion just preceded the Lewis & Clark Historic Trail Foundation bicentennial celebration August 5-10, 2005. Because of a shortage of venue space in Seaside and Astoria, the Lewis & Clark event had its main venue on the campus of Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon. We had our WFA sessions at the same site Friday evening thru Sunday morning. Some L&C committees met on Saturday and the general sessions began Sunday afternoon.

WFA Meeting Schedule
click here for a campus map: http://www.lclark.edu/GENERAL/MAPS/campusmap.html
click here for directions to the campus itself: http://www.lclark.edu/GENERAL/MAPS/citymap.html

Friday, August 5:
2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Register with both Karen Willard (sitting next to "Willard" sign) and the L&C Heritage Trail Foundation (sitting behind registration tables) in the Lobby of the Templeton Student Center
5:00 p.m.
Supper in the Fields Dining Room, Templeton Student Center, on the same level as where we registered. We will gather in one corner by ourselves. Karen will present "Life After the Corps of Discovery: Whatever happened to Alexander Willard?".
This talk will also be delivered on Monday, Aug 8.
(It was delivered to a full room of very enthusiastic L&C attendees.)
7:00 p.m.
Shapenote Workshop and singing in the Trail Room, Templeton Student Center (downstairs across from Book store). Learn a bit about what Alexander & Elinor learned to do in the 1820s with the songs they already knew from their childhood.

Saturday, August 6:
9:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
video showcase of new releases in Council Chamber, Templeton Student Center.
8:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Volunteers for learning to enter the Henry-2 book into The Master Genealogist software for the WFA computer archives will meet in Karen's room for tutorial sessions.
(Actually we met in our dormitory parlor.)
LUNCH
Eat lunch and then catch a shuttle bus out to the park. The dining room will always be open so you can grab a bite early if you wish. Plus there will be at least one food vendor at the park.
(This proved wrong as the vendor ran out of propane and food before we got there.)
11:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Catch an early shuttle bus out to Blue Lake Regional Park (singers need to catch the 1st one).
At 1:30 p.m. will be the Dedication of Nichaqwli monument;
from 2:15 to 4:15 Shapenote singing will be one of the "demonstrations" there in the park, under a shade canopy.
(We sang for about two hours. But we were next to the Indian drumers & dancers and were eventually asked to quiet down as we were disturbing their listeners! We did have a good time with chocolate birthday cake celebrating Pompe's 200th birthday.)
The last shuttle bus back to L&C college leaves at 5:30 p.m. Shuttles will be going back and forth continuously during the afternoon.
(The drivers were on a strict schedule and left many people behind. So we had a rescue mission to get them all back to the campus. After super we were joined by local shape note singers to practice the numbers we would do for the L&C session the next day. Then Karen continued the TMG tutorials with us.)

Sunday, August 7:
6:30 a.m. to 7:15 a.m.
Worship service on outdoors Manor House Patio, "Celebration of Creation". There will be multi-ethnic experiences, including a couple shapenote hymns everyone will sing. (After our two hymns we were requested to sing Amazing Grace.)
7:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.
Breakfast Meeting Look for where the Willards are gathered together so we can discuss, plan, and settle on what we'll do in 2007 for our Western Willard Reunion.
(At our business meeting we decided that the next Western WFA reunion would be in Prescott, AZ. in 2007 on the October weekend that includes Columbus Day. We will be recognizing Wallace Willard - a Rough Rider in Cuba during the Spanish American War - and Francis Willard Munds - sufragette and first female senator in the Arizona legislature. She was the second in the nation Wyoming having the first.)
8:15 a.m.
Buses begin loading. Catch a shuttle bus to Washougal for the dedication of Captain William Clark Park (10-11 am) with Gary Moulton and Jim Holmberg.
noon - 1:30 p.m.
Lunch (free to singers) in Templeton Student center
1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Period Music Program in the Trail Room, Templeton Student Center. A narrated program of shapenote music that might have been sung along the way by the New England members of the Corps of Discovery (including Alexander Willard). This will be followed by a fiddle program by Vivian and Phil Williams.
End of formal things to do for WFA Willards.
There is a free, off-campus, shapenote singing taking place Sunday evening. Karen will have details for those who wish to attend.
Those who've registered for L&C Heritage Trail Foundation events will be following that schedule from here on out.

LATE WORD From Karen Willard:
This is being sent to everyone, not just to those who have told me they are coming to Portland Oregon
on August 5. That way the word is widely spread and I don't overlook anyone!
Willard Family Attendees need to park and then come to the Templeton Student Center lobby to register.
Please sign in with both Karen Willard
(look for the lady wearing a hat next to a "willard" sign) and with the L&C Heritage Trail Foundation people (behind the registration tables).
Karen will tell you how, when and where we will
  1. -have a training class on The Master Genealogist
    (only for volunteers to enter the Henry-2 book into the computer)
  2. -have supper and listen to a talk on Alexander Hamilton Willard
  3. -what events you are invited to attend for free Friday, Saturday, and Sunday morning
  4. -where and when we'll meet for our Western Willards "business meeting"
  5. -how meals are handled if you are not registered already for meals with LCHTF

The L&C Heritage Trail Foundation people will tell you what you have signed up for (if you already have),
or will let you pay for and sign up to attend various events from Friday night through Sunday if you're not
staying for the full conference, or through Wednesday if you ARE staying for the full conference.
They will tell you which dorm room you have been assigned to and give you a key. (note: bedding is supplied for you). The dorms are right across the way from where you'll be registering, and all dining is in the same
building where you register.

click here for a campus map: http://www.lclark.edu/GENERAL/MAPS/campusmap.html

Plug the following into your favorite online mapping service
(I've checked http://www.mapquest.com/ and they accurately show it):
Lewis & Clark College
615 SW Palatine Hill Rd
Portland, Oregon 97219-7899