Monday, March 14, 2011

Ice Age Floods Institute lecture...

sponsored by the Cheney-Spokane Chapter, will take place this Wednesday (16 March) at 7 pm in the Lair Auditorium at Spokane Community College:

"In the Wake of the Flood"
presented by Jack Nisbet
and Gene Kiver

The first fur traders who came to the Inland Northwest were guided along tribal trails that naturally followed landforms scoured by the Ice Age Floods. This presentation gathers the earliest art and mapwork done in the Spokane vicinity to search for flood features and comments on the event. Featured artists include David Thompson (1807- 12), Henry James Warre (1845-46), Paul Kane (1846-47) and Gustavus Sohon (1853- 58). Landscape clues to the past geologic events in the Pacific Northwest are apparent in the wonderful paintings and sketches of the early explorers. That connection will be discussed by the presenters.

Here's a list of upcoming events sponsored by the IAFI.

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