From Jon Miller:

In a letter to our SHAR editorial office, the Philadelphia chapter of the
Lewis & Clark Trail Heritage Foundation asked members of the Alcohol
and Temperance History Group to submit paper proposals for their
annual meeting in 2003, "The Quest for Knowledge: Lewis in
Philadelphia." Hosted in cooperation with the American Philosophical
Society and the Academy of Natural Sciences, this meeting will
commemorate the bicentennial of the Lewis & Clark expedition by
showcasing the latest scholarship on the social, cultural, and
scientific worlds existing in Philadelphia in 1803. Among other
topics, the Program Committee especially seeks papers on alcohol and
temperance-related topics such as medicine, pharmaceuticals, biology,
expedition supplies, lifestyles, food, architecture, cultural
diversity, minorities, indentured servants, law and law enforcement,
education, politics, local pubs, theater, and Benjamin Rush (a mentor
of Lewis). Abstracts for papers need not exceed one page, and they
should be accompanied by a brief professional biography. Accepted and
delivered papers may be published as transactions or in We Proceeded
On, the quarterly journal of the Lewis and Clark Foundation.
Questions and proposals can be emailed to
[log in to unmask] or mailed to Program Committee,
Philadelphia Chapter, LCTHF, PO Box 54803, Philadelphia, PA 19148.
The deadline for submitting an abstract is September 4, 2001.