I had already done the hard part that night: getting my kids to sleep. It was dark now, May 20, 2022, one of the last cool evenings before summer hit central Indiana. I told my wife I was going on a walk, put in my earbuds, and set out. Tomorrow was trash day, which meant dodging garbage cans and recycling bins. No one else was around. Three blocks from home, on a street lined with bungalows, I…

History has well documented the Lewis & Clark Corps of Discovery departing from Camp River Dubois on May 14, 1804. This marked the Corps’ westward journey toward the Pacific Ocean. However, the beginnings of the Lewis & Clark expedition occurred seven months earlier, on October 14, 1803, in tiny Clarksville, Indiana, at the Falls of the Ohio. It was here that Meriwether Lewis arrived from…