Legacy Transportation Services and the National Park Service Launch the Four-Year Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Traveling Exhibit: Only Time in San Jose.News Editors/Assignment Desks SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 30, 2002 Legacy Transportation Services of Mountain View, Calif., selected by the National Park Service to develop and support the mobile exhibit, is unveiling the "Corps of Discovery II: 200 Years to the Future," commemorating the Lewis and Clark Pacific Ocean discovery mission commissioned in 1803 by President Thomas Jefferson. This is the only time the bicentennial bi·cen·ten·ni·al adj. 1. Happening once every 200 years. 2. Lasting for 200 years. 3. Relating to a 200th anniversary. n. A 200th anniversary or its celebration. Also called bicentenary. exhibit will be in San Jose, Calif., and available to the media for viewing. On Monday, December 30th, at 10 a.m., at Legacy Transportation Services Back Lot, 1080 North 7th Street, San Jose, Calif., the media is invited to an exclusive tour of this exhibit before it embarks upon its nationwide public tour, beginning in Monticello, Va., on January 14th 2003. The traveling exhibit includes interpretive tents with exhibits and a performance tent, the Tent of Many Voices. The Tent of Many Voices is a 150-seat multimedia performance tent for live demonstrations, lectures, cultural presentations and audiovisual showings. Gerard Baker Gerard Baker (born April 11 1938 in New York) is a former American professional soccer player. Despite being American, Baker played his whole career in the United Kingdom, although he was capped by the US several times. , Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail In 1804, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark began a voyage of discovery with 45 men, a keelboat, two pirogues, and a dog. They departed from Camp Dubois, located in what was to become Illinois. Superintendent and full-blood member of the Mandan-Hidatsa Tribe of the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation The Fort Berthold Indian Reservation is a U.S. Indian reservation in North Dakota that is home for the Three Affiliated Tribes which consists of the Mandan, Arikara and Hidatsa peoples. , North Dakota North Dakota, state in the N central United States. It is bordered by Minnesota, across the Red River of the North (E), South Dakota (S), Montana (W), and the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba (N). , heads up the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Celebration. Carol McBryant, National Park Service, is the Corps of Discovery II Project Manager and Michael Quinn Michael Quinn may refer to:
"Corps of Discovery II is an occasion to learn more about our nation's history, including the history of the American Indian," Gerard Baker said. The success of Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark's expedition from the Mississippi River in Missouri to the Pacific Ocean on the Oregon-Washington border was due in no small measure to interpreters French-Canadian fur trader, Toussaint Charbonneau, and his Shoshone Indian wife, Sacagawea. The original expedition, commissioned by President Jefferson in 1803, lasted from 1804-1806, and is celebrated 200 years later, beginning in January 2003 and continuing until the end of 2006. The mobile exhibit, custom designed by Legacy Transportation Services, includes a 53-foot trailer with a 30-ton built-in HVAC (Heating Ventilation Air Conditioning) In the home or small office with a handful of computers, HVAC is more for human comfort than the machines. In large datacenters, a humidity-free room with a steady, cool temperature is essential for the trouble-free system to distribute air and heat to the exhibit tent and the performance tent, the Tent of Many Voices. A state-of-the-art audiovisual center onboard includes rear screen projector and equipment to control all lighting and sound in the performance tent. The versatile system includes modern components with the ability to provide digital, audio and video capabilities for the press and performers. The trailer has a concealed, 5,000-pound liftgate lift·gate n. A closure at the rear of a vehicle that can be raised during loading and unloading. for easy loading and unloading. Two large side doors on the trailer open to form a 9' x 12' opening over which a large projector screen will display visual stories about the Lewis and Clark expedition Lewis and Clark expedition, 1803–6, U.S. expedition that explored the territory of the Louisiana Purchase and the country beyond as far as the Pacific Ocean. . Detailed graphics with portraits of Meriwether Lewis, William Clark and Sacagawea and her infant, along with landscapes of terrain covered by the expedition, cover the entire trailer. Flag pole brackets outside the trailer are for the U.S. flag, the flags of each state where the mobile exhibit stops and the tribal flag of each Indian tribe INDIAN TRIBE. A separate and distinct community or body of the aboriginal Indian race of men found in the United States. 2. Such a tribe, situated within the boundaries of a state, and exercising the powers of government and, sovereignty, under the national located in the region where the exhibit stops. A fully self-contained generator on the tractor supplies power for the entire mobile exhibit. A Web page has been especially created to disseminate news materials about the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Exhibit, President Bush's Proclamation, directions to the December 30th Media Event, hot links to Lewis and Clark educational sites, an electronic press kit and much more. It can be accessed at: http://www.legacytsi.com/press/lewisandclark/. The National Park Service is a bureau of the U.S. Department of the Interior. The National Park Service Pacific West Region is headquartered at 1111 Jackson Street, Suite 700, Oakland, CA 94607, 510/817-1320, http://www.nps.gov. The Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation, Inc. hosts a dedicated Web site, http://www.lewisandclark.org and offers information on the history of the original expedition. Legacy Transportation Services, headquartered at 660 National Ave., Mountain View, CA 94043, 650/960-3501 or 800/827-0990, http://www.legacytsi.com, is the industry's leading provider of specialized transportation and logistics services for trade show exhibits, high-value medical and computer equipment, fine art, mobile exhibits and more. Founded in 1991, with over 140 employees, Legacy Transportation Services is a United Van Lines United Van Lines is a moving van company now part of UniGroup, Inc. It is the largest mover in the United States with more than 30% market share (according to the US Bureau of Transportation Statistics). agent and remains privately held. |
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