| THREE FLAGS CEREMONY |
The Three Flags Events commemorated the transfer of Upper Louisiana from Spain to France to the United States in its capital city of St. Louis 200 years ago. Heads of State, the fourteen governors of the Louisiana Territory states, and the Chief of the Osage Nation were invited to participate in the March 14 ceremony on the Gateway Arch grounds. Author Dayton Duncan emceed the program, opening with a reenactment of Meriwether Lewis and members of the Discovery expedition crossing the Mississippi from Illinois to the ceremony site, and performances by the French Air Force Band and the U.S. Army Band's Old Guard in period dress. Exhibits included the "Creole Corridor" on both sides of the Mississippi River, the Art of the Osage Exhibition at the St. Louis Art Museum, the National Lewis & Clark Bicentennial Exhibition at the Missouri History Museum and the Fur Trade Exhibit at the Mercantile Library. A Bicentennial Ball and a scholarly symposium explored the Purchase's legacies of the Louisiana Purchase.
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OTHER SIGNATURE EVENTS  |
- Bicentennial Inaugural: Jefferson's West
Monticello, Charlottesville, VA
January 18, 2003
- Falls of the Ohio
October 14 - 26, 2003
- Three Flags Ceremony
March 10 -14, 2004
- Expedition's Departure
Camp River DuBois
May 13 - 16, 2004
- St. Charles, MO
May 14 - 23, 2004
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| PHOTOS |
| Photos provided by Rodney Dierking. View his web gallery.
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