This evening we traveled by van and vehicle to Oregon City, where we had a wrap party at Clackamette Park. The Northwest Chapter of OCTA sponsored it for us---thank you NW Chapter!!! We pulled a last gag on the kids by having the meal on the table. Mr. Vixie, Mr. Merchant, and Mr. Noll went to the head of the table to reveal the food: Rice, Beans, and Oatmeal! Arielle started crying, Darla had the most horrified expression on her face I’ve ever seen. After we had them really going, we pulled out the turkey and beef, barbecues sauce, salad, potato salad, bread and cookies.
At the end of the party Lincoln and Dan arrived. They had spent hours putting together a special slide show and they hung a wagon canvas from the edge of the park awning and we had “moving pictures” literally. It was so fun to see the early photos on the trail. Some of the kids said it seemed like months ago that they were in Wyoming. There was hooting and hollering, laughing, and a few tears at the end. Thank you Lincoln and Dan for all your hard work in putting the show together under difficult circumstances.
As the show wrapped, Matt, Jacqueline, and most of the rest of the crew and chaperones lit some sparklers. It was a GREAT end to a WONDERFUL ADVENTURE.
--Candy Moulton
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About the Project
- Oregon California Trails Association
- The Oregon-California Trails Association (OCTA) in association with Boston Productions is producing a 1-hour broadcast television program, "In Pursuit of a Dream," and series of short videos to be shown in schools throughout the country about what it was like to be an emigrant traveling West on a wagon train. The program is being produced by Boston Productions, an award winning Film Company that produces theatrical presentations for museums, visitor centers, and broadcast outlets. Boston Productions has worked on other projects about the overland trail experience story, but this promises to be our biggest adventure ever.
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2 comments:
Hey Dreamers... I have ONE more sack of oatmeal left in my trailer! If any of you want me to send it to you, just let me know!
Enjoyed the party and the slide show. YOU are all wonderful kids and such a fun group to share the wagon train adventure with. Now it is YOUR job to help keep these trails alive, safe and loved...come take part in OCTA and keep living the pioneer spirit you now ALL have!
Happy trails.
Quackgrass
I wanted to tell all of you how amazing it has been to watch this process through the blog and to see my son as he arrived in the airport. He looks different; taller, leaner, stronger, more self confident more like a young man who knows that he can do so much more than he thought he could do just two weeks ago.
I am so grateful to all of you, the stories he has shared have been an example of the learning he has had with you. He admitted, he hated to see it end!
Thank you the tears in my eyes are those of gratitude for your awesome efforts. This will be something my son never forgets!
Blessings from Sacramento-
Teresa - Joseph Belford's Mom
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