FREE Summer Lecture Series featuring
Stories from the Canyon
by Carol Simon-Smolinski
from the Idaho Humanities Council

The author will share stories and pictures from her recent book, Hells Canyon and the Middle Snake River: A Story of the Land and Its People, an extensive history of the canyon from its geological origins to the founding of the Hells Canyon Recreation Area in the 1970's. The snapshots through time will highlight ways that the canyon environment molded the life experiences of the native peoples, explorers, miners, homesteaders, ranchers, and steamboat and mailboat rivermen. Much of the information Carole will share was drawn from personal interviews and other original sources.

For over 20 years, Carole Simon-Smolinski has been an instructor and scholar of Pacific Northwest history, specifically the North Central area of Idaho. Her work includes articles, books, talks and videos on topics ranging from the Lewis & Clark Expedition to Idaho's ethnic heritage and 19th and 20th century transportation, economic, and social histories of the Clearwater Valley and Hells Canyon. She is the Asotin County representative to the Washington Governor's Lewis & Clark Trail Committee and a founding member of the Clearwater Snake Lewis Clark Trail Bicentennial Committee. Carole recently concluded 16 years as history instructor at Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston to return full time to her private research, writing and consultant work.

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