Missouri Headwaters Summer Speaker Series: A history of sleeping across the Louisiana Territory

THREE FORKS – Missouri Headwaters State Park will host a free program featuring guest speaker Billy Maxwell, who will present a nap-time review of Native and European modes of sleeping arrangements 200 years ago at the time of the Corps of Discovery.

The program will begin at 7 p.m. on Saturday, July 8, behind the park office. There is no cost to Montana residents. An $8 entrance fee applies at Montana state parks for all nonresident vehicles.

Visitors are encouraged to bring their own chair and bug spray. S’mores will be served afterward.

About the speaker

Billy Maxwell is the former research interpreter at the Lewis & Clark Interpretive Center in Great Falls from its opening in 1998 until 2008. Today he contributes to his Facebook group Prairie Material Studies most days during his morning coffee. This group informally researches and discusses material habits of Native Americans, Anglos and others from the southeastern U.S. to the Cascades and beyond. Every day he uses bits of tossed stuff and habits from the past to enhance the future.

Missouri Headwaters State Park is about 5 miles northeast of Three Forks on Trident Road. For more information about the park, please visit fwp.mt.gov/stateparks/missouri-headwaters or call 406-285-3610.