RENDEZVOUS 2012 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Thursday, September 20
8:00 a.m. - SFTA Board Meeting at SFTC (open to the public)
2:00 – 6:00 p.m. - Rendezvous Registration at Santa Fe Trail Center
5:30 p.m. - Opening Event at SFTC: Dedication of Kaw marker,
dinner, and program
Speaker: Lonnie Burnett, Kaw Tribal Council Member
Topic: “Kaw Nation and the Santa Fe Trail”
Friday, September 21
7:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. - Registration at Larned Community Center
8:00 – 8:15 a.m. - Welcome and Introductions at the Larned Community Center
8:15 – 8:30 a.m. - Introduction to Theme – Dr. Joyce Thierer
8:30 – 9:15 a.m. - Speaker: Allan Wheeler
Topic: “ The Life of William Becknell-Founder of the Santa Fe Trail”
(1st Person Portrayal)
9:15 – 10:00 a.m. - Speaker: Dr. Ann Birney
Topic: Julia Archibald Holmes (1st Person Portrayal) 10:00 – 10:30 a.m. - Coffee Break
10:30 – 11:15 a.m. - Speaker: Dr. David A. Sandoval
Topic: “Pedro Sandoval, In Defense of the Empire”
(1st Person Portrayal)
11:15 – 11:45 a.m. - Panel Session with the three morning speakers
– Dr. Joyce Thierer, Facilitator
11:45 – 1:15 p.m. - Lunch at Community Center and SFTA Membership Meeting
1:15 p.m. - Depart for “On the Road” Presentations
1:45 – 5:15 p.m. - Rendezvous 2012 continues at Pawnee Rock State Historic Site
Speaker: Steve Brosemer
Topic: Frederick Hawn, Deputy Surveyor for the
General Land Office (1st Person Portrayal)
Speaker: John Carson
Topic: Kit Carson (1st Person Portrayal)
Speaker: Inez Ross
Topic: Marion Sloan Russell (1st Person Portrayal)
Refreshment Break – Portable Restrooms Available
5:15 p.m. - Return to Larned Community Center
6:30 p.m. - Dinner, Program and SFTA Hall of Fame Inductions and
SFTA Awards at Community Center
Speaker: Gary L. Hicks
Topic: Alexander Majors (1st Person Portrayal)
There will be SFT era characters at the dinner dressed in period costume.
They will be seated among the audience. Those not already inducted into
the SFT Hall of Fame will be inducted that evening.
Saturday, September 22
7:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. - Registration at Larned Community Center
8:00 – 8:15 a.m. - Welcome and Introductions at the Larned Community Center
8:15 – 9:00 a.m. - Speaker: Dr. Hal Jackson
Topic: “James Kirker: Hero and Villian”
9:00 – 9:45 a.m. - Speaker: Dorothy Smoker
Topic: “Luz, The Land and Those Who Crossed It”
(1st Person Portrayal of Maria de la Luz Beaubien Maxwell)
9:45 – 10:15 a.m. - Coffee Break
10:15 – 11:00 a.m. - Speaker: Mark Berry
Topic: Wild Bill Hickok (1st Person Portrayal)
11:00 – 11:30 a.m. - Panel session with three morning speakers
– Dr. Joyce Thierer, Facilitator
11:30 Depart for lunch at Fort Larned National Historic Site
11:45 – 12:45 p.m. - Lunch at Fort Larned NHS
1:00 p.m. - Depart from Fort Larned NHS for “On the Road” Presentations
1:45 p.m. - Rendezvous continues at Cheyenne & Sioux Indian Village Site
Speaker: Dr. Leo Oliva
Topic: “The Hancock Expedition of 1867 and the Cheyenne and
Sioux Village on Pawnee Fork”
Speaker: Louis Kraft
Topic: “Ned Wynkoop’s Fight to Save the Cheyenne-Lakota
Village on the Pawnee Fork”
Refreshment Break – Portable Restrooms Available
4:00 p.m. - Depart for Fort Larned NHS
Enjoy the rest of your afternoon at Fort Larned NHS
6:00 p.m. - Retreat Ceremony – Fort Larned NHS
6:15 p.m. - Dinner and Program in Quartermaster Storehouse
Speaker: Dr. Durwood Ball
Topic: Edwin Vose Sumner, Frontier Army Officer
