Sergeant John Ordway will appear at the Missouri-Yellowstone Confluence Interpretive Center near Williston on Saturday, May 19 and Sunday, May 20. Portrayed by Arch Ellwein in the popular History Alive! program, Sergeant Ordway will discuss his service as the First Sergeant of the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1803-06.
The May 19-20 performances of Sergeant John Ordway will be at 1 and 4 p.m. (CT). Located one-half mile east of Fort Buford, the Confluence Center is also part of the Fort Buford State Historic Site.
Ellwein is an advertising consultant and Williston-Sidney area actor and children’s theater director. Since 1996, he has been bringing historical figures to life for audiences in nine western states, including President Theodore Roosevelt and, more recently, Yellowstone Vic Smith, a buffalo hunter, frontier scout and hunting guide for Dakota Territory entrepreneur, the Marquis de Mores, and Grant Marsh, probably best known as the Missouri River steamboat captain of the Far West, which brought back the wounded after the Battle of the Little Bighorn in June 1876.
The State Historical Society of North Dakota sponsors the History Alive Program to explore the lives and times of decades gone by. Begun in 1988, the unique program combines the theater arts with history. The 20-minute monologues are based on original letters, diaries, and other documents, many from the archives of the State Historical Society of North Dakota.
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