By MATT PIKE
St. Joseph Post
History will come alive during a symposium in St. Joseph this week.
The Oregon-California Trails Association Midwest Division will host an event this Thursday through Sunday.
Organizer and former St. Joseph Councilmember Jerry Mogg says the event that’s open to the public will give people an opportunity to be part of the trail's organization.
"To hear speakers, to go on tours, to visit all of our museums, because it's really our museums that tell that story day in and day out," Mogg tells host of the KFEQ Hotline Barry Birr.
You can register online for the event, or you can call the Oregon-California Trails Association.
Mogg says an optional attraction during the event will be guided tours of the tails on Friday.
"We try to take things at a slower pace so that we see some of the same things that the pioneers saw as they went across and everything," Mogg says.
Tours are available for an additional 55 dollars on top of registration fees.
Mogg says the event will even explore places just outside St. Joseph, such as in Highland, Kansas Mission Site which Mogg says isn't easy to get to normally
"Because it's on the old highway 36 and that site got defunded from the state back quite a few years ago and so a lot of their stuff they've lost," Mogg explains. "Now, the Iowa tribe would like to bring that site back up, we'd like to have that site to be there."
More information about the event and registration can be found HERE.