Saturday, November 1, 2014

Saturday will feature a series of lectures at the Yermo Community Center, 38315 McCormick St, Yermo, California (map above)
• 8:00 am - Welcome and pick up badges (coffee, tea, etc.)
• 9:00 am - Flag ceremony - Boy Scout Troop 574
• 9:05 am - President Claude Short greet and welcome
• 9:10 am - Hugo Christensen -Guarding Dr. Leakey
• 9:30 am - Russell Kaldenberg - Calico - the middle years
• 9:55 am - Eric Scott - Pleistocene Mammals at Manix Lake
• 10:20 am - BREAK
• 10:35 am - Bob Reynolds - Bigger than Lake Manix – Shorelines unite the Barstow Basin
• 11:00 am - Marith Reheis - Lake Manix--A Half-Million Years of Climate Change
• 11:25 am - Alan Garfinkel Gold – Newberry Cave: Ritual, Ceremony and Symbolism of the Desert Bighorn Hunters

• 12:00-1:30 pm - Break for Lunch

• 1:30 pm - Cliff Walker - Early Settlements in the Mojave
• 1:55 pm - Courtney Carlson - History of BLM and Calico
• 2:20 pm - Joan Schneider and Claude Warren - The Campbell & Rogers war
• 2:45 pm - BREAK
• 3:00 pm - Mark Campbell - A Look at the Western Mojave Desert from the Antelope Valley
• 3:25 pm - Dee Schroth - New Perspective RE: Calico
• 3:50 pm - Sandy Karhu - Analysis of Calico MP I Debitage
• 4:15 pm - Claude Short - Calico: The Next 50 years.
• After meeting discussions

Saturday Night

• 7:00 pm - Campfire at Calico Site (weather permitting)

Sunday, November 2, 2014

For Sunday, all activities take place at the archaeological site
• 9:00 am - flag raising ceremony - Boy Scout Troop 574
Activities:
 • Site tours
 • CCC trail upgrades
 • Flint knapping
 • Atlatl - dart throwing
 • Primitive drilling
 • Native American games
 • Native American musical instruments


• 11:30 am - Free BBQ - hot dogs, chips, fruit, soda

• 12:30 am - Continuation of the morning activities

• 4:00 pm - Head for home