Shawnee Group Programs are held at 7:30 PM in the back meeting room at the Carbondale Township Office at 217 East Main St. in Carbondale. Parking lot is behind the building, and is best accessed from Monroe St., just West of Marion St. and the first street south of Main St. Enter the meeting room through the green door off of the parking lot. Front door will be locked. Free and open to the public!
The Trail Where They Cried": The Cherokee Trail of Tears - with Mary McCorvie - December 10th, 7:30 - During the harsh winter of 1838-1839 over 15,000 Cherokee Indians passed this way through southern Illinois on their Trail of Tears. Many hundreds perished from cold and hunger on this long and tortuous trek from their homeland near the Smokey Mountains to new government-designated lands in eastern Oklahoma. It took approximately eleven weeks during the fall and winter to cross the 60 cold
and rainy miles between the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. The days and weeks spent in crossing southern Illinois were the most brutal for the Cherokee Nation - bitter cold mixed with rain and snow. This presentation will include an overview of the Cherokee removal, and a travelogue of the trail as it passed through southern Illinois
Mary McCorvie is the Forest Archaeologist for Shawnee National Forest.
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