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Ron Laycock
A graduate of Augsburg College, Ron spent his professional career in Human Services and Public Administration. Following his early retirement he has devoted time and energy to his interest in the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
He is a past president of the national Lewis and Clark / Trail Heritage Foundation, an organization with members in all fifty states and some foreign countries. He has held several positions in the Foundation.
He is a member of the National Council of the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Commission that is charged with planning and coordinating our nation’s 200th anniversary of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
In 2001 he received the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation’s Distinguished Service Award.
He is a frequent speaker at Historical Societies, Lewis and Clark events, schools, civic and professional groups across the country. He teaches week long Elderhostles on Lewis and Clark. He also spends time every summer as guide/historian on Lewis and Clark canoe trips on Montana’s Missouri River and on bus tours following the Lewis and Clark trail. He has followed the Lewis and Clark trail from beginning to end several times, by car, by horseback, and 150 miles by canoe.
His hobby is collecting books, literature, and other items about Lewis and Clark. In May of 2003 his extensive collection of Lewis and Clark books and literature was placed in the new Thomas Jefferson Library at Monticello, Charlottesville, VA.
He and his wife Ione make their home in Benson, MN.
He is a past president of the national Lewis and Clark / Trail Heritage Foundation, an organization with members in all fifty states and some foreign countries. He has held several positions in the Foundation.
He is a member of the National Council of the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Commission that is charged with planning and coordinating our nation’s 200th anniversary of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
In 2001 he received the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation’s Distinguished Service Award.
He is a frequent speaker at Historical Societies, Lewis and Clark events, schools, civic and professional groups across the country. He teaches week long Elderhostles on Lewis and Clark. He also spends time every summer as guide/historian on Lewis and Clark canoe trips on Montana’s Missouri River and on bus tours following the Lewis and Clark trail. He has followed the Lewis and Clark trail from beginning to end several times, by car, by horseback, and 150 miles by canoe.
His hobby is collecting books, literature, and other items about Lewis and Clark. In May of 2003 his extensive collection of Lewis and Clark books and literature was placed in the new Thomas Jefferson Library at Monticello, Charlottesville, VA.
He and his wife Ione make their home in Benson, MN.