Ambrose Memorial Lecture
Wed, Dec 03
|Helena
Williamson will discuss her work at the conservation NGO American Prairie, and their mission to connect, protect, and share 3.2 million acres of Montana’s grasslands, and how this work extends beyond habitat and wildlife conservation to intertwine with the stories we tell about the past.
Time & Location
Dec 03, 2025, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Helena, 120 S Last Chance Gulch St, Helena, MT 59601, USA
About the event
Corrie Williamson, author, teacher, naturalist, and Community Outreach Director at American Prairie, will blend poetry, history, and restoration ecology in a presentation that travels across time, geography, and literature. She will be introduced by Stephenie Ambrose-Tubbs, daughter of the late Stephen E. Ambrose, for whom the lecture is named.
Williamson, who grew up in the same small Virginia town as William Clark’s first wife, Julia Hancock, will share her connections to the history and landscape of the Corps of Discovery and how it led her to Montana and to her work connecting storytelling, conservation, and communities. Her lecture, part poetry-reading, will include work from her award-winning collections of poems, as well as other important literary touchpoints and perspectives related to the Great Northern Plains’ history and habitat.
Williamson will discuss her work at the conservation NGO American Prairie, and their mission to connect, protect, and share 3.2 million acres of…