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The Annual meeting of The Society of Friends of Historic Fort Hays will be on Sunday, Jan. 28 at 2 p.m. in the Visitor’s Center at the fort. A program will precede the annual meeting and election of new board members to The Society of Friends.
The program – The French on the Smoky Hill Trail in the 18th Century as told by trapper Smoky Hill Thompson will be presented by Donald Wade Davis, an independent author and scholar who lives in Bonner Springs, Kansas. Earning his undergraduate degree in Great Plains Studies from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, and a master’s degree from the University of Missouri at Kansas City, Wade has been an avid student of the American West, especially here in the plains region. Wade’s interests are Historic Reenacting and Living History. He portrays a fur trader at Nebraska’s Fort Atkinson and takes part in many living history events around the country. He is an active member of the American Mountain Men and the coalition of Historical Trekkers. Wade has worked as a coal miner, a cowboy, a labor advocate and a therapist over his career. When not writing or at a living history event, he can be found at home with his wife Pam and their blended family.