Join James Shedd as he talks about how he, a team of scientists, and field guides, set out to retrace his great-great grandfather, Lt. A. W. Greely’s 250-mile journey in 1883 down the Kennedy Channel and across the Kane Basin to reach their expected rescue on Pim Island.
Lt. Adolphus Greely was the commanding officer of the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition’s perilous attempt to build a scientific research station on Ellesmere Island near the North Pole in 1881.
James Shedd’s talk follows his modern-day journey by kayak, with a historical retelling of the Greely expedition through dairy entries, letters and archival photographs - involving duty, honor, rationing, theft, death, and rumors of cannibalism.
