Speaker to explore ties between Florida plants and people
The Carrabelle History Museum will present a program “Flora Fusion: Exploring the Connection Between Plants and People” on Saturday, Feb. 8, from 10 a.m. to noon at C-Quarters Marina, 501 St James Ave (Hwy 98), in Carrabelle.
This free program will feature Barbara Clark, a regional director with the Florida Public Archaeology Network, who will dive into the fascinating relationship between people and plants in Florida, and how it has shaped culture throughout time.
Native Americans and some early settlers depended on their surrounding environment to meet their essential needs, as their grocery store, hardware store, and pharmacy. Because of this, the plants around them played an important part in their everyday lives, serving as resources for food, medicine, tools, storage, transportation, dyes, and shelter.
For thousands of years, people in Florida have been learning about plants and their many uses. Archaeologists continue to uncover the diverse ways plants were used by Florida’s prehistoric inhabitants and early settlers, and the roles plants played in the state’s history.
Clark is regional director for both the Northwest and North Central Regional Centers of the Florida Public Archaeology Network (FPAN). She is a registered professional archaeologist who specializes in historic archaeology, 19th and early 20th century and is also a board member of the Florida Archaeological Council and chair of the Tallahassee Trust for Historic Preservation. Her favorite areas of expertise include advocacy at the state and local level, historic cemeteries, and disaster planning.
There is no fee for this program but donations are gladly accepted to defray costs. Sponsored by C-Quarters Marina and Shaun Donahoe Realty. For more information, visit www.carrabellehistorymuseum.org or contact carrabellehistorymuseum@gmail.com or 850-697-2141. Funded in part by the Franklin County Tourist Development Council.
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Prior to then, David Adlerstein began as a newspaperman with a small Boston weekly, after graduating magna cum laude from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. He later edited the weekly Bellville Times, and as business reporter for the daily Marion Star, both not far from his hometown of Columbus, Ohio.
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