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Program: This Wild Life: Heroines in the History of Botany 1650 to 1850
September 19 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Thursday, September 19, 7:00 pm
Program: This Wild Life: Heroines in the History of Botany 1650 to 1850
Speaker: Lucretia Weems
Location: Southern Oregon University, Science Building, Room 161, Ashland, and Virtual
Stories of a remarkable group of forgotten women involved in the early days of plant exploration around the world presented by author Lucretia Weems.
About the speaker: Trained at U.C.L.A. in the Landscape Architecture program, Lucretia has been designing gardens in the western United States for over 20 years. She has created landscapes small enough to step across and large enough to get lost in. Researching plants for a design project, she came across the name of a female plant explorer working in the late 1700s. As she found more stories of forgotten women doing important work in the field, she knew those stories had to be told. Lucretia lives, works, and gardens in Southern Oregon.
This program will also be provided via Zoom for folks who cannot attend in person. To register for the zoom: https://bit.ly/npsotalks.