Daily Archives: April 23, 2010

Friday, May 7, 6:30 pm – Seventy Years of Change in the Flora of One New England County

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Dr. Robert Bertin, Professor and Department Chair, Biology Department, College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, will address the May 7 meeting of the New England Botanical Club at Garden in the Woods in Framingham, Massachusetts, beginning at 6:30 pm. His lecture is entitled Seventy Years of Change in the Flora of One New England County. For specific directions log on to www.newfs.org.

The sponsor, The New England Botanical Club, which originated in 1895, is a non-profit organization that promotes the study of plants of North America, especially the flora of New England and adjacent areas.  The Club publishes the journal Rhodora, holds monthly meetings during the academic year, maintains an herbarium of more than 253,000 sheets, has a small library, and annually grants a graduate student research award.  An office for the Club is maintained at the Harvard University Herbaria, 22 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, and you may reach the office at 617-308-3656 for membership information, or log on to www.rhodora.org.  Regular member dues are $50 annually, and a family rate, including a copy of Rhodora, is $60.  Student membership costs $25.

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Saturday, May 1, 2:00 pm – 4:30 pm – Life is a Dance

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Celebrate May Day on Saturday, May 1 at the Virginia Thurston Healing Garden in Harvard, Massachusetts.  Activities will include dancing with the “Hip-Hop Mamas,” Japanese drumming, a special dedication honoring the Healing Gardeners, art and photography exhibits, an a capella choral performance, kite making, and more.  The afternoon is designed to be cultural, educational, meaningful, kid-friendly, fun, free and open to all.  For more information, contact Tucker Smith at tsmith@groton.org.  The Healing Garden is an educational non-profit dedicated to providing a community of support to facilitate the healing process for women experiencing breast cancer. The staff  offers mind-body medicine, education about choices that contribute to health, methods for managing stress and for improving quality of life, and ways to regain control, both during and after treatment.  For more information, log on to www.healinggarden.net.

Wednesday, April 28, 6:00 pm – New Directions in EcoPlanning Annual Lecture

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A reminder: On Wednesday, April 28, beginning at 6:00 pm at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Jane Wolff (Harvard Graduate School of Design ’92) will present a free lecture New Directions in EcoPlanning, open to the public.  Ms. Wolff is Director of the Landscape Architecture program at the University of Toronto.  Her research and design work aims to articulate terms for landscapes where the line between nature and artifice is hard to draw.

Professor Charles Waldheim, Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design says of Jane Wolff: “Jane Wolff has emerged as among the strongest voices of her generation in the field of landscape architecture. Her work clearly articulates the complex and contradictory conditions for contested landscapes under pressure from rapid urbanization, deteriorating public infrastructures, increased demands for local agricultural production, and destination economies of recreation and leisure.”  The author of Delta Primer, a book and deck of cards designed to educate broad audiences about the contested landscapes of the California Delta (see image below), Ms. Wolff is currently involved in design, advocacy, and public information projects in San Francisco, New Orleans, and St. Louis.  The lecture is supported by a gift from Michael Dyett and Heidi Richardson.  For more information you may call 617-495-3045, or log on to www.hmnh.harvard.edu.  There will be a free  reception with the speaker in the galleries following the talk.

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