Fridays 9:30 – 11:30 AM
January 14 through February 18, 2005
D.O.C. House
This course will be a series of six lectures designed to capture participants' interest in various authors whose works examine Florida or draw their imagery from a Florida setting. The course will also showcase the habitats and species that are unique to the state. Ms. Edwards will present literary selections to pique curiosity, then recommend texts. Ms. Findley will take the second half of each session to show prize-winning slides and let the class handle unique materials (for example - alligator teeth, dolphin skulls, even dried tortoise poop! - i.e. feces) that she has accumulated during her years of guiding treks through Florida's wilds.
The literary readings will be photocopied as hand-outs for distribution in class. A suggested reading list will be provided. However, this course will not require assigned readings in advance. Lively, informal participation will be encouraged.
Class is limited to 25 members.
MARGARET EDWARDS was a professor of English for thirty years at the University of Vermont in Burlington. She retired in 2001. It was last year, when she visited the Florida homes of Ernest Hemingway and of Robert Frost and then took a kayak tour of the Turkey Creek Sanctuary under Joanne Findley's guidance, that she began to plan this course.
JOANNE FINDLEY, a part-time Florida resident, trained tracker, and expert in Florida's flora and fauna, has an extensive library of slides, books, and artifacts (plus a wealth of ideas) that has brought this whole project into focus.
