[PCA] DISCOVERING VIRGINIA 1607-2007: Bushwackers, Botanists and Pioneers March 3

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Virginia  Native Plant Society  2007 WORKSHOP and EXHIBIT

DISCOVERING VIRGINIA  
1607-2007: Bushwackers, Botanists and Pioneers

Saturday, March 3,  2007
9:30 a.m. until 3:30 p.m.
University of Richmond, Gottwald Center for  the Sciences 

Inspired by the quadricentennial of the Jamestown  settlement, this workshop 
looks back at 400 years of botanical exploration,  cultivation and 
colonization in our state. Considered by many to be the  birthplace of botanical study in 
the New World, Virginia has a long and fascinating history of  pioneers and 
explorers who have made significant contributions to science and to  our 
cultural heritage. In the 18th century, for example, pioneers who pushed  through 
the boundaries of the Blue Ridge Mountains created an entirely new  cultural and 
agrarian landscape in the Shenandoah  Valley. On a broader scale, early 
botanists like John Clayton laid  the foundation for plant exploration that can be 
traced from the publishing of  Flora Virginica in 1743 up to present day 
efforts to produce a new Flora of  Virginia. Join us as we celebrate some of the 
remarkable people who have  contributed so much to our present day botanical 
knowledge and to Virginia's  history.

As an added attraction, workshop participants  are invited to a special 
viewing of 
"Native Plants of Virginia: Selections from the University of Richmond 
Herbarium" on exhibit in the  Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature. This 
exhibit links line drawings by  Lara Gastinger with herbarium specimens and 
botanical photographs.

This  VNPS Workshop will be held in the Gottwald Center for the Sciences on 
the University of Richmond campus. If you need driving  directions, check the 
box on the registration form and they will be sent to you.  Once you reach the 
campus, there will be signs directing you to the Gottwald Center parking lot. 
For online directions,  go to: www.richmond.edu/about/directions

Please bring your own lunch.  Students will be on spring break, campus 
facilities will be closed and there  will be nowhere to purchase lunch on campus.

VNPS thanks the Department  of Biology, University of Richmond for hosting 
this  event.

WORKSHOP PROGRAM

9:30    Registration  and coffee

10:00    Welcome and  introduction
Sally Anderson, President, Virginia Native  Plant Society
Dr. Stanwyn Shetler, Botanist emeritus,  Smithsonian Institution

10:15    Dr. John Hayden:   Exhibit Overview

10:30    Terry Yemm:  "Early  Virginia Botanists"
This presentation examines a number of  botanists from the 17th and 18th 
centuries who         made their mark in Virginia. John Clayton's work, in 
particular,  won acclaim from
Jefferson and  Linnaeus.

11:30    Refreshment  Break

11:45    Dr. Donna Ware:  "Laying the  Groundwork for a new Virginia Flora"
This discussion  presents an     overview of decades of  botanical  
exploration, largely during
the past century, which have  provided the essentials for the production of a 
new  Flora.

12:45    Lunch and Gallery Visit to see "Native  Plants of Virginia: 
Selections from the 
University of  Richmond Herbarium"

2:15    Dr. Warren Hofstra:  
"A Strange New Land: Settlement and Environment in the  Shenandoah Valley "  
This talk  examines the natural environment of the Shenandoah Valley during 
the 18th  
Century and looks at the changes wrought by pioneers in  one of the most 
significant 
frontier areas in  America.

3:15    Closing remarks

THE  SPEAKERS:

Dr. John Hayden is the botany chair for the Virginia Native  Plant Society. A 
professor in the Biology Department at the University of Richmond, he is also 
the curator of the  University's herbarium.  

Dr. Warren Hofstra is Stewart Bell  Professor of History at Shenandoah  
University in Winchester,  where he  teaches in the fields of American social and 
cultural history and directs the  Community History Project of the university. 
He has written or edited five books  on various aspects of American regional 
history, including The Planting of New  Virginia: Settlement and Landscape in 
the Shenandoah Valley, which has been  described as "the definitive work on the 
development of the Shenandoah Valley landscape."

Dr. Donna Ware is a  Research Associate Professor of Biology at the College 
of William and Mary. She was the college's  Herbarium Curator from 1969 to 
2000, and is now Curator Emeritus. A founding  member of the John Clayton Chapter 
of VNPS, she is Secretary of the Board of  Directors of the Flora of Virginia 
Project, past Chairman of the Virginia  Academy of Science's Flora Committee, 
and a member of the Virginia Botanical  Associates, which has produced three 
editions of the Atlas of the Virginia  Flora. She was also the biological 
consultant for With Paintbrush and Shovel:  Preserving Virginia's Wildflowers, by 
Nancy Kober.

Terry Yemm is a highly  regarded professional gardener who has worked in this 
field for more than thirty  years. His academic studies in botany, 
horticulture, history, and art history  support his contributions as a garden historian 
for "American Lives: History  Brought to Life", an educational project which 
serves both students and teachers  nationwide. For over twenty years, he has 
applied this background to his  activities on behalf of the Interpretation and 
Landscape Departments of the  Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.


REGISTRATION  FORM


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______Please  mail Directions.

Workshop fee  $35
Full time student fee   $5
Registration is due by February 26th. 
Please make checks payable to  VNPS.

Mail registration form and payment to:      VNPS Workshop
400 Blandy Farm  Lane #2
Boyce, VA  22620   
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