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FRIENDS OF THE VOLUSIA COUNTY LIBRARY CENTER PRESENT
THE NATURAL HISTORY OF VOLUSIA COUNTY BY MICHAEL BROTHERS
Wednesday, Oct. 8, 3:00 p.m. Children's Auditorium
Michael Brothers is currently the Chief of Interpretation for the Marine Science Center/Coastal Division in Ponce Inlet, Florida. The photos show him releasing some northern gannets, recovered from their injuries received during the hurricanes of September, 2004, into the Gulf Stream forty miles off our Volusia coast. The birds had been rescued and cared for at the Center. Mr. Brothers has over 30 years of experience in museum administration in city, county, state, and private non-profit museums. He is the former Executive Director of the Museum of Arts and Sciences in Daytona Beach. He has served also as Executive Director of the Museum of Arts and Sciences in Macon, Georgia, and as Museum Administrator for the Museum of Florida History in Tallahassee, as well as serving for ten years as the Curator of Science at the Museum of Arts and Sciences in Daytona Beach. He has organized major exhibitions including The Great Asian Dinosaur Exhibition from the Russian Academy of Sciences for the museum in Daytona Beach and Mysteries of Egypt from the Canadian Museum of Civilization while in Macon, Georgia. Mr. Brothers has extensive natural resource and natural science interpretive experience including specializations in the bird life and flora of Central Florida. He has led natural history tours throughout Florida and in the Galapagos Islands, in Kenya, and in the Amazon. Mr. Brothers is currently working on a summary of the avifauna of our area entitled The Birds of Volusia County.
A COMING ATTRACTION Mark Lane:
the News-Journal's syndicated humorist, will speak on Wednesday, November 12, at 2:00 p.m. in the Adult Auditorium. His topic: "The Sunshine State Beat: How to Write About Florida Weirdness Without Scaring the Tourists." Mark will be talking about his book Sandspurs: Notes from a Coastal Columnist, to be published this month by the University Press of Florida .
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