<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span><br></span></div><div><br><br>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br><br>Hi All, <br><br>Please see the new roster of humanities program of the NEH :<br><a target="_blank" href="http://www.humanities.org/programs/speakers">http://www.humanities.org/programs/speakers</a><br></div><div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Also - Please see below - I read the "The Collector" and it was one of my favorite books of the last ten years - truly an amazing story of plant collecting and the painstaking efforts required to preserve specimens, transport them to England as well as the first hand accounts of early exploration of the Pacific Northwest. <br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family:
arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">The program is on Whidbey but just in case you are available, here are the details.<br><br>Jack Nisbet, Story Teller and Author <br>Saturday, September 15th 5pm <br>Jack Nisbet is the winner of the 2010 Pacific Northwest Book Award for his book, The Collector: David Douglas and the Natural History of the Northwest. He is a teacher, naturalist, and writer who lives in Spokane, Washington with his wife and two children. Jack grew up in North <br>Carolina, a graduate of Stanford University. <br>Jack is the author of several other books that explore the human and natural history of the Intermountain West,including Purple Flat Top, Singing Grass Burning Sage, and Visible Bones as well as two books about fur agent and cartographer
David Thompson: Sources of the River and The Mapmaker’s Eye. <br>The Washington State Historical Society Director, David Nicandri, calls him “one of the Northwest’s great storytellers.” <br>M Bar C Ranch<br>5264 So. Shore Meadow Road<br>Freeland, WA 98249 <br>General Admission: $50<br>Contact us: meerkerk@whidbey.net, 360.678.1912 or 360.222.0121<br><a href="http://www.meerkerkgardens.org/calendar.html">http://www.meerkerkgardens.org/calendar.html</a></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br>-------------</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Karen Prasse</div><div class="yui_3_2_0_22_1346692987823335" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px;
font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">League of Snohomish County Heritage Organizations<br>info@snocoheritage.org</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">www.snocoheritage.org<br></div> </div></body></html>