Event Title: “Get the Facts and then Act:”

Where: Amtrak Passenger Station, 918 Railroad Ave

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Time: 7:00 PM EST

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Fritz Davis will be speaking about Marjorie Carr; Archie Carr's wife who was an active environmentalist on her own.
"Get the Facts and then Act:" How Marjorie Harris Carr and the Florida Defenders of the Environment Stopped the Cross Florida Barge Canal.
This illustrated talk tells the story of Marjorie Harris Carr who fought the construction of the Cross Florida Barge Canal, first with the Alachua Audubon Society and then with the Florida Defenders of the Environment. This was one of the first successful grassroots environmental campaigns to challenge the Army Corps of Engineers.
Fritz Davis studied the history of science and environmental history at Harvard, the University of Florida and Yale. His first book: The Man Who Saved Sea Turtles: Archie Carr and the Origins of Conservation Biology was published by Oxford University Press. He is an associate professor in the Department of History at FSU.