AT24-287, Early Texas Botanists of the Nineteenth Century, Boerne

Event Title: Early Texas Botanists of the Nineteenth Century

VMS-AT: AT: Hill Country Chapter Other Approved Training (Enter AT#, Class Title as posted, Location, and Presenter)

Comments: AT24-287, Early Texas Botanists of the Nineteenth Century, Boerne, Presenter: Lonnie Childs (AT=1.0)

Event Date: 8/13/2024
Event Time: 6:00p-7:30p

Business meeting will proceed the lecture.

Event Summary:
Learn tales of early Texas naturalists and adventurers, who risked their lives in pursuit of scientific data while examining and documenting our diverse natural history.

Event Description:
Take a nice journey back in the early years of Hill Country settlement and learn tales of early Texas naturalists and adventurers, who risked their lives in pursuit of scientific data while examining and documenting our diverse natural history. Lonnie Childs will focus on some of the better known Texas Explorers, including Ferdinand Roemer and Ferdinand Lindheimer, both of whom spent time in the Hill Country pursuing their scientific studies. Both were in the first wave of German immigration, coming to Texas in the middle 1840s.

Our speaker, Lonnie Childs, has been involved with multiple non-profit organizations including serving on the Board of Directors of the Gillespie County Society, and State President of the Native Plant Society of Texas (NPSOT). And currently serves as President and Newsletter Editor of the Friends of the Fredericksburg Nature Center. He has authored numerous articles on natural history subjects and has been a frequent presenter.

Cost: No cost

Register @: No registration required

Event Location: Boerne Patrick Heath Public Library Community Room.
451 N Main St, Boerne, TX 78006

Presenter: Lonnie Childs

Contact Information: Bryden Moon @ 830-336—3375 or bemoonjr@aol.com

Organization Website: https://www.kendallcountyhistory.org/

Sponsoring Organization: Kendall County Historical Commission