Smithsonian Museum Exhibit on Prairies Comes to Texas
A traveling exhibit, "Listening to the Prairie: Farming in Nature¹s Image," organized by the Smithsonian¹s Museum of Natural History will be in Texas from March 9 through Sunday, April 14, 2002. Twenty cities across the United States were selected as hosts for "Listening to the Prairie" and Allen, located in north Texas, is the only Texas city chosen to participate in the exhibit.
Display viewing hours for this free exhibit will be 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, and 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday.
The Allen Public Library is located at 301 Century Parkway in Allen. A Distinguished Lecture Series called "Listening to the Prairie" supplements the exhibit. All talks are free and open to the public.
7:30-8:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 12, "Preserving the Future by Saving the Past" and "Colorful Texas Natives for Your Landscape". Jim Eidson of The Nature Conservancy and Lynda Strain of the Collin County Native Plant Society of Texas
7:30-8:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 19, "A Sea of Grass: The Blackland Prairie Across Time." Dr. George Diggs, professor of biology at Austin College and co-author of Shinners and Mahler’s Illustrated Flora of North Central Texas.
7:30-8:30 p.m. Monday, March 25, "Plants of the Prairie and Their Use in Agriculture" and "The Past, Present and Future of Prairie Soils". Dr. James Read, professor, and Dr. John Sloan, assistant professor, with the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
7:30-8:30 p.m. Thursday, April 4, "Prairie Tales: Folktales and Lore from the American Prairie" Twice Upon a Time Storytellers
7:30-8:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 10 "Listening to the Prairie ‹ Over the Roar of Encroaching Urbanization." Ed Bagg, Collin County extension agent with the Texas Cooperative Extension Service, and David Behm, executive director of Connemara Conservancy.
For additional information on "Listening to the Prairie," and the related distinguished lecture series, call Tom Keener, City of Allen development coordinator, 972-727-0194.
on 2/7/02 10:25 AM, Becky Erickson at beckyerickson@email.msn.com wrote:
A while back (December?) someone posted info about a traveling Smithsonian prairie ecosystem exhibit in Texas . I have persued two paths to get any info on other locations where this exhibit will be set up. I asked the poster of the Texas info and I spent two hours in the Smithsonian website. I finally sent an email to Smithsonian and got no answer.
Does anyone know anything about this?
Becky Erickson
Coordinator Missouri Ecotype Program
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