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February 2026
Monthly Meeting
NEXT HYBRID MEETING: Riley Black, When The Earth Was Green, February 21, Oasis, RB And Zoom
Riley Black is the bestselling and award-winning author of When the Earth Was Green , The Last Days of the Dinosaurs , and more. A regular contributor to National Geographic , Smithsonian , and Slate , as well as a repeat guest on NOVA and Science Friday , Riley has spent more than fifteen years bringing the public the latest about the deep past. When not enthusing over fossils in articles and books, Riley regularly volunteers with museum field teams to uncover new
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Articles
MY LIFE WITH PLANTS: Florida's First Commercial Tourist Theme Park
By Jim Bishop. In previous articles I've reminisced about our 1960's home landscape in Plantation, Florida. Besides the plethora of...
Mar 1, 2012
MY LIFE WITH PLANTS: River of Grass
By Jim Bishop. In previous articles I've reminisced about our 1960's home landscape in Plantation, Florida. This month I'll discuss some...
Feb 1, 2012
MY LIFE WITH PLANTS: Florida Paradise - Part 2
By Jim Bishop. Last month I discussed how in the early 1960’s my parents had the front part of our house in Plantation Florida...
Jan 1, 2012
MY LIFE WITH PLANTS: Florida Paradise - Part 1
By Jim Bishop. On Halloween night of 1961 our family arrived at our new home in Plantation Florida, a fast growing suburb of Fort...
Dec 1, 2011
MY LIFE WITH PLANTS: The Late 1950's
Jim Bishop. In 1960, my father was transferred from Houston, Texas to Wichita, Kansas. I only have a few plant-related memories of...
Nov 1, 2011
MY LIFE WITH PLANTS: Collecting Seeds
By Jim Bishop. In 1959, we were transferred from Monahans, Texas, to Houston. Though both are very flat with spring thunderstorms and...
Oct 1, 2011
MY LIFE WITH PLANTS: My First Plant Memories
By Jim Bishop. This is the first in a continuing series of articles that chronicle Jim Bishop’s experiences with plants and the effect...
Sep 1, 2011
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