Please join us for the second in a series of six lectures in honor of the 40th anniversary of the Rookery Bay Research Reserve -Rookery Bay through the Eyes of the Pioneer Family. Ray Carroll, Local Historian, will present about the trials and tribulations of early Florida pioneers living along Henderson Creek and in the Rookery Bay Reserve area. Lunch will be provided.

The 2018-19 lecture series will focus on the history of the Rookery Bay area and the establishment of the Research Reserve. Lectures by staff and volunteers will describe 3,000 years of use of the estuary, the grassroots movement to save the bay, fisheries research, the establishment of the Research Reserve and Environmental Learning Center, as well as some of the more recent accomplishments and notable events in the Reserve’s timeline.