The Greenwood Cemetery will host “Dicken’s Death Day Picnic” on Monday, June 9th at 12 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.
Hear stories of Dickens’ visits to graveyards at the edge of Greenwood Cemetery and facts about his own death, while sharing lunch in a green setting. Guests will meet on the island across the little arched bridge and under the trees at the picnic table.
For more information, visit Orange County Arts and Cultural Affairs website.
The Cornell Fine Arts Museum will host its annual Fourth Friday lecture series on June 27th at 11 a.m. The event is free and open to the public.
Guests will explore “Etched Memory: Stefano della Bella’s The Medici Vase and Cosimo III” by Rangsook Yoon, Ph.D.
For more information, visit the Cornell Fine Arts Museum website.
Award winning nature writer Bill Belleville will show images of our springs and describe how they have shaped a “sense of place” in Florida. The presentation, “Florida’s Extraordinary Springs” is part of the Literary Elements series of the Seminole County Library system. Belleville, who is co-producing and scripting a forthcoming PBS documentary on springs, will speak at the North Branch Library on Palmetto Ave. in Sanford at 2 p.m. on Sat. June 14. It will be followed by a book signing. For more information, call 407.665.1620.
Discover the history of new reproductive technologies and how they’re changing our definitions of what makes a family. Learn about the outsourcing of reproduction and how other cultures interpret assisted reproductive technologies according to their own cultural frameworks at the Herndon Branch of the Orange County Public Library on June 16th at 7:30 p.m.
Rachel Newcomb is the author of The Gift, a novel about a college student who donates her eggs to an infertile couple. A book sale and signing will follow the program.
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