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Education
Volcano Views & Brews
Now in Cowlitz County too! This popular lecture series about the great outdoors began in 2008 and continues every month. Fascinating topics, lively speakers as well as excellent food and libations make for an enjoyable and horizon-widening evening.
See presentation description below for dates, times and locations
Presentations
May - special presentation of the new documentary movie, “Finding David Douglas”
$5 Suggested donation.
Title: Finding David Douglas
Speaker: Lois Leonard
Date/Location:
*Wednesday, May 22 at Loowit Brewing, 507 Columbia Street, Vancouver, WA. Food by Foody Blues BBQ. Doors and food at 5:00pm; presentation at 6:30pm.
*Thursday, May 23 at the Kelso Theater Pub, 214 S Pacific, Kelso, WA. Doors and food at 5:30pm, speaker at 6:30pm.
Description: Screening of Finding David Douglas, a documentary about the pioneer West Coast botanist, with Q&A by the filmmaker, Lois Leonard.
The compelling story of the intrepid 19th century Scots botanist David Douglas is told in this tri-national production. Finding David Douglas transports viewers to England and Scotland; treks through locations in Oregon, Washington, California and British Columbia; sweeps across the high Canadian Rockies to remote York Factory on Hudson Bay; and reaches Douglas’s mysterious final destination on the Big Island of Hawaii. The film focuses on Douglas’s groundbreaking contributions to science – the Douglas fir and many more plant and animal species are named for him. It details his relations within the multi-cultural community of the Hudson’s Bay Company and the many Indian tribes he visited. This hour-long documentary is produced by the Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission in collaboration with Forestry Commission Scotland and the U.S. Forest Service.
