Event Details
Saturday, Apr 7, 2018
Washington County Heritage Festival
Time: 9:00 am til 1:00 pm
Location: Falling Waters State Park, 1130 State Park Rd, Chipley, FL 32428
Description: Join FPAN and other vendors from Northwest Florida to celebrate Washington County heritage! The event will have living history demonstrators, crafters, a kids zone, animal displays, local outfitters, geocaching, live music, great food and more!
This event is free and open to the public!
FPAN is participating in this event.
Heritage Monitoring Scouts: Learn to be a Scout!
Time: 9:00 am til 2:30 pm
Location: Gulf Breeze Community Center, 800 Shoreline Dr, Gulf Breeze, FL 32561
Description: Heritage Monitoring Scouts (HMS Florida) is a public engagement program focused on tracking changes to archaeological sites at risk, particularly those impacted by climate change in the form of erosion and sea level rise.
Join Florida Public Archaeology Network (FPAN) staff for this fun workshop to learn how to become a Heritage Monitoring Scout! We will talk about threats to archaeological sites, how to identify some common site types and artifacts, and the best way to record and monitor them. This workshop includes presentations in the morning at the Gulf Breeze Community Center, a break for lunch, and some site monitoring practice via kayak in the afternoon at Deadman's Island!
This event is free and open to the public. To RSVP, contact Nicole Grinnan at ngrinnan@uwf.edu or 850-595-0050 ext. 103. Participants are responsible for transportation from the morning session to the afternoon session. Participants should bring their own kayaks or contact Nicole Grinnan (above) for more information on rentals.
FPAN is hosting this event.
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Public Lecture: "The Discovery of the Tristan de Luna Site"
Time: 10:00 am til 1:00 pm
Location: Bagdad Village Preservation Association, 5412 Church Street, Bagdad, FL
Description: Join the Bagdad Village Preservation Association to hear about the archaeology of the Tristan de Luna site from one of the individuals who helped re-discover the site, Tom Garner of UWF!
This event is free and open to the public.
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FPAN is posting this event as a courtesy, we will neither be hosting nor attending this event.
