Schedule of Events Royal Palm Anniversary

10:00 AM - Check-in, Walking Tours, Meet and Greet

  • Walking tours to the site of the original Royal Palm Lodge

  • Walking tours to the Anhinga Trail

  • Socializing

  • Historic reenactors; May Mann Jennings and Charles Mosier

  • Live music

11:00 AM - Formal Presentations and Panel (each speaker has 10 minutes)

  • Pedro Ramos, Superintendent of Everglades National Park

  • Mary C. Powell, President of the General Federeation of Women's Clubs

  • Donald Forgione, Director Florida Parks Service

  • Fran Mainella former Director of both Florida Park Service and Us National Park Service.

Noon - break for lunch

1:00 PM - Keynote Speaker

  • Leslie Kemp Poole, author of Saving Florida: Women's Fight for the Enviroment in the Twentieth Century

2:00 PM - Walking Tours and Socializing

  • Walking tours to the site of the original Royal Palm Lodge

  • Walking tours to the Anhinga Trail

  • Socializing

  • Historic reenactors; May Mann Jennings and Charles Mosier

  • Live music

All formal activities will conclude at 3 PM

Last updated: November 4, 2016

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