Events January 30

Meet FPAN and Mound House staff at the Edison Festival of Light Day of Discovery Village on Saturday January 30th. Science educators from around the state will be there! The event is free, from 10am to 4pm in Centennial Park, across from the Harborside Event Center in downtown Fort Myers.

Also on January 30, our friends at the Randell Research Center will be hosting a fundraising event, "Music on the Mounds", at the Pineland site on Pine Island. Tickets are $20 - all the info you need to know is here!

Welcome Matthew Schuld, New Outreach Coordinator

Matthew Schuld begins this week as our new Outreach Coordinator for the Southwest Regional Center. Matthew, who relocated from Kalamazoo, Michigan in January, graduated from Western Michigan University with a Master of Arts in Public History in June 2009. Prior to his hiring with the Town of Fort Myers Beach he was employed as the post-graduate intern with the Kalamazoo Public Library Local History Department and carried out private contract work with the National Park Service at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. He has also served on the board of several civic and professional organizations.

We're glad Matt is on board! He'll be assisting with all aspects of our programming. Feel free to contact him at matt@fortmyersbeachfl.gov

Ann Cordell at SWFAS January 20th

At the January 20 SWFAS meeting in Bonita Springs, Ann Cordell of the University of Florida’s Florida Museum of Natural History will talk about her work with Kathleen Deagan on 16th century pottery from the Fountain of YouthPark Site in St. Augustine. The meeting begins at 7:30; coffee and snacks are available at 7.

As always, the SWFAS meetings are open to the interested public and held at the Bonita Springs Community Hall, 27831 Old US-41 in Bonita Springs.