General Meeting November 1st

“Defining & Celebrating Our “Sense of Place”
Speaker: Author, preservationist, naturalist Bill Belleville
The Sanford Welcome Center Tuesday, November 1, 7 p.m.

Bill Belleville is an award-winning author and documentary filmmaker specializing in nature, conservation and “sense of place.” He’s authored six books, over 1,000 magazine articles and essays, and produced and scripted four PBS films. He’s traveled widely overseas on assignment for the Discovery Channel, including the Great Barrier Reef of Australia, the Peruvian Amazon, Central America, and the Galapagos. As a diver/writer, he was aboard the first American oceanographic expedition to Cuba.

He’s also scripted and co-produced NPR radio documentaries, including one on Blue Spring with Philippe Cousteau for Living on Earth. Belleville’s lectured widely, including UF’s College of Law, UNF, Rollins College, California Academy of Sciences, Emory University, and USF-SP where he has been Writer in Residence. Three of his books are devoted to Florida, including the critically acclaimed “River of Lakes: A Journey on Florida’s St. Johns River”, “Losing it All to Sprawl: How Progress Ate my Cracker Landscape”, and his most recent, “Salvaging the Real Florida: Lost & Found in the State of Dreams.” An avid kayaker, hiker and scuba diver, he lives in Sanford.