Tuesday Sept. 9th, 2008 – Monthly Meeting 7 P.M. Deep Creek Lake State Park Discovery Center 898 State Park Rd. Swanton, MD 21561.
Jon Boone will present his talk “Roger Tory Peterson and the Artful Science of Field Guides”. Come celebrate Roger Tory Peterson as 2008 marks his 100th birthday. Jon Boone is a consultant with the Roger Tory Peterson Institute in Jamestown, New York and has been working with them to acquire his artwork. Jon will discuss Peterson and the evolution of the modern field guide. The information packed into a field guide is astounding and the effective dissemination and presentation of that information is clearly both an art and a science. Bring your favorite field guides from any and all authors to the presentation to aid in the discussion, which will be (in part) an informal question and answer session.

Directions to the Discovery Center: From I-68, take Exit 19 for MD-495 S toward Swanton and go about 9 miles until it goes left (at intersection with Rock Lodge Road) and follow it for another 4.6 miles, turning right at Glendale Road. Go 3.4 miles and turn right at Toothpick Road, turn right at the bottom of the hill onto State Park Road, go over the bridge and the Discovery Center is on the left.