Evan Bennett PhD., FAU Professor of History and renowned historian, will lead the series.
Credit: Bonnet House Museums & Gardens
History class is getting a South Florida pizzazz. Bonnet House Museum & Gardens has teamed up with Florida Atlantic University to launch a three-part lecture series that explores how Florida’s coasts have been shaped over the past 2,000 years and what that means for the future.
Titled The Future of Florida’s Coasts: What We Can Learn from the Past, the series runs January 21, February 23 and March 30, with each session held on Bonnet House’s historic estate. Guests can arrive early for cookies, coffee and tea on the Veranda at 12:30 p.m., followed by the lecture from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. It is history, but make it cozy and totally approachable.
Leading the talks is Evan P. Bennett, PhD, a Florida Atlantic University professor of history and director of the Voting Rights History Civic Literacy Project. Bennett is also the award-winning author of Tampa Bay: The Story of an Estuary and Its People and is known for connecting environmental history with today’s coastal challenges. Across the three sessions, he will dive into Indigenous coastal life, European colonization, maritime industries, tourism and modern development, all while tying the past to issues like pollution, overdevelopment and sea level rise.
Tickets are $5 for members and $10 for non-members, making this one of the more affordable ways to spend a weekday afternoon learning something new in Fort Lauderdale.
For tickets and full details, visit bonnethouse.org/events.
