Lifelong Arkansas and Missouri Naturalist, Kent Bonar is the author of An Arkansas Florilegium, an extension of the work initiated sixty years ago with botanist, Edwin B. Smith’s first entries in his Atlas and Annotated List of the Vascular Plants of Arkansas. Kent Bonar hiked the woods surrounding his Newton County home with Smith’s atlas in hand entering hundreds of meticulous illustrations into Smith’s work. An Arkansas Florilegium brings Smith’s and Bonar’s knowledge and lifelong diligence to the world in this unique mix of art, science, and Arkansas saga.
His address begins right at 12 Noon so please arrive early for a great seat to hear this amazing man.