Pennekamp & Everglades Park History Presentation
A ‘Dennis the Menace’ cartoon from 1976 shows the characters discovering John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park in Key Largo. A program on local park history will be presented Monday.
Experts talk of Pennekamp, Everglades
Concern for the Everglades and Florida Keys environment has left South Florida with a bounty of unique national and state parks. The history of how Everglades National Park, the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary and John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park were created will be the topic of a 7 p.m. Monday program at the Key Largo library in Trade Winds Plaza.
The Historical Preservation Society of the Upper Keys hears Mary Tagliareni, education coordinator for the marine sanctuary, lead the free discussion of park development. “For anyone who has ever wondered when, why and where it all began, this is a chance to learn,” society President Jerry Wilkinson said. “South Florida is a special place, so special that for the past 60 years concerns for protecting it started a movement that would leave an environmental legacy.”
Also taking park in the program will be Bob Showler, Florida Bay district interpreter for Everglades National Park; and Elena Muratori, education specialist at Pennekamp.
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