This readers club for kids ages 12 to 18 will meet at 4:30 p.m.
Meeting details will be emailed to you when you register. For further details or to register, see and click on Programs & Events and then JCLS Calendar or call 54. Who were they? Learn more about these fascinating forgotten women. They traveled, collected, classified and published seminal contributions to the field against all odds. The women who shaped the emerging field of botany led remarkable lives. Lucretia Weems, Jackson County Master Gardener and member of the Ashland Garden Club, will present “Heroines in the History of Botany, 1650-1850” from 1 to 2:30 p.m. For further information and to purchase virtual tickets, see. The film will screen on AIFF’s Eventive film channel. A Q-and-A will follow the film with the directors, Margaret Munzer and Eden Wurmfeld, moderated by AIFF Education Manager Jana Carole. The film features leaders of this movement, including former Stanford dean and author of “How to Raise an Adult” Julie Lythcott-Haims, biological psychologist Peter Gray and others. The film explores how helicopter parenting became the norm in many communities across the United States and interweaves potential solutions to letting go and empowering our kids.
VIRTUAL EVENTS FREE
Free play, unsupervised by adults, is critical for developing essential life skills: grit, independence and resourcefulness. This feature-length documentary explores how free play and independence have all but disappeared from kids’ lives, supplanted by relentless perfectionism and record-high anxiety and depression. The Ashland Independent Film Festival will present a virtual screening of “Chasing Childhood,” showing Friday through Thursday, Nov. For further information, call 54 or email at eventsĪshland Independent Film Festival - ‘Best of The Fests’ Beekman Invites You to Call,” can be viewed at. Three text-based virtual tours of Jacksonville’s historic past, “Walk Through Jacksonville History,” “Beekman Bank Nuggets,” and “Mrs. Admission is free donations to the Jackson County Master Gardeners Association will be accepted. Included are an eco-restoration garden, a permaculture mini-farm, a small urban garden and more. Take a virtual tour through 11 gardens to explore trees, shrubs, perennials and wildflowers that are native to our area at /native-plants-garden-tour. A variety of virtual activities and services are available to adults 50 and older Mondays through Fridays through the Ashland Senior Center, 1699 Homes Ave.