March 24, 2022 Mark Catesby, Joseph Priestley, William Morris, Reflections of Paradise by Gordon Taylor, and Kreider Nurseries World's Fair Garden

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1682 Baptism of Mark Catesby, English naturalist, adventurer, explorer, and artist.

Mark made two trips to the new world when America was still a British colony. On his second trip, he explored the lower southeastern corner of the United States.

After returning to England, he published his masterpiece, the very first account of flora and fauna of North America, in two large folios called The Natural History of…