VERO BEACH — The Emerson Center Florida Humanities Series, in partnership with the Florida Humanities Council and sponsored in part by Marine Bank & Trust, continues on Thursday, Jan. 29, with “Old Vero Ice Age site and the Pleistocene people who lived there 15,000 years ago.”
Andy Hemmings, Ph.D., has been supervising the dig near the airport for the Old Vero Ice Age Sites Committee. What has he learned about the creatures who walked the earth around here many thousands of years ago? What were the animals, humans and land itself like then? What did the archaeological experts know a few years ago and what now?
The Florida Humanities Series is presented by The Emerson Center at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Vero Beach. Four acclaimed speakers and performers will be presented free at the Center now through April 2015, with all presentations relating to Florida history and culture. Admission to each is complimentary and all performances will begin at 7 p.m.
Future speakers and their topics include “Florida Cattle Culture,” Feb. 19; “Spies, Schemes, and the Sons of Liberty: The Shadier Side of East and West Florida during the American Revolution,” March 19; and “The African Presence in Spanish Florida: Black Seminoles,” April 16.
Funding for these programs is provided through a grant from the Florida Humanities Council with funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The capacity of the Emerson Center is more than 800. Free admission will be offered on a first-come first-served basis. The Emerson Center is handicap accessible and is conveniently located at 1590 27th Avenue, on the SE corner of 16th Street and 27th Avenue in Vero Beach. For more information, contact (772) 778-5249.