Yearly Archives: 2014

Canning at Lowndes High School

Our outing today to the canning plant was a grand success. We had peas shelled, blanched and bagged and canned some peaches!

The canning plant at Lowndes High School is a wonderful resource in Lowndes County open now to the public for shelling, canning and more. Behind the Lowndes High School on Norman Drive.

Here are pictures from the canning class I taught there yesterday, organized by the Valdosta Community Garden group. These pictures are also on facebook.

Perfect timing. The Valdosta Daily Times had Continue reading →

Elsie Quarterman WPLN audio

Nina Cardona of WPLN Nashville Public Radio talked about pioneering ecologist Dr. Elsie Quarterman; here’s the audio:


Emily Siner // Nashville Public Radio // WPLN 90.3 FM // Enterprise Reporter

And here’s WPLN’s text version of the same story.

The radio story draws on the video by MTSU Center for Cedar Glade Studies of the April 2008 dedication to Dr. Elsie Quarterman of the annual wildflower festival at Cedars of Lebanon State Park east of Nashville, Tennessee.

A memorial service will be held 10AM this Saturday 21 June 2014 at Westminster Presbyterian Church, 3900 West End Avenue, Nashville, Tennessee, with a reception at the church following the service. See the Elsie blog page for many more stories and pictures of Aunt Elsie.

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Dedication of Cedar Glades Wildflower Festival to Dr. Quarterman

Here is video of the 11 April 2008 dedication of the Elsie Quarterman Cedar Glade Wildflower Festival at Cedars of Lebanon State Park, posted on YouTube 29 January 2009 by the MTSU Center for Cedar Glade Studies.

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Home Canning Class and Canning Plant Demonstration

Gretchen will show you how, and then you get to do it, at Lowndes High School this morning, 10AM.

Contact: James Perdue
Valdosta Community Garden Group
229-251-6362

See facebook event.

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Memorial service for Elsie Quarterman in Nashville, TN 2014-06-21

In the Tennesseean today, Elsie Quarterman (1910 – 2014)

Obituary

Guest Book

Elsie Quarterman, Nashville, TN

A Memorial service will be held at 10 a.m., Saturday, June 21, 2014 at Westminster Presbyterian Church, 3900 West End Avenue, with a reception at the church following the service. Guestbook crawfordservices.com.

Crawford Mortuary & Crematory, 615-254-8200.

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Dr. Elsie Quarterman, November 28th 1910 – June 9th 2014

Today Aunt Elsie stepped over the final fence, dying peacefully at her home in Nashville, Tennessee, attended by her nephew Patrick and his wife Ann, as she had wanted.

Arrangements are still in progress. Perhaps more about the family later. For now, here is a biography with some pictures.

The Wilson Post wrote 20 April 2011, Quarterman shares fervor for cedar glades,

…her passion for the plant life of Middle Tennessee’s cedar glades blooms ever strong through the generations of students she inspired at Vanderbilt University from the 1940s into the mid-1970s. And those students, many now teachers themselves, continue to inspire new students and conservationists….

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Thirty foot poison ivy vine

What’s in that cypress tree?

1600×1200 What is that vine on the cypress tree?, in Thirty foot poison ivy vine, by John S. Quarterman, for Okra Paradise Farms, 24 May 2014, 30 foot poison ivy and a moccasin
1600×1200 Leaves of three…., in Thirty foot poison ivy vine, by John S. Quarterman, for Okra Paradise Farms, 24 May 2014, 30 foot poison ivy and a moccasin
1200×1600 Thirty feet high, in Thirty foot poison ivy vine, by John S. Quarterman, for Okra Paradise Farms, 24 May 2014, 30 foot poison ivy and a moccasin

Potatoes dug up yesterday at Valdosta Farm Days this morning

Gretchen and Cidalia just dug up these potatoes yesterday and this morning she’s taking them to Downtown Valdosta Farm Days, 9AM to 1PM, at the historic Lowndes County Courthouse. Continue reading →