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Sara L. Van Beck, Atlanta, Georgia

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Sara L. Van Beck is chair of the Historics Committee of the American Daffodil Society (ADS), established the Display Garden Program for the ADS and has served on the ADS Executive Committee, Nominating Committee and as a Regional Director. She currently serves on the Acquisitions Committee of the Cherokee Garden Library, Atlanta History Center, and as a Corresponding Member of the Royal Horticulture Narcissus Classification Advisory Group. She is a past president of the Georgia Daffodil Society and answers the general internet help line for the Florida Daffodil Society. She is co-author of Daffodils in Florida: A Field Guide to the Coastal South, and has written articles for The Daffodil Journal, The Magnolia bulletin of the Southern Garden History Society, and Florida Gardening. Van Beck received her Master's degree in Archaeology from the University of Florida and worked as a museum curator with the National Park Service.

Sara's Presentation title: From Broadside to Photogravure: Daffodils in Catalogs, shares the history of daffodils in America as viewed on the pages of the nurseryman’s catalog, from the Colonial era to the early twentieth century.


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