Boardwalk Talk: The Wilderness and Willie Browne with Tim Gilmore
Schedule
Thu, 29 Jan, 2026 at 06:30 pm
UTC-05:00Location
381 Beach Boulevard, Jacksonville Beach, FL, United States, Florida 32250 | Jacksonville Beach, FL
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Thursday, January 29 at 6:30 PM, join us at the Museum for a special Boardwalk Talk with guest speaker Tim Gilmore, brought to you by collaboration between the Beaches Museum and Timucuan Parks Foundation. Tim Gilmore is a prolific local author of several books on Jacksonville as well as the blog JaxPsychoGeo, and has been featured in A24’s Florida! Copies of The Wilderness and Willie Browne, the subject of this presentation, will be available for sale at the event.Passionate letters of gratitude poured in from all over, from the Caribbean to the Arctic Circle, though Willie Browne never traveled further than the Georgia state line, never had a phone, nor electricity. He did, however, have countless friends. When he died alone in his cabin in the woods in 1970, he left to the Nature Conservancy hundreds of acres of marshes, hardwood forest and bluffs overlooking the St. Johns River. Though he would never have chosen it, his became the face of the conservation movement in much of the South, beloved of environmentalists and hikers, artists and writers. Half a century later, more people know Willie Browne than ever. And they still say they can feel his presence in these woods.
The Boardwalk Talk is free to Museum members with a suggested $5 donation for non-members. Because seating space is limited, registration is required.
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