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The Elsie Quarterman Glade Festival: April 11, 12, 13, 2008

All events are free and opened to the public and everyone is welcome. 
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The Elsie Quarterman Glade Festival is a weekend of nature study. It is filled with workshops, lectures, hikes and field trips and is one of  the few remaining natural ecosystem in Middle Tennessee, the Limestone Glades of the Central Basin.

Cedars of Lebanon State Park and the Center for Cedar Glade Studies at Middle Tennessee State University have collaborated to bring together the finest group of Ecologists, Botanists, and Naturalists in the country to present the beauty and uniqueness of the Glades in the spring.
This years gathering will also honor Dr. Elsie Quarterman who over the last 60 years has studied and directed scholarly work about the glades. Dr. Quarterman's work and efforts have also brought about a worldwide attention to the glade. She has also informed the public of the need for protection and appreciation of the glade areas.

"A natural conservatory that could fearlessly challenge any flower garden in the combined effect of gaiety and luxuriance for truth, my honored Tennessee friends go and see and learn to appreciate and to preserve such great ornaments of your native land." Augustin Gattinger stated of the Glades