Delray Beach Historical Society Heritage Lecture Series Presented by the Colony Hotel & Cabana Club: “The Sound of the Sea: Seashells & the Fate of Oceans”

In Partnership with Sandoway Discovery Center

We are honored to welcome Cynthia Barnett to Delray Beach!

Cynthia is Senior Lecturer and Environmental Journalist in Residence from the University of Florida. Her lecture will examine the human fascination with seashells and their ancient history as global currency, their use as religious and luxury objects, and the remarkable marine mollusks that make them. Learn about an aspect of nature and culture long hidden in plain sight.

Her book “The Sound of the Sea” will also be highlighted. The book is a stunning history of seashells and the animals that make them that “will have you marveling at nature…Barnett’s account remarkably spirals out, appropriately, to become a much larger story about the sea, about global history and about environmental crises and preservation.” The New York Times Book Review.

Lecture and Book Signing

Refreshments will be served

Tickets: $15 for DBHS members, $20 for non-members