Join Barbara Lamb, coordinator for the year-long Donald Grant Mitchell Bicentennial Celebration, as Mitchell’s 101st birthday approaches and his Bicentennial year comes to a close. She will talk about the many facets in the life of Donald Grant Mitchell: best-selling author, farmer and naturalist, scholar and teacher, lecturer, inveterate cartographer and diplomat. He is, however, most remembered for his landscape designs for the creation of East Rock and Edgewood Parks.

Free and open to the public.

Check out the website for more information about DGM and the months long celebration: DonaldGrantMitchell.com.

Donald Grant Mitchell Bicentennial Committee
To date, eight New Haven-based organizations have come together to create this Celebration honoring Donald Grant Mitchell and others may join in. Currently events and activities are being planned by: New Haven Free Public Library, New Haven Preservation Trust, New Haven Museum & Historical Society, Yale University Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Westville Village Renaissance Alliance, Friends of Edgewood Park, Friends of East Rock Park, and Broken Umbrella Theatre.

With support from: The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven and Design Monsters.

Hosted by: Institute Library