{"id":286,"date":"2011-05-01T13:01:02","date_gmt":"2011-05-01T17:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/at-100-elsie-quarterman-attends-her-cedar-glade-wildflower-festival.html"},"modified":"2011-05-01T13:01:02","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T17:01:02","slug":"at-100-elsie-quarterman-attends-her-cedar-glade-wildflower-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/at-100-elsie-quarterman-attends-her-cedar-glade-wildflower-festival.html","title":{"rendered":"At 100, Elsie Quarterman attends her Cedar Glade Wildflower Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"Dr. Elsie Quarterman pioneered the ecology of cedar glades.\nYesterday she attended the annual festival named in her honor, the\n\nElsie Quarterman Cedar Glade Wildflower Festival<\/a>\nat Cedars of Lebanon State Park, Lebanon, Tennessee.\nAunt Elsie is 100 years and five months old, and isn’t getting around as fast as she once did,\nso she met with her students and grand-students at a local\nrestaurant. Only a few of them are pictured here:\n

\n\n<\/a>\n
\n\n\nKim Cleary Sadler,<\/a>\nAssistant Professor of Biology at Middle Tennessee State University\nand co-Director of the\n\nCenter for Cedar Glade Studies.<\/a>\n(Student of\nThomas “Tom” Ellsworth Hemmerly, who was teaching and couldn’t come.)\n
\nDr. Elsie Quarterman, Professor Emerita of Plant Ecology, Vanderbilt University\n
\n\nCarol C. Baskin,<\/a> Professor of Biology, University of Kentucky\n<\/small>\n

\n\n<\/a>\nThere were classes, botany walks, owl hoots, and musicians.\nHere’s the schedule.<\/a>\nIt was sunny this year,\nunlike last year’s great flood.<\/a>\nNext year, you should come!\nGet out of town, take a walk in the glades.\n

\n\n<\/a>\nElsie got a guided tour, with \nTennessee State Naturalist Emeritus Mack Pritchard<\/a>\nand his successor Randy Hedgepath.\nHere they are with Elsie’s nephew Patrick Quarterman,\nwhile Gretchen Quarterman photographs a glade.\n

\n\n<\/a>\nHere\n\nState Naturalist Randy Hedgepath<\/a>\nconsults with Dr. Quarterman about identification of a cedar glade plant.\n

\nElsie got out of the car to look at this one with Randy and Ann Quarterman:\n\n\n

\n\n<\/a>\n

\nAunt Elsie lives in her own house, and her nephew Patrick and his wife Ann\ntake care of her.\n

\n\n<\/a>\nElsie looks at a cedar glade.\nThe rocky part in the middle is the actual cedar glade.\nThe interesting ecological part involves how the plants\nchange from the center to the woods.\nDr. Quarterman pioneered the investigation of how some plants\nexcrete chemicals that inhibit growth of other plants\nin ecological interaction.\n

\nHere Patrick and Gretchen photograph plants at the edge of a cedar glade.\n

\n\n<\/a>\n

\nYou can see how the flora change as you go from the rocks at the center\nto the woods at the edge.\n

\nWhat grows in the glades?\nMany plants, mostly about shoe-high.\nQuite a few of them grow only in cedar glades.\n

\n\n<\/a>\n

\nHere’s a pictorial guide to cedar glade plants.<\/a>\n

\nWho is Dr. Elsie Quarterman?\nKen Beck wrote 27 April 2011 in the Wilson Post\n\nWildflower festival honors 100-year-old ecology pioneer<\/a>\n

\n\n<\/a>\n“If she is having one of her Energizer bunny days, there’s no telling\nwhat she will do,” said Patrick Quarterman, Elsie’s nephew. Patrick\nand wife Ann live with the renowned plant ecologist and Vanderbilt\nUniversity professor emerita in Nashville and are her caregivers.\n

\n“Elsie Quarterman was a frontrunner in getting the knowledge about the\ncedar glades started. She was instrumental in getting some of the areas\nin the Cedar Forest designated on the National Register and was one of the\nfew leaders that brought attention to the glades and their uniqueness,”\nsaid Cedars of Lebanon State Park Interpretive Specialist Buddy Ingram.\n

\nAs for the wildflower weekend, Ingram said, “It’s time for people\nto come out and enjoy the flowers and endemics, the special animals\nand plants that have adapted to the glade environment, and time to gain\nknowledge about the whole ecosystem, the cedar glade.”\n

\nBesides the Cedar Glade Wildflower Festival, the Elsie Quarterman\nCedar Glade, a 185-acre natural area in Rutherford County that protects\n\n<\/a>\na globally rare cedar glade and is a recovery site for the federally\nendangered Tennessee coneflower (Echinacea tennesseensis), has also been\nnamed for the centenarian whose love for plants began as a child on a\nGeorgia farm.\n

\n“It goes back to when her dad left his job in waterworks in Valdosta and\ndecided to buy a farm and moved the family there,” Patrick said. “Her\nmother and a family friend (Edna Winn Small) used to take Elsie with\nthem when they went walking out in the woods. They were interested in\nfinding and identifying flowers and plants.”\n<\/blockquote>\nThe article has much more information about Aunt Elsie.\nHere’s\nsome more biography from this blog.<\/a>\nGretchen and I live on the land she grew up on in Lowndes County, Georgia, near Hahira.\n

\nThere are more pictures of this year’s festivities in the\n\nflickr set.<\/a>\n

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