March 30, 2005 - "Rivers of Florida" Presentation Scheduled

The St. Lucie County Cultural Affairs Council, Access Home Health and the Florida Humanities Council present "Rivers of Florida," by author Bill Belleville on Tuesday, April 5 at 7 p.m. at the Port St. Lucie Yacht Club, 500 S.E. Prima Vista Boulevard. Mr. Belleville, an award-winning writer and documentary filmmaker specializing in environmental issues, explores how rivers have shaped Florida's history and culture from its earliest people to modern times.

Bill Belleville has published more than 1,000 national magazine articles, co-produced and scripted three PBS documentaries and served as a writer on Discovery Channel oceanographic expeditions in the Galapagos Islands, Cuba and the Dominican Republic. Mr. Belleville graduated in 1968 from the University of Maryland with his bachelor's degree in English. He has lectured at Rollins College, the University of Central Florida, the University of Arizona and Seminole Community College. He has been a keynote speaker at the Earth Kinship Conference, the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Writer's Conference, the Natural Areas Association Symposium, the New England Aquarium's Lowell Lecture Series and C-Span Books.

This event is part of the Road Scholars program offered by the Florida Humanities Council and sponsored in part by the Florida Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs and the St. Lucie County Parks and Recreation Department. For more information, call the St. Lucie County Cultural Affairs Council at (772) 462-2548.