April 11 - 16 Artists on Site in McIntosh and Evinston, Florida
April 18 Gala Collector's Sale, Thomas Center, Gainesville

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Paint Out Visitor Centers:

1. Windmill Gallery, US 441, 1 mile south of McIntosh Florida (for directions go to Google Maps, enter Windmill Gallery McIntosh)
2. Wood and Swink, US 441 to SR 25, to SR 225 in Evinston, Florida (for directions at Google Maps, enter Wood & Swink)

Celebrate the Opening of the Heart of Florida Scenic Trail and get your copy of the Collector's Inaugural Edition Trail Guide, the inside track to our Natural Treasures, Cultural Assets, and Local Haunts.

Kick-off events:
Heart of Florida Paint Out | Florida's Eden Through the Lens photo show

Florida’s Eden invites everyone concerned about Florida’s vanishing water to join our One Region/One Book campaign. Join your neighbors or engage your book club in reading Cynthia Barnett’s Mirage: Florida and the Vanishing Water of the Eastern U.S., this year’s Gold Medal Winner for best non-fiction in the Florida Book Awards.

The St. Petersburg Times called Mirage “one of the most important books to hit our state in a very long time.” “In the days before the Internet, books like Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring and Marjory Stoneman Douglas’ River of Grass were groundbreaking calls to action that made citizens and politicians take notice,” The Times said in its review. “Mirage is such a book.”

One Region/One Book, culminating with a public lecture and Q&A with the author next fall, is the first step in the new Florida’s Eden Springs Awareness Campaign to help sustain Florida’s water resources for future generations.