April showers bring May flowers! Join Professor Ellery Foutch on Thursday, April 29, at 7 p.m., for “Everlasting Flowers: Botanical Models in New England Collections,” a springtime talk presented by the Henry Sheldon Museum about the study of botany in New England at the turn of the 20th century. In this illustrated lecture, Foutch will discuss botanical models including Harvard’s famed “Glass Flowers” and a more local connection: former Middlebury College President Ezra Brainerd’s herbarium, a cabinet of p … (read more)