The celebration will be at the Railroad Museum from 7:30 AM to 12:30 PM.
The Celebration will feature nature art from local school children,
entertainment, crafters, food and more!
Admission is free, with something for everyone to enjoy and learn!
Bring your family and friends and make a day of it!
Sponsored by the Archer Historical Society, Inc.
A Historic Marker has been placed at Church Street and Highway 27/41,
honoring T. Gilbert Pearson. The marker text is as follows:
Ornithologist, college professor, and world leader of the bird preservation movement,
Pearson grew up in Archer, where he collected bird skins and eggs and taught himself
ornithology. He earned an education at Guilford College by donating his collection
to the college museum and serving as its curator.
He taught at Guilford and at what is now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
He joined the American Ornithologist Union, which initiated the Audubon movement to
protect the nation's rapidly declining bird populations. He founded and directed the
Audubon Society of North Carolina, the South's first state wildlife commission.
He served successively as secretary and president of what is now the National Audubon
Society and organized what became the International Council for Bird Preservation.
Under his leadership, the Audubon movement changed public attitudes toward birds and
was instrumental in obtaining government action that saved millions of birds and
brought several species back from the verge of extinction.
The movement also helped lay the foundation for a global effort to save the earth's
biological diversity. Pearson is buried in Greensboro, North Carolina. His parents
and brother are buried in Archer. This text was taken from the book
"Saving Americas Birds", the biography of T. Gilbert Pearson, by author Oliver Orr.
For further information, please call Phil Denton at (352) 495-1044