JAMES GARDNER LECTURES AND SIGNS COPIES OF
“THE LION KILLER”
AT LIGHTHOUSE CENTER FOR THE ARTS
Photos Courtesy of Lighthouse Center for the Arts
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Katie Deits, Executive Director of Lighthouse Center for the Arts in Tequesta who organized “Visions of Africa” exhibit running through March 27th |
James Gardner signing his Palm Beach Bestseller “The Lion Killer” at “Visions of Africa” exhibit at Lighthouse Centers for the Arts running through March 27th
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Mason
Walsh,
Jr.,
Vice
President
and
Board
Member
of
Lighthouse
Center
for
the
Arts
with
his
wife,
Gil
Walsh |
Katie
Deits,
Executive
Director
of
Lighthouse
Center
for
the
Arts
in
Tequesta
and
bestselling
author
of
“The
Lion
Killer”,
James
Gardner
at
his
lecture
and
book
signing
on
February 25th |
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Tequesta, FL, Feb. 25, 2010 – James Gardner author of the Palm Beach Bestseller,
“The Lion Killer” spoke at Lighthouse Center for the Arts in Tequesta on Thursday, February 25th to an audience of over 100 people. “The Lion Killer” is the first in his “Dark Continent Chronicles” from Pennington Publishers. A reception in honor of Gardner included traditional African foods and wines. Gardner, a Palm Beach County resident, spoke on the geopolitical conditions facing Africa today with specific emphasis on Zimbabwe and the Darfur in the Sudan. All profits from the sale of his book were donated to the Lighthouse Center for the Arts.
In honor of Black History Month the Lighthouse Center organized “Visions of Africa” an extraordinary exhibit of art, sculptures, tribal masks, paintings and textiles. Tribal masks and sculptures from Gardner’s private collection are on display with LCA’s permanent African collection donated by John and Katheryn Loughran; and, exotic acrylic on canvas portraits of a lion, leopard and elephant by Palm Beach Gardens’ artist Carol Korpi-McKinley through March 27th.
Seaplane pilot, sailor, scuba diver, fisherman and conservationist, James Gardner could easily be the hero of his own book. Yet Gardner says his lead protagonist is a compilation of the extraordinary characters he has met on his 25 safaris to Africa over the last 40 years.
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