Cedar Glade Conference at Cedars of Lebanon

During my second year at grad school back in 2001 (or thereabouts), a student at MTSU, Dwayne Estes, helped me find populations of Leavenworthia torulosa near Columbia and Pulaski, where he is from. He was already well-known for being a comprehensive natural historian of the area when he was an undergraduate. I took this picture on that trip:
He's now a professor at Austin Peay State University and gave the keynote talk at the Cedar Glade Conference at Cedars of Lebanon this weekend (this event is organized by the MTSU Center for Cedar Glade Studies that Chris is a part of). He had discovered a new species in the Ozarks that also happens to occur in Middle Tennessee, which he named after Dr. Elsie Quarterman. Dr. Quarterman started studying the Limestone Cedar Glades of the Central Basin when she was a student at Vanderbilt, now in her 90's and still actively involved in this annual event, she is a kind of the patron saint of the cedar glade academic community. She presented Dr. Estes with a framed photo of them together, it was very touching.