On Tuesday, February 8, the Camden Garden Club’s annual Winter Horticulture Series third program was presented by Dave Jackson and Amy Rollins.

Dave and Amy teamed up in the summer of 2012 to present Historic Walking Tours of Camden, originally created as a joint outreach program of the Camden Area Business Group and the Camden Public Library. The tours have been offered free of charge on Friday afternoons throughout the summer months for the past ten years.

Dave is the Director of Parks for the Camden Public Library, including Harbor Park, the grounds of the library and the Amphitheatre. Dave was instrumental in nominating the Amphitheatre and Camden Public Library as a National Historic Landmark, a process, which took six years to complete. The National Park Service awarded the designation in March 2013. During his tenure at the library, Dave has successfully applied for several grants through the National Trust for Historic Preservation, which allow the library to maintain its treasured landscape.

Amy is the Member Services Director for the Penobscot Bay Regional Chamber of Commerce. A Camden native and former Trustee of the Camden Public Library, Amy has a passion for researching and sharing Camden's history. She has a particular interest in interviewing key figures who remember the Camden of her childhood and before her time.

If you would like to view this presentation on YouTube, click on this link: https://youtu.be/meO_ekPGVc0