From Plant Press, Vol. 10, No. 2 from April 2007.
On 3 March, the Smithsonian Institution’s Horticulture Services Division and the U.S. Botanic Garden sponsored a family festival at the National Museum of Natural History in conjunction with the exhibition, Orchids: Take a Walk on the Wild Side. Visitors enjoyed an array of activities for the whole family including coloring botanical prints, taking a scavenger hunt with binoculars, watching orchid-potting demonstrations, asking experts how to grow orchids at home, an orchid murder mystery storytelling and more. Nearly 5,000 visitors participated. Alice Tangerini participated by doing demonstrations of orchid drawing. Tattoos of Tangerini's orchid images were printed for the visiting children. Beth Page, Annie Ceccaraini, Barbara Faust, and others from the Horticultural Services Division planned the many activities with the assistance of Hal Banks in the NMNH Office of Guest Services.
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