Bethesda Senior Center, 225 Bethesda Church Road, Lawrenceville, GA, Guest speaker, Abra Lee is currently the Director of Horticulture at Oakland Cemetery, a Victorian garden cemetery and park located in downtown Atlanta. She has also been a municipal arborist and airport landscape manager. Her work has been featured in media, including The New York Times, NPR, USA Today, Fine Gardening, and Veranda Magazine. Lee is a graduate of Auburn University College of Agriculture and an alumna of the Longwood Gardens Society of Fellows, a global network of public horticulture professionals. She is also a storyteller and author of the forthcoming book “Conquer the Soil: Black America and the Untold Stories of Our Country’s Gardeners, Farmers, and Growers.” GCMGA meetings are free and open to the public. If you would like to join us for dinner, please come at 6:30 p.m. and bring a dish to share.