FLORAL DIPLOMACY: At the White House Laura Dowling - Author, Floral Designer As the one time Chief Floral Designer at the White House, Dowling managed décor and flowers for thousands of events while using flowers as a strategic tool for communicating diplomatic, symbolic and policy messages. She will share her inspiration, techniques, and behind-the-scenes glimpses…

THE GHOSTS OF EDEN PARK Karen Abbott - Author, Historian Abbott masterfully weaves together the epic true crime story of the infamous bootlegger George Remus—who owned 35% of all the liquor in the United States in 1921, the excesses and absurdities of the Jazz Age, the infinite human capacity to deceive, and the murder that…