ARI’s public conference takes the stage next month

Hailey Heseltine ECB Publishing, Inc. The Aucilla Research Institute's (ARI) free biennial public conference is coming up fast. Starting Oct. 3 and concluding on Oct. 4, each day of the event will be held from 9 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. at the historic Monticello Opera House. The two-day conference's theme is “Water, Wind, Fire, and Adaptations: Resilience of the Big Bend and Apalachee Bay,” examining natural disasters in our region and how and why they shaped people's lives through history. It