<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The </span></b><st1:place><st1:placename><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Cape Cod</span></b></st1:placename><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></b><st1:placetype><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Museum</span></b></st1:placetype></st1:place><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Bold"">of Natural
History in Brewster<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Bold"">Presents<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Dr. Lawrence Millman, Mushroom Man!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Saturday, September 28
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><st1:time minute="0" hour="13"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">1-4 pm</span></b></st1:time><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE </span><st1:date year="2013" day="29" month="8"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">August
29, 2013</span></st1:date><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Contact: Julie O’Neil 508-896-3867 or </span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: windowtext;"><a href="mailto:adminsupprt@ccmnh.org">adminsupport@ccmnh.org</a></span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:150%"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">On Saturday, September 28 at </span><st1:time minute="0" hour="13"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">1 pm</span></st1:time><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"> the Cape Cod Museum of Natural
History in Brewster will present Dr. Lawrence Millman, the Mushroom Man. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:150%"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">Please join Dr. Millman for an exciting mycological
presentation and book signing followed by a mushroom walk into the woods at </span><st1:place><st1:placename><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">Nickerson</span></st1:placename><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">State Park</span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"> in Brewster. </span>Reservations
recommended. $10/non-members & $7/members. Talk only: $5. Call 508-896-3867
ext#133.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:150%">As a mycologist, Dr. Millman has studied fungi all over the
world in places as diverse as Svalbard, Belize, Western Samoa, the Canadian
Arctic, Belize, Costa Rica, but especially in his own backyard of New England. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:150%"> His inventory of fungi at Wachusett Meadow Wildlife
Sanctuary in <st1:place><st1:city>Princeton</st1:city>, <st1:state>MA</st1:state></st1:place>,
currently numbers 490 species. With fellow mycologist Bill Neill, he discovered
a species of polypore (<i><a href="http://www.mycobank.org/MycoTaxo.aspx?Link=T&Rec=330283">Echinodontium
ballouii</a></i>) in 2005 that hadn’t been seen since 1909 and was thought to
be extinct.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:150%">In the fall of 2011, Dr. Millman led mushroom walks in
Fairbanks (AK), Craftsbury (VT), Wellfleet (MA), Conway (NH), Sharon (MA),
Montpelier (VT), Princeton (MA), Concord (MA), Girdwood (AK), <st1:state>New
York</st1:state> (NY), and <st1:city>Boston</st1:city>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">For further
information, contact the Museum at 508-896-3867, Ext. # 133 <a href="http://www.ccmnh.org/">www.ccmnh.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">Photo courtesy of
Dr. Lawrence Millman</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>