The Legacy: South Florida Museum is an account of the origins, founding, and development in twentieth-century Florida of a people's museum about archeology, Spanish exploration, manatees, and space. As a museum founded in the immediate post-World War II era, with its origins in the prehistoric past, its narrative reflects Florida's changes through Spanish exploration, statehood, tourism, endangered manatees, and space development over a thousand years. The Legacy is a story of volunteerism, in the spirit of voluntary action for the common good, by dedicated individuals. It leads to today's South Florida Museum and its several facilities, including the Bishop Planetarium, Parker Manatee Aquarium, and Spanish Plaza. For more information, please see the following article from The Herald-Tribune. http: //www.heraldtribune.com/article/20101130/ARTICLE/11301026/1238?p=1&tc=pg

A breath-taking river with lush wetlands and Florida''s natural environment are Bennett's inspiration for The River Widens. It is a poetically stunning collection about the moods and creatures of a Florida tidal river. Bennett's meditations and observations, coupled with his biologist's perspective of the Braden River, create succinct, wry and lyrical poems. On a dock or a flats walk, or a kayak paddle, Bennett transforms sightings into poems that capture the tempo of the river, its beauty and complexity, along with the struggles and accommodations among its wildlife. His natural curiosity about Florida's river life results in unique poems about the natural world as varied as Florida''s riverine environment.

The Bartram 300, in 1999, will celebrate the birth of America's first great naturalist and conservationist, John Bartram. His scientific travels in Pennsylvania, New York and throughout Florida, with his son William, are now scientific and mythic legend. William's return to Florida in 1771, and later publication of Travels, concluded the Bartram saga. The Bartrams awakened the scientific and literary world to America's environmental beauty and natural uniqueness. The Bartrams' history and their accomplishments continue to be globally celebrated. A Celebration of the Bartrams is a poetic interpretation of the travels of John and William Bartram. It includes the physical and spiritual retracing, by the author of the Bartram's environmental travels in Florida and Philadelphia. Originally published as a 200th celebration of Travels, its poems have had many readings. John Bartram's House was read at the 1993 Centennial celebration and Bartram family reunion at historic Bartram's garden in Philadelphia and published in the proceedings. Flight of Savanna Cranes received honorable mention, The John David Johnson Memorial Poetry Awards of Poet '93. Institute, 1992-1993.

"Nature, As One Sees It" is a collection of nature poems set in Florida, with excursions to Maine and Washington, and into the past to William Bartram's travels. Bennett, a scientist and poet, presents nature with succinct exactitude, unclouded by sentiment.