A Monthly Speaker Series Featuring Some of Our Neighborhood’s Most Fascinating People

Tuesday Talks

Tuesday Talks April 2025

April 22, 2025, 7 pm

Lynn Parseghian

Executive Director, Tregaron Conservancy

Tamara Belt

Chair, Tregaron Conservancy Landscape Committee

Tregaron: Stewarding an Historic Landscape for the Future

Free and in person at the Cleveland Park Library but must register at:  https://clevelandwoodleypark.helpfulvillage.com/events/2664 

Have you visited our neighborhood gem, Tregaron? Learn about its storied history, as well as  Tregaron Conservancy’s 19+ years of work to rehabilitate the landscape and steward it into the future.

Lynn Parseghian has served as Executive Director of Tregaron Conservancy since 2015. Previously, she practiced law in Washington in areas ranging from antitrust to the environment. Lynn served as outside counsel to the Corcoran Gallery of Art and has held leadership roles in DC’s nonprofit and philanthropic communities with organizations including Adventure Theatre, Cultural Tourism DC, and Maret School. She currently serves on the Board of Washington Performing Arts. She holds a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. from the University of Chicago. 

Tamara Belt is an award-winning landscape designer and owner of Hawthorne Garden Design.  She is chair of the Tregaron Conservancy Landscape Committee and for almost twenty years has helped rehabilitate the Conservancy landscape based on careful study of its historic plans and ecology. Previously she worked on biodiversity conservation and forestry projects at the World Bank.  She holds a PhD from the London School of Economics. 

Tuesday Talks May 2025

May 20, 2025

Pamela Henson

Former Historian, Smithsonian

From a City’s Park to the Nation’s Zoo

Free and in person at the Cleveland Park Library, but register at:  https://clevelandwoodleypark.helpfulvillage.com/events/2665 

How did the National Zoological Park come to be and how did it end up in Rock Creek Park? Pam Henson will discuss challenges, failures, and successes at the Zoo and how it has changed over time.

Pamela Henson was the Historian for the history of the Smithsonian from 1974 to 2024. She has a doctorate in the history and philosophy of science. She taught oral history at American University for over a decade and conducted oral history interviews with Zoo staff.