DAPHNE, Ala. — The Baldwin County Historical Society will meet at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at the Daphne Senior Center, 2605 Highway 98. Light refreshments will be provided. Admission is free and the public is welcome.

“The Modern Legacy of the British Colonial Period on the Middle Gulf  Coast” will be the topic. This will be an overview of the historic cultural, religious and ethnic influences on our modern culture and a broad description of European occupations that most influenced our society as it exists today. The program will concentrate on the effects of British Colonial Rule in British West Florida from 1763 to 1782.

Frank Laraway of Fairhope will present the program. He graduated from the Organic School in Fairhope in 1951 and received a bachelor’s degree from Guilford College in North Carolina in 1956. He worked in the Endocrinology & Metabolism Research Laboratory at the University of Michigan for a number of years and apprenticed to Frank Lloyd Wright, architect at Taliesin in Wisconsin and at Taliesen West in Arizona. He received a Bachelor of Architecture Degree from the University of Michigan in 1963. He then practiced architecture in Michigan and Alabama and taught at the School of Architecture at Auburn University.

He is a long-time member of the Baldwin County Historical Society and served as secretary and president of this organization from 1973 to 1980.

He has contributed several articles to the Baldwin County Historical Society Quarterly on the Civil War campaign to capture Mobile and on the travels of naturalist William Bartram through the southeast.