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Things to Do in Sarasota: A Calendar of Events
Florida without the Theme Parks!
General
Museums
Cultures and Cultural Festivals
Floridians
State
Departments Cities
and Counties Publishers
The Florida Heritage Collection is an ongoing cooperative project of the State University System (SUS) of Florida to digitize and provide online access to materials broadly representing Florida’s history, culture, arts, literature, sciences and social sciences. Thematic areas in this growing collection include Native American and minority populations, exploration and development, tourism, the natural environment, and regional interests.
Exploring Florida: A Social Studies Resource for Students and Teachers, produced by the Florida Center for Instructional Technology,College of Education, University of South Florida © 2002. Includes great resources like Florida Maps, primary documents, historic photos, historical reenactment movies, and more.
FloridaEnvironment.com: Environment Education for Florida: A Resource for Citizens, Students and Teachers
A Florida Bibliography: Classics, Mysteries, Biographies, Science Fiction and more.
Florida in Poetry: A History of the Imagination
The Schrapnel Papers:Verisimilitude on the Venereal Peninsula: satire on Florida literature
Florida Center for the Book: includes a literary map of Florida
Florida History Internet Masterpage: An intriguing site composed by M. C. Bob Leonard, Professor of History, Hillsborough Community College, Tampa, Florida, includes a Florida Interactive History Text, a guide to the best in Florida State Parks, Weird Florida, and other goodies.
Florida Heritage: Real and Virtual: The Florida Heritage pages were created by Kristin Kubly, Open Campus Librarian at Florida Community College at Jacksonville.
The FLGENWEB Project: Genealogy and History
Florida History and Antiquities Index
Inskeep's Florida History Page: Florida treasure
Florida Newspapers Online: This site is developed and maintained by the State Library of Florida. Links are provided to a variety of Florida newspapers, some of which offer full text of current articles and archives, some of which offer only tables of contents.
Florida on Film: Florida Movies and Videos
Florida Movieposter Collection from the Museum of Florida History
Florida Motion Picture and Television Association
Florida History Websites & Places to Go in Florida links by Susan Wichers
Reclaiming the Everglades, "a digital collection of primary source materials, images and publications relating to the history of south Florida's environment. The collection comprises nearly 10,000 pages and images. Most of the items digitally reproduced for Reclaiming the Everglades are from the period 1884-1934"
Another
Floridiana pageFlorida
Links from the Open Directory Project
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Florida Museums
Historical ** Art ** Other
Florida Association of Museums
Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum: the museum of the Seminole Tribe on Big Cypress Reservation. The primary purpose of the Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum is to preserve and interpret the culture, language and customs of the Florida Seminoles.
De Soto National
Memorial Bradenton.
"From mid-December through mid-April, at Camp Ucita, Park Rangers dressed
as Conquistadors bring the clash of 16th Century Spanish and Native American
culture to life."
Pinellas
County Heritage Village
Largo
Ybor City Museum, Tampa
Tampa Bay History Center, Tampa
Henry B. Plant Museum, Tampa"Today, the Henry B Plant Museum faithfully recreates the ambiance early Florida tourists experienced, down to the furnishings, lighting fixtures and art."
St. Petersburg Museum of History
Southwest Florida Museum of History Ft. Meyers
"Opened in 1977, the Museum of Florida History (Tallahassee) collects, preserves, exhibits, and interprets evidence of past and present cultures in Florida, and promotes knowledge and appreciation of this heritage. As the state history museum, it focuses on artifacts and eras unique to Florida's development and on roles that Floridians have played in national and global events."
Historical Museum of Southern Florida: "Explore 10,000 years of History and Folklife in Greater Miami, South, Florida and the Carribbean."
Family Heritage House Museum at Manatee Community College: Bradenton Campus is free and open to the public. Unique collection of historical African-American memorabilia located in wing adjacent to library. Call (941) 752-5319.
Fort
Mose: Free African Settlement, St. Augustine
Established in 1738 by Colonial Spanish Florida's Governor Manuel
Montiano, Fort Mose gave sanctuary to Africans challenging enslavement in the
English Colony of Carolina. Approximately 100 Africans lived at Fort Mose,
forming more than 20 households. Together they created a frontier community
which drew on a range of African backgrounds blended with Spanish, Native
American and English cultural traditions. Fort Mose, a maroon community, was
legally sanctioned by the Spanish Government making it the first free African
settlement to legally exist in the United States.
Florida Holocaust Museum, St. Petersburg
Spongeorama Tarpon Springs
Mission San Luis, Tallahassee: Mission San Luis de Apalachee was the western capital of the mission system in La Florida from 1656 to 1704.
Historic Smallwood Store: Old Indian Trading Post and Museum, Chokoloskee
Micanopy Historical Society Museum, Micanopy
North Brevard Historical Museum, Titusville
The Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens, Delray: The park includes the only museum in the United States dedicated exclusively to the living culture of Japan.
Florida Historical Museums and National Monuments: links across the state
Ringling Museum of Art , Sarasota
Selby Gallery, Ringling School of Art, Sarasota
Salvador Dali Museum, St. Petersburg
Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg
USF Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa,
Latin American Art Museum, Miami," is the first and only museum dedicated 100% to the preservation, diffusion and promotion of contemporary Hispanic and Latin American Art, that means: Spain and Latin America, including non-Spanish speaking countries as well as Brazil and Haiti."
African-American Museum of the Arts, Deland
Florida Art Museums and Galleries: links across the state
Florida International Museum, St. Petersburg: presents season-long "blockbuster" exhibits
Florida Museum of Natural History, UF, Gainesville
Solomon's Castle, Ona
Coral Castle, Homestead
Archaeology Collection: visuals from FSU from the San Luis Mission in Tallahassee
Florida Lighthouse Page: links to all of Florida's lighthouses and lighthouse museums
Florida' s Aviation Museums: links
Florida
Science Museums and Planetariums: links
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Florida Cultures and Cultural Festivals
**General**Native-American**African-American**Cracker**
**Latin-Hispanic**Greek**Italian**Jewish**Asian**Miscellaneous
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from the WPA Collections 1937-1942, The American Folklife Center, Library of Congress: "a multiformat ethnographic field collection documenting African-American, Arabic, Bahamian, British-American, Cuban, Greek, Italian, Minorcan, Seminole, and Slavic cultures throughout Florida. Recorded by Robert Cook, Herbert Halpert, Zora Neale Hurston, Stetson Kennedy, Alton Morris, and others in conjunction with the Florida Federal Writers' Project, the Florida Music Project, and the Joint Committee on Folk Arts of the Work Projects Administration, it features folksongs and folktales in many languages, including blues and work songs from menhaden fishing boats, railroad gangs, and turpentine camps; children's songs, dance music, and religious music of many cultures; and interviews, also known as "life histories." The online presentation provides access to 376 sound recordings and 106 accompanying materials, including recording logs, transcriptions, correspondence between Florida WPA workers and Library of Congress personnel, and an essay on Florida folklife by Zora Neale Hurston. A new essay by Stetson Kennedy reflects on the labor and the legacy of the WPA in Florida, and an extensive bibliography, a list of related Web sites, and a guide to the ethnic and language groups of Florida add further context to the New Deal era and to Florida culture."Florida Historical Contexts was written by various authors under a project directed by Jerald T. Milanich in 1990. Illustrations were added later and some text sections have been updated by the staff of the Division of Historical Resources. Florida Historical Contexts is a multimedia presentation on the history of aboriginal Florida.
Myths and
Dreams: Exploring the Cultural Legacies of Florida and the Caribbean. The
website for the of the Millennium Project is to facilitate understanding and
appreciation of the cultural heritage of Florida and the Caribbean.
Includes essays, visuals, and information about the exhibition at various sites
in Florida.
Florida Folk
Festival, White Springs: Memorial Day Weekend
The Florida Gathering: location varies, sponsored by the Florida Humanties Council: last weekend in March
Old Florida Festival, Collier County Museum, Naples, first weekend in November
Sarasota Reading Festival: website for the annual November event.
Will McLean Music Festival: Florida Folk Music at Sertoma Youth Ranch, Dade City: March
Annual Festivals and Events: links by Susan Wichers (mostly Brevard and Orange Counties)
Florida's Lost Tribes: paintings by Theodore Morris of Florida's pre-Encounter inhabitants
Seminole Tribe of Florida: History, Culture, Government and much more.
"Heritage of the Ancient Ones (HOTAO) "is a multicultural, nonprofit organization, offering educational and environmental awareness programs. We are dedicated to preserving the history, culture and traditions of Florida's original native peoples, while promoting respect for Mother Earth. By recreating the world of Florida's First People, we honor the Ancient Ones who once cared for this land."
Discover Native America: Pow-wow and Native American Indian Festival sponsored by the Seminole Tribe of Florida on the campus of Eckerd College, St. Petersburg: early Spring -- call 1-800-535-2228 for information
Annual Mystic Eagle Powwow, Oscar Scherer State Park, last
weekend in January, as listed on
Powwow Power:
Florida
Chasco Fiesta, New Port Richey, March
Materials on the Destruction of Rosewood, FL
Black Archives from FAMU
At the Crossroads: Afro-Cuban Orisha Arts in Miami, an online exhibit from the Historical Museum of Southern Florida
Zora Neale Hurston Festival of Arts and Humanities: Eatonville, FL, last weekend in January
Cracker Country at the Florida State Fair
Greek Glendi, Sarasota, February
Events and Festivals, Tarpon
Springs:
Epiphany, January 6
Greek Fest, February
Greek Independence Day Parade, March
Taste of Tarpon Springs Food and Art Fest, May
The Italian Club, Ybor City
Italian
Festivals,
Venice, February
Tampa, April
LATIN-HISPANIC
Guavaween: Tampa: last weekend in October
Miami International Film Festival, March
Festival of Jewish Films: Sarasota, second week of April
Sho-Fu Bonsai Society of Sarasota
Koreshan Historical
Site: a utopian community in Estero, FL
The
Koreshan Unity: A Bibliography
The Koreshans:
Cyrus Teed and the "New Jerusalem
the "unofficial" site
The Lakeland Ledger's TOP 50 MOST IMPORTANT FLORIDIANS OF THE 20TH CENTURY
Florida Poets: Links
WPA Life
Histories from Florida:
"These titles are mostly first-person accounts of life in Florida collected during
the Great Depression. The WPA project categories include: LIFE AND SONGS IN SLAVERY and
OLD FAMILIES. Subjects include: AGRICULTURE, Including agricultural workers, tenant
farmers, sharecroppers and gardeners; LOCAL HISTORY AND GENEALOGY, including Civil War
reminiscences and former slaves; OCCUPATIONS AND INDUSTRIES, including tradesmen,
teachers, lawyers, bankers, insurance workers, cigarmakers, watermen, mining, health care,
turpentine and unemployment; RELIGION, including ministers, wedding customs, and Father
Divine;POLITICS, including attitudes toward voting, woman's suffrage; HEALTH CARE,
including midwifery, black physician, and blind residents; DAILY LIFE, including home
furnishings, food and diet; FOLKLORE, including superstitions, songs, and dialect; and
ETHNIC/NATIONAL GROUPS, including Greeks, Cubans and Seminole Indians."
Great
Floridians: Political Papers Project for the New Century
"These papers contain the priceless and varied record of
stewardships that wielded statewide and national significance. The records of
Floridians' effort in the U.S. Senate, the U.S. House of Representatives, and
the Florida Legislature, along with the personal papers of Governors document
human responsiveness to change and challenge."
The Highwaymen (article on African-American artists by Jim Fitch)
Florida's Rock and Roll Legends
Toonster's Parrothead Page: a fan's tribute to Jimmy Buffett
Marjory Stoneman Douglas: Everglades activist and author of River of Grass
The
Zora Neale Hurston Plays at the Library of Congress
Poems of Sidney Lanier
Bone Mizell: Cracker Cowboy of the Palmetto Prairies: article from Wild West
Freedom Never Dies:
The Legacy of Harry T. Moore from PBS
The Ballad of Harry Moore
by Langston Hughes
discover one of Florida's first civil rights activists
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic Site: the novelist's home in Cross Creek.
Gamble Rogers : folksinger (1937-1991)
Stetson Kennedy: America's first investigative historian
Randy Wayne White: the mystery author's homepage
The Florida Heritage Collection is an ongoing cooperative project of the State University System (SUS) of Florida to digitize and provide online access to materials broadly representing Florida’s history, culture, arts, literature, sciences and social sciences. Thematic areas in this growing collection include Native American and minority populations, exploration and development, tourism, the natural environment, and regional interests.
Florida Division of Historical Resources, sponsor of Florida Folklife Programs
Florida Department of State's website includes Florida Facts and History among other enlightening pages
State Library of Florida includes The Florida Electronic Library and Florida History Links
Name Origins of Florida Places
Florida
Local Government: links to state and local government agencies
from FloridaSmart
Local History of Cities and Areas in Florida from Florida Smart
County
Histories a bibliography from the State Library of Florida
Local History of
Cities and Areas in Florida from Florida Smart: Your Florida Web Guide -- a
list of links
Sarasota
County History Center includes:
Archaeology
of Sarasota County
Dreamers of our Past
Historic Designation
National
Register Historic Sites
Sarasota
County Courthouse
Sarasota
County Historical Markers
Sarasota
County History in Photographs
Historic Sarasota County
Sarasota
School of Architecture
Discover Venice: Venice Archives and Area Historical Collection
Charlotte County History from Florida Independent History and Genealogy
Manatee County Historical Records Library
Ybor City: The City with a Past! Tampa
Publishers of Florida
Literature
Pineapple Press
University Press of Florida
Anhinga Press
Florida Publishers Association
Send suggestions for other links or report broken
links to: jonesj@mccfl.edu
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