Floridians

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Publisher : Ronald W. Kenyon
ISBN 13 : 153090790X
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (39 download)

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Book Synopsis Floridians by : Ronald W. Kenyon

Download or read book Floridians written by Ronald W. Kenyon and published by Ronald W. Kenyon. This book was released on 2016-09-26 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Curiosity and intelligence run deep in Ronald W. Kenyon’s writing. He’s a tireless world traveler with a real knack for looking at wherever he is and finding reasons to be fascinated by it.” Frank Cerabino, columnist, The Palm Beach Post The cast of characters in these seventeen stories of fascinating Floridians includes the living and the dead, the famous and the infamous—murderers, imposters, royal pretenders, a supermarket cashier, a housekeeper, a homeless former crack addict rescued by an anonymous benefactor, the woman who was elected chief of the Seminoles, a Jordanian Cordon Bleu chef, a chess champion who founded a city and the first two Jewish senators. Even John Lennon makes an appearance. A road trip across the state results in the shocking revelation that, in the 1920’s, Seminole children were prohibited from attending either “white” or “colored” schools, but ends with an unexpected surprise: the Seminole Tribe of Florida, grown wealthy by the profits of its casinos, now owns the worldwide Hard Rock Café chain Some of the essays involved extensive research, often sparked by an apparently trivial observation; thus the story of the phony count and the fake countess begins when I noticed a sign with an inappropriate ampersand and leaps around the world to France, the former Belgian Congo, Yemen, the Emirate of Sharjah and Tangier. The people in this book are Floridians, all, and some were even born in the Sunshine State. Yet most are transplants like me, native-born Americans migrating from elsewhere in the United States or immigrants fleeing Hitler’s Germany, Castro’s Cuba and the poverty of Guatemala. Each of them—each of us—possesses Real Stories to tell, and in this book the reader will discover some of them.

Floridians All

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Publisher : Pelican Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781455604432
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (44 download)

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New Directions in the Search for the First Floridians

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Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 1683400801
Total Pages : 375 pages
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Book Synopsis New Directions in the Search for the First Floridians by : David K. Thulman

Download or read book New Directions in the Search for the First Floridians written by David K. Thulman and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting the most current research and thinking on prehistoric archaeology in the Southeast, this volume reexamines some of Florida’s most important Paleoindian sites and discusses emerging technologies and methods that are necessary knowledge for archaeologists working in the region today. Using new analytical methods, contributors explore fresh perspectives on sites including Old Vero, Guest Mammoth, Page-Ladson, and Ray Hole Spring. They discuss the role of hydrology—rivers, springs, and coastal plain drainages—in the history of Florida’s earliest inhabitants. They address both the research challenges and the unique preservation capacity of the state’s many underwater sites, suggesting solutions for analyzing corroded lithic artifacts and submerged midden deposits. Looking towards future research, archaeologists discuss strategies for finding additional pre-Clovis and Clovis-era sites offshore on the southeastern continental shelf. The search is important, these essays show, because Florida’s prehistoric sites hold critical data for the debate over the nature and timing of the first human colonization of the Western Hemisphere.

True Floridians & Other Passing Attractions

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Constructing Floridians

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Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813063329
Total Pages : 195 pages
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Book Synopsis Constructing Floridians by : Daniel S. Murphree

Download or read book Constructing Floridians written by Daniel S. Murphree and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Florida Book Awards, Silver Medal for Florida Nonfiction Florida Historical Society Harry T. and Harriette V. Moore Award "Compelling stories of people whose ideas about themselves changed as they struggled to understand new people and circumstances. . . . A rich tale of cross-cultural divisions and mutual disappointments."--Journal of Southern History "Through an examination of Spanish, French, and English written accounts, Murphree contends that despite their differences, Florida’s European colonists all developed common attitudes towards the region’s native populations."--Florida Historical Quarterly "Race and racism simply did not arrive to the shores of Florida. Instead, this volume demonstrates how racism emerged out of the frustrations and failures of the Spaniards, Frenchmen, and Britons to control the land and people of Florida."--Andrew K. Frank, author of Creeks and Southerners: Biculturalism on the Early American Frontier Constructing Floridians explores the ways racial identities developed in peninsular Florida and beyond during the 300 years before the founding of the United States. Daniel Murphree shows how the peoples of Spain, France, and Great Britain and half a dozen Florida tribes--the Guale, Calusa, Timucuans, Apalachees, Creeks, and Seminoles--created understandings of one another and themselves. Murphree argues that the Europeans, frustrated by their inability to "tame" the peninsula, blamed the natives for their problems and that barriers between the Europeans and the Indians hardened over time. His focus on race and identity opens up a rare perspective on the story of Florida's past.

A Land Remembered

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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1561645826
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (616 download)

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Book Synopsis A Land Remembered by : Patrick D Smith

Download or read book A Land Remembered written by Patrick D Smith and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Land Remembered has become Florida's favorite novel. Now this Student Edition in two volumes makes this rich, rugged story of the American pioneer spirit more accessible to young readers. Patrick Smith tells of three generations of the MacIveys, a Florida family battling the hardships of the frontier. The story opens in 1858, when Tobias and Emma MacIvey arrive in the Florida wilderness with their son, Zech, to start a new life, and ends in 1968 with Solomon MacIvey, who realizes that his wealth has not been worth the cost to the land. Between is a sweeping story rich in Florida history with a cast of memorable characters who battle wild animals, rustlers, Confederate deserters, mosquitoes, starvation, hurricanes, and freezes to carve a kingdom out of the Florida swamp. In this volume, meet young Zech MacIvey, who learns to ride like the wind through the Florida scrub on Ishmael, his marshtackie horse, his dogs, Nip and Tuck, at this side. His parents, Tobias and Emma, scratch a living from the land, gathering wild cows from the swamp and herding them across the state to market. Zech learns the ways of the land from the Seminoles, with whom his life becomes entwined as he grows into manhood. Next in series > > See all of the books in this series

First Floridians and Last Mastodons: The Page-Ladson Site in the Aucilla River

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Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402046944
Total Pages : 590 pages
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Download or read book First Floridians and Last Mastodons: The Page-Ladson Site in the Aucilla River written by S. David Webb and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-10-11 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the multidisciplinary results of an extensive underwater excavation in north Florida. This yielded the most complete results of interactions between early Paleoindians and late Pleistocene megafauna, in a rich environmental context in eastern North America. The data provides fundamental insights into "the Peopling of the Americas" and "The Extinction of the Megafauna". An excellent color photo section expresses the uniqueness of this project.

Floridian of His Century

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Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813059240
Total Pages : 509 pages
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Book Synopsis Floridian of His Century by : Martin A. Dyckman

Download or read book Floridian of His Century written by Martin A. Dyckman and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2006-08-01 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six years after his election as a segregationist, Florida governor LeRoy Collins denounced racial discrimination as contrary to “moral, simple justice.” In 1991, the Florida House of Representatives eulogized Collins as the “Floridian of the Twentieth Century,” and today Collins is remembered as one of Florida’s outstanding governors. As champion against rural misrule in 1954 and as the voice of racial moderation in 1956, Collins won the two most important gubernatorial elections in Florida history. In Floridian of His Century, a political portrait of this controversial Southern governor, Martin Dyckman argues that Collins’s courageous moral leadership spared Florida the humiliation that befell other states under less enlightened leaders.

Oh, Florida!

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Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250071208
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Book Synopsis Oh, Florida! by : Craig Pittman

Download or read book Oh, Florida! written by Craig Pittman and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-07-05 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fun- and fact-filled investigation into why the Sunshine State is the weirdest but also the most influential state in the Union.

State of Defiance

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Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813047625
Total Pages : 305 pages
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Book Synopsis State of Defiance by : Judith Poucher

Download or read book State of Defiance written by Judith Poucher and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Florida Historical Society Harry T. & Harriette V. Moore Award Drawing on previously unpublished sources and newly unsealed records, Judith Poucher profiles five individuals who stood up to the Johns Committee. Virgil Hawkins and Ruth Perry were civil rights activists who, respectively, foiled the committee’s plans to stop integration at the University of Florida and refused to divulge Florida and Miami NAACP records. G. G. Mock, a bartender in Tampa, was arrested and shackled in the nude by police but would not reveal the name of her girlfriend, a teacher. University of Florida professor Sig Diettrich was threatened with twenty years in prison and being "outed," yet he still would not name names. Margaret Fisher, a college administrator, helped to bring the committee's investigation of the University of South Florida into the open, publicly condemning their bullying. By reexamining the daring stands taken by these ordinary citizens, Poucher illustrates not only the abuses propagated by the committee but also the collective power of individuals to effect change.

Floridians and Wildlife

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Book Synopsis Floridians and Wildlife by : Mark Damian Duda

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The Floridians

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Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595267181
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Book Synopsis The Floridians by : Margaret Uhler

Download or read book The Floridians written by Margaret Uhler and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Several important chapters in American history are viewed through the experiences of a Southern family. These exciting historical figures leave an indelible mark on Florida, their adopted home. They experience heights of achievement and depths of loss, and they rise to every challenge.Joseph White is Florida's second elected territorial delegate to Congress and an authority on dealing with old Spanish land grants. He and his wife, Ellen, move in the glittering world of celebrated literary and political figures of the 1830's and become one of Florida's most brilliant and admired couples.Ellen's nephew, Patton Anderson, is a hero in the most romantic tradition. When hostilities between the North and the South become imminent, he resigns his appointment as Governor of Washington Territory. He returns to Florida and sees distinguished service in some of the Civil War's fiercest battles. In a day when honor and loyalty are strong, none pursue these virtues more passionately than Patton Anderson. The Andersons, though financially ruined by the war, persevere and endure with grace and courage.

True Floridians and Other Passing Attractions

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ISBN 13 : 9780960793402
Total Pages : pages
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Travels of William Bartram

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Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486200132
Total Pages : 470 pages
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Download or read book Travels of William Bartram written by William Bartram and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1955-01-01 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of 1791 ed.

Florida Made

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Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439665370
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)

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Book Synopsis Florida Made by : George S. LeMieux

Download or read book Florida Made written by George S. LeMieux and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once considered just an insect-ridden swampland, Florida is now a top destination for tourism, business, agriculture and innovation thanks to these 25 individuals. Florida is in many ways both the oldest and newest of the megastates. The ideas and actions of a colorful cast of characters - from beloved cultural icons to political heroes and even a socialist dictator - transformed the peninsula. A Barbados native rescued Florida's orange industry after the catastrophic 1835 freeze. Known as the "Grande Dame of the Everglades," Marjory Stoneman Douglas worked tirelessly to save the state's vast, incomparable wetlands from annihilation in the early twentieth century. In the mid-1800s, a Florida doctor developed a precursor to modern air conditioning. Join former U.S. senator George LeMieux and journalist Laura Mize as they profile and rank, according to impact, the 25 trailblazers who have changed the Sunshine State forever.

Bitten

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Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813047587
Total Pages : 196 pages
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Book Synopsis Bitten by : Andrew Furman

Download or read book Bitten written by Andrew Furman and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Andrew Furman left the rolling hills of Pennsylvania behind for a new job in Florida, he feared the worst. While he’d heard much of the fabled “southern charm,” he wondered what could possibly be charming about fist-sized mosquitoes, oppressive humidity, and ever-lurking alligators. It wasn’t long before he began to notice that the real Florida right outside his office window was very different from the stereotypes portrayed in movies, television, and even state-promoted tourism advertisements. In Bitten, Furman shares his amazement at the beautiful and the bizarre of his adopted state. Over seventeen years, he and his family have shed their Yankee sensibilities and awakened to the terra incognita of their new home. As he learns to fish for snook—a wily fish that inhabits, among other areas, the concrete-lined canals that crisscross the state—and seeks out the state’s oldest live oak, a behemoth that pre-dates Columbus, Furman realizes that falling in love with Florida is a fun and sometimes humbling process of discovery. Each chapter highlights a fascinating aspect of his journey into the natural environment he once avoided, from snail kites to lizards and cassia to coontie. Sharing his attempts at night fishing, growing native plants, birding, and hiking the Everglades, Furman will inspire you to explore the real Florida. And, if you aren’t lucky enough to reside in the Sunshine State, he’ll at least convince you to unplug for an hour or two and enjoy the natural beauty of wherever it is you call home.

Customer Survey of Older Floridians

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Customer Survey of Older Floridians written by Travis Deseran and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: