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Founder Gwendolyn Reese has long desired to share the city’s African American history online. The coronavirus pandemic helped put the project in motion.
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More than a hundred, mostly retired, part-time musicians from around the country gathered last week in Sarasota to revive what some fear is a dying art –…
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The Berlin Wall fell 30 years ago, ending an era of Cold War division between East and West, democracy and communism. At a time when U.S. culture is…
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By Carrie PinkardTampa celebrated its 132nd birthday on Monday.Instead of cake and candles, the city marked the occasion by opening the doors to Old City…
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This week on Florida Matters we focus on the places and events that make Plant City special, like the Plant City Photo Archives and History Center.It is…
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This week on Florida Matters we focus on the places and events that make Plant City special, like the Plant City Photo Archives and History Center.It is…
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The history of the Gulf of Mexico is often times relegated to the footnotes in history textbooks.It’s a wrong that historian Jack Davis said he hopes to…
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The Ybor City Chamber of Commerce is using renewed relations between the Obama Administration and government of Cuba to re-establish the link between the…
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The 1950's marked the birth of Levittown, TV dinners, and kitchen automation--not to mention about 3.8 million babies per year. Another innovation that…
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There's a movement to replace Miami Beach's historic homes with large, glitzy houses, and the cause celebre is a landmark house owned by a plastic surgeon and his wife, a cast member on The Real Housewives of Miami.
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Walking into the Tampa Theatre is like stepping back in time to a 1920s movie palace. But there's one feature about the downtown Tampa gem that will no…
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Someone has an anniversary today. But don't panic. It isn't you.Actually, it's all of us.Today marks Florida's 500th anniversary. On April 3, 1513,…