FORUM: The Magazine of Florida Humanities

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  Forum, Volume 49, No. 2, Summer 2025

  Florida Humanities and Pam Daniel

  Contents: Letter from the Executive Director -- Letter from the Secretary of State -- From the Editor -- Humanities Live -- Treasure -- Oral History -- Florida Seen -- Florida Reads -- The Saltwater Road -- The Hero with a Thousand Purses -- Indigenous Florida -- A Taste of Florida -- Environmental Humanities -- The Quiz

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  Forum, Volume 49, No. 1, Spring 2025

  Florida Humanities and Pam Daniel

  Contents: Letter from the Executive Director -- Letter from the Secretary of State -- From the Editor -- Humanities Live -- Treasure -- Florida Seen -- Oral History -- Q&A -- The A&E Collection -- Close Encounters of the Presidential Kind -- The Fun Factor -- A Taste of Florida -- Environmental Humanities -- Quiz

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  Forum, Volume 48, No. 3, Fall 2024

  Florida Humanities and Pam Daniel

  Contents: Letter from the Executive Director -- From the Secretary of State -- From the Editor -- Humanities Live -- Treasure -- Oral History -- The School Masters -- Nowhereland -- They Tell our Story -- Places in Our Hearts -- Local Color -- Florida Seen -- Taste of Florida -- Environmental Humanities -- The Quiz

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  Forum, Volume 48, No. 2, Summer 2024

  Florida Humanities and Pam Daniel

  Contents: Letter from the Executive Director -- From the Secretary of State -- From the Editor -- Humanities Live -- Oral History -- Treasure -- Cover to Cover -- The Photographer as Storyteller -- Lewis Hine "Suffer the Little Children" -- E.G. Barnhill "In Living Color" -- Marion Post Wolcott "Their Place in the Sun" -- E.L. Weems "Black Pride" -- Gary Monroe "On the Edges" -- Loomis Dean "The Trip of a Lifetime" -- First Person -- Person of Interest -- A Taste of Florida -- The Quiz

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  Forum, Volume 48, No. 1, Spring 2024

  Florida Humanities and Pam Daniel

  Contents: Letter from the Executive Director -- From the Secretary of State -- From the Editor -- Humanities Live -- Oral History -- Treasure -- Florida Seen -- Send in the Clowns -- Gridiron Glory -- Game Changers -- One More Serve -- Balls, Boards & Esther Williams' Bathing Suit -- Person of Interest -- Taste of Florida -- Sense of Place -- The Quiz

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  Forum, Volume 47, No. 3, Fall 2023

  Florida Humanities and Pam Daniel

  Contents: Letter from the Executive Director -- From the Secretary of State -- From the Editor -- Humanities Live -- Oral History -- Treasure -- To Preserve and Protect -- Audubon, Revisited -- Gatorland -- Let's Go Wild! -- A Salty Story -- Taste of Florida -- First Person -- The Quiz

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  Forum, Volume 47, No. 2, Summer 2023

  Florida Humanities and Pam Daniel

  Contents: Letter from the Executive Director -- From the Secretary of State -- From the Editor -- Humanities Live -- Voices -- Treasure -- Oral History -- Sense of Place -- One for the Books -- The Way of the Trailer -- Saving Sanibel -- Freedom Spring -- Taste of Florida -- The Quiz

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  Forum, Volume 47, No. 1, Spring 2023

  Florida Humanities and Pam Daniel

  Contents: Letter from the Executive Director -- From the Secretary of State -- From the Editor -- Humanities Live -- Oral History -- Sense of Place -- Treasure -- Opa! -- The Bounty Hunter -- Hard Times -- Liquid Gold -- Eat. Drink. Remember. -- Classics of Cuisine -- By Design -- Taste of Florida -- The Quiz

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  Forum, Volume 46, No. 3, Fall 2022

  Florida Humanities and Pam Daniel

  Contents: Letter from the Executive Director -- From the Secretary of State -- From the Editor -- Humanities Live -- Treasure -- Oral History -- Q&A -- They Had a Dream -- Her Name was Catalina de Valdéz -- A More Perfect Union -- Rethinking the Dream -- At the End of the Rainbow -- Sojourn in the Glades -- By Design -- Sense of Place -- Taste of Florida -- The Quiz -- On Exhibit

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  Forum, Volume 46, No. 2, Summer 2022

  Florida Humanities and Pam Daniel

  Contents: Letter from the Executive Director -- From the Secretary of State -- From the Editor -- Humanities Live -- Oral History -- Florida Seen -- Treasure -- Florida Reads -- Angry Young Man -- The Colonel -- When Giants Walked the Land -- Sense of Place -- A Taste of Florida -- The Quiz -- By Design -- On Exhibit

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  Forum, Volume 46, No. 1, Spring 2022

  Florida Humanities and Pam Daniel

  Contents: Letter from the Executive Director -- From the Editor -- Letter from the Secretary of State -- Humanities Live -- Oral History -- Treasure -- Creators -- The Soundtrack of Our State -- "I'm Florida, Need I Say More?" -- The Florida All-Stars -- The Hitmaker -- Traveling Down the Chitlin' Circuit -- Lift Every Voice and Sing -- State of Rock -- A Taste of Florida -- Sense of Place -- By Design -- More Perfect Union -- The Quiz -- On Exhibit

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  Forum, Volume 45, No. 3, Fall 2021

  Florida Humanities and Jacki Levine

  Contents: Letter from the Director -- Florida Magazine Association's Charlie Awards -- Letter from the Editor -- Listen to the Voices of Generations in the Pages of Florida's Newspapers -- What's New at Florida Humanities -- A History Museum with an Intriguing Past -- Newspapers in Education -- Let's Talk about Water -- A Forgotten Newspaper -- An Evening with Danielle Allen -- A Conversation with Nashid Madyun -- Under the Gaze of the Sun -- Making the Invisible, Visible -- A New Model for News? -- Literary Florida -- Heritage Kitchen -- State of Wonder

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  Forum, Volume 45, No. 2, Summer 2021

  Florida Humanities and Jacki Levine

  Contents: Dive into History to Commemorate Florida's Territorial Bicentennial -- The Tapestry that is Us -- Meet Florida Humanities' New Executive Director -- What's New at Florida Humanities -- Women to Know -- Writers on Writing -- Raising Their Voices, Poetically -- A Gift of Envisioning Florida -- Commemorating July 17, 1821 -- Heritage Kitchen -- What You'll See on Road Less Traveled -- The Call of the Springs

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  Forum, Volume 45, No. 1, Spring 2021

  Florida Humanities and Jacki Levine

  Contents: Water: The Elemental Link to Florida's Identity -- Understanding Our Times, with Help from the Humanities -- Visions of Florida, through a Watery Lens -- What's New at Florida Humanities -- Makeshift Freedom -- Virtually Navigating the New Normal -- "Talking" in Your Living Room -- Written in Water -- Water as Our Life Story -- Water as Our Way of Life -- Water as a Natural Bridge -- Water as a Divider -- Water as Freedom -- Water as Inspiration -- Water as We Look to the Future -- State of Wonder --

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  Forum, Volume 44, No. 2, Fall 2020

  Florida Humanities and Jacki Levine

  Contents: There is No Other Path Forward -- What We Learn from Past, and Leave for the Future -- In Times of Uncertainty, the Past Reminds Us of Our Resilience -- Around the State… and at Home -- Days of Trouble, Days of Hope -- Alone, Together: A Self-Portrait of Florida in a Time of Crisis -- How Children Cope when Dad is on the Frontlines -- Portraits of a Pandemic -- The Poetry of Quarantine -- Heritage Kitchen: A Flavorful Blending of Culture -- Florida by Design: The Tales They Could Tell -- State of Wonder: An Oasis for Birds... And Us

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  Forum, Volume 44, No. 2, Summer 2020

  Florida Humanities and Jacki Levine

  Contents: Why the Humanities Matter in Troubled Times -- Navigating a Time when All has Shifted -- Humanities Today -- Spinning Life into Words that Matter -- Florida Book Awards -- Lifting Their Voices, Poetically -- Made in Florida: From the Sunshine State to the Silver Screen -- Our State of Dreams -- Literary Footsteps: Where the Road Ended for the King of the Beats -- Heritage Kitchen: A Taste of Greece -- State of Wonder: A Solitary Walk in a Time of Crisis

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  Forum, Volume 44, No. 1, Spring 2020

  Florida Humanities and Jacki Levine

  Contents: How the Humanities Keep us Free -- Surprising Tales of Florida Democracy -- Humanities Today: For Those who Came Before -- A Tribute to David Colburn -- What's New at Florida Humanities -- Voices and Votes: Democracy in America -- Choosing Loyalty to the King -- The Rise and Fall of Florida's Would-be Capital -- Home for History for 200 Years -- We Hold These Truths... -- A Mirror to Our State -- A Voting Primer -- Women's Suffrage Centennial -- Why Our Voting Rates Lag Behind -- Let There by Sunshine -- Learning to be Citizens -- Awake to Engagement -- Talking across the Divide -- State of Wonder: Stumping the State

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  Forum, Volume 43, No. 3, Fall 2019

  Florida Humanities Council and Jacki Levine

  Contents: Help Us Tell the Story of Florida Together -- Finding My Florida, and Yours -- Humanities Today -- This Florida Life -- What Does It Mean to be a Floridian? 1919-2019, a Florida Portrait -- Three Floridians Tell Their Stories -- Unsung Pioneers -- Portal to History -- Future Florida -- Literary Footsteps: Harriet Beecher Stowe, a Florida Snowbird -- Heritage Kitchen: Taste of the Sun -- 100 Years of History -- Insider's Florida -- State of Wonder: Birds of a Colorful Feather

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  Forum, Volume 43, No. 2, Summer 2019

  Florida Humanities Council and Jacki Levine

  Contents: Stand up for the Humanities as We Celebrate Our Freedom -- Adventures in the Literary State -- Humanities Today -- Telling the Stories behind the Stories -- Two Divergent Writing Paths Celebrated -- The Power of the Spoken Word -- Literary Footsteps: 500 Years and Counting -- A Guide to the Florida Book Awards -- State of Wonder: Mangrove in the Moon

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  Forum, Volume 43, No. 1, Spring 2019

  Florida Humanities Council and Jacki Levine

  Contents: Finding Shared Values -- Igniting a Spark in the Center of It All -- Humanities Today -- This Florida Life: A Life of Firsts -- A Teacher to Remember: Awakening the Reader Within -- Insider's Florida: A Tale of Two Cities -- State of Inspiration: Finding Home -- Florida by Design: Embracing the Sea and Sky -- Artful Revivals -- The Sweetness of Memory -- My Florida Journey: A New Life in America -- Why We Tell These Stories -- State of Wonder: Rounding the Curve

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  Forum, Volume 42, No. 2, Fall 2018

  Florida Humanities Council and Jacki Levine

  Contents: Celebrating the Power of the Word -- Exploring Our Connections -- Humanities Today -- A Teacher to Remember: Thank You, Mr. Crouch -- This Florida Life: A Conversation with Sarah Hammill -- Insider's Florida: Key West -- Heritage Kitchen: Living the Legacy -- State of Enchantment: Living the Writer's Life in Florida -- Florida's Smallest Post Office -- Writers on Writing -- Meet the Florida Book Award Winners -- Bridging the Gulf -- Literary Footsteps: Marjory's Journey -- Say it out Loud -- Stormy Florida: Years of Quiet, Years of Destruction -- 1811: What we Know about the Storm that Hit St. Augustine -- Remembering the Great Okeechobee Hurricane of 1928 -- Where Do We Go from Here? Building for the Future with an Eye on the Storms -- State of Wonder: Sarasota Sunset

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  Forum, Volume 42, No. 1, Spring 2018

  Florida Humanities Council and Jacki Levine

  Contents: We Gather from Everywhere to Build Team Florida -- Capturing Florida's Unfolding Story -- Humanities Today -- A Florida Life: A Conversation with Martin Margulies -- Insiders' Florida: Tallahassee -- Florida's Fields of Dreams -- Heritage Kitchen: A Florida Culinary Legacy -- The South's "Motown" -- Literary Footsteps: The Return of William Bartram -- Decoding Democracy: Taking Thomas Jefferson's Lead -- State of Wonder: Awaiting the Moment at Dennis Creek

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  Forum, Volume 41, No. 2, Fall 2017

  Florida Humanities Council and Barbara O'Reilley

  Contents: Working Toward a Dream -- How a Hopeless King from New Jersey Became Miami's Queen of Crime -- What's Your Favorite Florida Line? -- Florida's Forgotten Coast: A Culture of Grit and Beauty -- Reflections on Florida Poetry -- Humanities Alive! -- Painting with Light -- Gainesville a Hotbed for Rock and Roll -- Winners of the 2017 Florida Book Awards

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  Forum, Volume 41, No. 1, Spring 2017

  Florida Humanities Council and Barbara O'Reilley

  Contents: Letter from the Director -- How will Growth Affect what Makes Florida Special? -- In Praise of the Humanities -- Preserving History as Florida Booms -- Fort Pierce: A Place that Feels like Home -- Key West: Adapting and Enduring -- Cedar Key: A Community that Survives -- Gulf County: Change is Coming to Forgotten Florida -- Humanities Alive! -- Miami: A Mosaic of History and Change -- Fernandina Beach: A Heritage that Sustains a City -- Tarpon Springs: The Past is Part of the Present -- DeLand: A Special Sense of Place -- Polk County: Pride in the Heritage -- Pensacola: Spanning the Centuries -- Reflections on Florida Poetry: When Languages Collide -- My Favorite Florida Place: Fort Pickens: A Place of Beauty and Tension

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  Forum, Volume 40, No. 2, Fall 2016

  Florida Humanities Council and Barbara O'Reilley

  Contents: Letter from the Director -- Intrigue, Wild Rides, Colorful Characters -- Haiku Ready? -- A Witty Guide and Generous Soul -- Florida Nonfiction -- General Fiction -- General Nonfiction -- Popular Fiction -- Humanities Alive! -- Visual Arts -- Spanish Language -- Children's Literature -- Young Adult -- Poetry -- Reflections on Florida Poetry: Florida's African Soul and Soil -- My Favorite Florida Place: Ybor City: A Historian's Dreamland