FORUM: The Magazine of Florida Humanities

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  Forum, Volume 40, No. 1, Spring 2016

  Florida Humanities Council and Barbara O'Reilley

  Contents: Letter from the Director -- Bearing Witness -- Bringing War Home -- Carving out a New Life -- Veterans in Florida -- Hope and Humanity, Love and Loss -- Humanities Alive -- Lessons from the American Presidency -- How Florida Became the State to Watch -- An Oasis in Jim Crow Florida -- The Poetry of Bugs -- My Favorite Florida Place

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  Forum, Volume 39, No. 2, Summer 2015

  Florida Humanities Council and Barbara O'Reilley

  Contents: Letter from the Director -- An Eclectic, Colorful Mix of Voices -- Florida's Dream Writer -- Florida Nonfiction -- General Fiction -- Visual Arts -- Humanities Alive! -- Popular Fiction -- General Nonfiction -- Spanish Language -- Reflections on Florida Poetry -- Poetry -- Children's Literature -- Young Adult Literature

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  Forum, Volume 39, No. 1, Spring 2015

  Florida Humanities Council and Barbara O'Reilley

  Contents: Letter from the Director -- The Oldest City Today: Seeing Balance -- St. Augustine: Life with History and Tourism -- UF Scholars Dig this Place -- St. Augustine Voters Opt for Change -- The Attraction of Authenticity -- Unearthing History in a Place of Myth -- Outrageous (Or just Odd) Stories -- First Families -- Historic Black Community Now Mostly White -- Humanities Alive -- My Favorite St. Augustine Place -- Looking out My Back Door -- Echoes in the Wind

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  Forum, Volume 38, No. 3, Fall 2014

  Florida Humanities Council and Barbara O'Reilley

  Contents: Letter from the Director -- Ready for an Adventure? -- Splashing and Laughing in the Springs, and Working Together to Save Them -- Enter Another World: Where Waters, Once Worshipped, are Now Threatened -- Bowls of Liquid Light: Map of Florida Springs -- Where Early People Sought Sustenance -- Can Wakulla Recapture its Luster? -- Remembering a Once-Magical Place -- Springs were Mecca for Tourists, and Movie-Makers -- Humanities Alive! -- Flying Underwater -- Painting the Fluid -- Celebrating the Legacy of Florida's Highwaymen -- What did Teachers Do on their Summer Vacation? -- My Favorite Florida Place: Finding the Deeper Conversation in Old Key West -- Poetry and Pie

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  Forum, Volume 38, No. 2, Summer 2014

  Florida Humanities Council and Barbara O'Reilley

  Contents: Letter from the Director -- Listen for the Voices -- Have You Not Hard of Floryda? -- Poetry -- General Fiction -- Visual Arts -- General Nonfiction -- Humanities Alive! -- Winner of our Florida Micro-Fiction Challenge -- Novelist Time Dorsey Takes up the Challenge! -- Florida Nonfiction -- Popular Fiction -- Spanish Language -- Young Adult -- Children's Literature -- A Writing Life

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  Forum, Volume 38, No. 1, Spring 2014

  Florida Humanities Council and Barbara O'Reilley

  Contents: Letter from the Director -- A Florida Icon is under Siege -- Dream Fruit for a Dream State -- The Great Freeze Dashed Dreams -- Working to Ensure Survival of Citrus -- The Citrus Wizard -- Florida Grows -- Humanities Alive! -- Stitching a Legacy -- A Community Brought to Life -- Hard Work and Dreams -- Wewahitchka: A Brutally Beautiful Eden -- A Nicaraguan Heart

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  Forum, Volume 37, No. 3, Fall 2013

  Florida Humanities Council and Barbara O'Reilley

  Contents: Letter from the Director -- Looking Back, Moving Forward -- Singing along Back Roads -- A Colorful Enigma: Folk Music in Florida -- America's First Cowmen Rode the Florida Frontier -- Folk Art: Culture with Character -- The Highwaymen -- Killing Mr. Watson -- The Everglades: Florida's Last Frontier -- A Button Reveals Warrior's Spirit -- Seminole Chief Jim Billie -- The Suwannee: None Prettier -- Florida's Deep Blue Destiny -- Humanities Alive -- WWII: Heroes All... -- The Skirted Soldiers -- Florida Literature: Many Voices Thrive -- This Place is Crazy -- Tourism: Eden to Empire -- A Cultural Sea Change -- Staying Connected to the Water -- Complexities of Paradise -- Into the Land of Flowers

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  Forum, Volume 37, No. 2, Summer 2013

  Florida Humanities Council and Barbara O'Reilley

  Contents: Letter from the Director -- Investing in Dreams -- Florida Nonfiction -- Enid Shomer's Fictional Worlds Reflect a Poet's Eye -- General Fiction -- Popular Fiction -- Humanities Alive -- Poetry -- General Nonfiction -- Visual Arts -- Young Adult -- Children's Literature -- My Favorite Florida Place -- Bridging Cultures

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  Florida Humanities Council and Barbara O'Reilley

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  Forum, Volume 37, No. 1, Spring 2013

  Florida Humanities Council and Barbara O'Reilley

  Contents: Letter from the Director -- An Uncommon Adventure -- Journey to the Heart of Florida -- Lost in the Swamp at Night -- Panther Country -- Cowboys and Seminole Elders -- Commandos in the Flatwoods -- Swimming with a Mermaid -- Humanities Alive! -- A Range for Bears -- Like Nowhere Else in the World -- Banjo Wizard -- Bridging Cultures -- My Favorite Florida Place

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  Forum, Volume 36, No. 3, Fall 2012

  Florida Humanities Council and Barbara O'Reilley

  Contents: Letter from the Director -- What was the View from the Shore? -- Native Cultures are Wiped Out after Europeans Move In -- The Calusa Ruled South Florida -- The Magical World of the Timucua -- The Apalachee Played a Mean Game of Ball -- Mission Control -- The End of a World -- Traveling in Ancient Florida -- Humanities Alive! -- How Power was Brokered in Spanish Colonial Florida -- Creek Indians became Florida Seminoles -- Bridging Cultures -- Windswept History -- My Favorite Florida Place

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  Forum, Volume 36, No. 2, Summer 2012

  Florida Humanities Council and Barbara O'Reilley

  Contents: Letter from the Director -- How Florida Fuels Its Writers -- Patrick Smith’s Discovery of an Unforgettable Florida -- Florida Nonfiction -- Popular Fiction -- Young Adult -- Children's Literature -- Humanities Alive! -- General Fiction -- Visual Arts -- Poetry -- My Favorite Florida Place -- Bridging Cultures

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  Forum, Volume 36, No. 1, Spring 2012

  Florida Humanities Council and Barbara O'Reilley

  Contents: Letter from the Director -- A Destination for Seekers, Strivers - and Survivors -- Journeys to Florida -- Florida's Puerto Rican Phenomenon -- Embarking upon the Unknown -- Humanities Alive! -- A Legend and his Legacy -- Questions Raised about Klan Exposé -- Bridging Cultures -- My Favorite Florida Place

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  Forum, Volume 35, No. 3, Fall 2011

  Florida Humanities Council and Barbara O'Reilley

  Contents: Letter from the Director -- Exploring Florida's Shape-shifting Past -- Dreams Lost, Dreams Found in the Quest for Florida -- Who Started the Myth about a Fountain of Youth? -- How Seashells Saved St. Augustine: A City of 'Firsts' -- The Life and Death of Spanish Missions -- A Remarkable Figure Emerges from the Past -- Florida's Villages were Global -- Humanities Alive! -- Pensacola: A Mixing Pot of Humanity -- Spain's Empire Crumbles -- Hispanic Ties Still Shape Florida -- Bridging Cultures -- My Favorite Florida Place

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  Forum, Volume 35, No. 2, Summer 2011

  Florida Humanities Council and Barbara O'Reilley

  Contents: Letter from the Director -- Let Florida Writers Take You Places -- Florida Nonfiction -- Popular Fiction -- Carl Hiaasen: A Passionate Voice for Florida -- Humanities Alive! -- General Fiction -- Visual Arts -- Children's Literature -- Poetry -- Young Adult -- Spanish Language -- Bridging Cultures -- My Favorite Florida Place

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  Forum, Volume 35, No. 1, Spring 2011

  Florida Humanities Council and Barbara O'Reilley

  Contents: Letter from the Director -- Where History and Mystery Reside -- The Gulf of Mexico: An Ancient Power Central to our Lives -- A History of Offshore Drilling in the Gulf -- Florida's Historic Oyster Capital Survives Another Crisis -- Visions of the Gulf -- Humanities Alive! -- Rosewood: Rising from the Ashes -- Florida Scholar Profile -- A Legend Passes on -- My Favorite Florida Place -- Bridging Cultures

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  Forum, Volume 34, No. 3, Fall 2010

  Florida Humanities Council and Barbara O'Reilley

  Contents: Letter from the Director -- Once Upon a Time -- Florida's Earliest People -- The Europeans Arrive -- The Wild Frontier -- Growing Communities -- Humanities Alive! -- WWII Ignites Modern Florida -- Searching for Florida's Future -- My Favorite Florida Place -- Bridging Cultures

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  Forum, Volume 34, No. 2, Summer 2010

  Florida Humanities Council and Barbara O'Reilley

  Contents: Letter from the Director -- A Place for Writers -- General Fiction -- Florida Nonfiction -- Poetry -- Humanities Alive! -- The Many Faces of Michael Gannon's Life -- Popular Fiction -- Spanish Language -- Young Adult Literature -- Children Literature

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  Forum, Volume 34, No. 1, Spring 2010

  Florida Humanities Council and Barbara O'Reilley

  Contents: Letter from the Director -- Travel Back in Time to 1860 -- Florida Goes to War -- Extracting Salt from the Sea -- Thunder on the River -- Tales of Spies, Secrets, and Smugglers -- Recovering History from a River -- A Hobby to Die for -- Florida's Culture of Slavery -- Women Shared Hardship, Heartache, and Hope -- A Civil War Love Story -- Florida Scholar Profile -- My Favorite Florida Place

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  Forum, Volume 33, No. 3, Fall 2009

  Florida Humanities Council and Barbara O'Reilley

  Contents: Letter from the Director -- An Everglades Saga: A Labyrinthine Tale of Engineers Trying to Manage Poetry -- Meet the Outlaws, Poets, and Old Men of the Sea on Florida's Last Frontier -- The Outlaw Mr. Watson -- Imagining a Lost World -- Running for their Lives, They Hid in the Swamp -- Respecting This Land -- The Saint of the Everglades -- Humanities Alive! -- Marjory's Three Wishes -- River of Grass -- A Green Hell -- Clyde's Quest -- The Sanctuary that Restored his Soul -- The Man who Introduced Clyde to the Glades -- Reading Florida -- Holding On

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  Forum, Volume 33, No. 2, Summer 2009

  Florida Humanities Council and Barbara O'Reilley

  Contents: Letter from the Director -- Humanities Alive! -- Writing with Light -- General Fiction -- Florida Nonfiction -- Spanish Language -- Genre Fiction -- Poetry -- Young Adult Literature -- Reading Florida -- Children's Literature -- Book Design

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  Forum, Volume 33, No. 1, Spring 2009

  Florida Humanities Council and Barbara O'Reilley

  Contents: Letter from the Director -- Humanities Alive! -- Creating a New Vision for Paradise -- Do What's Right for our Children -- Students Need More than Academics -- Universities are Key to the Economy -- A Shift to High-Level Jobs is Crucial -- Our Environmental Emergency is Now -- Reading Florida -- Rethink Land Use, Energy Sources -- Smart Growth Helps Build Community -- Realizing Strength in Diversity -- Savoring Florida -- So Many Residents, So Few Floridians

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  Forum, Volume 32, No. 3, Fall 2008

  Florida Humanities Council and Barbara O'Reilley

  Contents: Letter from the Director -- Humanities Alive! -- Florida's Caribbean Connection -- Poem by Geoffrey Philp -- Cauldron of Conflict -- Art and Poetry: Guillermo Portieles and Ricardo Pau-Llosa -- The Story of Pedro Pan: When Cuban Children Flew to Freedom -- Leaving Home, Finding Home -- Map of the Caribbean Region -- From Haiti, with Hope -- Savoring Florida -- SUGARball: Pipeline to the Pros -- Rays and Marlins: Recruiting the Passion -- Reading Florida -- Florida's Earliest Caribbean Contact -- Poems by Geoffrey Philp and Ricardo Pau-Llosa

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  Forum, Volume 32, No. 2, Summer 2008

  Florida Humanities Council and Barbara O'Reilley

  Contents: Letter from the Director -- Humanities Alive! -- The Florida Reader -- Tourist Season -- Head Games -- Southern Comforts: Rooted in a Florida Place -- Magic City -- Mirage: Florida and the Vanishing Water of the Eastern U.S. -- Florida Then and Now -- Savoring Florida -- Introducing the Winning Authors -- Libro de Silencio -- Compulsions of Silkworms & Bees -- The House on Boulevard St.: New and Selected Poems

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  Forum, Volume 32, No. 1, Spring 2008

  Florida Humanities Council and Barbara O'Reilley

  Contents: Letter from the Director -- Humanities Alive! -- Leaving the Fast Lane Behind -- Seeking a Sense of Community -- Where Everyone Knows Your Name -- Savoring Florida -- Place Making -- Discovering a City's Soul -- Florida Views -- The Town that Nurtured Zora