FORUM: The Magazine of Florida Humanities

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  Forum, Volume 31, No. 3, Fall 2007

  Florida Humanities Council and Barbara O'Reilley

  Contents: Letter from the Director -- Humanities Alive! -- Following the Dream -- Halting Sprawl -- Newcomers Transform Florida Politics -- Living on the Hyphen -- Florida's Deep Blue Destiny -- Immersed in a Jewel -- The Underground Story of a Populated Paradise

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  Forum, Volume 31, No. 2, Summer 2007

  Florida Humanities Council and Barbara O'Reilley

  Contents: Letter from the Director -- Humanities Alive! -- Summer Reader -- The Swamp -- Losing it All to Sprawl -- Escape Clause -- Nature Girl -- Dark Light -- Floridian of his Century -- The Tumultuous Sixties -- Murder at Wakulla Springs -- Constructing Floridians -- Introducing the Winning Authors -- My Psychic -- Luckily

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  Forum, Volume 31, No. 1, Spring 2007

  Florida Humanities Council and Barbara O'Reilley

  Contents: Letter from the Director -- Humanities Alive! -- Surviving in the White-Man's World -- Driven into a Morass of Poverty -- From Hard Times to Hard Rock -- A Strategic Trip to Havana -- Patchwork: An Eye-Dazzling Art -- Keeping the Old Ways -- Woman of Legend -- Jim Billie's Wild Ride -- Bobby Henry Cuts the Clouds -- Tiger Tiger Rocks! -- The Art of Stephen Tiger -- Living Life on their Own Terms -- How the Tribe Serves its Members -- What is Sovereignty? -- The Art of Noah Billie -- The Poetry of Moses Jumper, Jr.

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  Forum, Volume 30, No. 3, Fall 2006

  Florida Humanities Council and Barbara O'Reilley

  Contents: Letter from the Director -- Humanities Alive! -- Florida Food -- The REAL First Thanksgiving Meal -- Nuevo Flavor -- Creating Cuisine -- Multicolored Memories -- Nochebuena -- Paradise on a Plate -- Celebrating Survival Together -- Candlelight Dining -- The Little Lime that Could

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  Forum, Volume 30, No. 2, Summer 2006

  Florida Humanities Council and Barbara O'Reilley

  Contents: Letter from the Director -- Humanities Alive! -- The Prometheus Project -- A Cultural Sea Change -- Fishing Ain't No Easy Life -- This is One Important Fish -- Calusa -- Honoring the Graves of Strangers -- Staying Connected to the Water -- Enclave of History -- Remembering the Forgotten Coast -- The Trade in Sea Sponges -- Sponge Divers Bring Greek Culture -- The Net Ban Controversy -- Net Loss -- No Shrimp. No Seafood. No Bait -- Book Briefs -- A Witness to History -- Scenes of Old Florida

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  Forum, Volume 30, No. 1, Winter 2006

  Florida Humanities Council and Barbara O'Reilley

  Contents: Humanities Alive! -- Folkvine Online -- Cracker -- America's First Cowmen -- King of the Crackers -- Patrick Smith's Journey into Florida -- When Fiction Becomes Fact -- Cracker Settlers Kept on Going -- Cracker Music -- The Houses that Crackers Built -- Cracker Cuisine -- He-Coons and Dogs that Hunt -- Gator Huntin' -- Listen to the Voice of the Heartland -- Crackers were Odd, but Good, Neighbors -- Watchin' out for Moonshiners in the 'Glades -- When the Artist Met the Cowman -- Ola Watkins

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  Forum, Volume 29, No. 3, Fall 2005

  Florida Humanities Council and Barbara O'Reilley

  Contents: Letter from the Director -- Humanities Alive! -- Meet Three Literary Luminaries: the Harlem Renaissance -- Getting Back to Work -- Giving Slaves a Voice -- The Art of Hope -- Roadmaps and Folk Tales -- Singing along Back Roads -- Book Briefs

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  Forum, Volume 29, No. 2, Spring 2005

  Florida Humanities Council and Barbara O'Reilley

  Contents: Letter from the Director -- Humanities Alive! -- Creating a Love of Reading -- Why I Live in St. Augustine -- Cherishing a City's Glorious Past -- Florida's Seashell Castle -- Spanish Colony a Sanctuary -- Many Cultures Create One Architecture -- Surviving on the Coins of Strangers -- Teachers Learn about Oldest U.S. City

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  Forum, Volume 29, No. 1, Winter 2005

  Florida Humanities Council and Barbara O'Reilley

  Contents: Letter from the Interim Director -- Humanities Alive! -- Honoring Ancient Cultures -- Noble Waters -- Creation Unfolding -- Looking for the Hillsborough River -- It's My River -- Hope for the Sacred River -- Paradise Restored? -- Miami River: Host to History -- The Winds of Change

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  Forum, Volume 28, No. 3, Summer/Fall 2004

  Florida Humanities Council and Barbara O'Reilley

  Contents: Humanities Alive! -- Hero Today -- Harry T. Moore -- Al Burt -- LeRoy Collins -- MaVynee Betsch -- Totch Brown -- The Crews Brothers -- Lois Lenski -- Victoriano Manteiga -- Kat Twine -- Guy Bradley -- Buddy Davis -- Henry Ohumukini -- Marjory Stoneman Douglas -- A. Philip Randolph -- Chief Jim Billie -- Stephen C. O'Connell

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  Forum, Volume 28, No. 2, Spring 2004

  Florida Humanities Council and Barbara O'Reilley

  Contents: Humanities Alive! -- Favorite Florida Places: Mosquito Lagoon -- Unfinished Journey -- The Dream Becomes a 'Hollow Hope' -- Out in Front -- Harold Knowles -- Doby Flowers -- Goliath Davis -- LaVon Bracy -- Michael Haygood -- Reubin Askew -- Alvin and Daphne Porter Family -- Putting it in Black and White -- Taking the Road to Freedom -- Behind the Sunny Facade

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  Forum, Volume 28, No. 1, Winter 2004

  Florida Humanities Council and Barbara O'Reilley

  Contents: Humanities Alive! -- Favorite Florida Places -- A Place of Romance and Pain -- Mystery of the Bluegrass Anthem -- A Colorful Enigma -- Listen to the Joy of Junkanoo! -- Sacred Steel -- Miami: Latin Music Center -- Florida Rocks! -- Book Briefs

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  Forum, Volume 27, No. 3, Fall 2003

  Florida Humanities Council and Barbara O'Reilley

  Contents: Letter from the Executive Director -- Humanities Alive! -- Florida's Elusive Identity -- South but not 'Southern' -- Culture of Color and Contrasts -- Art: A Creative Mix of Visions -- Folk Music: From Sacred to Salsa -- Literature: Many Voices Thrive -- Environment : Pilfering Wildlife -- Architecture: Fanciful Fantasies -- Cuisine : Food With Attitude

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  Forum, Volume 27, No. 2, Summer 2003

  Florida Humanities Council and Barbara O'Reilley

  Contents: Humanities Alive! -- Favorite Florida Places: Florida Wetlands -- Art from the Heart and Hearth -- Culture with Character -- Cubans Reflecting New Horizons -- Keeping Greek Traditions Alive -- Creating in the Countryside -- The Highwaymen -- Meet Some of the Folks -- Cracking Whips, Creating Lore -- Celebrating Farm Life -- Seminole Patchwork -- Surfing in Style -- Berry Clever Art -- Skiffing through the 'Glades -- Selling Fruit, Sharing Faith -- A Clown Makes Circus History -- A Door Opens the Way -- Book Briefs -- The Last Word: Florida's Vanishing Attractions

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  Forum, Volume 27, No. 1, Winter 2003

  Florida Humanities Council and Barbara O'Reilley

  Contents: Letter from the Executive Director -- Humanities Alive! -- Favorite Florida Places: Florida's Seashell Castle -- 30 Years of Exploring the Florida Experience -- Renewing Their Love of Teaching -- Sparking Dreams for Urban Poor -- Recovering African-American History -- Linking Separate, but Unequal, Worlds: Exploring Life under Jim Crow -- Florida's Year of Reckoning: 1973 -- Excerpts from 10 Years of FORUM: From Southern Backwater to New Florida -- Disney's Secret Strategy -- Florida: The Land of Possibility -- Moving from Front Porch to TV -- Fishing and Listening on the Swamp -- Searching for the Sandhill Crane -- From Ice Age Nomads to Settlers -- Europeans Bring Missions, Ambitions -- Writers Depict Different Floridas -- Poet's View of Hurricane Andrew -- Book Briefs

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  Forum, Volume 26, No. 3, Fall 2002

  Florida Humanities Council and Barbara O'Reilley

  Contents: Humanities Alive! -- Favorite Florida Places: Miami's River for the Ages -- Sunshine Noir: State of Suspense -- Ten Crime Classics -- Mystery of the Vanishing Mangroves -- This Place is CRAZY -- Flickering Scenes of Shadow: Florida's Film Noir -- Women who Craft the Crimes -- Book Briefs -- Selling Dreams in the Sunshine State

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  Forum, Volume 25, No. 2, Summer 2002

  Florida Humanities Council and Barbara O'Reilley

  Contents: Humanities Alive! -- Florida Places: Discovering the River of Peace -- Reflections on Water: Our Deep Blue Destiny -- It's at the Beach -- A Sea Lover's Saga -- Summers on Lake Stella -- Liquid Musings -- Images of a Meandering Maze -- The Haunted Everglades -- The Sea is their Home -- Rethinking our Place -- Book Briefs

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  Forum, Volume 25, No. 1, Spring 2002

  Florida Humanities Council and Barbara O'Reilley

  Contents: Humanities Alive! -- Favorite Florida Places: The Mysteries of Kingsley Plantation -- Introduction: America's New Look -- Florida's Eclectic Origins -- Profile of the New Latino and a Case Study of Assimilation -- Neighborhood of Freedom -- The Heart of Little Havana: A Photo Essay -- The ABCs of Change -- This Can't be Orlando! -- Journeys to a New Life -- Tasty Ethnic Adventures -- Book Briefs

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  Forum, Volume 24, No. 3, Winter 2001

  Florida Humanities Council and Barbara O'Reilley

  Contents: Florida Places: From Dunes to Malls, Where is your Favorite Place? -- Humanities Alive! -- Introduction: Finding Clues that Shape History -- Rescuing Miami's Legacy -- What Ancient Stones Reveal -- Spain's Frontier Missions -- Your Map to the Past -- A Disastrous Venture -- Partners for Posterity -- A Sanctuary for Slaves -- Warriors of Long Ago -- 'Seeing' Native Americans -- Archaeology as an Avocation -- A Passion for the Past -- Schools Digging into History -- Book Briefs

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  Forum, Volume 24, No. 2, Fall 2001

  Florida Humanities Council and Barbara O'Reilley

  Contents: From the Executive Director: Getting to the Heart of a Florida Town -- Humanities Alive! -- A Small Town Oasis -- Supporting Quality of Life -- Your Invitation to the Gathering -- A 'Metaphysical Mecca' -- The Last Word

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  Forum, Volume 24, No. 1, Spring 2001

  Florida Humanities Council and Barbara O'Reilley

  Contents: From the Executive Director: Adding Value to Tourism -- Humanities Alive! -- Eden to Empire: Florida's Shifting Dreamscape -- Spring Break! -- Myth and Reality -- The Mouse that Roared -- A Vatican with Mouse Ears -- The Real Florida -- Florida's Native Attraction -- Q&A -- Book Briefs -- The Last Word

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  Forum, Volume 23, No. 2, Fall 2000

  Florida Humanities Council and Lesley A. Northrup

  Contents: From the Executive Director: Faith in Florida -- Humanities Alive! -- Overview -- Varieties of Religious Experience -- Religion and Community -- Florida's Sacred Places -- Religion and Media -- Religion and Politics -- Book Briefs -- The Last Word

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  Forum, Volume 23, No. 1, Winter 2000

  Florida Humanities Council and John F. Berry

  Contents: From the Executive Director: Keeping the Community in Cultural Tourism -- Reader's Forum -- Humanities Alive! -- Amelia: An Island in Time -- Fernandina Beach: Blessed and Burdened -- Your Invitation to the Gathering -- American Beach: Sands of Segregation -- Book Briefs

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  Forum, Volume 22, No. 3, Fall 1999

  Florida Humanities Council, Gary Mormino, and Kathleen Arsenault

  Contents: From the Executive Director: For the Duration -- Humanities Alive! -- On the Brink: Florida on the Eve of World War II -- Senator Claude Pepper Plans for War -- Floridians Remember Pearl Harbor -- Heroes All: Personal Stories of Those who Fought and Died -- Florida's Most Decorated Heroes -- Dear Honey: Wartime Life and Letters of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings -- Fortress Florida: A Tale of Three Cities -- Hitler's Soldiers in the Sunshine State -- How the WACs Saved Daytona Beach -- Jacqueline Cochran, Aviatrix Extraordinaire -- Another Side of the War: Conscientious Objectors -- A Very Private Battle: The Seminoles -- War on Two Fronts: African Americans -- V-J Day: A Celebration to Remember -- Book Briefs

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  Forum, Volume 22, No. 2, Summer 1999

  Florida Humanities Council and Rick Edmonds

  Contents: From the Associate Director: Two Writers' Journeys Lead to a Common Path -- Introduction -- Parallel Lives -- Afterword