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Looking for the Ancient People of Florida’s Central Gulf Coast

Time: 10:30 am til 12:00 pm

Location: Brooker Creek Preserve Environmental Education Center, 3940 Keystone Rd.,Tarpon Springs

Description: It has been more than 500 years since the beginning of the European invasion of the Americas. At the moment of contact, the people who had been native to the Americas were forever changed, and this change spread like a wildfire from the point of contact.
Who were the people living on the Central Gulf Coast of Florida before the moment of contact and how did they see their world? Join artists and storytellers, Hermann Trappman and Elizabeth Neily as they explore the environmental history of Florida and examine the archaeological evidence left by Florida’s first people. This event is sponsored by the Friends of Brooker Creek Preserve.

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Lecture, America Discovers Tarpon Springs: The View from Outside

Time: 4:00 pm til 5:00 pm

Location: Tarpon Springs Heritage Museum, 100 Beekman Lane, Tarpon Springs, FL 34689

Description: By Historian and Author Gary Mormino, Ph.D.

DR. GARY MORMINO is a prolific writer of a wide range of academic and popular books. Immigrants on the Hill won the Howard Marraro Prize as the outstanding book in Italian history. The Immigrant World of Ybor City received the Theodore Saloutos Prize for the outstanding book in ethnic-immigration history. In addition, two of his articles have received prizes for the best writing on Florida history. He has written for the Tampa Bay Times, Orlando Sentinel, and Miami Herald. He currently writes a bi-weekly column on state and local history for the Tampa Tribune. Almost two decades ago, Mormino began to research a social history of modern Florida. Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams: A Social History of Modern Florida was published in 2005 by the University Press of Florida. Readers have called it a seminal study in state history. In 2006, the Florida Historical Society awarded the book the Charlton Tebeau Prize. Dr. Mormino received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina and has taught at USF since 1977. In 2003 the Florida Humanities Council named him its first Humanist of the Year.

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