Event Details
Saturday, Oct 17, 2015
Grand Opening! Weedon Island Canoe Exhibit
Time: 10:00 am til 3:00 pm
Location: Weedon Island Preserve, 1800 Weedon Dr NE, St Pete, FL
Description: For over a thousand years, an ancient dugout canoe lay buried under mangrove peat near a shoreline on Old Tampa Bay at Weedon Island Preserve. Since its discovery in 2001, archaeologists have investigated, excavated, analyzed, and conserved this ancient treasure. Now the 1,100-year-old canoe is on display at the Weedon Island Preserve Cultural and Natural History Center in an exciting new exhibit, "Navigating Tampa Bay's Maritime Past." Come talk to the experts from the Alliance for Weedon Island Archaeological Research and Education (AWIARE) and learn about this amazing discovery and how it expands our knowledge of the prehistory of the Tampa Bay region. The Florida Public Archaeology Network West Central Region will provide additional archaeological activities and fun for the entire family!
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Ybor City Walking Tour: From Immigration to Urban Renewal
Time: 4:00 pm til 6:30 pm
Location: TOUR MEETS IN YBOR CITY, AT NEW WORLD BREWERY, 1313 8TH AVENUE, Tampa
Description: Put your walking shoes on for a tour through time of historic Ybor City with TBHC director of marketing and former editor of Cigar City Magazine, Manny Leto and Sarah McNamara, Ybor City native and historian.
October is Latino History Month, so celebrate with us by participating in this educational and fun activity that focuses on Ybor City from the arrival of Cuban immigrants in the 1880s through Urban Renewal in the 1960s. Understand how modern day Ybor City and Tampa were shaped by peering through the lens of the Great Depression, the Spanish Civil War, WWII, labor organization and Urban Renewal.
Walking Tour sites include Jose Marti Park, the V.M. Ybor Factory, the Ybor Labor Temple, the Italian Club, and iconic Seventh Avenue, the heart of Ybor City.
Note: THIS TOUR MEETS IN YBOR CITY, AT NEW WORLD BREWERY, 1313 8TH AVENUE. CAPACITY IS LIMITED. PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. NO WALK-UPS.
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FPAN is posting this event as a courtesy, we will neither be hosting nor attending this event.
