Event Details

Meet Kaya, American Girl

Time: 1:00 pm til 2:00 pm

Location: North Port Public Library, 13800 S. Tamiami Trail North Port, FL 34287

Description: Come on out the the North Port Library on September 21st to explore the world of Kaya, Native American Girl from the American Girl doll series.

From 1 to 2 pm you and your family can try out crafts such as pottery making, weaving your very own blanket for your doll, making clay bead bracelets and necklaces, and braiding your own leather headband. You can also try some native Florida foods like Miccosukee salad and cabbage hearts of palm, and listen to some early settlers folktales! Archaeologists from the Florida Public Archaeology Network will also be on hand with real Native American artifacts and replica tools to talk all about the Native Americans that lived right here in Florida.

FPAN is participating in this event.

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Archaeology Talk: Ground Truth: The Notorious Dozier School for Boys

Time: 6:00 pm til 7:00 pm

Location: Selby Library, 1331 First St., Sarasota 34236

Description: Time Sifters Archaeological Society Speaker Program - Ground Truth: The Notorious Dozier School for Boys by Ben Montgomery, Reporter, Tampa Bay Times

Late in 2008, five elderly men -- former wards of the state of Florida -- stood before a microphone on the campus of Florida's oldest reform school. The stories they told about being abused at the Florida School for Boys in the 1950s and '60s, and about classmates who went missing, were enough to compel the state to launch a formal investigation into abuse and deaths at the school. But the Florida Department of Law Enforcement's investigation left more questions than it answered. Were there really only 31 boys buried in the clandestine cemetery on the campus? And how did they die? Ben Montgomery, an investigative reporter at the Tampa Bay Times spent seven years trying to answer those questions. He got the attention of forensic anthropologists and archaeologists from the University of South Florida, who used ground-penetrating radar and found there were actually 55 graves. Then they convinced the state to let them excavate the graveyard, to try to find the truth.

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FPAN is posting this event as a courtesy, we will neither be hosting nor attending this event.

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