Event Details
Saturday, Jan 27, 2018
The 47th Alafia River Rendezvous
Time: 9:00 am til 4:00 pm
Location: Homeland, FL
Description: Alafia River Rendezvous - The Florida Frontiersman Inc.
Do you love history, music, and good family fun? Then this is the event for you! In January each year, the members of the Florida Frontiersman host the largest living history event in the Southeast.
There will be vendors for food, primitive lifestyles, and souvenirs. Come and see fine demonstrations of historic skills such as flint knapping, broom making, cannon firing, blacksmithing, soap making, and weaving and portrayals of life before 1840. Enjoy a full program of music, featuring both locally and nationally recognized performers. There will also be specialized tradesman and general characters from our nation's history.
This annual event for the Florida Frontiersman provides many scholarships to local high school students as well as intensive learning opportunities during the event.
For more information please see the flyer or visit the link below
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FPAN is posting this event as a courtesy, we will neither be hosting nor attending this event.
Walk Tampa: Tampa Bay Black History Tour
Time: 10:00 am til 12:00 pm
Location: Robert Saunders Public Library, 1505 N Nebraska Ave Tampa, FL 33602
Description: Led by noted local historian Fred Hearns, you’ll tour “the Harlem of the South,” Tampa’s Central Avenue district. Learn about life in Tampa’s African-American community, from the 1890s through the late 1960s. This outdoor trek begins at the new Robert Saunders Public Library and explores the social, political, musical and religious traditions of Tampa’s Black life in Tampa.
History Center walking tours take place outdoors. Guests will walk approximately one mile. Pre-registration is required.
Tours meet at the Robert Saunders Public Library, 1505 N Nebraska Ave, Tampa, FL 33602
See link below to sign up or for more information
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FPAN is posting this event as a courtesy, we will neither be hosting nor attending this event.
