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First Forays Into Florida at South Florida State College

Time: 3:15 pm til 5:00 pm

Location: South Florida State College, 600 W College Dr, Avon Park, Florida 33825

Description: For First Forays Into Florida, SFSC will welcome Archaeologist Dr. Jerald T. Milanich, professor emeritus at the University of Florida; Dr. Maurice O’Sullivan, professor of English at Rollins College; and Carol Mahler, local storyteller and singer-songwriter to its Highlands Campus on Thursday, February 21 to give a talk, as part of the closeout of the National Endowment for the Humanities grant "A Sense of Home."

During his presentation, Dr. Milanich will solve the mystery of the iconic engravings of the Timucua Indians involving Sir Walter Raleigh, English investors, a dead French artist, a live English artist, a prolific British promoter, the lost Roanoke colony, two French noblemen, and ancient Picts from the British Isles.

Mr. O’Sullivan will present “Have Ye Not Hard of Floryda?: Early Spanish, French, Portuguese, English, and Latin Accounts of Florida.”

The location of the event is the SFSC University Center on the Highlands Campus in Avon Park, Fla. The event is free and open to the public and will include exhibits, hands-on activities, and refreshments.

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Lecture: The Archaeological Past and Future of Egmont Key

Time: 7:00 pm til 8:00 pm

Location: Weedon Island Preserve Cultural and Natural History Center, 1800 Weedon Dr NE, St Pete

Description: Archaeology Lecture Series - The Archaeological Past and Future of Egmont Key
by Ben Bilgri, M.A., RPA, Archaeological Field Technician, Seminole Tribe of Florida’s Tribal Historic Preservation Office

Egmont Key spent most of its existence as an unremarkable, uninhabited sand island at the mouth of Tampa Bay, visited by the indigenous inhabitants of Florida only occasionally as a temporary fishing stop. But over the course of the last 170 years, this small landmass experienced an intensity of occupation that belied its sleepy early history. Variously utilized as a lighthouse station, a concentration camp for Seminole prisoners of war, a fortified military installation, and a wildlife refuge, Egmont Key represents an archaeological site with the potential to illuminate several different eras of American history. A fortuitous wildfire in 2016 allowed Tribal archaeologists to perform a preliminary survey of the island, and artifacts likely dating to the time of the Seminole internment were recovered. However, Egmont Key has lost more than half of its land area over the last century, and environmental threats to the island itself represent significant challenges for the future.

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