Once upon a time in Florida stories of life in the land of promises / edited by Jacki Levine ; foreword by Nashid Madyun.
| Other author | Levine, Jacki. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | 1st. |
| Publication Info | St. Petersburg, FL : Florida Humanities : produced by the University Press of Florida for Florida Humanities, 2023. |
| Description | pages cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction / Jacki Levine -- Part I. Beginnings. -- The First Floridians: They survived many millennia of a changing environment until disease and deadly conflict came from across the sea / Jerald T. Milanich -- Who Started the Myth of the Fountain of Youth? / J. Michael Francis -- The Real First Thanksgiving / Michael Gannon -- Uncovering Fort Mose: In America's First Free Black Town, enslaved Africans found sanctuary and liberty / Kathleen Deagan -- He Persisted: Francisco Menéndez escaped slavery, became a militia leader, and then did it all again / Darcie A. MacMahon -- How Seashells Saved St. Augustine / Michael Gannon -- Power of the Planter Class Rested on the Backs of the Enslaved / Larry Eugene Rivers -- Florida Gives Its All to the Civil War / Robert A. Taylor -- Part II. Florida Comes of Age: Promise and Paradox -- The Eye of the Beholder: Swampy hellhole or perfect paradise, travel writers have portrayed visions of vastly different Floridas / Casey Blanton -- Taking the Waters: For Victorian-era visitors, Florida held the promise of miracle cures / Rick Kilby -- The Florida Century: Through boom and bust this outback became a megastate / Gary R. Mormino -- Along the Backroads, 1930s: Remembering when Zora and I chased the vanishing folklife of Florida / Stetson Kennedy -- Dear Honey: Wartime life and letters of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings / Betty Jean Steinshouer -- When the WACS Came Marching In: How Mary McLeod Bethune and the Women's Army Corps rescued struggling Daytona Beach / Gordon Patterson -- The Mighty Orange Faces Its Uncertain Future / Gary R. Mormino -- Recollections of a Space Traveler: Former congressman and astronaut Bill Nelson shares the perils that lurked before, during, and after his historic mission / Interview with Bill Nelson by Rick Edmonds -- Memoirs of a Child of the Space Program / Andrea Brunais -- Florida's Fields of Dreams: How sports have boosted our fortunes and, at times, healed our divides / Steven Noll -- The Mouse That Roared Quietly: With secrecy worthy of a spy novel, Walt Disney set his sights on Orlando / Richard Foglesong -- How They See Us: The small screen portrays a Florida you may not recognize / Eric Deggans -- Part III. All Things Unequal under the Sun. -- Parallel Lives: Growing up in Florida in the 1950s and {ap}60s, two Floridians, one white and one Black, describe wildly different experiences -- Raised with Love, Schooled in Cruel Realities: In childhood, he learned the harsh lessons of Jim Crow and, finally, the power of being seen / Bill Maxwell -- A Sheltered 1950s Childhood, then an Awakening: All this minister's daughter knew was segregation, but slowly her eyes opened to the damage and the loss / Beverly Coyle -- That Summer of {ap}64: Martin Luther King Jr. and the fight for racial justice in St. Augustine / David R. Colburn -- Part IV. When a Deadly Pandemic Strikes. -- A Lesson in the Pandemic: Teaching our young daughter to cope when Dad was on Covid's frontlines / Nila Do Simon -- Part V. We Were Strangers Here Ourselves. -- Finding Florida: Out of so many puzzle pieces, how can you create one state identity? / Stephen J. Whitfield -- We Are Here to Enlighten, Not Accuse: A Seminole historian urges accuracy as Florida commemorates the Spanish landing / Willie Johns -- Observations of a Native Son: Former governor and US senator Bob Graham on the "Cincinnati Factor" and why Florida remains the "State of Imagination" / Ron Cunningham -- Operation Pedro Pan: Parents waved farewell in sadness and hope, as their children were secreted out of Castro's Cuba / Jon Wilson -- When Life Takes Flight: Thirty years after fleeing Cuba, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen made history in the US Congress / Dalia Colón -- Sweetness of Memory: Photographer Andy Sweet poignantly captured the waning days of South Beach's elderly Jewish community before his own life was cut short / Bill DeYoung -- What You See When You Look at Me: A Haitian immigrant meets her neighbors / Maude Heurtelou -- Part VI. This State of Inspiration. -- Finding a Literary Path Home: Learning to love Florida, through the writers who knew it first / Lauren Groff -- Many Voices from Afar: For 500 years, Florida's literary life has thrived on the state's complexity / Maurice J. O'Sullivan -- Echoes in the Wind: In search of the poetry of Florida's Native people / Maurice J. O'Sullivan -- Harriet Beecher Stowe, Florida Snowbird: Winters in a Mandarin cabin transformed her writing and sparked a tourist boom / Michele Currie Navakas -- Lift Every Voice and Sing: James Weldon Johnson's song for Jacksonville schoolchildren became an anthem for the ages / Craig Pittman -- Jack Kerouac's Florida Farewell: He found a fertile place to work but no escape from his demons as his road reached its end / Thomas Hallock -- Muse over Miami: How a hopeless kid from New Jersey became South Florida's "Queen of Crime" / Edna Buchanan -- Once Upon a Time in Key West: Writer Phil Caputo laments what's been lost and what still stirs his soul / Philip Caputo -- The Highwaymen: Painting fast and selling their dreamy landscapes cheaply, these young Black artists created a lasting vision of a Florida Eden / Gary Monroe -- Singing the Songs of Florida: A White Springs festival celebrates the elusive music that is Florida folk / Peter B. Gallagher -- The Great State of Rock: A star-studded group of Florida guitar masters electrified rock and roll / Bob Kealing -- Part VII. Roots and Rivers -- The Wondrous Gulf: How its bounty and its bluster have shaped the story of Florida / Jack E. Davis -- The Tales They Tell: Fish camps preserve the soul of a vanishing way of life / Charlie Hailey -- The Marvelous, Misunderstood Mullet: Tracing the storied past of Florida's least respected and most important fish / Terry Tomalin -- Florida's Deep-Blue Destiny: From the depths of a spring it is clear, we lose connection with the state's waterways at our peril / Bill Belleville -- Remembering Bill Belleville: His storytelling celebrates the mystery and glory of our state's waterways / Cynthia Barnett -- River of Grass: How a New England transplant came to champion and name an unloved but extraordinary wetland / Jack E. Davis -- Clyde's Quest: Neither snakes nor alligators nor giant mosquitoes can keep this photographer from his beloved Everglades / Jeff Klinkenberg -- And on to the Sea: Thinking of Uncle Cooter, on the banks of the river he gifted to me / Harry Crews. |
| Abstract | "Curated from the archives of FORUM, the award-winning magazine of Florida Humanities, this anthology presents 50 often surprising and always intriguing stories of life in Florida by some of the nation's most talented writers and scholars"-- Provided by publisher. |
| General note | Includes index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2023012996 |
| ISBN | 9798987660805 (cloth) |
| ISBN | (pdf) |
| ISBN | (epub) |
Availability
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |