The Florida Spanish Colonial Heritage Trail is a 64-page, full-color guidebook highlighting more than 50 Spanish heritage and historical sites dating from 1513 to 1821. While St. Augustine and Pensacola are landmark areas, Spanish explorations and legacies are reflected in museums, forts, parks, shipwrecks, memorials and churches throughout the state. The publication includes color photos and illustrations of sites and artifacts as well as biographical profiles and historical . . . → Read More: Spanish Colonial Heritage Trail
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A Private Suite, Food, Drinks….. …..and a Historic Moment before the Repaving of the Historic Daytona International Speedway Saturday, July 3, 2010 6 p.m. $199 Per Person Cash Bar Available More information online at floridatrust.org/blog For more information and to register, please contact the Florida Trust at (850) 224-8128 or Online. For hotel reservations, please call the Bahama House at 888-687-1894 and request a special rate for the Florida . . . → Read More: FL Trust Day at the Coke Zero 400 A recent post on the National Trust for Historic Preservation website is entitled “Who is Creating Jobs in America?” Directed at the proposed elimination of the Save America’s Treasures Grant fund, the article provides a state by state breakdown of how the fund compares in job creation to the stimulus plan. Of great interest are the numbers for Florida that show that the grant fund creates jobs for a . . . → Read More: Who is Creating Jobs in Florida? The National Trust America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places has identified more than 200 threatened one-of-a-kind historic treasures since 1988. Whether these sites are urban districts or rural landscapes, Native American landmarks or 20th-century sports arenas, entire communities or single buildings, the list spotlights historic places across America that are threatened by neglect, insufficient funds, inappropriate development or insensitive public policy. The designation has been a powerful tool for . . . → Read More: National Trust’s 2010 11 Most Endangered Places Florida Conversations gives scholars and writers the opportunity to share their work with a general audience through a series of lectures on various Florida studies subjects. Covering subjects as far-ranging as architecture, literature, the arts, and anthropology, much of the appeal of the lectures is in their diversity. The Florida Conversations Lecture Series is underwritten by the Tampa Bay History Center Endowment Fund at USF with media sponsorship . . . → Read More: Florida Conversations Lecture Series I know all of you are as tired as I am of hearing all the gloom and doom about the economy. It’s Spring, the weather is beautiful and we should be happy. Unfortunately, that was hard to do when I ventured to Tallahassee a few weeks ago for Heritage Month activities. The legislature was in full session and there was nothing but gloom and doom. There simply is not . . . → Read More: TPI President’s Message |
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