Maya Angelou and N. Y. Nathiri on Zora Neale Hurston

Episode Number: 
003
Mark-In Point: 
01:14
Length: 
17:09

N. Y. Natheri and Maya Angelou talk about the annual Zora Neale Hurston Festival held in Eatonville, which is the oldest African American municipality in the U.S. The purpose of the festival is to preserve and promote African American culture.

Subject 1: 
African American
Subject 2: 
Florida Authors

Cape Florida Lighthouse

Episode Number: 
004
Mark-In Point: 
21:26
Length: 
06:37

Miami historian Dr. Paul George and author Dr. Kevin McCarthy discuss the Cape Florida Lighthouse, which is located on Biscayne Bay near Miami and is Florida's oldest lighthouse and the oldest structure in south Florida.

Subject 1: 
Lighthouses
Subject 2: 
Historic Preservation

German POWs in Florida

Episode Number: 
004
Mark-In Point: 
15:25
Length: 
05:55

Rupert Methrot, a former German prisoner of war, discusses what it was like to live in a POW camp in Florida during World War II. 

Subject 1: 
World War II

Rossetter House Museum

Episode Number: 
004
Mark-In Point: 
01:11
Length: 
13:55

This program is about Carrie Rossetter and her remembrances of life at the turn of the century when she was a child in Florida. Today, her family home is a museum dedicated to life in the late nineteeth century and early twentieth century in Florida.

Subject 1: 
Women's History
Subject 2: 
Historic Preservation

Remembering the Freedom Riders

Episode Number: 
005
Mark-In Point: 
22:38
Length: 
07:36

Starting in May 1961, 436 people or "freedom riders" traveled from Washington, D.C., to the South to integrate travel in the United States.

Subject 1: 
Civil Rights
Subject 2: 
African American

Miami Mobster Meyer Lansky

Episode Number: 
005
Mark-In Point: 
17:47
Length: 
04:42

Retired FBI agent Bill Murphy remembers mobster Meyer Lansky living in Miami Beach during the 70s and 80s.

Subject 1: 
Crime

Revisiting the Windover Archaeological Dig

Episode Number: 
005
Mark-In Point: 
01:22
Length: 
16:02

FSU anthropology professor Dr. Glen Doran discusses the Windover archaeological site in central Florida, which has been dated to about 8,000 years ago. Ancient people who lived at the site buried their dead in small mortuary ponds that preserved the bodies and artifacts extremely well.

Subject 1: 
Archaeology
Subject 2: 
Native American

African American History

Episode Number: 
006
Mark-In Point: 
21:01
Length: 
06:22

Free African Americans arrived in the 1500s with the Spanish. Dr. Jane Landers has written a book on the subject, titled Black Society in Spanish Florida. Using Spanish records, Landers was able to trace the lives of individuals from Africa to Spain to North America.

Subject 1: 
African American
Subject 2: 
Colonial History

Florida East Coast Railway

Episode Number: 
006
Mark-In Point: 
13:54
Length: 
07:01

Bobby Noles remembers when his grandfather was a railroad engineer with Henry Flagler's East Coast Railway in Florida, which ran down the east coast of the state.

Subject 1: 
Railroads
Subject 2: 
Transportation

Mosquitoes, Alligators, and Determination

Episode Number: 
006
Mark-In Point: 
01:23
Length: 
12:00

The Brevard Theatrical Ensemble has put together a musical, Mosquitoes, Alligators, and Determination, that celebrates Florida Cracker culture.

Subject 1: 
Cracker Culture