2024 Public History Forum Schedule

FLORIDA HISTORICAL SOCIETY 2024 PUBLIC HISTORY FORUM
and the

TALLAHSSEE HISTORICAL SOCIETY BICENTENNIAL CONFERENCE

SCHEDULE
(subject to change)

 

WEDNESDAY, MAY 15

6:00—9:00 pm: Florida Historical Society Board Meeting (Pinewoods)

 

THURSDAY, MAY 16

7:30 – 8:30 am: Registraation and Bookstore Open/Coffee & Conversation

                                    (Coffee & snacks in Pine Barrens)

8:30—9:00 am: Session 1 (Ornate)
Welcome!

  • Ben Brotemarkle, Executive Director, Florida Historical Society
  • David Rahahe-Tih Webb, Opening Invocation and Land Acknowledgement
  • James M. Denham, President, Florida Historical Society
  • Bob Holladay, President, Tallahassee Historical Society
  • William Pope DuVal, Territorial Governor of Florida

9:00—9:30 am: Session 2:  (Ornate)
An Overview of Tallahassee and Leon County History (Ornate)

  • Bob Holladay, President, Tallahassee Historical Society

9:30—9:45 am: Break (Coffee & snacks in Pine Barrens-book room)

9:45—10:30 am: Session 3 (Ornate)
Wakulla Springs Archaeology (Ornate)

  • James S. Dunbar, Archaeologist, Aucilla Research Institute

10:30—10:45 am: Break (Coffee & snacks in Pine Barrens-book room)

10:45 am—11:30 am: Session 4: (Ornate)
William Pope DuVal and the Founding of Tallahassee (Ornate)

  • James M. Denham, author of “Florida Founder William P. DuVal: Frontier Bon Vivant”

11:45—1:00 pm: Florida Historical Society Annual Awards Luncheon, (Bricks and Brass)
(pre-registration required)

THURSDAY TOURS
(Off site for the rest of the day-ticketed event))

1:10 pm: Bus Departs from Four Points Hotel

1:15—2:15 pm: State Archives of Florida Tour

2:30—3:30 pm: Mission San Luis Tour

3:45—4:30 pm: Florida State Capitol Museum Tour

4:30—5:30 pm: Theater With a Mission in the Historic Florida State Capitol Senate Chamber

5:30—6:30 pm: Reception in the Historic Florida State Capitol Rotunda.  Enjoy open bar and hors d'oeuvres with live music

6:45 pm—Bus returns to Four Points Hotel

 

FRIDAY, MAY 17

8:00 – 9:00 am: Registration and Bookstore
            (Coffee & snacks in Pine Barrens)

9:00—9:45 AM: Session 5 (Ornate)

Tourism History/History Tourism

  • John T. Foster, author of At the Dawn of Tourism in Florida: Abolitionists, Print Media, and Images for Early Vacationers, and co-editor of  Calling Yankees to Florida: Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Forgotten Tourist Articles
  • Ben Brotemarkle, author of “Beyond the Theme Parks: Exploring Central Florida,” and “Crossing Division Street: An Oral History of the African American Community in Orlando,” Producer and Host of Florida Frontiers radio and television.

9:45—10:00 am: Break (Coffee & snacks in Pine Barrens-book room)

10:00-10:15 am Welcome to Tallahassee

  • Hon. John E. Dailey, Mayor of Tallahassee

10:15—11:00 am: Session 6 (Ornate)

The Florida Civil Rights Museum

  • Delaitre Jordon Hollinger, Founder
  • Jacqueline Yvonne Perkins, Co-Executive Director

 

11:00—11:15 am: Break (Coffee & snacks in Pine Barrens-book room)

11:15 am—12:15 pm: Session 7 (Ornate)

Challenges in the Search for Equity and Equality

  • Bruce Horovitz, author of “Justice Pursued: The Exoneration of Nathan Myers and Clifford Williams”
  • Michael Gengler, author of “We Can Do It,” inspiration for the documentary film “Bridging Troubled Waters: Coach Jessie Heard, Football, and Desegregation”

 

12:15—1:15 pm: Lunch on your own

 

FRIDAY TOURS

(Off site until reception at 6 pm    (ticketed event)()

1:30 pm: Bus departs from Four Point Hotel

1:30—2:30 pm: Goodwood Museum & Gardens Tour

2:45—3:45 pm: The Grove Museum Tour

4:00—5:00 pm: John G. Riley House Museum

5:10 Bus returns to Sheraton 4 Points Hotel

 

6:00—7:00 pm: Reception at Bricks and Brass: (pre-registration required)

Sponsored by Michael Gengler

            Enjoy hors d'oeuvres and open bar with live music by acoustic guitarist Ben Lougheed

 

7:00—9:00 pm: Banquet Dinner in Bricks and Brass (pre-registration required)

            Jillian Prescott Memorial Lecturer: Mary E. Adkins

“Florida Constitutional Law: Cases in Context”

 

SATURDAY, MAY 18

8:00 – 9:00 am: Registration and Bookstore Open

            (Coffee & snacks in Pine Barrens)

9:00 - 10:00 am: Session 8 (Ornate)

The Spanish Seminole

  • David Webb

 

10:00—10:15 am: Break (Coffee & snacks in Pine Barrens-book room)

10:15—11:15 am: Session 9 (Ornate)

Once Upon a Time in Florida

  • Maurice J. O’Sullivan, author and editor of multiple books including Have You Not Hard of Floryda?, Orange Pulp, and Florida’s Golden Age.
  • Lu Vickers, author of books including Cypress Gardens, America’s Tropical Wonderland: How Dick Pope Invented Florida, Remembering Paradise Park: Tourism and Segregation at Silver Springs,” and Weeki Wachee, City of Mermaids: A History of One of Florida’s Oldest Roadside Attractions.
  • Rick Kilby, author of Florida’s Healing Waters: Gilded Age Mineral Springs, Seaside Resorts, and Health Spas, and Finding the Fountain of Youth: Ponce de Leon and Florida’s Magical Waters.

11:15—11:30 am: Break (Coffee & snacks in Pine Barrens-book room)

11:30 am—12:30 am: Session 10 (Ornate)

President’s Roundtable Discussion

  • James M. Denham, President, Florida Historical Society
  • Bob Holladay, President, Tallahassee Historical Society
  • Maurice J. O’Sullivan, Immediate Past President, Florida Historical Society
  • Doug Smith, Past President, Tallahassee Historical Society

 

12:30 pm: Pick Up Box Lunch and depart on your own for the Tallahassee Museum

(Ticketed event)