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Florida Frontiers TV - Canoe Archaeology

Episode Number
24
Program Date

  • Florida Frontiers TV - Episode 24 - Canoes

  • Steve Karacic, Florida Bureau of Archaeological Research

  • Franklin Price, Florida Bureau of Archaeological Research

  • Lori Collins, University of South Florida

  • Marine Archaeology, ships and Canoes

  • 3D Archaeology, Ships and Canoes

  • Carla Hadden, UG Center for Applied Isotope Studies

  • Julie Duggins, Florida Bureau of Archaeological Research

  • Laura Smith, University of Tennessee Laboratory of Tree Ring Science

  • Pedro Zepeda, Seminole Canoe Maker

     

    Canoe Archaeology: Hundreds of canoes have been discovered in Florida, some created as long as 7,000 years ago.

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    Florida Frontiers TV — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

    Episode Number
    23
    Program Date

    • Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings House

    • Judy Baker, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings House

    • Kevin M. McCarthy, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Society

    • Florence M. Turcotte, George S. Mathers Library

    • FHS Library, source materials

        

      The Pulitzer Prize winning author of "The Yearling" and "Cross Creek" is one of Florida's best loved writers.

       
       

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      Florida Frontiers TV - Mosquito Beater Memories

      Episode Number
      22
      Program Date

      • Mosquito Beaters

      • Speedy Harrell, started Mosquito Beaters with his daughter Wanda

      • Wanda Harrell Speir, member and founder of Mosquito Beaters

      • Charles 'Chuck' Reed, member of Mosquito Beaters

      • Charlie LaRoche, member of Mosquito Beaters

      • Gene Baird, member of Mosquito Beaters

      • June Geiger, member of Mosquito Beaters

      • Kay Nix, member of Mosquito Beaters

      • Old Cocoa Florida

         

        People who lived in central Brevard County prior to the post-World War II population explosion gather annually to discuss how life used to be in Florida.

         

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        Mosquito control
        Brevard County
        Cocoa

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        Florida Frontiers TV - Florida Historic Capitol Museum

        Episode Number
        21
        Program Date

        • Florida Historic Capital Museum (exterior front view)

        • Bruce Smathers, Former Florida Secretary of State

        • Tiffany Baker, Florida Historic Capitol Museum

        • Florida Historic Capital Museum (chambers)

        • Mary E Adkins, author

        • Senator Bob Graham, Florida Governor 1979-1987

           

          The Florida Historic Capitol building, once in danger of being torn down, is now a museum documenting Florida government from the Territorial Period to the present.

           

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          Florida Frontiers TV - The Future of History

          Episode Number
          20
          Program Date

          • Ben Brotemarkle - FHS

          • Julian Chambliss, Professor of History, Rollins College

          • Laurie Taylor, Digital Scholarship Librarian, University of Florida

          • Connie Lester, Riches Project, University of Central Florida

          • Scot French, Professor of Digital and Public History, UCF

          • J. Michael Francis, La Florida Digital Interactive, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg

             

            The Future of History. Florida historians and their students are creating innovative digital resources available to anyone with internet access.

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            Florida Frontiers TV - The American Revolution in Florida

            Episode Number
            19
            Program Date

            • St. Augustine Light House, Dr. Ben Brotemarkle

            • Brendan Burke, Maritime Historian, LAMP

            • Chuck Meidie, Director Maritime Research LAMP

            • Molly Thomas, Brevard County Historical Commision

            • Rogher Smith, Colonial Era Historian

            • Ship wreck

            • Divers excavate ship wreck

            • Painting - sailing ships

            • Painting - land battle

               

              The Spanish ruled Florida for two centuries before the British took control in 1763. The important role that Florida played in the American Revolution is often overlooked.

               

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              Colonial History

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              Florida Frontiers TV - Active Citizenship

              Episode Number
              18
              Program Date

              • Bob Graham

              • Chris Hand

              • Eatonville, Oldest African American Municipality in America

              • NY Nathiri

              • Art Deco, Miami

              • Social Change, Hillsborough County Florida

                 

                Grassroots efforts lead to historic preservation in South Beach, Miami, and Eatonville.

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                Zora Neale Hurston
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                Florida Frontiers TV - The Legacy of Harry T. Moore

                Episode Number
                17
                Program Date

                • Harry T. & Harriette V. Moore Memorial Park Brevard County

                • Ben Green, Author, Before His Time: The Untold Story of Harry T. Moore, America's First Civil Rights Martyr

                • William 'Bill' Bary - President, Harry T. and Harriette V. Moore Cultural Complex

                • Evangeline Moore, daughter of Harry T. Moore

                • Integrated Voting

                   

                  A look at the life of educator and activist Harry T. Moore and his wife Harriette, the first martyrs of the contemporary civil rights movement.

                   

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                  Florida Frontiers TV - Pre-Columbian Contact

                  Episode Number
                  16
                  Program Date

                  • Screenshot of Mayan architiecture

                  • Keith Ashley is Coordinator of Research at the Archaeology Laboratory and an adjunct in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology for Univerisity of North Florida

                  • Screenshot of Native American Settlement

                  • Sandra Starr, former senior researcher at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of the American Indian

                  • Screenshot of an archaeological dig

                  • Jerald T. Milanich is an American anthropologist and archaeologist, specializing in Native American culture in Florida.

                     

                    People from as far away as the American Midwest visited Florida long before Europeans arrived. The ancient Maya may have come here, too.

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                    Florida Frontiers TV - Documenting Florida Nature

                    Episode Number
                    15
                    Program Date

                    • Painting of William Bartrom in canoe by Jackson

                    • J. D. Sutton as William Barton

                    • J. D. Sutton discussing William Barton

                    • Ben Dibiase discussing Plume Trade

                    • Audubon Painting

                    • Clyde Butcher, photographer

                       

                      Florida nature as seen by naturalist William Bartram in the 1770s, ornithologist, naturalist, and painter John James Audubon in the 1830s, and wilderness and landscape photographer Clyde Butcher since the 1980s.

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