2006 Annual Meeting

NAPLES GRANDE RESORT AND CLUB

 

150 YEARS OF SERVICE

 

 

THE SESQUICENTENNIAL YEAR CELEBRATION OF THE FLORIDA HISTORICAL SOCIETY

 

May 24-27, 2006

 

WEDNESDAY

MAY 24

1:00—5:00 p.m.

Registration [Acacia 1 Foyer]

BOOK VENDORS SET UP

NOTE: Book vendors located in Acacia 1

DINNER ON YOUR OWN

THURSDAY

MAY 25

FLORIDA HISTORICAL CONFEDERATION

8:30 a.m.—5:00 p.m.

Registration [Acacia 1 Foyer]

 

8:30—9:00 a.m.

Coffee and Conversation [Acacia 1 Foyer]

 

9:00—10:00 p.m.

Acacia 2-3

SESSION I:

“Publishing Local History: Three Approaches”

Dr. Nick Wynne, Florida Historical Society

10:00—10:15 Coffee Break

10:15-11:00

Acacia 2-3

SESSION II:

“Florida’s Quincentennial Celebration”

Wes Singletary, Director

Discovery of Florida Quincentennial Commemoration

Commission

 

11:15-12:00 noon

Acacia 2-3

SESSION III: Educating Florida and Preserving Its History

Chair: Robert Gross, Florida Historical Society

"Andrew Carnegie’s Florida Libraries"

Adam Brooks, Houston Public Library

“Permanent and Valuable Schools” 150 years of Accountability, Achievement: The Governance of Florida Public Education

Virginia Harper, Lee County Public Schools

 

12:00 NOON-1:00 p.m. LUNCH ON YOUR OWN

1:00-5:00 p.m. TOURS

(These are free tours, but are limited to 25 persons per tour. Please register at the Registration Desk. Tour participants will be responsible for their own transportation.)

2:30 p.m.

TOUR ONE: THE MOUND HOUSE (239 Connecticut Street, Fort Myers Beach)

Overlooking the Estero Bay Aquatic Preserve, the Fort Myers Beach Cultural and Environmental Learning Center occupies a 3 acre Calusa Indian shell mound complex of national archaeological significance. The property is located at 239 Connecticut Street on Fort Myers Beach. The historic building housing the museum and cultural center is the oldest residential structure on Estero Island. Known locally as "The Mound House," the building served as the post office for Estero Island residents and fisherfolk from the surrounding bay, and was once occupied by members of the Koreshan Unity. Trees visible in 1911 photographs of the site are still standing today.

3:30 p.m.

TOUR TWO: THE MOUND HOUSE (See Above)

DINNER ON YOUR OWN

 

FRIDAY

MAY 26

THE FLORIDA HISTORICAL SOCIETY

8:30 a.m.—5:00 p.m.

Registration [Acacia 1 Foyer]

 

8:30—9:00 a.m.

Coffee and Conversation [Acacia 1 Foyer]

 

9:30-10:15 a.m.

Mangrove 1-2

SESSION 1: PLENARY SESSION

CHAIR: Dr. Robert A. Taylor, Florida Institute of Technology

JILLIAN PRESCOTT MEMORIAL LECTURE

The Struggle for Minority Representation in Florida, 1965-1990

Dr. Peyton McCrary

Department of Justice

Civil Rights Division

Voting Section

10:15-10:30 a.m. Coffee Break

10:30-12:00 Noon

Banyan 1-2

SESSION 2: Women in Florida History

Chair: Patti Bartlett, Independent Scholar, Gainesville

Gloria Jahoda’s Legacy as a Historian of Rural Florida

Mike Walker, The Savannah College of Art and Design

Kena, Eve and Zora: Women Wordsmiths Who Helped Keep Central Florida’s Past from Slipping into History

Joy Wallace Dickinson, Orlando Sentinel

Before the Marjories: Katherine Bell Tippetts and the Birth of Modern Florida’s Environmentalist Movement

Darien Cavanaugh, University of South Florida

 

Acacia 2-3

SESSION 3: New South or Old South? Florida in the Contemporary Civil Rights Movement

Chair: Irvin D. S. Winsboro, Florida Gulf Coast University

Fighting for Freedom: Jacksonville During the Civil Rights Era

Abel Bartley, Clemson University

Toms and Bombs: The Civil Rights Movement in Daytona Beach

Leonard R. Lempel, Daytona Beach Community College

The Civil Rights Movement and Desegregation in Lee County

Irvin D. S. Winsboro, Florida Gulf Coast University

 

Mangrove 1-2

SESSION 4: St. Johns River Settlement and Exploration

Chair: Ben Brotemarkle, Brevard Community College

Life of Florida Historical Society Founder Don Alonzo Spaulding

Joe Knetsch, Florida Department of Environmental Protection

Halcyon Days in Florida - The 1891 Explorations of Clarence B. Moore on the St. Johns River

Dan Smith, Fort Worth, Texas

 

12:15-2:00 p.m. SOCIETY AWARDS LUNCHEON

Acacia 4-5

Presiding: Nick Wynne, Executive Director

· Rembert Patrick Book Award

· Charlton Tebeau Book Award

· Patrick D. Smith Literature Award

· Caroline P. Rossetter Award

· Harry T. and Harriette Moore Book Award

· LeRoy Collins Graduate Essay Award

· Carolyn Mays Brevard Undergraduate Essay Award

· Samuel Proctor Oral History Award

· James J. Horgan Youth Book Award

· Marinus Latour Outstanding Volunteer Award

2:00-5:00 p.m. TOUR 1: Florida Gulf Coast University

 

TOURS 2-3

1:30-5:00 p.m.

Mound Key, Estero Bay

Kayak Tour of Calusa Stronghold

Two tours are free to Society members, but are on a first-come, first served basis. Tours will be repeated as necessary. Please pick up a map at the Registration desk.

 

TOUR 4

The Thomas Alva Edison and Henry Ford Estates. There are nine National Register buildings in this complex, along with botanical gardens. 2350 McGregor Boulevard in Fort Myers. Admission for Florida residents: $14.00

 

6:00—7:00 p.m. CASH BAR

Orchid 3-4 Foyer

 

7:00—9:30 p.m. BANQUET

Orchid 3-4

President Robert A. Taylor, Presiding

Recognition of Past Presidents

CATHERINE PRESCOTT MEMORIAL LECTURE

Keynote Address

Dr. Charles Joyner

Burroughs Distinguished Professor of Southern History and Culture

Coastal Carolina University

SATURDAY

MAY 27

THE FLORIDA HISTORICAL SOCIETY

8:30 a.m.—12:00 noon

Registration [Acacia 1 Foyer]

 

8:30—8:45 a.m.

Coffee and Conversation

 

8:45-9:30 a.m.

Acacia 2-3

SOCIETY ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING

9:30-10:30 a.m.

Acacia 2-3

SESSION 5: Diversity in Florida’s History

Chair: Andrew K. Frank, Florida Atlantic University

Broadening the Base in Broward

William E. McGoun, Bryson City, NC

Sunshine Shtetl: A History of Jews in Saint Petersburg, Florida, 1920 -1940

Jason A. Memmer, University of South Florida

The Call of the Missionary: Franciscans in Florida, 1573-1706

Albert W. Vogt III, University of South Florida

 

Mangrove 1-2

SESSION 6: The Roadside Pioneers: The Development of Early Roadside Attractions

Chair: Robert Cassanello, University of Central Florida

Gatorland and the Building of the Orlando/Kissimmee Tourist Frontier

Joel J. Slingerland, University of Central Florida

Transforming Tourism in Central Florida: Dick and Julie Pope’s Cypress Gardens

David C. Dinocola, University of Central Florida

Banyan 1-2

SESSION 7: Florida’s Historians and the Ethnic and Ethnographic Past

CHAIR: Connie Lester, University of Central Florida

The Historiography of the Second Seminole War: What is There and What is Missing

Francis E. Mahan, University of Central Florida

From the “Melting Pot” to the “Boiling Pot:” Historians and Florida’s Ethnic and Immigration Past

Patricia Buzato, University of Central Florida

Writing the Antebellum History of South Florida: A New Integrative and Comparative Approach

Lee Marmon, Independent Scholar, Naples

 

10:45-12:00 noon

Acacia 2-3

SESSION 8: Recent Florida History

Chair: Robert Snyder, University of South Florida

Beyond the Massacre: Bushnell’s World of Wizardry

Madeleine Hirsiger-Carr, Tallahassee Community College

South Florida’s Newspapers and the Cuban Missile Crisis

Michael J. Epple, Florida Gulf Coast University

Spring Break: Image and Identity in a Florida Rite of Passage

Meeghan Kane, University of South Florida

 

Mangrove 1-2

SESSION 9 Florida’s Oral History

Chair: Debi Murray, Palm Beach County Historical Society

"The Historiography of Florida’s Vernacular Architecture Through Oral Histories"

Mike Walker, Savannah College of Art and Design

"Crossing Division Street: An Oral History of the African-American Community in Orlando"

Benjamin D. Brotemarkle, Brevard Community College

Banyan 1-2

SESSION 10: Entrepreneurs in Florida’s History

Chair: Ted Burrows, Fort Pierce

"Voyage of the Alligator—The Story of an Ocklawaha Steamboat and Some of the History of the Lucas Line"

Dan Smith, Fort Worth, Texas

“Stack ‘em High and Sell ‘em Cheap:” James “Doc” Webb and Webb’s City, St. Petersburg

Pamela D. Robbins, Florida State University

END OF MEETING

Society Picnic at

Koreshan Unity State Park