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Forum : Vol. 27, No. 03 (Fall : 2003) University of South Florida Scholar Commons FORUM : the Magazine of the Florida Humanities Florida Humanities 9-1-2003 Forum : Vol. 27, No. 03 (Fall : 2003) Florida Humanities Council. Stephen J. Whitfield John Shelton Reed Kristin G. Congdon Robert L. Stone See next page for additional authors Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/forum_magazine Recommended Citation Florida Humanities Council.; Whitfield, Stephen J.; Reed, John Shelton; Congdon, Kristin G.; Stone, Robert L.; Davis, Jack E.; Curl, Donald W.; and Bucuvalas, Tina, "Forum : Vol. 27, No. 03 (Fall : 2003)" (2003). FORUM : the Magazine of the Florida Humanities. 13. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/forum_magazine/13 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Florida Humanities at Scholar Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in FORUM : the Magazine of the Florida Humanities by an authorized administrator of Scholar Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Authors Florida Humanities Council., Stephen J. Whitfield, John Shelton Reed, Kristin G. Congdon, Robert L. Stone, Jack E. Davis, Donald W. Curl, and Tina Bucuvalas This article is available at Scholar Commons: https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/forum_magazine/13 A S UNSHINE STATE OF MIND Florida’s Place in I American Culture r FLORIDA * Lefter Humanfties FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR COUNCIL 30 Years ofExploring theFlorida Experience THIS ISSUE OF FORUM will serve as a text for a conference exploring BOARD OF DIRECTORS Florida’s identity and its place in America. It’s about time. When I studied American history as a youngster, I learned about the set KATHLEEN DEAGAN, Gainesville, Chair IAN CADDIE Winter Springs tling of the Pilgrims, the establishment of Jamestown, and the DAVID COLBURN Gainesville development of New England. I learned that brave men and JACK CROCKER Fort Myers NANCY DECKER Winter Park women from England, searching for religious freedom, came to a ENA DIAZ Miami strange land, built communities while fighting hostile Indians, JON FISHBANE Naples JEANNE GODWIN Pensacola gained independence, and established a democracy. Then they JUDY HALL Jacksonville moved inexorably westward, fulfilling a "manifest destiny." Any CARY HARDEE Madison SUZAN HARRISON St. Petersburg other narratives were more or less footnotes to this main text. FRANK HELSOM Fort Lauderdale Thus it was that I learned little or nothing about the native peoples who ROGER KAUFMAN Tallahassee KEVIN KNUTSON Coral Springs lived here for millennia before the Europeans came. I learned nothing about TODD KOCOUREK TaBahassee the diverse Hispanic or African-American experiences. And, of course, I SHEILA McDEVITr Tampa CYNTHIA SAMAHA St. Petersburg learned nothing about the story of Florida-which, if told in its entirety, HENRY THOMAS Jacksonville would have included native peoples, Hispanics, Africans, and a cross-section ELLEN VINSON Pensacola of much of the rest of the world’s cultures. It Just didn’t fit into the major STAFF story. In fact, it still isn’t part of the story, although our history now includes FRANCINE CURRO CARY Executive Director many narratives and multiple voices, much more so than when I first learned JANINE FARVER Associate Director about it. Still, these narratives are not integrated into a larger vision of an SUSAN LOCKWOOD Director of Grants DAVID REDDY Resource Center Director American story that we all can share. ANN SCHOENACHER Program Coordinator The Florida part of the American story raises lots of interesting issues and LAURIE BERLIN Director of Administration PATRICIA PUTMAN Development Officer questions-about cultural encounters, migrant and immigrant communities, JULIE HENRY-MATUS Teacher Center Coordinator and complex social relations among people from diverse origins; about the KAREN JACKSON Program Assistant RENE RENO Program Assistant relationship between our natural and developed environments; and about how history is reconstructed and told. It matters who tells the story, of BARBARA O’REILLEY FORUM Editor RUSS KRAMER FORUM Design & Production course, because that determines the perspective, the point of view, and the information that is deemed worthy of inclusion. FHC FORUM / Vol. XXVII, No. Ill, FALL 2003 © 2003 FHC Just where does Florida belong in the story of America? That is the ques The magazine of tion posed to some of our best scholars, writers, and thinkers at the confer THE FLORIDA HUMANITIES COUNCIL 599 Second Street South, St. Petersburg, FL 3370 1-5005 ence, October 16-18 at USF-St. Petersburg, entitled "A Sunshine State of 727 553-3801 Mind: Florida’s Place in American Culture." Read on as they examine Website address: www.flahum.org Florida’s distinctive contributions in such areas as art, architecture, litera The Florida Humanities Council is a nonprofit organization, funded by the National Endowment for the ture, music, and food. And join us at the conference for lively discussions of Humanities, the state of Florida, and private contributors. FHC FORUM is published four times a year and distrib these and other aspects of our state’s heritage. uted to the friends of the Florida Humanities Council and interested Floridians. If you wish to be added to the mail ing list, please request so in writing. Views expressed by contributors to the FORUM are not necessarily those of the Florida Humanities Council. Contents FALL 2003 4 Humanities Alive! News of the Florida Humanities Council 6 Florida’s Elusive Identity Does our state, with all its diversity, have one distinctive culture? By Stephen J. Whitfield 10 South-but not ‘Southern’ Way down upon the Suwannee, there’s a Caribbean nation? By John Shelton Reed 14 Culture of Color and Contrasts From gator heads to fiddlers, palaces to dreamscapes, grits to Hemingway-Florida’s got it all. Our writers highlight developments in Florida’s art, music, literature, environment, architecture, and cuisine: 14 Art: A Creative Mix of Visions Lots of images that don’t tell any one story By Kristin G. Congdon 18 Folk Music: From Sacred to Salsa Rooted in centuries past-and plunging into the future By Robert L. Stone 22 Literature: Many Voices Thrive A complex collision of writing and culture By Maurice O’Sullivan 26 Environment: Pilfering Wildlife Nature suffers at the hands of humans By jack E. Davis 30 Architecture: Fanciful Fantasies Mediterranean style promises pleasure in paradise By Donald W. Curl 34 Cuisine: Food with Attitude Homegrown ingredients fixed with international flair By Tina Bucuvalas We would like to thank Mark I. Greenberg, director, USF Florida Studies Center for helping us to develop and edit this issue of FORUM. On the cover: Photoillustration by Russ Kramer Florida Council HUMANITIE S "Florida Stories: American Stories" The Florida Humanities Council 30th Anniversary Chautauqua Tour To celebrate 30 years of "exploring the Florida experience," FHC presents a Chautauqua Tour: "Florida Stories-American Stories." This living-history adventure will thrill audiences with performances and dis cussions by scholar/actors who speak in the actual words of historical characters. This tour revives the great tradition of the Chautauqua Movement, a popular form of adult continuing education during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. During the FHC left right: three-day Chautauqua celebration, you’ll Representatives from organizations that received grants are to Jon Ward and Philip Steel St. Lucie Cultural Affairs Council, Sally Watt Nathan B. meet the principal framer of the Declaration Stubblefield Foundation, John Scolaro Valencia Community College, Kristin of Independence, Thomas Jefferson; one of Congdon University of Central Florida, Kim Tanzer University of Florida, Susan America’s chief abolitionists and the author Lockwood FHC, and Andrew Matson University of South Florida. of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe; educator, author, poet, civil-rights FHC Awards Grants activist, and diplomat, James Weldon Johnson; former First Lady, journalist, and The board of directors of FHC recently awarded more than $100,000 in grants to ambassador, Eleanor Roosevelt; Pulitzer nonprofit organizations to develop public humanities programs: Prize-winning author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, who introduced Florida Crackers Nathan B. Stubblefield Foundation $10,000 Back Roads Radio Project to the world in her book, The Yearling; Community Design Center Virtual and Walking Heritage Tour anthropologist, folklorist, and author of Their $7,700 Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Florida Cultural Resources $20,000 Voices of Florida Radio Series Hurston; and educator, activist Mary McLeod Bethune. University of Central Florida $13,000 Florida’s Cultural Story Schedule: St. Lucie County Cultural $24,703 Net Loss: A Florida Fishing Family Panama City: Sept. 18-20 Arts Council Contact Debbie Glick at dglick@panamac itydowntown.com or 850-785-2554 Valencia Community College $25,000 The Prometheus Project DeFuniak Springs: Sept. 19-20 Contact Cynthia Roehm at roehm [email protected] or 850-892-9494 DeLand: Oct. 15-17 Two Mayors, Two Historians Contact Taver B. Cornett at taver@main Discuss Two Cities streetdeland.com or 386-738-0649 Mount Dora: Oct. 16-18 FHC’s first annual Contact the Mount Dora Chamber of Humanities Awards Program, Commerce at 352-383-2165 "A Tale of Two Cities," will New Port Richey: Oct. 22-24 feature Mayor Pam lorio of Contact Paul Szuch at [email protected] or Tampa and Mayor Rick Baker 727-816-3490 of St. Petersburg. Florida his Dunedin: Oct. 23-25 torians Ray Arsenault and Contact Liz White at Gary Mormino will join the [email protected] mayors for a lively look at the Lake Wales: Nov. 12-14 histories of these sister cities. Contact Tina Peak at [email protected] The program will take place or [email protected] or 863- at the St. Petersburg Museum 678-4004 of History on Friday, October Plant City: Nov. 13-IS 17 at 7:00 p.m. A reception Contact Anne Haywood at ahay will precede the event. [email protected] or 813- Reservations are required. 757-92 15 Call 727 553-3810.
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