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University of South Florida Scholar Commons FORUM : the Magazine of the Florida Humanities Florida Humanities 9-1-2009 Forum : Vol. 33, No. 03 (Fall : 2009) Florida Humanities Council. Michael Grunwald Peter B. Gallagher Jack E. Davis Jeff Klinkenberg See next page for additional authors Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/forum_magazine Recommended Citation Florida Humanities Council.; Grunwald, Michael; Gallagher, Peter B.; Davis, Jack E.; Klinkenberg, Jeff; Wilson, Jon; and Sullivan, Anne McCrary, "Forum : Vol. 33, No. 03 (Fall : 2009)" (2009). FORUM : the Magazine of the Florida Humanities. 49. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/forum_magazine/49 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., Michael Grunwald, Peter B. Gallagher, Jack E. Davis, Jeff Klinkenberg, Jon Wilson, and Anne McCrary Sullivan This article is available at Scholar Commons: https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/forum_magazine/49 NONPROFIT ORG. U.S. POSTAGE PAID THE MAGAZINE OF THE FLORIDA HUMANITIES COUNCIL 599 Second Street South ST. PETERSBURG, FL St. Petersburg, FL 33701-5005 PERMIT #2093 Lyrical, beautiful, and haunted by a sense of a place unique to all the world, the music and stories collected on this very special CD celebrate the people, the animals, and the places collectively The known as the Florida Everglades. EvergladesGathering February 12–14 and March 12–14, 2010 Florida has only one National Park, and it is the most exotic of all: the fabled River of Grass. Enjoy the beauty of this fascinating American landscape—and learn about its controversial history—at our upcoming Here is the actual voice of beloved smuggler Totch Brown crooning about his Chatham Bend island home—and here cultural heritage tours of the Everglades. is Steve Blackwell’s nostalgic ode recalling Brown himself. Join us as we explore the area’s diverse ecosystem and the history Ralph Martin, on guitar and banjo, reenacts the vigilante MEET OUTLAWS, POETS, AND OLD MEN OF THE SEA death of outlaw Edgar Watson. Boomslang Meade’s earthy of intriguing railroad kings, developers, and dredgers. Learn ON FLORIDA’S LAST FRONTIER. lullaby for the “River of Grass” evokes the spirit of this place. how the Seminole and Miccosukee people have endured in this Chief Jim Billie and Jennifer Warnes sing a duet of Billie’s unusual environment for hundreds of years. Hear the stories signature “Sawgrass Flower” love song. of fisher folk who persevere against challenges of government WHY A MOSQUITO-BITTEN PHOTOGRAPHER regulation and pressures of development. We’ll ride the waters HOPES TO CAPTURE THE SOUL OF THE SWAMP. THE FLORIDA HUMANITIES COUNCIL PRESENTS As inimitable as the exotic landscape itself, and walk the land with artists, writers, scholars, and also the folks this is the finest collection ever assembled who call the Everglades home. of Florida songs, stories, and interviews HOW WE CREATED AN ECOLOGICAL MESS— about the Everglades. AND HOW WE’RE TRYING TO FIX IT. Available only from the S, S, I Florida Humanities Council F E To order, visit www.flahum.org Agenda and registration details will be available by early November. To receive details as soon as they are available or to add your name to the tentative registration list, contact [email protected] or 727-873-2006 Watch for our neXT FORUM: Celebrating our Growing Support FHC thanks the following members and donors for their generous support. F R O M T H E D I R E C TOR 2009 Board of Directors letter (May 1–August 31, 2009) Frank Billingsley, Chair Orlando CORPORATE & FOUNDATION DONORS Brenda R. Simmons Elizabeth Bryan Linda Markley B. Lester Abberger Tallahassee $4,000+ Diane Stuart Judith Bryant Marty Miller, M.A., P.A. Suncoast Medical Center John Burkowski Kathleen Mayo Carol J. Alexander Jacksonville University Press of Florida— or many years, my image of the Everglades was a Road Scholars Lillian Vachon Cecily Cain Maureen McCormick Meredith Morris Babb Ormond Beach windshield-sized blur of wetlands as I raced along the Tamiami Thomas H. Maren / Linda Wooten Doris Cain Joan McKniff John Belohlavek Tampa Trail from Naples to Miami. My perception changed radically Emily Sabah-Maren Fund of the Maine WQCS Radio 88.9 FM Patricia Carlton Jane Mealy Community Foundation—PrimeTime Miami whenF I accompanied a group of Floridians to the Everglades for $75–$100 Cynthia Cavanagh Mel Fisher Maritime Heritage Society Rachel Blechman,Vice Chair Thomas M. & Irene B. Kirbo Terry Lyn Cherry Valerie Merwin William Carlson Tampa FHC’s first cultural-tourism “Gathering” in 1994. These scholar-led, Charitable Trust Lois Arntzen Jay Bushnell City of Fort Walton Beach Heritage Park Barbara Miller David Colburn Gainesville insiders’ tours of off-the-beaten-path destinations are still offered by $1,000–$2,000 & Cultural Center Jennifer Miller Office Depot Foundation— Central Brevard Public Library & Juan Carlos Espinosa Miami FHC today. Reference Center William Clark Glenda Morgan PrimeTime Pamela Coleman Pensacola David DeBatto Ruth and Robert Morrison Jeanne Godwin Everglades City served as our home base for the weekend. Clinging Pasco Education Foundation— Alison Cooper Teachers Center Shaun Donahoe Joanna Murray Norma Goonen Davie Susan Cooper to the edge of the Florida peninsula, this frontier town belied Polk Education Foundation— Walter and Iris Edwards Mark Mustian Jay Hess Miami everything I had come to expect from the Florida of Disney and Cape Teachers Center Juan Carlos Espinosa Jean Crowther Gordon Nelson Sheryl Davis Mary Anne Hodel Orlando Canaveral. As Pete Gallagher describes it in his article about Florida’s $500 Friends of the Port Orange Felicitas Ong Regional Library Lila Dawson Norman and Sara Palumbo William Jeter Georgetown Last Frontier, it is a town of “hermits, outlaws, old men of the sea, Saint Johns County Education Foundation—Teachers Center Angus and Wylene Graham Robert Donly Adlai and Margaret Platt Caren Lobo Sarasota good honest people…gator wrestlers, poets, poachers, all manner of William Hayes and Ronald Burns Karen Donn Nancy Pratt Darryl Paulson Palm Harbor ne’er-do-wells, scofflaws, and mentals mixed in with millionaires, MEMBERshIPS & INDIVIDUAL DONORS Wayne Hessler John and Marian Donnelly Dana Preu Barbara Hodges Sara and Peter Dubbeld Donald Pemberton Gainesville CEO’s, and MIA’s.” $1,000–$2,000 Jack Ratterman Judi Bludworth—Teachers Center Norman Johnson Betty Duffey Cynthia Reardon Steve Seibert Tallahassee Our weekend exploration led us deep into the culture and habitat of Jeanne Godwin Kingsley Plantation Dunedin Historical Society Eve Reed Jeffrey Sharkey Tallahassee the Everglades, providing a perspective few are afforded. Miccosukee Jay Hess Timucuan Preserve NPS Marilyn Eason Michael Reed Robin Krivanek Brenda Simmons Jacksonville elder Buffalo Tiger took us on an airboat ride to his ancestral home. William H. Jeter Ann Eifert Marya Repko H. William Kruse James Everett Margo Stringfield Pensacola $300–$500 Raymond Roberts and He told us about the Everglades of his childhood when fish were so Marilyn Latus Florida Sunshine Properties Laura Priest-Roberts Niara Sudarkasa Lauderhill plentiful they would jump into his canoe. Anthropologist Patsy West Alachua County Headquarters Norma Lockwood Branch Library Alice Friedman Marie Rodriguez Carol Mahler Jon Ward, Treasurer Fort Pierce showed us historic photographs of the Seminole Indians wrestling Carol R. Alexander Edwin Geers David and Susan Roe Anita Martinec and Robert Rader alligators and creating patchwork for the tourists who stopped at their Frank Billingsley Jenese Giles Edna Saffy and Grady Johnson Lilla and Anson Moye FHC Staff roadside attraction on the Tamiami Trail. We stood on the porch Edward Curley—Road Scholars Sam and Jean Gilkey Evelyn Sasser New Tampa Regional Library Pat and Susan Henry Tom Glaser Satellite Beach Public Library Janine Farver Executive Director of the Smallwood Store, overlooking a panoramic view of the Ten Joyce and John O’Neill James Mills and Peggy Sanchez Mills Molly Godley Regina Scott Barbara Bahr Technology Manager Thousand Islands and had no trouble imagining the world brought to Vernon Peeples Peter and Yvonne Pav Mary Gordon Mildred Sherrod life so vividly in , by Peter Matthiesson. Pinellas Public Library Cooperative, Inc. Laurie Berlin Director of Administration Killing Mr. Watson Jean Powers Soman—Road Scholars David and Carol Grantges Spady Cultural Heritage Museum Saint Lucie County Library System— Jim Graves Nell Spirek Carly Guidry Membership Coordinator Jon Ward Much like our Everglades Gatherings, this issue of FORUM puts a Headquarters Branch Nancy Greenlees Barbara Stampfl $125–$250 Karen Jackson Program & Fiscal Assistant human face on the unique ecosystem that writer Michael Grunwald Steve Seibert Barbara Gubbin Nancy Starrett Ray and Kathy Arsenault Monica Kile Special Projects Director describes as “not quite land and not quite water, but a soggy confusion Karen and Albert Smoczynski Mary Hallicy Carolyn Steele Alice Boylston Patricia Southward Technology Assistant Jessie Heasley Barry and Jean Steiger Lisa Lennox of the two.” While the Everglades is famous for its exotic flora and Jack and Maggie Bregger Jerry and Mary Standifer Lynne Heath Martha Stewart Susan Lockwood Director of Grants fauna, archaeologists believe it was also home to North America’s first J. Steven Brooks Nancy Stone and Mary Richardson Anne Hester Frank Stone Maxine Clayton Brenda O’Hara Fiscal Officer people—and later inhabited by pre-Columbian Calusa and Tequesta J. Thomas Touchton Sheila Hill Linda and William Taylor Adrian Cline Barbara O’Reilley Communications Director & Editor/FORUM tribes, runaway slaves, and the Seminole and Miccosukee Indians. June True Historical Association of Pierre and Shirley Thompson Sisco and Gloria Deen Amy Velazquez Southern Florida Sue Tihansky Patricia Putman Associate Director Jo Ann Engelhardt My drives on the Tamiami Trail are different today.