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The Apalachee Redux The Apalachee Redux The Newsletter of the Tallahassee Historical Society April 2019 | Volume 1 Number 9 April 11 Meeting When the Saint (Teresa) Goes Marching In By Bob Holladay, President Three weeks ago, Marjorie and I drove I couldn’t help but comparing what down to Apalachicola to see some friends I was seeing with the way this whole and enjoy some seafood. As we drove area was presented by authors Melissa down Highway 98 and passed through Farrell, Christina McDermott, and the various communities—Panacea, Emily Raffield in their groundbreaking Carrabelle, Medart, St. Teresa, and St. 2015 book, Saints of Old Florida: A James—we could see the continuing Coastal Lifestyle, part history, part family effects of last October: vacant lots where memories, part cookbook, that has been beach houses once stood, slash pines through at least three printings. St. Teresa piled up by the road or still standing but was not nearly as damaged by Hurricane leaning precipitously, piles of garbage Michael as other communities, but there and debris waiting to be picked up. In is still, I suspect the feeling that from St. James, we came upon a concrete slab now on, time is going to be measured always been a place, as Kathleen Reid overlooking the water, surrounded by either before or after last October 10. Scott wrote in Saints of Old Florida that five boats on trailers in the process of is “honest, easy-going and absolutely being reclaimed by Mother Nature; all The beach at St. Teresa is not very long, unpretentious.” It is a place where you abandoned. The road itself became more well less than a mile, and it has been probably wouldn’t notice or care if you difficult to drive the closer we got to East drawing summer residents since the didn’t have a TV, or a refrigerator, or if Point as road crews are just now getting 1870s as a place for Tallahasseeans to your shower was outside. As Farrell, to the repairs. Things may not be as bad enjoy both the water and seabreezes, McDermott, and Raffield wrote, “Old as they are in Mexico Beach, but the which helped keep the mosquitoes Florida is about slowing things down, whole area still seems in a state of shock. (and the Yellow Fever) at bay. It has continued on Page 2 Tallahassee Historical Society Bob Holladay, President Andy Wright, Treasurer Dave Lang, At-Large Mailing Address: P.O. Box 3723 • Tallahassee, Florida 32315 Marjorie Holladay, Vice President Doug Smith, Past President Claude Kenneson, At-Large Office: 1001 Desoto Park Drive • Tallahassee, Florida 32301 Nina Gonzalbez, Secretary Brendan Crellin, Webmaster Beth McGrotha, At-Large 1 staying put, being together and enjoying a simpler schedule with an increased amount of quality.” That is why, undoubtedly, St. Teresa is a place where a lot of prominent Tallahassee families have summered: judges and lawyers and the people who made the capital city work; a look at the family names on the mailboxes will confirm that. Our April 11 speaker is Ed Moore, one of those Tallahasseans who has spent a lot of his life at St. Teresa. Ed’s first summer (age 8 months) at St. Teresa was 1941 and he has enjoyed each summer since except for a couple of war years. His extended family dates back to the founding of St. Teresa. Over the years Ed developed a strong interest in the history of St. Teresa and has provided his Power Point presentation “A Short History of St. Teresa” at several different venues. St. Teresa is “Old Florida” at its most iconic, and as the state and our area faces dramatic and rapid changes, it is a relief to know that it is still there, even after something like Hurricane Michael. Ed Moore Y’all come! Tallahassee Historical Society is pleased to participate in Word of South, Tallahasee’s literature and music festival held at Cascades Park. On April 13 and 14, stop by the THS tent for a variety of historical programming! Please see our schedule below. We are also looking for volunteers to help on both days. If you can lend some time, please contact [email protected]. Saturday, April 13, 12:00 p.m. to 5:00 P.M. 12:00 p.m.-12:45 p.m. A History of Tallahassee in 45 minutes Dr. David Proctor, Chair, Dept of History, Tallahassee Community College 1:00 p.m.-1:30 p.m. “Brain Bowl” Tallahassee and Florida History Question Quiz for Young and Old alike 2:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. A Discussion of Historic Foods and Recipes (with samples!) Beth McGrotha, Tallahassee Historical Society 3:30 p.m.-4:15 p.m. Panel Discussion: Historic Cemeteries of Tallahassee and Leon County Matt Lutz, City of Tallahassee; Andy Wright, Tallahassee Historical Society Cheryl Dodd and Martha Ray, St. Johns Episcopal Church; Barbara Clark, Tallahasee Trust for Historic Preservation Sunday, April 14, 2:00 P.M. to 5:00 P.M. 2:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. Theater With a Mission, “An Encounter with French Florida, 1565” 3:00 p.m.-3:45 p.m. Anders Walker, author of The Ghost of Jim Crow and The Burning House. 4:00 p.m.-4:45 p.m. Panel Discussion: Historic Churches of Tallahassee and Leon County Lynn McLarty, Trinity Methodist Church; Terri Messler, Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church Cheryl Dodd and Martha Ray, St. John’s Episcopal Church; Dr. Reginald Witherspoon, Historic Black Churches 2 The West Florida Story and Our Part in it By George Allen A Word From Our Fearless Leader My Problem with Daylight Savings Time by Bob Holladay, President I don’t know about you, but as I get older, I miss that hour more and more in March when we spring forward. It used to take a day or so to adjust; now it takes at least a week. It also means that I do a whole lot of getting up, getting dressed, and going to school in the dark, which is kind of depressing. Though Detail of “A general map of the southern British colonies in America.” 1776. From the Library of Congress. probably not as depressing as it is for my students. Not only that, the extra hour of This may come as a surprise to many of you but this month marks the 200th daylight in the afternoon means I have plenty anniversary of the transfer of Florida by Spain to the United States. Now you may of time for yard work when I get home. I wonder why this is important to our family, and I am about to tell you. suppose I should be pleased with that, but somehow I’m not. Go figure. Nearly 250 years ago our ancestors in the Woods family (my mother’s family) My biggest problem with switching back and immigrated to the British Colony of West Florida. I discovered this amazing fact forth a couple of times a year is that I have to when I delved into the genealogy of the Woods’ family history and then later attended adjust my watches. I have a lot of watches. I’m an event entitled “La Florida becomes Florida USA” at the Governor Martin House embarrassed at how many. I started collecting here in Tallahassee, at which the anniversary was celebrated. old watches years ago from flea markets and junk stores because I thought they were There are two key family members who are involved in this story. One was Richard cool—they are—and because I like the idea Devall, who was a fresh-faced young Englishman living in England in the 1770s of mechanical movements that I could wind who was looking for a way to make money in the New World. The other family and keep going in perpetuity without having member was Elnathan Smith, a young farmer in Massachusetts in his late 20s, one to wonder if the battery was about to die. of our ancestors who decided to join an expedition to take over some land in West I’m not the only person with this particular sickness, by the way. I once heard the Florida in 1773. comedian (and now jailbird) Bill Cosby tell CNN’s Larry King that he wore a mechanical Florida was a true wilderness in those pre-American revolution days. It stretched watch, “because it needs me.” Whatever. from the Mississippi River east to the Atlantic Ocean and encompassed not only what we now know as Florida, but also southern Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. The problem with mechanical watches is The French had settled in New Orleans and Baton Rouge early on, but the Spanish that you shouldn’t just let them lie for long came in and took over the territory to add to their holdings in what is now Texas, but periods without winding them. Like all of us, they need to stay active. From that, it is then was just part of Mexico. a short step from wanting to make sure that In those years, the wars and rivalries taking place in Europe had more to do with they are keeping at least semi-accurate time. Which means that a couple of times a year shaping North America than did the people who inhabited the land. After all, we I set the time and wind them. All of them. were colonists and subjects of the rulers in England, France and Spain. Florida And what happens, by the way, if they are became a ping pong ball in the 18th and 19th centuries, bouncing from one country not keeping semi-accurate time? Well, that to another based on the settlement of one treaty or another.
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