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Forum : Vol. 42, No. 01 (Spring : 2018) University of South Florida Scholar Commons FORUM : the Magazine of the Florida Humanities Florida Humanities 4-1-2018 Forum : Vol. 42, No. 01 (Spring : 2018) Florida Humanities Council. Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/forum_magazine Recommended Citation Florida Humanities Council., "Forum : Vol. 42, No. 01 (Spring : 2018)" (2018). FORUM : the Magazine of the Florida Humanities. 84. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/forum_magazine/84 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]. THE MAGAZINE OF THE FLORIDA HUMANITIES COUNCIL SPRING 2018 floridahumanities.org Our Fields of Dreams How a love affair with sports shapes life in Florida MEET THE WOMAN WHO INSPIRED A TICKER-TAPE PARADE DIGGING THE ROOTS OF FLORIDA SOUL HOW WILLIAM BARTRAM IS RESTORING THE FORTUNES OF ONE FLORIDA TOWN INSIDE ONE FAMILY’S MINORCAN COOKING TRADITION WE CAN TALK ACROSS THE DIVIDE Art Everywhere You Look Explore visual arts on Florida’s Historic Coast with a free itinerary on HistoricCoastCulture.com. Enjoy diverse galleries, public art and stunning architecture celebrating more than 450 years of artistic expression. Walking Tours | Folk Art Demos | First Friday Art Walk | More! Go to HistoricCoastCulture.com and click on the blue button: Plan Your Trip sjc295086_SpringForumAd-8.375x11_rSg.indd 1 2/5/18 11:36 AM Letter from the Director 2018 Board of Directors We gather from B. Lester Abberger Tallahassee Wayne Adkisson, Vice-Chair Pensacola Juan Bendeck Naples everywhere to build Frank Biafora St. Petersburg Kurt Browning San Antonio Team Florida Peggy Bulger Fernandina Beach David Colburn Gainesville Casey Fletcher, Chair hances are you were not born in Bartow Jose Garcia-Pedrosa Miami Florida. Only a little more than a Linda Landman Gonzalez Orlando third of us were, placing Florida Joseph Harbaugh Hollywood at the top of the list of states with David Jackson Tallahassee Cthe smallest percentage of native-born Sue Kim Ormond Beach residents. By contrast, if you lived in Thomas Lang, Treasurer Orlando Georgia, six out of 10 of your neighbors Linda Marcelli Gulfport would be Georgia born. In Alabama and Dabney Park Coral Gables Mississippi, more than 70 percent were Nancy Kason Poulson Ft. Lauderdale born in the state, and in Louisiana, that Sandy Rief Tampa number reaches 80 percent. Steve Seibert Audrey Ring Ft. Lauderdale It’s a lot easier intuiting your sense of place when you, and most of those Penny Taylor Naples around you, have for generations called the same place home. Michael Urette Tampa But perhaps we should not think of being a vast state with a large and transitory Glenda Walters, Secretary Lynn Haven population as a challenge, but as a strength. With our diversity comes a relentless lranetta Wright Jacksonville energy to recreate ourselves as Floridians. We are part of an ancient tradition of FHC Staff creating something new here. Floridians adapt and adopt. Steve Seibert Executive Director For decades, FORUM magazine and the Florida Humanities Council have tried Barbara Bahr Director of Operations to build an understanding of Florida — of its people, places, culture and history. Laurie Berlin Director of Administration Through the process of telling our stories of human experience, we better learn to Alex Buell Program Coordinator understand ourselves and each other. And isn’t that the fundamental goal of the Danica Kelly Membership Coordinator humanities; to tie us together and to the wisdom of the past? Lisa Lennox Web Admin./Prog. Coordinator My family moved here in the 1950s from Minnesota because Dad had a chance Brenda O’Hara Fiscal Officer to work in the area’s new aerospace industry. My folks adapted to this world of sand Patricia Putman and ocean and heat and growth, and ultimately adopted Florida — its food, history, Associate Director Keith Simmons literature, religion, music, and culture. They brought their significant skills to this Program Coordinator state and died as Floridians. You don’t have to inherit a sense of place; you can Tyler Tarrant Program Coordinator develop one. FORUM Staff And this brings me to the primary theme of this FORUM edition, Jacki Levine Editor Hometown Teams. Jon Wilson Communications Consultant Adopting your town often means you passionately embrace its teams. Ali Patterson Contributing Editor And as historian Steven Noll explains in his wonderful essay, there is a depth of David Meek Designer Florida history seen through the lens of our obsession with our hometown teams. And it’s not always football and basketball. In my Largo hometown, for example, To advertise in FORUM, contact: [email protected] we celebrated our state championship cross-country team and award-winning high FHC FORUM / Vol. XLII, No. 1, Spring 2018 school “Band of Gold” as enthusiastically as any more traditional sport. © 2018 Florida Humanities Council Here is the truth: A significant number of us are not from Florida, yet we learn The magazine of the Florida Humanities Council to love it here. We invest in this state with our time and treasure, with our hearts and 599 Second Street South, St. Petersburg, FL 33701-5005 (727) 873-2000 minds. The humanities, with all its reach and depth, can help us build Team Florida. Website: www.floridahumanities.org The Florida Humanities Council is a nonprofit organization funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the State of Florida, and private contributors. FHC FORUM is published two times a year and distributed to the friends of the Florida Humanities Council and interested Floridians. If you wish to be added to the mailing list, please request Steve Seibert so in writing or via the website. Views expressed by contributors to the FORUM We would like to acknowledge the generous support of the National are not necessarily those of the Florida Endowment for the Humanities and the State of Florida, Department of State, Humanities Council. Division of Cultural Affairs and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture. FLORIDAHUMANITIES.ORG SPRING 2018 FORUM 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS HUMANITIES A FLORIDA LIFE: INSIDERS’ FLORIDA: TODAY A CONVERSATION TALLAHASSEE News and events of WITH MARTIN A naturalist and author takes the Florida Humanities MARGULIES us on a tour of her Tallahassee Council, featuring the FORUM talks with with help from FHC’s free winner of FHC’s Lifetime South Florida real estate Florida Stories walking tour app. Achievement Award in developer and top art By Susan Cerulean Writing; new Bok Tower5 collector about his passion for8 traveling exhibit; new board transforming the lives of Miami’s members; a remembrance homeless women and children. of Dr. Sara Crumpacker; By Jacki Levine and documentaries and reading suggestions. 10 COVER STORY: LITERARY FOOTSTEPS: 14FLORIDA’S FIELDS OF DREAMS HERITAGE KITCHEN: THE RETURN OF WILLIAM 34A FLORIDA CULINARY BARTRAM From promoting a tourist boom through LEGACY tarpon fishing to breaking the color 250 years after the naturalist Meet a family of Minorcan barrier on field and off, sports continues wrote of the beauty of Palatka’s descent who have carried on to impact life and culture in Florida. wilderness, a group of residents their food traditions in the By Steve Noll work to make the area an same St. Augustine location for ecotourism center again. more than 100 years. By Ron Cunningham By Betty Cortina-Weiss 38THE SOUTH’S “MOTOWN” The roots of the state’s black music history are explored in Florida Soul, writer Jon Capouya’s new book. By Bill DeYoung 42 DECODING DEMOCRACY: STATE OF WONDER: TAKING THOMAS AWAITING THE MOMENT JEFFERSON’S LEAD AT DENNIS CREEK How to share civil conversations A look at the beauty of with those with whom we Florida through the eyes of ON THE COVER: disagree. photographers. Dunedin’s Crisman twins were part By Liz Joiner By Clyde Butcher of the winning “Peggy’s Girls” softball team in the late 1930s and ‘40s. Replicas of the team’s uniforms are part of the Dunedin History Museum’s local collection on display as part of the Smithsonian’s “Hometown Teams” exhibit touring the state. Photo courtesy of Dunedin History Museum. 46 48 2 FORUM FLORIDA HUMANITIES COUNCIL Letter from the Editor Capturing Florida’s unfolding story Jacki Levine t the risk of sounding like an Academy Gainesville has been my home since graduating from the Awards speech, I feel both amazed and University of Colorado, and it’s where I’ve spent my career at thankful to be writing this, my first letter The Gainesville Sun as a writer, features editor and managing as the new editor of FORUM magazine. editor for 14 years. And it’s where I’ve had the priceless privilege Amazed, thankful, and exceptionally of serving as editor of Gainesville Magazine since its inception aware of the gem that has been entrusted to me. almost 15 years ago. A Hard to say goodbye. But I strongly believe in the Florida My first introduction to FORUM came years ago. As I Humanities Council and its role connecting Floridians with flipped through its pages, I slowed down in surprise. This our diverse culture, traditions and history, and by extension, seemed a treasure trove, each page rich with thoughtfully told each other. stories of our state’s history, culture, life; of the deeper Florida It will be a joy to serve the council’s mission, through glowing beneath the surface of the more superficial version. FORUM, to tell the story of Florida and its people as part of an I am one of those “almost” lifelong Floridians whose incredible team of scholars, photographers, writers, designers, understanding and appreciation of my state has evolved over and amazing staff.
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