2012-2013 2012-2013 LECTURE SCHEDULE MARCH 14 Lecture Series Bill Belleville SEPTEMBER 13 LAWTON M. CHILES, JR. Nature Writer, Photographer, William McKeen CENTER FOR FLORIDA HISTORY Film Maker “Mile Marker Zero – Founded in 2001, The Lawton M. Chiles Center “Preserving a Sense of Place The Moveable Feast of Key West” for Florida History strives to enhance the teaching, in Florida: How Nature Shapes study, and writing of Florida history. The Center OCTOBER 4 seeks to preserve the state’s past through cooperative Culture” Andrew T. Huse efforts with historical societies, preservation groups, museums, public programs, media, and interested Award-winning nature writer and film maker “Florida Foodways” Bill Belleville summarizes himself like this: “I make persons. This unique center, housed in the Sarah my living as a nonfiction writer specializing in D. and L. Kirk McKay, Jr., Archives Center is a nature and conservation. I’ve authored six books, NOVEMBER 15 source of continuing information created to increase contributed to eight national anthologies, written Jonathon Sheppard appreciation for Florida history. over 1,000 articles and essays, and scripted and co- “Florida Soldiers in the Civil War” produced seven films. BOARD OF GOVERNORS:

JANUARY 10 “On assignment, I’ve traveled to Australia, the White Dr. James M. Denham, Executive Director Sea of Russia, the Galapagos, Central and South Cynthia Barnett Ms. Kristen Gunter, Lakeland America, Cuba and throughout the Antilles. Florida, “Mirage: Florida and the Vanishing Mrs. Mimi Hardman, Lake Wales where I live, remains my favorite place for its natural Water of the Eastern U.S.” Mr. Kent Lilly, Lakeland diversity and wonderful surreality.” Professor Walter W. Manley II, Tallahassee Belleville’s latest book is Salvaging the Real Florida, FEBRUARY 7 The Hon. Adam Putnam, Bartow which won the 2011 National Outdoor Book Award Tom Corcoran The Hon. Susan Roberts, Lakeland and is a collection that sheds light on Florida’s “The Trials and Tribulations of Dr. T. Terrell Sessums, Tampa lesser known natural wonders. In this collection of Alex Rutledge” narrative essays, Belleville explores the swamps and jungles of Florida, investigates a shipwreck and a historical riverboat town, and searches for native MARCH 14 wildlife such as the black bear and the cave-dwelling Bill Belleville shrimp. “Preserving a Sense of Place in Florida: How Nature Shapes Culture”

Lawton M. Chiles, Jr. Center for Florida History LAWTON M. CHILES, JR. 111 Lake Hollingsworth . Drive Lakeland, FL 33801-5698 Center for Florida History 863.680.3001 . www.flsouthern.edu/flhistory AT FLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE OCTOBER 4 SEPTEMBER 13 Andrew T. Huse FEBRUARY 7 William McKeen University of South Florida Boston University Tom Corcoran “Florida Foodways” Mystery Writer, Photographer, “Mile Marker Zero – and Song Writer Born in Chicago and raised JANUARY 10 The Moveable Feast of Key West” in Clearwater, Andy Huse is a librarian with the “The Trials University of South Florida Special Collections Cynthia Barnett William McKeen teaches at Boston University Department who researches, writes, and lectures Journalist and Author and Tribulations of where he chairs the Department of Journalism. about Florida food and foodways. As a food Acclaimed historian Douglas Brinkley has called him Alex Rutledge” historian, Huse understands that the way people eat, “Mirage: Florida and “perhaps the most lucid and imaginative professor prepare, preserve, and present food are important Tom Corcoran first moved to Florida in 1970. He has of journalism history in modern-day America.” He is the Vanishing Water of markers of folk traditions and cultural identity. been a disc jockey, bartender, AAA travel counselor, the author or editor of nine books, including works the Eastern U.S.” U.S. Navy officer, screenwriter, songwriter, freelance on Hunter S. Thompson, Tom Wolfe, Bob Dylan, Huse has traveled from the Keys to the Panhandle photographer, automotive magazine editor, Cynthia Barnett is a longtime journalist who has and the Beatles. Before pursuing graduate studies, investigating, studying, and savoring Florida’s computer graphic artist, and journalist. Corcoran’s reported on freshwater issues from the Suwannee McKeen worked on numerous newspapers and unique dishes and the cultural circumstances of their photographs have appeared on seven Jimmy Buffett River to Singapore. Barnett’s first book, Mirage, magazines including the The American Spectator, creation. Among the unique Florida delicacies he album covers. He co-wrote the Buffett hits “Cuban won the 2008 Florida Book Award Gold Medal for The Palm Beach Post, The St. Petersburg Times, and has praised are smoked mullet, Cuban sandwiches, Crime of Passion” and “Fins.” His photos also have Nonfiction and was named by The St. Petersburg the Saturday Evening Post. Minorcan clam chowder with datil chili peppers, appeared on numerous book jackets, including Times as one of the top 10 books that every Floridian Greek salads, deviled crabs, oyster stew, Spanish Thomas McGuane’s An Outside Chance, Winston McKeen taught at the from should read. Her latest book, Blue Revolution: bean soup and Key Lime pie. A frequent contributor Groom’s Forrest Gump, and William McKeen’s 1986 to 2010 before joining the faculty of Boston Unmaking America’s Water Crisis, calls for a water University. His recent book on the Key West literary to Tampa Creative Loafing and other publications, Mile Marker Zero. ethic for America. Blue Revolution was named and musical scene of the 1970s won the 2012 Florida Huse is also the author of the widely acclaimed by as one of the top 10 science In 1998, Corcoran introduced readers to Alex Book Award Gold Medal for Nonfiction. According The Columbia Restaurant: Celebrating a Century of books of 2011. The Globe describes Ms. Barnett as Rutledge, a Florida Keys freelance photographer, to Brinkley, “Mile Marker Zero is a wonderful zinger History, Culture, and Cuisine (2009), a social history “part journalist, part mom, part historian, and part in his first novel, Mango Opera. Six Rutledge of a book. Never before have the literary traditions of of Florida’s oldest and most honored restaurant. optimist.” the Conch Republic been mined for such gold nugget adventures followed including Corcoran’s most recent, The Quick Adios (Times Six). Corcoran also anecdotes . . . Every page sings a story worth a Jimmy Ms. Barnett has worked for newspapers and runs a small publishing company and markets his Buffett song.” McKeen is married and the father of magazines for 25 years. Her numerous journalism NOVEMBER 15 novels and books of his photographs, including seven children. He and his family live in Cohasset, awards include a national Sigma Delta Chi prize for Jimmy Buffett: The Key West Years, and Key West in Massachusetts. investigative magazine reporting and eight Green Jonathon Sheppard Black and White, a collection of stunning photos we Eyeshades, which recognizes outstanding journalism Florida State University can now imagine as the work of Alex Rutledge. in 11 Southeastern states. She earned her bachelor’s “Florida Soldiers degree in journalism and a master’s in environmental in the Civil War” history, both from the University of Florida, and ABOUT THE LECTURE SERIES was the recipient of a Knight-Wallace Fellowship In its 17th year, the Florida Lecture Series at Florida Southern Jonathon Sheppard is a native of Cross City, Florida, at the , where she spent a is a forum that brings speakers to the FSC campus who explore and a lecturer in the History Department at Florida year studying freshwater supply. Ms. Barnett lives in Florida life and culture from a wide range of disciplines State University. A specialist in Southern History, the Gainesville with her husband and two water-loving including history, public affairs, law, sociology, criminology, West, and the Civil War, Sheppard is the author of grade-schoolers. anthropology, literature, and art. The overall objective of the By the Noble Daring of Her Sons: The Florida Brigade series is to bring members of the community, the faculty, and of the Army of Tennessee (2012), a book that explores the student body together to interact with and learn from the human side of Floridians’ Civil War service on leading scholars in their fields. faraway battlefronts and at home. A popular teacher and scholar, Sheppard has lectured frequently to such All programs are held at 7 p.m. on the Florida Southern College organizations as the Florida Conference of Historians campus in Lakeland and are free and open to the public. and the Florida Historical Society.