University of South Florida Scholar Commons FORUM : the Magazine of the Florida Humanities Florida Humanities 9-1-2004 Forum : Vol. 28, No. 03 (Summer/Fall : 2004) Florida Humanities Council. Gary Ross Mormino Stetson Kennedy Michael C. Browning Martin A. Dyckman See next page for additional authors Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/forum_magazine Recommended Citation Florida Humanities Council.; Mormino, Gary Ross; Kennedy, Stetson; Browning, Michael C.; Dyckman, Martin A.; Williams, Carolyn; Burt, Al; Arsenault, Kathleen; Pacheco, Ferdie; Nolan, David; McIver, Stuart; Pierce, Robert N.; Bucuvalas, Tina; Davis, Jack E.; Arsenault, Raymond; Gallagher, Peter B.; and Gannon, Michael, "Forum : Vol. 28, No. 03 (Summer/Fall : 2004)" (2004). FORUM : the Magazine of the Florida Humanities. 37. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/forum_magazine/37 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., Gary Ross Mormino, Stetson Kennedy, Michael C. Browning, Martin A. Dyckman, Carolyn Williams, Al Burt, Kathleen Arsenault, Ferdie Pacheco, David Nolan, Stuart McIver, Robert N. Pierce, Tina Bucuvalas, Jack E. Davis, Raymond Arsenault, Peter B. Gallagher, and Michael Gannon This article is available at Scholar Commons: https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/forum_magazine/37 0r THEM !1A7Jn 1JI4WÔk1DA HUMANITIES CdUNCIL S U M M F R / F A LL 2004 T W I N E L$S11 UN FO RG ETTA BLE FLO RIDIANS HfffflhñftiS COUNCIL Exploring the Florida Experience BOARD OF DIRECTORS FRANK EILLINGSLEY, Orlando IAN CADDIE Winter Springs JIM CLARK Orlando DAViD COLBURN Gainesville JACK CROCKER Fort Myers KAThLEEN DEAGAN Gainesville Chair NANCY DECKER Winter Park ENA DIAZ Miami JON FISHBANE Naples JEANNE GODWIN Pensacola JUDY HALL Jacksonville Vice-Chair CARY HARDEE Madison SUZAN HARRISON St. Petersburg ROGER KAUFMAN Tallahassee KEVIN KNUTSON Coral Springs TODD KOCOUREK Tallahassee KIM LONG Naples LESLIE NORTI4UP Miami HOWARD PARDUE Tajiahassee CYNTHIA SAMAHA St. Petersburg HENRY THOMAS Jacksonville ELLEN VINSON Pensacola STAFF JMUNE FARVER Interim Director SUSAN LOCKWOOD Director of Grants ANN SCHOENACHER Director Florida Center for Teachers LAURIE BERLIN Director of Mminvstrarjon PATRICIA PUTMAN Development Officer BRENDA O’HARA Fiscal Officer KAREN JACKSON Program & Fiscal Assistant RENÉ RENO Program Assistant BARBARA BAHR Development & Information Syeterns Assistant BARBARA O’REILLEY FORUM Editor RUSS KRAMER FORUM Design & Production FHC FORUM I Vol. XXVIII, No.3, SUMMER/FALL 2004 to 2004 FHC The magazine of THE FLORIDA HUMANITIES COUNCIL 599 Second Street South, St. Petersburg, FL 33701-5005 727 553.3801 Website address: www.flahum.org The Florida Humanities Council isa nonprofit PLANT organization, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the state of Florida, and private contributors. FHC FORUM is published four times a year and diatrib used to the friends of the Florida Humanities Council and interested Floridians. If you with 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. ii - I ‘ci SUP’ Nib c/ All 2004 S Humanities Alive! News of the Florida Humanities Council 6 Hero Today... 0ur heroes change with the times, depending on our revisionist views - By Gary R. Mormino Grit and Greatness: Unforgettable floridians 10 Harry T. Moore By Stetson Kennedy 11 AlBurt By Michael C. Browning 12 LeRoy Collins By Martin A. Dyckman 13 MaVynee Betsch By Carolyn Williams 14 Totch Brown By Gary R. Mormino is The Crews Brothers By Al Burt 16 Lois Lenslci By Kathy Arsenault 17 Victoriano Manteiga By Ferdie Pacheco 18 Kat Twine By David Nolan 19 Guy Bradley By Stuart Mclver 20 Buddy Davis By Robert N. Pierce at Henry Ohumukini By Tina Bucuvalas za Marjory Stoneman Douglas By jack E. Davis 24 A. Philip Randolph By Raymond Arsenault 25 Chief Jim Billie By Peter B. Gallagher 26 Stephen C. O’Connell By Michael Gannon FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR WHO DO YOU THINK is Florida’s most unforgettable character? Few of our subjects That is the question we put to some of our state’s most distinguished schol ars, writers, and public servants. Their choices, which appear in this issue, can be found in are as diverse as our state. From "beach lady" MaVynee Betsch, who spent her early years as an opera singer and now fights to preserve her home of history texts. Most American Beach, to the controversial former chief of the Seminole Tribe, Jim Billie, Florida’s people are as colorful and exotic as the landscape. are not household A quick perusal through this issue will tell you immediately that you are not in Kansas-or New Hampshire or Oklahoma. A closer study will certain names. They are ly provoke questions about the connections between people and place.Just all, however, people what is it about Florida that attracts such a fascinating potpourri of unforget table characters? who left an indelible When Florida historian and frequent FORUM contributor Gary Mormino and I first discussed doing this issue, we struggled with how to stump on the frame this question. Were we looking for famous people? Florida’s heroes? Floridians with national reputations? In the end we came up with the word people who wrote "unforgettable." The ironic twist is that many of our writers chose to profile about them. Floridians whom most of us have forgotten-if we ever knew about them at all. Few of our subjects can be found in history texts. Most are not house hold names. They are all, however, people who left an indelible stamp on the people who wrote about them. In many cases these essays reveal as much about our authors, and their relationships with Florida, as about the subjects themselves. In his essay, Al Burt, a writer who has defined the "real" Florida for many of us, takes us deep into Moccasin Swamp to meet the Crews brothers, a hermetic two. some who cling tenaciously to a lost way of life. State folklorist Tina Bucuvalas, whose job is to document our state’s rich folk life, introduces us to Henry Ohumukini, a hula master, musician, craftsman, and advocate of Pacific Island culture in Florida. Veteran St. &tersburg Times political colum nist Martin Dyckman, one of our most astute Tallahassee observers, writes about former Gov, LeRoy Collins, the man the 1991 Legislature called "man of the century." A magazine consultant once told me the subject people like to read about most: other people. That comes as no surprise to any of us who have perused our supermarket magazine racks. Most of us know much more about Kobe, Britney, and J-Lo than we’d ever admit. On the other hand, most of us Floridians probably know far too little about the pioneers and plain folk, movers and shakers, and all the other history makers who have shaped our state, We hope this issue will begin to change that. -Janine Farver Florida Council Comings and HUMAN ITIE Goings... FORUM Wins Public Humanities Grants Statewide Awards FHC funds public humanities projects The Florida that bring together scholars with the gen Magazine Association eral public. Since its origin in 1971, the recently honored FHC Grants Program has awarded more FORUM Magazine with than $8 million in support for programs four statewide awards that help preserve our state’s rich cultural for excellence. heritage, promote civic FORUM won the fol engagement, and foster lowing awards in the "Thinking florida?" connections among category for maga Visit our website at humanities scholars, zines of associations: www.flahum.org for: cultural organizations, Best Special Up-to-date listings of FHC and community groups. programs throughout the state Theme Issue: 1st place, for "Sunshine Resources for teachers The next applica State of Mind"; developed by the Florida tion deadline for major grants is Nov. 6. Best Special Theme Issue: 2nd Center for Teachers Mini-grant applications are due by Feb. place, for ‘Music in the Key of Florida"; Announcements of scholar 20. To learn more about our grants pro * Best Feature Article: 2nd place, for led heritage tours gram and to download a proposal form, "South but not Southern," by John * Information on FHC grant visit our website at flahum.org. opportunities Shelton Reed; * Our constantly updated Best Written Magazine: 3rd place, Speakers Bureau Catalogue Road Scholars Tours for overall excellence. Highlights from previous FORUM magazines FHC has renamed and redesigned its FHC Receives ‘We the Monthly humanities radio Speakers Bureau. Now known as "Road People’ Grant programs Scholars," our speakers will continue to present programs about Florida history The National Endowment for the and culture to nonprofit organizations in Humanities recently awarded a "We the communities throughout Florida. 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