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Florida Collection August 2018
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Perfect Together: Facebook & Genealogy
Saturday, August 4,
11:00 am
Auditorium
From document translations to connecting with family, Michelle Tucker Chubenko will show you how to effectively use Facebook without getting lost in your newsfeed or overrun by notifications. Michelle is a professional genealogist whose past work has included research for TLC's Who Do You Think You Are.This program is hosted by the Florida Genealogical Society in partnership with the Tampa-Hillsborough County Public Library.
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Sunshine in the Dark: Florida in the Movies
Saturday, August 11,
11:00 am
2 West - Florida History & Genealogy
Susan J. Fernandez is a professor emeritus of history at University of South Florida-St. Petersburg, and coauthor of the book, Sunshine in the Dark: Florida in the Moves. Join us for an informative 45 to 60 minute discussion on the history of movie themes in Florida. Learn how Florida has been portrayed over the years, both in an idealized and a less than desirable manner.
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The Corporation : An Epic Story of the Cuban American Underworld
by T. J. English
A multi-generational history of the Cuban mob in the U.S., written by the best-selling author of Havana Nocturne, examines the role of South Florida's exile community in building a criminal empire as part of a plot to reclaim Cuba from the Castro regime.
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The Gainesville, Florida Police Department : An Illustrated History
by Marc Trahan
The history of the Gainesville Florida Police Department (GPD) goes back to the mid-19th century, when towns like Gainesville were just being established after the Seminole Indian Wars and the Civil War. When many people began moving to Alachua County, officials realized they needed law enforcement, but it would take several decades before the department was up and running and able to combat the problems facing a frontier-type town like Gainesville. This is the story of how the department grew from just one marshal to a force of over three hundred dedicated professionals along with a civilian staff and a fleet of fast police cars, helicopters, horses, and even bicycles.
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Baseball Under Siege : The Yankees, the Cardinals, and a Doctor's Battle to Integrate Spring Training
by Adam Henig
In 1961, when the New York Yankees and the St. Louis Cardinals arrived in St. Petersburg, Florida, for spring training, neither team had any idea that a feisty physician was about to turn its world upside down. To Major League Baseball, Dr. Ralph Wimbish was just a black homeowner able to house the team's African American ball players, who were segregated from their white teammates—except on the diamond—during spring training. The laws in Florida, like the rest of the South, were dictated by Jim Crow. Major League Baseball had no plans to upend it. Dr. Wimbish had other ideas. Drawing on personal interviews, newspaper accounts, archival documents, and memoirs, Adam Henig has written a story that New York Postsports columnist Mike Vacarro and Tampa Bay Times’ Jon Wilson called “a must read!" A book for baseball enthusiasts that goes beyond the game, Baseball Under Siege (formerly titled Under One Roof) is an unforgettable tale of a little-known civil rights activist who risked it all to achieve racial justice in his city, in his state, and in America’s favorite pastime.
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Sunshine in the Dark : Florida in the Movies
by Susan J. Fernández
Florida has been the location and subject of hundreds of feature films, from Cocoanuts (1929) to Monster (2004). Portraying the state and its people from the silent era to the present, these films have explored the multitude of Florida images and clichés that have captured the public’s imagination—a nature lover’s paradise, a wildlife refuge, a tourist destination, home to the “cracker,” and a haven for the retired, the rich, the immigrant, and the criminal. Sunshine in the Dark is the first complete study of how the movie industry has immortalized Florida’s extraordinary scenery, characters, and history on celluloid. In the authors’ analysis of the films, which examines location settings, plotlines, and characters, they find a bevy of Florida stereotypes among the leading characters—from the struggling crackers in The Yearling (1946) to the drug-addicted con man in Adaptation (2002). Featuring more than 100 still photographs from movies, as well as filmographies by year and genre, the book is an encyclopedic resource for movie fans and anyone interested in Florida popular culture.Book Annotation
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The Sunshine Skyway Bridge spanning Tampa Bay : Spanning Tampa Bay
by Nevin D. Sitler
Of the more than 5,200 bridges in the state of Florida, the Sunshine Skyway Bridge, spanning scenic Tampa Bay, is by far the most famous. But the award-winning bridge that residents and tourists cross on a daily basis isn't the first to hold the Skyway name. Numerous versions of the current bridge have stretched across lower Tampa Bay, and each has its own remarkable history. Nevin and Ric Sitler detail the suspension cables, concrete, nuts and bolts and political battles that combined to produce the fantastic history of the Skyway bridges and other historic Tampa Bay crossings. Join this father-and-son team on their journey across the historic bay.
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