Frontier Florida
Domestic history & daily life in pioneer days
Sunday, September 28, 2025
Against multiple odds
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This photo of Lawrence B. Brown is from the cover of the book 'From Slavery to Community Builder' Born enslaved in North Florida in ...
Thursday, August 28, 2025
Novice life, with no AC
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Vintage image of Benedictine sisters is from the Instagram page of St. Leo University. The post contains this and other photos of the sister...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2025
Keeping the lights on
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The Ponce Inlet Lighthouse is the tallest lighthouse in Florida. (Photo credit: Gerri Bauer) Lighthouse living has never been easy. Even bef...
Saturday, June 28, 2025
Wilderness hospitality
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Guest bedroom is furnished as it would have been in the late 1800s. (Gerri Bauer photo) Trading, fishing, guiding visitors - they were some ...
Thursday, May 29, 2025
Arthritis: Horse chestnuts, melted wax
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This 1927 article from The Independent newspaper in St. Petersburg, Florida, talks about diet as a cure for arthritis. Arrgh, arthritis. It ...
Tuesday, April 29, 2025
Popes: creating a second nature
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Pope Leo XIII, pictured in the January 24, 1902 edition of New Enterprise newspaper Pope Pius X, pictured in the June 9, 1906 issue of the P...
Saturday, March 29, 2025
Lenten rules of 1900: eye-opening
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Florida newspapers including the Tampa Tribune let readers know about Lent rules in 1900. Are your Lenten obligations becoming difficult to ...
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