Society & Culture

"There are so few of us here yet that take an interest in Church work that it comes very hard on the few."

- Lucy Mead Parce, November 1881 

Source: "The Parce Letters, Voices From the Past"

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Society & Culture blog posts

2024

• 10.29.2024 - Quilt revival had Florida flair
• 08.29.2024 - Society columns: social media of 1920s
• 03.30.2024 - Don Cesar: Against the odds
• 01.30.2024 - Punta Rassa: Small size, big history

2023

• 12.29.2023 - Unusual 1895 travel memoir
• 09.28.2023 - Read between the lines
• 08.29.2023 - A tug, a grunt, a hope for the best
• 07.29.2023 - All those miles of canals
• 05.30.2023 - First car in Florida?

2022

• 04.29.2022 - Melancholy a depressing subject
• 03.29.2022 - Health landscape was no picnic
• 01.28.2022 - Digging up the past

2021

• 12.27.2021 - In past, pregnant & unwed spelled doom
• 11.28.2021 - What's normal? Depends
• 10.30.2021 - Solitude walked with pioneers
• 06.28.2021 - Here's to unsung pioneer heroines
• 01.30.2021 - People and places, north and south

2020

• 12.27.2020 - 1920 little better than 2020
• 11.29.2020 - Little House on the Florida frontier, revisited
• 10.28.2020 - Cassadaga, Spiritualism, and Purgatory
• 05.30.2020 - Time to revive and revise the art of calling
• 03.25.2020 - Florida, 1918 Spanish flu, and coronavirus
• 01.27.2020 - Progress steamrolled sacred grounds

2019

• 11.24.2019 - In search of Dr. Annie Mae Walker
• 10.30.2019 - Ma Barker haunts Florida house
• 05.29.2019 - From the mundane to the weird
• 04.29.2019 - Manhattan in Florida

2018

• 09.28.2018 - Set aside the labels, share some Spehovka
• 08.27.2018 - First Florida woman voted in 1915
• 03.30.2018 - Relic road was modern marvel
• 02.25.2018 - One-stop shopping of yore
• 01.31.2018 - Of life, death, and loss of a loved one

2017

• 12.28.2017 - Modern parallel to sad chapter
• 11.26.2017 - WPA guidebook dishes up tasty tidbits
• 08.31.2017 - A game of el riquito, anyone?
• 07.31.2017 - Florida a haven for writers
• 06.30.2017 - Little House on the Florida frontier
• 05.29.2017 - School days - so distant, so near
• 04.29.2017 - Oupost, outlaw, island a unique mix
• 03.31.2017 - The first magic kingdom?
• 03.12.2017 - School site echoes a vibrant past
• 02.27.2017 - Gifted photographer a mystery man
• 01.31.2017 - Racing through layers of history
• 01.13.2017 - Amish pioneered in Florida

2016

• 11.16.2016 - 'Walk Florida' history, by app
• 10.29.2016 - What celebrity looked like in 1888
• 08.31.2016 - Small museums preserve local lore
• 07.17.2016 - Summer: salubrious or just plain hot?
• 06.29.2016 - What a difference 25 years makes
• 05.16.2016 - Smell the salt air, feel the ocean breeze
• 04.30.2016 - Florida sojourner: Constance Fenimore Woolson

2015

• 12.06.2015 - Green Christmas a hard sell
• 11.26.2015 - Giving thanks at table and pew
• 09.27.2015 - Stitching lives together
• 09.13.2015 - Off to work we go
• 07.30.2015 - A glimpse of 1880s luxury
• 07.15.2015 - Blue suns and hollow earths
• 05.31.2015 - Nothing counterfeit about Florida
• 04.22.2015 - Dressed for success
• 02.22.2015 - Passing the time
• 02.07.2015 - Looking for hidden histories
• 01.19.2015 - Faith, stronger than greed
• 01.06.2015 - The superior, extraordinary fair

2014

• 12.26.2014 - Snippets of Christmas past
• 12.15.2014 - Hair: The long and short of it
• 11.16.2014 - Slowing down with a horse and buggy
• 09.18.2014 - Campaigning through Florida, 1888 style
• 08.04.2014 - Old books yield more than printed pages, without fail