2019 May – Community Project Grant Awards
Awarded $42,800 to eight organizations.
Sage Project Phase II: Hannibal Square Elders Tell Their Stories
Exhibit Runs: April 12-August 31, 2019
Hannibal Square Heritage Center (Winter Park)
The North Miami Project
Exhibit Runs: April 11, 2019 – August 30, 2019
North Miami Public Library (North Miami)
For the Love of Florida: Introducing Lindsey Morrison, FHC Grants Coordinator
As a seventh-generation Floridian growing up on the Gulf Coast, a love for Florida’s diverse cultural heritage and natural landscape runs deep in my soul. If you didn’t know where I was as a kid, you’d only have to look to the nearest longleaf pine forest trail, freshly built fort on a beach, or halfway up a large live oak tree, and there you’d find me! It is this love
Finding Shared Values
Today I want to say “thank you” to our members; a deep and sincere thank you for your support of the humanities and the Council over the years.
In The Early Morning Mist
What We’re Reading, Spring 2019
In this issue, Jill Rourke, head librarian at the Apalachicola Margaret Key Library, recommends two favorites. “Historical novels are a delicious blend of history and the imagination, peeling back time and space and often — through great characters — letting us view history through a slightly different lens,” she writes. “The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead blew my socks off! Whitehead envisions the Underground Railroad as an actual working railway
2019 March – Community Project Grant Awards
Awarded $35,110 to eight organizations.
2018 December – Community Project Grant Awards
Awarded $68,480 to seventeen organizations.
On the Steps of History: Florida’s Inaugurations
Exhibit Runs: Dec. 4, 2018–Mar. 10, 2019
Florida Historic Capitol Museum (Tallahassee)