Imagining Florida: History and Myth in the Sunshine State
Exhibit Runs: Nov. 13, 2018–Mar. 24, 2019
Boca Raton Museum of Art (Boca Raton)
Lay of the Land: The Art of Florida’s Cattle Culture
Exhibit Runs: Dec. 11, 2018–Apr. 14, 2019
Albin Polasek Museum & Sculpture Gardens (Winter Park)
For the love of… pickleball?
Florida seniors are not just watching sports, they’re playing in ever-greater numbers By Jon Wilson THE VILLAGES — Pickleball. Come on, is that a serious sport? In a word: Very. But what a name. More on that in a minute. First, consider the racket game’s prodigious popularity. The Sports and Fitness Industry Association estimates up to 2.8 million people play nationwide. In The Villages, a central Florida retirement community, thousands
Celebrating the power of the word
Words, carefully chosen and placed in the right order, convey who we are and what we value. It is no surprise that literature, poetry, and the study of languages are considered essential humanities studies.
Discovering the heart of Tallahassee
On a bitter January night in 1982, I motored north from Gainesville to begin a new life and a dream job in Tallahassee. I traveled in a yellow Volkswagen Thing, a quasi-military vehicle my dad thought I’d find useful in my new position as staff biologist for Marjorie Carr’s Florida Defenders of the Environment.
Sarasota Sunset
Jeff Klinkenberg, 2018 Lifetime Literary Award Winner
Over the course of four decades spent talking to Floridians, asking question after question, getting his feet wet to chronicle their lives and experiences for his newspaper column, everything Jeff Klinkenberg learned came down to this: Everybody has a story.
We Gather from everywhere to build Team Florida
Chances are you were not born in Florida. Only a little more than a third of us are native-born residents. The humanities, with all its reach and depth, can help us build Team Florida.
Awaiting the moment at Dennis Creek
What are the Humanities
The study and discussion of literature, history, culture, and like subjects are not academic fluff. They help us understand ourselves and each other, and in this time of polarization, what could be more important?
