The Ormond Beach Historical Society is hosting their 2022-2023 live Speaker Series program. The tenth lecture explores James Weldon Johnson Park in Jacksonville, Florida as site of contested memory, specifically of racial violence and Black resistance. Felicia Bevel also discusses this public space as a lens to understand Black history in Florida and important activists such as A Philip Randolph, Mary McLeod Bethune, Eartha White, and Rodney Hurst.. Felicia Bevel

The Ormond Beach Historical Society is hosting their 2022-2023 live Speaker Series program during the Ormond Beach Historical Society's Florida History and Cultural Festival, including several museums, authors, artists, and historical artifact collectors and exhibitors. The festival occurs from 10 am-2 pm on April 1. At 12 pm, Diane Jacoby tells the story in period dress of the life of elegant 16th Spanish noblewoman, Dona de Maria de Menendez, illegitimate

The Ormond Beach Historical Society is hosting their 2022-2023 live Speaker Series program. Learn about the incredible history of the early development of aviation in Florida, including commercial airlines and military aviation in the first half of the 20th century in the twelfth lecture with Stephen Craft. This lecture will also discuss the transition of early aviation to post-WWII rocket testing that laid a foundation for the space program of

The Ormond Beach Historical Society is hosting their 2022-2023 live Speaker Series program. Learn how pioneering women shaped Florida in this twelth lecture. This lecture features Dr. Esther Hill Hawks, a physician who ran the first racially integrated school in Florida, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Betty Mae Tiger Jumper, the first and only female Florida Seminole Tribal Chair. Dr. Peggy Macdonald is a public historian and adjunct professor at Stetson

The Ormond Beach Historical Society is hosting their 2022-2023 live Speaker Series program. The twelfth lecture explores Florida's role in World War II and how it was far more consequential to the safety of the United States than previously realized and how Florida was necessary in the defense of mainland United States and how it won the largest war in history. Ryan Lowry runs Patriot Preservation LLC which specializes in

The Ormond Beach Historical Society is hosting their 2022-2023 live Speaker Series program. Learn how Florida's women's pages were considered the best in the country in the 1950s and 1960s in the fifteenth lecture in the series with Dr. Kimberly Voss. This lecture features pioneering food journalists Jeanne Voltz, Jane Nickerson, and Ruth Gray. Kimberly Voss, PhD, is a full professor of journalism at the University of Central Floirda and

The Ormond Beach Historical Society is hosting their 2022-2023 live Speaker Series program. Learn about the little-known adventures of the Navy during the American Civil War in Florida in the final lecture of the series. This program is based on Rabert Mattson's book The Civil War Navy in Florida and provides a broad overview of naval actions in Florida during the American Civil War. Robert Mattson researches and portrays Union