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The Dignity and Spirit of Old Gifford with Jonnie
Environmental Learning Center 255 Live Oak Dr., Vero Beach, FLIn collaboration with IR Cares, Sacred Kashi is hosting Jonnie Mae Perry at the Environmental Learning Center as part of their Visibility + Voices: The Untold History of Indian River County lecture series. In her presentation, Perry will discuss the story of the Gifford community and its historical prosperity, a history we can honor together as we work to enrich the community today and into the future. Jonnie Mae Perry
Cannibals and Kings: A New Look at Jonathan Dickinson’s 1696 Account of the Jobé and the Ais
Environmental Learning Center 255 Live Oak Dr., Vero Beach, FLSacred Kashi is hosting Dr. Jerald Milanich at the Environmental Learning Center as part of their Visibility + Voices lecture series. Milanich will share accounts from the diary of 17th-century merchant Jonathan Dickinson, written during his journey along the Florida coast in the 1690s. Shipwrecked on the Florida Atlantic coast near Jupiter Inlet, Dickinson and his fellow travelers found themselves among indigenous communities. Afraid of repercussions from Spanish St. Augustine,