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Program Number
06
Program Date
2-9-2009
Segment Summary
SEGMENTS | Mosquitoes, Alligators, and Determination | Florida East Coast Railway | African American History
Keywords
Florida Frontiers; Cracker Culture; Railroads; Transportation; African American; Colonial History
Sponsors
Brevard Cultural Alliance's mission is to build and sustain a dynamic and vibrant arts and cultural sector integral to Brevard County's quality of life.
Florida Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities
With funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, FHC grants primarily respond to the needs of local communities, but they often address topics of statewide interest. FHC is particularly interested in projects that are collaborative, attract diverse audiences, encourage active participation from the public, and explore humanities topics and disciplines in interesting and engaging ways.
This project is sponsored in part by The Jessie Ball duPont Fund.
STARS Citation
Brotemarkle, Dr. Ben and Florida Historical Society, "Florida Frontiers Radio Show #6" (2009). Florida Frontiers: The Weekly Radio Magazine of the Florida Historical Society. 27.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/florida-frontiers-radio/27
Transcript - Radio Program #6
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Program Segments
Mosquitoes, Alligators, and Determination
The Brevard Theatrical Ensemble has put together a musical, Mosquitoes, Alligators, and Determination, that celebrates Florida Cracker culture.
Mark-In Point: 01:23 Length: 12:00
Florida East Coast Railway
Bobby Noles remembers when his grandfather was a railroad engineer with Henry Flagler's East Coast Railway in Florida, which ran down the east coast of the state.
Mark-In Point: 13:54 Length: 07:01
African American History
Free African Americans arrived in the 1500s with the Spanish. Dr. Jane Landers has written a book on the subject, titled Black Society in Spanish Florida. Using Spanish records, Landers was able to trace the lives of individuals from Africa to Spain to North America.
Mark-In Point: 21:01 Length: 06:22