Original Reviews

Mort Schindel who founded the company, Weston Woods, came from a privileged American background of the 1920s. A career in economics was sidelined when it was discovered that he had tuberculosis.  While recuperating, he decided instead to pursue a career in art, which led him to film and a whole new world of children’s media. [...]

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This book details almost every living history event and reenactment in Florida from before European contact to the post-war 20th century. There are 140 places and reenactments in Florida where you can experience the past, and a few where you can time travel into the future. If you want to participate, you can join in [...]

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A major urban center perched between and often threatening two vast natural ecosystems, Miami is known for a strikingly diverse built environment. It is barely 100 years old. In this relatively brief span of time, the city has constantly reinvented itself, seeking a elusive identity as Florida’s great metropolis. Landscape design and urban planning have [...]

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In this detailed, firsthand history of the contemporary Women’s Liberation Movement, scholar-activist Carol Giardina agues against the prevalent belief that the movement grew out of frustrations over the male chauvinism experienced by those women who had been active in the civil rights movement and the various endeavors of the new left. Instead, she contends, the [...]

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The Harn is about to celebrate its twentieth anniversary. We all enjoy its many special exhibitions; the current exhibition of Jack Nichelson’s boxes, ‘Sojourner Dream Reliquaries,’ should not be missed. It should not be forgotten, however, that the core strength of the museum when it opened in 1990 was twentieth-century American art. ‘Art, Media and [...]

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Buddy MacKay became governor of Florida when Lawton Chiles died in December 1998, less than one month before Jeb Bush was to assume the office. MacKay ran the state house for twenty-three days. He had lost a brutal gubernatorial campaign as the Democratic nominee to Republican Bush. This is Kenneth “Buddy” MacKay’s memoir of three [...]

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The Civil War was slow in coming to Florida, but even so Jacksonville was nearly destroyed by the intermittent violence.  The city was taken four separate times by Federal forces and then abandoned after each of the first three occupations. During the fourth occupation, Jacksonville was used as a staging ground for the ill-fated Union [...]

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Ginny Stibolt tells us how to manage our gardens, yards, landscapes, and watering to insure the least possible adverse impacts on the environment. Sustainable gardening is a broad topic. She includes best practices in gardening, organic gardening, making the best use of local resources, growing your own vegetables, and saving water, among others. Our goal [...]

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The St. Johns River flows from its headwaters near Lake Okeechobee north to Jacksonville. Its watershed covers a good portion of northeastern and central Florida. The river and its tributaries have been part of the cultural landscape of the peninsula for thousands of years and a source of food, water, transportation, industry, agriculture, and recreation. [...]

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This book is a guide to the people, places, and events that made Gainesville the thriving city and educational center that it is today. Gainesville was established in the early 1850s in an area of Alachua County known for cotton farming, cattle, and citrus.

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