Florida Spectacular: Extraordinary Places and Exceptional Lives
Discover Florida in a new light through little-known moments from its fascinating history
If when you think “Florida” you don’t think “spectacular,” Cathy Salustri is determined to change your mind. Explaining why the state is more than the “Florida Man” stories and the politics...
Gulfport Bucket List Volume I: 25 Things To Do in Gulfport, Florida
There's more to Gulfport, Florida than what you see at first blush. Sure, you may know about GeckoFest and O'Maddy's, but do you know who ArtJones is? Have you found the secrets in the brick streets? What about the best Cuban sandwich in Florida?
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Our Story: The History of Gulfport, Florida
Our Story: The History of Gulfport Florida contains the only collection of oral histories from the descendants of Gulfport, Florida's first Euro-American residents. It also has oral histories from city and community leaders. From tales of the first white people in the area to...
Saving Clam Bayou: Part one in a series: An environmental history of the last estuary on Boca Ciega Bay
In the 1950s, Florida state biologists said Boca Ciega Bay was dead. The last remaining estuary on Boca Ciega Bay, Clam Bayou, had a role in that death — and also the rebirth. This braided narrative tells the story of Clam Bayou. The first in...
Saving Clam Bayou: An environmental history of the last estuary on Boca Ciega Bay
In the 1950s, Florida state biologists said Boca Ciega Bay was dead. The last remaining estuary on Boca Ciega Bay, Clam Bayou, had a role in that death — and also the rebirth. This braided narrative tells the story of Clam Bayou. The first in...
The Sumptuous Hills of Gulfport
The Sumptuous Hills of Gulfport takes readers through the surreal landscape of a costal Florida town with crafted images and breezy, rhythmic lines. This is a place where civilization meets the wilds of the ocean, a place of tension, beauty, and decay, and Spina's poetry...
Backroads of Paradise: A Journey to Rediscover Old Florida
In the 1930s, the Federal Writers' Project sent mostly anonymous writers, but also Zora Neale Hurston and Stetson Kennedy, into the depths of Florida to reveal its splendor to the world. The FWP and the State of Florida jointly published the results as Florida: A...
Before Gulfport: It wasn’t always called Gulfport. It had other names – Veteran City, Disston City, and Bonifacio; before it was called Gulfport. (Gulfport Series Book 1)
In 1885 a family of five moved to a small village located on Boca Ciega Bay and whittled a farm out of harsh virgin woodland. You can observe as each one struggles with enormous difficulties daily. Witness the ‘Florida Frontier’ where people came from hundreds...
Gulfport
In today's Florida of strip malls and mega attractions, there is little perception of the state as part of the American frontier, but the hardy folks who settled Gulfport were truly pioneers. Moving away from lives disturbed or destroyed by the Civil War and its...