Historical adventures for young Floridians. The short stories of Carolyn Teicher Potts.

Florida Tales: Historical Adventures for Young Floridians

Nick Wynne

Humor & Entertainment

Florida Historical Society Press

Rudy longs to be an aerialist, but Shorty wants him to follow in his own clown footsteps. When Rudy learns the truth behind his objections, he has hard choices to make. Will he follow his father's path, or will he risk his anger and its repercussions to make his dream a reality? Fans of the award-winning novels, Tasso of Tarpon Springs and Panther Girl welcome High Above The Hippodrome, a captivating behind-the-scenes story of circus life on the road with The Ringling and Barnum and Bailey Circus in 1927.

High Above The Hippodrome

Malty Schrecengost

Children's Books

Canaveral Light

Don David Argo

Born in 1873 as the first free child in a family of former slaves, Mary McLeod Bethune would become an adviser to American presidents, an important civil rights leader, and founder of what is now Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach, Florida. Through the recollections of Mary McLeod Bethune and those closest to her, Nancy Ann Zrinyi Long has created an engaging biography of an influential and inspirational educator and activist.

Mary McLeod Bethune: Her Life and Legacy

Biographies & Memoirs

Nancy Ann Zrinyi Long

Community & Culture

The book Brevard County History to 1955 by John M. Eriksen. ISBN: 1-886104-00-x

Brevard County: A History to 1955

John M. Eriksen

As a Mizell family descendant who married and had children with a Barber, author Mary Ida Bass Barber Shearhart has a personal interest in the infamous Barber-Mizell Family Feud. Florida s Frontier: The Way Hit Wuz is written as a compelling, action-filled novel set between 1841 and 1870, but is firmly based in historical fact. In addition to offering descriptions of pioneer life in Florida from running cattle, to making soap, to cane grinding, the author provides insight about the Spanish colonization of Florida, the Seminole Indian Wars, the Civil War, and other topics. The characters in this novel are real people portrayed with amazing detail and depth. This book joins Patrick Smith s A Land Remembered as a popular and informative must read Florida novel.

Florida's Frontier: The Way Hit Wuz

History

Mary Ida Bass Barber Shearhart

Americas

In this brief biography, Joe and Mark Akerman manage to capture the essence of Jake Summerlin's life and the broader scope of Florida history.

Jacob Summerlin: King of the Crackers

Joe A. Akerman Jr.

J. Mark Akerman

Historical

This book is the story of people of vision and courage, of a small group of prominent Saint Augustine investors who conceived of the Florida waterway and began the first dredging work; of an obscure group of New England capitalists who provided significant financing and obtained a million acres of undeveloped Florida public land in pursuing what was, at best, a speculative enterprise; of innumerable citizen groups like the Florida east coast chamber associations and the larger Atlantic Deeper Waterways Association that demanded at the turn of the last century what they believed was the peoples right-a public waterway, free of the burden of tolls; and finally, of the U&gt;S&gt; Army Corps of Engineers, who conducted all of the Florida waterway's early surveys and assumed the project's control in 1929 to convert what was once a private toll way into Florida's modern-day, toll-free Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway.

Florida's Big Dig, the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway

Engineering & Transportation

Jr. William G. Crawford

Transportation

Finest Kind: A Celebration of a Florida Fishing Village

The story of a real Florida fishing village.

Ben Green

Florida's Big Dig: The Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway

William G. Crawford

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