I Am Boca Raton
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Join me on a journey covering 450 years. This is a tour of Boca Raton, Florida, during the summer of 2015, driving through the history of tomorrow.
Utilizing video, photography and personal account, we will explore the Jeaga Indians, the first white settlers, Pearl City and its black settlers, Addison Mizner, the Boca Raton Army Air Field (BRAAF) and its top-secret significance during and after World War II, Florida Atlantic University, polo, green beans (huh?), the Boca Raton Resort & Club, even Billy Graham and the President of the United States. While many may not know the names Rickards, Long, Gates, Mitchell, Hughes, Butts and Fleming, they should. These people are vitally important to the story of Boca Raton.
Boca Raton is my hometown. I grew up listening to family friends Carl Douglas and Floy Mitchell tell tales of early Boca that fascinated me. They inspired me to learn more.
This two hour video is my first attempt at anything related to videography. It has technical flaws and about 9 minutes of boring stuff. Please overlook all that. It is my hope that you will take away that same inspiration I gained from Carl and Floy and find out more about the past of your hometown. Explore, write it down, record it somehow, somewhere. Visit your local historical society or start one. Your local public libraries are a treasure chest of information waiting to enrich your quest. Do not let the past and those memories fade away and be forgotten.
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Olde Towne Englewood
A tour of Old Englewood, Florida narrated by Amy Hibbard and Bernie Reading. Video added and edited by Don Bayley. Produced for the Lemon Bay Historical Society and the Englewood Area Historical Museum.
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coldwellbankerhomes.com (aerials)
michaelsaunders.com (aerials)
people.com/celebrity/woolly-mammoth-de-extinction-a-possibility
ancient-origins.net (Calusa)
heraldtribune.com (Calusa)
nlm.nih.gov/nativevoices/timeline (Spanish explorers)
mreaganmaps.com/historical-maps-2 (Explorers Map)
history.com (Ponce de Leon, Hernando de Soto)
floridamemory.com (Drawing of Pedro Menendez de Aviles)
William Goff drawing by Jack Glazier
findagrave.com Shirley Goff
commercial.century21.com (Cherokee Park)
allaboutenglewood.com (Cherokee St sign)
Chidsey Historical Exhibits And Education Center, Sarasota (Nichols Bros)
ferriswheel.umwblogs.org/1893-chicago-columbian-exposition/
pomegranate.com/aa440.html (Columbian Expo)
Jo Cortes, The History of Early Englewood (Plat of Englewood)
floridamemory.com (The Great Freeze)
patch.com (Great Freeze)
movoto.com (Old Englewood sign)
Realtor.com (Amy Hibberd photo)
oldeenglewood.com (sign)
theguardian.com (Mary Pickford)
dandayjr35.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-thief-of-bagdad (Douglass Fairbanks)
dontenphotography.com (Buchan Airport sign)
gatorpreservationist.wordpress.com/2014/09/19/hermitage-artists-retreat/
ravepad.com (Tarzan)
metro.co.uk (Tarzan w/ monkey)
Bernie Reading, from Englewood, The First 100 Years (Englewood Beach Pavilion, Post Office parking)
cardcow.com (White Elephand)
donmooreswartales.com/2015/09/21/don-platt/
englewoodedge.com (Platt on mutral)
englewoodbay.com (Bernie Reading photo)
lemonbayplayhouse.com
marylmartin.com/product/englewood-florida-englewood-bank-vintage-postcard
J. D. Jack Tate, from Englewood, The First 100 Years (bank ledger, Buchans Landing 1916)
englewoodfl.info (Dearborn hardware store)
friendsofea.org (Post Office)
Charles A. Koch, from Englewood Lives by Diana Harris (1958 Post Office)
Nancy Wille (Post Office)
Old Railroad Line in Goethe State Forest (Part Three)
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Part three of my exploration along this abandoned railroad line at Goethe State Forest. The railroad was once part of the Atlantic Coast Line and Seaboard Coast Line Railroads at one time. It connected towns in the area such as Dunnellon, Lebanon, Gulf Hammock, Otter Creek and Chiefland dating back to the early 1900’s. The railroad was used by the logging, turpentine and transportation industries. Nature has reclaimed the area today. If you explore and find this trestle please be safe around it, I do not recommend crossing it. No artifacts were removed or disturbed during this exploration. Be respectful of what history remains, thank you! Special thanks to the Greater Dunnellon Historical Society.
Tour of the Richard and Pat Johnson Palm Beach County History Museum
Tour of the Richard and Pat Johnson Palm Beach County History Museum. Filmed and produced by PBC Ch. 20, West Palm Beach. The museum is located at 300 North Dixie Highway, West Palm Beach, Florida. This is the county's first county-wide history museum which opened in March 2008. The Johnson History Museum is located on the second floor of the restored 1916 Palm Beach County Courthouse and it is the headquarters of the Historical Society of Palm Beach County.
Wine and Food Festival | Boca Bacchanal | Boca Raton
The Boca Raton Historical Society and Museum's Boca Bacchanal is coming up April 4 -6 will a fabulous line up of food and wine events!
Had a marvelous time interviewing the incredible Historical Society's Executive Director Mary Czar at the Bacchus Beckons kick off event at Saks Fifth Avenue in Boca for this annual wine and food festival.
Check out the video to get a feel for how much fun this amazing event is and get your tickets! Or should I say events because there is sooo much happening from the Bubbles and Burgers event to the Friday evening Vitner dinners, newly included dockside VIP event and the Grand Tasting!
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History & Culture | On The Town in The Palm Beaches
With names like Flagler and Kennedy, The Palm Beaches have long been known for wealth and opulence, but the area’s history is rich in so many ways. From local tribes to Flagler’s train and the birth of tourism, we’ll hear the story of early pioneers and learn how The Palm Beaches became synonymous with arts and culture. Join us as we go On the Town in The Palm Beaches.
Dr. John Tullai on living at The Colonnade in Surprise, Arizona
John Tullai, a resident of The Colonnade in Surprise, Arizona, talks about living at The Sun Health Senior Living Community, rated one of the top 5 best in all of metro Phoenix.
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Manatee found dead during Gasparilla
An Apollo Beach couple rushed to help what looked like a distressed manatee Saturday, only to find the mammal already deceased on the beach. As soon as we rolled it over you could see the gashes in its head, said Eddie Hefner. It's two inches deep, three inches deep. Pictures show the female manatee on Apollo Beach suffering from deep, parallel wounds.
AccuTour's Virtual tours gives viewers 3-D look at Boca's train museum
It can be held in your hand, but it contains technology capable of capturing eight decades of history.
The 12-by-6-inch black box is a high-tech 3-D camera that Pompano Beach startup AccuTour used to create a virtual tour of the Boca Express Train Museum at 747 S. Dixie Highway.
For me as a curator, this is very valuable documentation of a rare historical resource that no amount of still photography or regular video can document, said Susan Gillis, curator for the Boca Raton Historical Society and Museum.
The society has not decided exactly what it will do with the footage, but it's likely to fit it into one of the educational programs, said Mary Csar, executive director of the society.
AccuTour used $7,000 in the latest technology to capture the images of the train depot. The 3-D camera, a seemingly ordinary 12-by-6 inch black box with a handle, spun on its axis and used about nine lenses to scan the roughly 4,800 square feet of museum and rail cars.
The footage was then uploaded to a program that stitched the images together on an iPad and spit out a raw data file, which AccuTour then polished. The result, the company's vice president, Quinton Winter, said, is like Google street maps for the inside of places.
Users can take self-guided virtual tours of the facilities or click a play button to be guided through it. The final product, which was available in a matter of hours, can be viewed on all platforms from phones to tablets to desktop computers.
We've kind of perfected the art of it, Winter said.
AccuTour does similar projects for businesses across the tri-county area. The Boca project would normally cost just shy of $750, but AccuTour did it for free.
We think it's really important for the preservation of historical sites, the company's president, Eduardo Acevedo, said.
In 2014, Avirom & Associates did a 3-D survey of the train museum, which provided measurements that could be used if the society were to ever do a redesign, Csar said.
This time is different, Csar said, because the 3-D footage will give viewers a look inside the 1930 FEC Railway passenger station and two restored 1947 streamlined rail cars.
It's a great teaching tool, Csar said. It's really a great thing to have if for nothing else to document the interiors.
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Blackfish (2013) | Documentary
The story of Tilikum, a captive killer whale that has taken the lives of several people, underscores problems within the sea-park industry, man's relationship to nature, and how little has been learned about these highly intelligent mammals.
The documentary concerns the captivity of Tilikum, an orca involved in the deaths of three people, and the consequences of keeping orcas in captivity. The coverage of Tilikum includes his capture in 1983 off the coast of Iceland and his purported harassment by fellow captive orcas at Sealand of the Pacific. Cowperthwaite argues these incidents contributed to the orca's aggression.
The film includes a testimonial from Lori Marino, director of science with the Nonhuman Rights Project. Cowperthwaite also focuses on SeaWorld's claims that lifespans of orcas in captivity are comparable to those in the wild, typically 30 years for males and 50 years for females, a claim the film argues is false.[8] Other people interviewed include former SeaWorld trainers, such as John Hargrove, who describe their experiences with Tilikum and other captive whales.
The documentary reports that the whales have experienced extreme stress when their offspring were captured in the wild or when separated after breeding at water parks. The film features footage of attacks on trainers by Tilikum and other captive whales as well as interviews with witnesses.
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Oral History Video: Betty Dailey-Nugent on Preserving Englewood's History
Michigan native Betty Dailey-Nugent has lived in Florida for nearly twenty five years. In this time, her love of history has propelled her to become among the most active and committed volunteers for historical preservation work throughout Sarasota County. She currently owns and resides in the Lampp House Museum in Englewood.
The New College Oral History Project: Celebrating Our Water Heritage is a collection of vibrant oral histories that were created in a collaborative project involving New College of Florida and Sarasota County. With the guidance of Dr. Erin Dean, assistant professor of anthropology, students completed an independent study project while serving as Sarasota County interns. New College of Florida is a national leader in the arts and sciences and is the State of Florida's designated honors college for the liberal arts.
Interviewer Chelsea Driver is a third-year cultural anthropology student at New College of Florida. This is her first introduction to oral history, but she hopes to pursue more oral history projects in the future.
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Centennial Photomontage - History and Change
This Centennial photomontage tells the story of change in the City of Fort Lauderdale.
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We traveled to the Bolivian altiplano plateau for the first pre-Inca cultures. We crossed Lake Titicaca, walked through the arid Peruvian coast, we visited the oldest archaeological sites, witness rituals led by shamans and know the looters and grave robbers. Know everything that happened centuries before the Incas to become the lords of the Andes absorbing all previous cultures.
00:50 From the ruins of the former settlements of the Inca and Tiwanaku cultures, on lake Titicaca, the Cayahualla priests worship Tata Inti, the Sun God.
The Tiwanaku culture appeared in about the fourth century AD, on the Bolivian plateau, just a few kilometres from the shores of Lake Titicaca.
04:13 On the islands of the Sun and Moon, we find numerous ruins of Tiwanaku origin, and which were later occupied by the Incas. The ancient mystical observatories are still used by the shaman in their ceremonies of invocation and meditation.
06:24 The majority of the coast of Peru is dry desert land. Nonetheless, this inhospitable land was the birth place of great civilisations, . this is the case of the Chimú culture who constructed irrigation channels, and created gardens in the desert. With their advanced techniques, they developed agricultural societies capable of supporting large numbers of inhabitants. The Chimú culture built cities like this one, Chanchán, perhaps the largest city in the world at the time, with around 100,000 inhabitants.
08:00 Still today, the fishermen along the coast of northern Peru use these boats, called “cattail horses”, to work the fishing grounds close to the shore. The cattail is a type of reed or bulrush which grows in the marshlands. Once it is cut and dried in the sun, it becomes tough and flexible, very resistant, and waterproof. At dawn, the fishermen set out to sea, expertly maintaining their balance as they ride the waves, using the most ancient of all surfing techniques.
11:02 The anthropomorphic face of the ‘Slitter of Men’s Throats’, at the Tomb, or ‘Huaca’ of the Moon, introduces us to the Moche culture, which flourished along these same coastal valleys, before the Chimú empire, from 200 BC to 700 AD.
15:22 The ‘San Pedro’ is a cactus which contains a powerful alkali with relaxant and hallucinatory properties mescaline, a mind-altering substance which induces a profound state of trance, also known as peyote. In the dark of night, and presided over by the shaman, rituals are held, at which they ingest the San Pedro.
21:34 The collection of over 16,000 skulls in the Archaeological museum in Lima makes it possible to study the pathology of these ancient cultures. These Nasca and Paraca skulls were subjected to a traumatic deformation, apparently simply for aesthetic reasons. A long, thin skull was a symbol of the upper class.
25:28 The discovery of the Tomb of the Lord of Sipan, a former president of Peru, was the most important archaeological discovery of America in the last decades.
30:00 These objects are made of gold, and come from the tomb of the Lord of Sipan. The police seized them from the grave robber Ernil Bernal, and they provided the clue for the archaelogist Walter Alva to discover this extraordinary Moche mausoleum.
30:32 The ‘Huaca Rajada’, the ‘Cracked Tomb’, is the burial complex of the Lord of Sipan. Excavations are still going on at this extraordinary find.
37:16 Every night, under cover of darkness, the robbers continue to find treasures, raiding the tombs of the Moche, Chimu, Chancay, Paracas, Nasca…The treasures they unearth are bought for pitiful sums by unscrupulous merchants, and sold on the black market.
41:00 We are leaving the coast and heading east, to discover the Chachapoya culture. We can see the ancient walls of their settlements along the cliffs and crags, totally inaccessible. Without a doubt, Kuelap is the most astonishing of all the Chachapoya cities. On the sacred mountain of La Petaca, there are over one hundred tombs in which they laid to rest their mummified dead. It is not known how they were able to construct them high up on the sheer rock face. The Chachapoya mummies are the product of a relatively sophisticated process.
49:21 And finally, the Incas arrived! Their Empire, the Tahuantinsuyo, extended from what is now Ecuador, to Argentina and Chile, absorbing all previous cultures. They became the masters of the Andes. They built astonishing cities, like the sacred Machupichu, abandoned since the arrival of the Spanish.
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The Town of Palm Beach | On The Town in The Palm Beaches
Frank Licari is exploring the Town of Palm Beach – now although it’s home to some of the most exclusive addresses in the world, this island is surprisingly accessible and fun. We’ll play the back nine at a place where the golf course is just as spectacular as the view, we’ll ride through a scenic bike trail on a bicycle built for two and we’ll visit a pharmacy that houses an 82-seat classic soda fountain – that’s all on this episode of On the Town in The Palm Beaches.
Blacks remember old Fort Lauderdale, Crossing Cultures, Changing Lives (WBEC-TV) with Kitty Oliver
Oral historian Kitty Oliver sits a spell along the North Fork of the New River in Fort Lauderdale's oldest Black community as residents reminisce about the ecological treasure's history, and theirs.
Ranger of the Lost Art
Learn about rediscovery of the WPA/Federal Art Project poster series and the continued tradition today. Artists Doug Leen and Brian Maebius discuss the history of the program and how, using one surviving poster and photographs found through 20 years of research, they painstakingly reconstructed the original set. Today over 30 national parks are represented through their contemporary designs.
KCBD INVESTIGATES: Parents claim extortion in local schools
A handful of parents have accused local school districts of extortion due to what they perceive as harsh campus cell phone policies.
Although some of these parents agree with the concept of discipline for breaking school policies, they are against this particular policy, in which parents must pay a fee to get back their child's cell phone once it has been confiscated.
Several Slaton ISD parents who did not wish to reveal their identity, voiced their concerns.
I would like some investigation into the schools extorting money from the children and the parents pertaining to cell phones.
The fact that they're asking for money is ridiculous because the legal definition of what they're doing is extortion.
We looked into it and found out that the State Legislature passed a bill in 2009, which gives school districts the option to adopt a policy regarding cell phones and electronic devices.
There is an administrative fee that ranges from $15 to $50 if students are caught using their cell phones without permission or for approved educational purposes.
Slaton ISD Superintendent, Julee Becker explains why her school district decided to implement the cell phone policy:
It's a deterrent is what it is; we want kids focused.
We sat down with area school districts to find out if they enforce the policy and how much money has been collected this past school year:
Slaton ISD, which consists of 4 campuses, has collected a total of 72 phones at $15 each and has netted a total of $1,080. Students also have the option to get their phone back free of charge by waiting a period of 5 days.
Lubbock ISD, which has a total of 54 campuses, had 341 violations. 69 of those violations resulted in fines fixed at $15, which totals $1,035.
Frenship ISD has confiscated 120 phones and also charges a $15 fine. Last year they collected $1,800.
Lubbock-Cooper ISD had 90 cell phones confiscated and also charges $15 each cell phone, which amounts to $1,350.
All of the school districts we spoke with said the funds collected were put into a Principal's Fund, which is spent entirely on student activities or needs, such as clothing for those who cannot afford a warm coat or proper shoes.
Some parents said the policy is confusing for students, since teachers are not always held to the same standards.
I think they should lead by example. There have been times I myself have went into the high school and I've seen teachers texting on their own cell phones but yet they expect students to follow that same rule.
House Bill 861, filed by State Rep. Richard Raymond January 30, 2013, calls for an increase in the administrative fee for confiscated electronic devices, including cell phones. If passed, the maximum charge would be raised to $75.00. It would take effect in Texas schools September 1, 2013.
City of Pahokee 10 22 2019 Commission Meeting
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Ed White -- Ambassador of Exploration Ceremony
On June 3, 2015, the 50th anniversary of the first spacewalk in U.S. history, NASA posthumously awarded astronaut Ed White, America’s first spacewalker, its Ambassador of Exploration Award at a ceremony at the West Point Museum at the United States Military Academy West Point in New York.
White achieved this first in U.S. space exploration history in 1965 while serving as the pilot of Gemini 4, a four-day mission that began on June 3 and during which he carried out the first extra vehicular activity (EVA). He was outside Gemini 4 for 21 minutes and became the first man to control himself in space during an EVA with a maneuvering unit – a hand-held oxygen jet gun. This first excursion into space put America on pace to walk on the moon just four years later, capture and repair satellites in orbit, construct the International Space Station, and prepare us for our journey to Mars.