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A historic Coast Guard cutter that had performed search-and-rescue missions between the Florida Keys and Cuba during the 1980 Mariel Boatlift has arrived in Key West to serve as a floating military museum. ...more
November 28, 2009
By June Tarpon Spring's sponge boat tourist attraction should be refurbished to its former glory. Repairs to the former sponge boat that bears the city's name are being undertaken as the city focuses revitalization efforts on sprucing up its Sponge Dock's cultural district, along Dodecanese Boulevard. The work would include restoration of the City Marina, to the east of the Sponge Docks. ...more
March 28, 2009
Philip Levy spent a decade excavating sites that held signs of early American history, including a plantation in the nation's first permanent English settlement, Jamestown. ...more
July 4, 2008
They're puttin' the Ritz back into Ybor City. One of the area's grand old structures refuses to buckle under age or neglect, and this weekend makes plenty of noise about its future. ...more
June 6, 2008
LAKE WALES — Historic Bok Sanctuary will return to its traditional name — Bok Tower Gardens. ...more
May 4, 2008
Sometimes you can spot a good recipe from a mile away and in this case, 1,500 miles away. ...more
December 5, 2007
A memorial of granite, stone and water was dedicated Friday at a burial ground where hundreds of slaves and other blacks were interred two centuries ago then forgotten as lower Manhattan expanded above their remains. ...more
October 6, 2007
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