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JACQUES LE MOYNE
WILLIAM BARTRAM
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON
JOHN PENNEKAMP
JEFF CARDENAS
THE HIGHWAYMEN
Voyager
Cool #9 (JOE SATRIANI)
Carl Sagan
Cosmic Message In A Bottle
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Jules Verne
“American Flamingo” (John J. Audubon)
Three Authors (Slaughter, McPhee, Hiaasen)
16th Century Florida
Contact
Carl Sagan’s Cosmic Message In A Bottle
“The Sounds of Earth” (The Golden Record)
Voyager’s Return (Save Pluto)
Back to Earth
“Earthrise” (Bill Anders) Apollo 8
Florida was home to many of the World’s most famous, infamous, insightful, and entertaining tellers of stories.
Jules Verne
Carl Sagan
Frank G. Slaughter “Countdown”
John McPhee “Oranges”
CARL HIAASEN “TOURIST SEASON”
JEFF CARDENAS “MARQUESA”
DEXTER FILKINS (The New Yorker)
“The Forever War“
Ernest Hemingway “Islands In The Stream”
Harriet Beecher Stowe (St. Johns River, Tangerines)
Zora Neale Hurston (Fort Pierce, Hotel Maid, w/Highwaymen)
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Cross Creek, Orange Lake, Marmalade)
Marjory Stoneman Douglas (Everglades: River of Grass)
Julia Tuttle (Miami River, Biscayne Bay)
Amelia Earhart (Miami Final Departure)
Hidden Figures (NASA’s Female Persuasian)
African-American mathematicians: Katherine Goble Johnso, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson, who worked at NASA during the Space Race (1960s).
Edna Buchanan (Miami Herald)
Meg Laughlin (Tropic Magazine)
LAURA KELLY (Writer/Educator)
“Dispatches From The Republic of Otherness“
The first orange blossoms have opened. For a month or six weeks, we shall be giddy by day with them, and at night drawn in a sea of perfume. When the oranges blossoms are almost done, the grapefruit blooms and then the tangerines. After having lived with them for a few years, one knows blindfolded which citrus fruit is flowering and what month it is.”
1937 — Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston (1901–60), born in poverty in the all-Negro town of Eatonville and a graduate of Barnard College, spent four years collecting folklore, which she published in Mules and Men (1935), and Tell My Horse (1938).
1938 — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
“The Yearling”
1939 — The Wizard of Oz, Gone With the Wind.
1947 — Marjory Stoneman Douglas
“Everglades: River Of Grass”
Ernest Hemmingway
Tennessee Williams
It’s a New World, afterall …
FLORIDA TIMELINE
ART & LITERATURE
INDEPENDENT FLORIDA ALLIGATOR TIMELINE
SPACE COAST (NASA) TIMELINE
Antique Print and Map Room
16th Century, German map maker, Sebastian Munster was the first to include North America (“Terre Florida”) in his 1550 World Map.
Voyager
“Vitruvian Man” (Leonardo Da Vinci)
“Earthrise” (Apollo 8)
“The Planets” (Gustav Holst)
“Contact” b/ Carl Sagan
Cosmic Message In A Bottle
Sir Issac Newton
Opticks
The Dark Side of The Moon
Prince
@ Glam Slam (Miami Beach)
Yardbirds
“The Shapes of Things”
Voyager The Golden Record
“The Sounds of Earth”
“Johnny B. Goode” (Chuck Berry)
“The American Flamingo” (James B. Audubon)
“Countdown” b/ Frank G. Slaughter
“Oranges” (John McVee)
“One Size Fits All” (Frank Zappa)
16th Century Florida (Spanish Map)
Mel Fisher (Nuestra Señora de Atocha)
THE DREAMERS
1865 — Jules Verne “From The Earth to The Moon”
1985 — Carl Sagan “Contact”
Cosmic Message In A Bottle.
“Contact” b/ Carl Sagan
Cosmic Message In A Bottle
la Florida
Land Of Exploration & Discovery
JACQUES LE MOYNE
WILLIAM BARTRAM
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON
JOHN PENNEKAMP
JEFF CARDENAS
THE HIGHWAYMEN
The Fountain of Youth.
1514 — Peter Martyr wrote of a land (Bahamas) with cool, bubbling, fresh water springs that inspired Ponce de Leon’s search for The Fountain of Youth.
1564 — Jacques LeMoyne
St. Johns River
Northeast Coast
Timucua Indians
1773 — William Bartram
St. Johns River
Alligators
Cuscowilla
Seminole (celebratory feast)
Alachua Tribe Chief Ahaya The Cowkeeper
Boston Tea Party
“Amazing Grace”
1831 — John James Audubon
First Expedition
St. Augustine
Halifax River
St. Johns River
Second Expedition
Charleston, South Carolina to Indian Key
Florida Bay
Cape Sabal
Sandy Key (Rookery)
Nesting Tropical Birds
Dry Tortugas
Indian Key
Key West
Charleston
Big Cypress Gallery
Clyde Butcher
Harriett Beecher Stowe (stereoscope) in front of her small house near her tangerine grove on the St Johns River, near Palatka, just south of Jacksonville.
“Uncle Tom’s Cabin”
1851 — Harriett Beecher Stowe
1917 — James Weldon Johnson
NAACP Leader
“Cross Creek”
1928 — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Cross Creek, a short stream connecting Orange Lake and Lochloosa Lake.
MOFRO — J.J. Grey (anti Florida development)
“Their Eyes Were Watching God”
1937 — Zora Neale Hurston
Born in poverty in the all-Negro town of Eatonville and a graduate of Barnard College, Zora Neale Hurston spent four years collecting folklore, which she published in Mules and Men (1935), and Tell My Horse (1938).
1939 — The Wizard of Oz, Gone With the Wind.
“Everglades: River Of Grass”
“Cross Creek”
1942 — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
“The Yearling”
Cumquat Marmalade
1947 — Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Ernest Hemmingway
Tennessee Williams
1950s — The Highwayman (youtube)
“Oranges”
1967 —John McVee (Gemini)
Highwayman Sam Newton
Louis Armstrong (Jazz Ambassador)
Summer of Love (San Francisco)
1968 — Jimi Hendrix Electric Ladyland
1969 — Vietnam Apollo 11 Woodstock
“Countdown”
1970 — Frank G. Slaughter (Cape Canaveral)
1971 — Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, Blue Oyster Cult …
1972 — Reellin’ In The Years
“A White Sport Coat and a Pink Carnation“
1973 — Jimmy Buffett
1974 — Living & Dying in 3/4 Time
1974 — A1A
“Tourist Season”
1986 — Carl Hiaasen (Miami Vice)
“Double Whammy”
1987 — Carl Hiaasen
1988 — Surfing With The Alien
1989 — Steel Wheels, Living Colour, Bill Hicks, Jethro Tull v. Metallica …
“HOOT” (2006) A film based on Carl Hiaasen’s book for young readers is the story of a group of children in the Florida Keys trying to save a burrowing owl habitat from destruction. The Owls live on the intended construction site of a big-chain pancake house, and the developer of the project intends to proceed regardless of the environmental damage it would cause. Hoot features live burrowing owls and music by co-producer Jimmy Buffett. Buffett also plays the role of Mr. Ryan, the science teacher.
“Tales From Margaritaville”
1989 — Jimmy Buffett
“Palm Beach Babylon”
1992 — Murray Weiss
“Marquesa”
1995 — Jeff Cardenas
“Marquesa: A Time & Place With Fish”
Guy Harvey / Wyland (T-Shirts and Murals)
“Life On Mars”
1996 — Alexander Stuart
Miami Beach Renaissance
SOBE
Miami Vice
Madonna
Versace
Prince
Lenny Kravitz
Herman Leonard
Barbara Capitman
Art Deco (Architecture)
Marilyn Manson
Running With The Devil
Scott Putesky
Harry Crews
Jerry Uelsmann
Edna Buchanan
Dave Barry
Joel Achenbach
Laura Kelly
John Grogan — Marley & Me
Jim Morin
Michael O’Brien
Red Morgan
Tory Boyd (Torin) Day In The Life Of America, Tokyo
Maurice Rivenbark
Tom Kennedy
John Moran
Bill Wax
AC Harper
Al Diaz
Sandy Felsenthal — Flag Drapped Woman Washington D.C.
Kevin Kolczynski
CJ Walker
Allen Eyestone
Mark Mirko
Mark Busek
Pat Clark
Philip Brooker
Steve Crowley
Alan Zlotky
Dana Smith
Tim Rivers
Jim Virga
Clyde Butcher
Steve Crowley (NYTimes)
Steve Crowley
John D. McDonald (Travis McGee)
Tim Dorsey
Randy Wayne White
Harriett Beecher Stowe — “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”
Orange/ Tangerine grove/ St. Johns River/ Palatka
James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938), perhaps best known for his 1912 novel Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man. He was also the first black to be admitted to the Florida bar (1897) and was a founder and secretary of the NAACP.
1840s —
1850s —
1852 — Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Marjory Stoneman Douglas (b.Minnesota, 1890–1998), who came to Miami in 1915, was the author of several works reflecting her concern for the environment, including The Everglades: River of Grass (first published in 1947), Hurricane (1958), and Florida: The Long Frontier (1967).
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (b.Washington, D.C., 1895–1953) came to Florida in 1928 to do creative writing. After her first novel, South Moon Under (1933), came the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Yearling (1938), the poignant story of a 12-year-old boy on the Florida frontier in the 1870s.
Elmore Leonard
Michael Connelly (“California Soul”)
James Hall
Johnny Knowles
Things to do in The Everglades
travlinmad.com
1870s —
1880s —
1890s —
1900s —
1910s —
1920s — Prohibition
1930s — Radio Days (Europe)
1940s — Radio Days (Pacific)
1950s —
1960s —
1970s —
1980s —
1990s — The Party’s Over
2000s —
2010s —
2020s —
2007 — Living Colour Wimbash
2008 — Little Axe Wimbash
2009 — NYC HOMECOMING / Bernard Fowler, Living Colour (Chair In The Doorway Tour 2009)
Summer Camp in Hartford to Halloween in New York.
Lenny White was 18 years old when he played on Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew, one of the most important “jazz” recordings ever made.
“Drum Boogie”
Lenny White
Anomaly
2010 —
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Tamiami Trail (/ˈtæmiˌæmi/) The southernmost 284 miles (457 km) of U.S. Highway 41 (US 41) from State Road 60 (SR 60) in Tampa to US 1 in Miami. A portion of the road also has the hidden designation of State Road 90 (SR90). The 163-mile, north–south (hidden) section (SR45) extends to Naples, whereupon it becomes an east–west road (hidden SR 90) crossing the Everglades, and forming part of the northern border of Everglades National Park). It becomes Southwest 8th Street in Miami-Dade County, famous as Calle Ocho in the Little Havana section of Miami, and site of the annual Calle Ocho Festival, before ending east of Miami Avenue as Southeast 8th Street at Brickell Avenue in Brickell, Downtown Miami.
FLORIDA PHOTOGRAPHERS
Clyde Butcher
Red Morgan
Jane Conway (w/Jay)
Maurice Rivenbark (EMT)
Tory Boyd (Surfer/ Day In The Life of America/ Tokyo)
Steve Crowley
Alan Zlotky
Sean Dougherty
Pat Farrell
C.J. Walker
Trish Robb
John Pineda
Jon Kral
Robbie Bedell
Brian Smith
Mark Mirko
Allen Eyestone
Jeffrey Salter
Carl Juste
Don Priesler
Melanie Bell
Pete Cross
Ken Steinhoff
John Lopinot
Charlie Trainor Jr.
Walt Michot (Daytona 500)
David Walters
Pete Cross
Pam Smith O’Hara
Carol Guzy
Candice Barbot
Jill Enfield
Carol Guzy
Candice Barbot
INFLUENTIAL EYES
Man Ray
Berenice Abbott
Dorothea Lange
(Farm Security Administration)
Wee Gee
W. Eugene Smith
Gordon Parks
Yousuf Karsh
Ansel Adams
Henri Cartier-Bresson
(Magnum Photos 1947)
Edward Weston
Diane Arbus
Helmut Newton
David S. Boyer (Mr. Chaille’s Sports Illustrated magazines)
Sylvia Plachy (Village Voice)
Annie Leibovitz
florida time & space
• JACQUES LE MOYNE
• WILLIAM BARTRAM
• JOHN JAMES AUDUBON
• JOHN PENNEKAMP
• JEFF CARDENAS
James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938) — Maybe best known for his 1912 novel Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man. He was also the first black to be admitted to the Florida bar (1897) and was a founder and secretary of the NAACP.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas (b.Minnesota, 1890–1998) — Came to Miami in 1915, was the author of several works reflecting her concern for the environment, including The Everglades: River of Grass (first published in 1947), Hurricane (1958), and Florida: The Long Frontier (1967).
Harriett Beecher Stowe
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (b.Washington, D.C., 1895–1953) — Came to Florida in 1928 to do creative writing. After her first novel, South Moon Under (1933), came the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Yearling (1938), the poignant story of a 12-year-old boy on the Florida frontier in the 1870s.
Zora Neale Hurston (1901–60) — Born in poverty in the all-Negro town of Eatonville and a graduate of Barnard College, spent four years collecting folklore, which she published in Mules and Men (1935) and Tell My Horse (1938).
Edna Buchannan
Joel Achenbach
Laura Kelly
Jules Verne “From Earth to Moon”
Carl Sagan “Contact”
Frank Slaughter “Countdown”
Tom Wolfe “The Right Stuff”
Apollo 13
Hidden Figures
Carl Hiaasen “Tourist Season”
John McVee “Oranges”
Jimmy Buffett
“Palm Beach Babylon”
Ernest Hemmingway
Tennessee Williams
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Harry Crews
Elmore Leonard
John D. McDonald (Travis McGee)
Tim Dorsey
Michael Connelly (Los Angeles)
Randy Wayne White
James Hall
Johnny Knowles
Dave Barry
Jim Morin
Pat Crowley
Don Wright
Peter Martyr — writes in 1514 of a land near the Bahamas with water of eternal youth)
William Bartram
William Bartram (1739-1823) “TRAVELS”
1773-1774 — William Bartram was a NATURALIST who authored a book of his studies called “Travels,” part of which included his time in Florida where he wrote of encounters with “Agressive Crocodilles” along the St. John’s River. Later he met Ahaya, “The Cowkeeper,” Chief of the Alachua band of the Seminole Tribe, saying he wanted to study the local plants and animals. Amused, Ahaya calls Bartram “Puc-puggee” (the flower hunter).
(April 20, 1739 – July 22, 1823) was an American naturalist and author of the book popularly known as “Travels.” The son of naturalist John Bartram, William Bartram was born in Kingsessing, Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia. As a boy, he accompanied his father on many of his travels, to the Catskill Mountains, the New Jersey Pine Barrens, New England, and Florida.
From his mid teens, Bartram was noted for the quality of his botanic and ornithological drawings. He also had an increasing role in the maintenance of his father’s botanic garden, and added many rare species to it.
In 1773, he embarked upon a four-year journey through eight southern colonies. Bartram made many drawings and took notes on the native flora and fauna, and the native American Indians. In 1774, he explored the St. Johns River, where he had memorable encounters with aggressive “crocodiles,” and also visited a principal Seminole village at Cuscowilla, where his arrival was celebrated with a great feast. He met Ahaya the Cowkeeper, chief of the Alachua band of the Seminole tribe. When Bartram explained to the Cowkeeper that he was interested in studying the local plants and animals, the chief was amused and began calling him Puc-puggee (the flower hunter). Bartram continued his explorations of the Alachua Savannah, or what is today Payne’s Prairie.
On April 22, 1776 Bartram left Charleston, South Carolina on horseback to explore the Cherokee Nation.[1] After passing through Augusta May 10th, Dartmouth on May 15th (35.328003°N 82.874571°W)[3], a few days later he left Fort Prince George and Keowee (34.863616°N 82.901575°W) after not being able to procure a guide .
In addition to his botanizing, Bartram aptly described the journey:
“…all alone in a wild Indian country, a thousand miles from my native land, and a vast distance from any settlements of white people.”
“It was now after noon; I approached a charming vale, amidst sublimely high forests, awful shades! Darkness gathers around, far distant thunder rolls over the trembling hills; the black clouds with august majesty and power, moves slowly forwards, shading regions of towering hills, and threatening all the destructions of a thunderstorm; all around is now still as death, not a whisper is heard, but a total inactivity and silence seems to pervade the earth; the birds afraid to utter a chirrup, and in low tremulous voices take leave of each other, seeking covert and safety; every insect is silenced, and nothing heard but the roaring of the approaching hurricane; the mighty cloud now expands its sable wings, extending from North to South, and is driven irresistibly on by the tumultuous winds, spreading his livid wings around the gloomy concave, armed with terrors of thunder and fiery shafts of lightning; now the lofty forests bend low beneath its fury, their limbs and wavy boughs are tossed about and catch hold of each other; the mountains tremble and seem to reel about, and the ancient hills to be shaken to their foundations: the furious storm sweeps along, smoaking through the vale and over the resounding hills; the face of the earth is obscured by the deluge descending from the firmament, and I am deafened by the din of thunder; the tempestuous scene damps my spirits, and my horse sinks under me at the tremendous peals, as I hasten for the plain.”
“I began to ascend the Jore Mountains, which I at length accomplished, and rested on the most elevated peak; from whence I beheld with rapture and astonishment, a sublimely awful scene of power and magnificence, a world of mountains piled upon mountains. Having contemplated this amazing prospect of grandeur, I descended the pinnacles…”[7](probably Wayah Bald 35.1803705°N 83.5604395°W)
Return to Philadelphia
Bartram returned to Philadelphia in January 1777, and assisted his brother John in all aspects of running Bartram’s Garden.
In the late 1780s, he completed the book for which he became most famous, Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, etc.. It was considered at the time to be one of the foremost books on American natural history. Many of Bartram’s accounts of historical sites were the earliest records, including the Georgia mound site of Ocmulgee. In addition to his contributions to scientific knowledge, Travels is noted for its original descriptions of the American countryside. Bartram’s writing influenced many of the Romantic writers of the day. William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and François René de Chateaubriand are known to have read the book, and its influence can be seen in many of their works.
Although Bartram has often been characterized as a recluse, all evidence shows that he remained active in commercial, scientific, and intellectual pursuits well into the nineteenth century. He tutored nieces and nephews, penned a number of essays, contributed to several works anonymously, and helped run the family horticultural business. In 1802 Bartram met the school teacher Alexander Wilson and began to teach him the rudiments of ornithology and natural history illustration. Wilson’s American Ornithology includes many references to Bartram and the area around Bartram’s Garden. Among Bartram’s more significant later contributions were the illustrations for his friend Benjamin Smith Barton’s explanation of the Linnaean system, Elements of Botany (1803-04).
After the War of 1812, when many of his colleagues, contacts, and friends had died, William Bartram settled into a long period of work, observation and study at the family’s garden in Kingsessing. He maintained a “Diary” that records bird migrations, plant life, and the weather. He refused a request to teach botany at the University of Pennsylvania, and in his sixties, declined an invitation from President Thomas Jefferson to accompany an expedition up the Red River in the Louisiana Territory in 1806. He died at his home at the age of 84.
Numerous places and sites are named in his honor:
The William Bartram Scenic & Historic Highway runs along the east side of the St. Johns River from Jacksonville, Florida south in to northwestern St. Johns County on State Road 13.
Bartram Trail High School in Switzerland, Florida (just south of Jacksonville.)
The Bartram Trail is a hiking trail in North Carolina, Georgia, and South Carolina that commemorates his journeys through the area.
The Bartram Canoe Trail system of canoe and kayak trails in the Mobile-Tensaw River Delta, operated by the Alabama Department of Conservation.
The William Bartram Arboretum is located within Fort Toulouse Park, near Wetumpka, Alabama.
Bartram Hall on the University of Florida campus in Gainesville, Florida.
The standard author abbreviation W.Bartram is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.