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Back to SearchEpisode 140: Pensacola
Season 4 Episode 140
This episode begins in Eatonville, home of Zora Neale Hurston, where, not surprisingly, developers are up to no good.
Our guest is lifelong Pensacola …
3 years, 1 month ago
Episode 139: The Seminole Wars
Season 4 Episode 139
This episode tackles one of the most confusing eras in Florida history, a critically important series of events, but one little acknowledged or studi…
3 years, 1 month ago
Episode 138: Documentary filmmakers Billy Corben and Alfred Spellman
Season 4 Episode 138
A treat today as Miami born, bred and based documentary filmmakers Billy Corben and Alfred Spellman join the show. Corben is the director and Spellma…
3 years, 1 month ago
Episode 137: Harriet Beecher Stowe and early Florida tourism
Season 4 Episode 137
This episode begins with a rare conservation win in Florida against development. Savor the flavor.
Our guest is author, historian and professor emeri…
3 years, 2 months ago
Episode 136: Florida from 2000-2010
Season 4 Episode 136
This episode of "Welcome to Florida" begins in Stuart.
Our guest this week is author and historian Gary Mormino. Gary's most recent book, published in…
3 years, 2 months ago
Episode 135: '72 Miami Dolphins (NFL's only unbeaten team)
Season 4 Episode 135
The governor is touting his environmental record again, to which Craig Pittman cries foul.
Follow Chadd Scott's travel writing at "My Favorite Florid…
3 years, 2 months ago
Episode 134: Claude Pepper
Season 4 Episode 134
Craig's dad died recently and he shares a story about his father's work which would eventually dovetail into his own.
Our guest this week is author an…
3 years, 2 months ago
Episode 133: Kayaking around Florida
Season 4 Episode 133
"Welcome to Florida" Season 4 begins with an extraordinary Florida adventure! Warren Richey paddled a sea kayak around Florida.
3 years, 2 months ago
Episode 132: 100th anniversary of Rosewood Massacre
Season 3 Episode 132
On January 1, 1923, dubious claims of a sexual assault from a white woman against an unidentified Black man in the small community of Rosewood betwee…
3 years, 3 months ago
Episode 131: Villainous Ed Ball & the St. Joe Company
Season 3 Episode 131
Our episode begins with a trip to Warm Mineral Springs.
Our guest is Kathryn Ziewitz, co-author of "Green Empire: The St. Joe Company and the Remaking…
3 years, 3 months ago