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Black Bottom, Overtown, Newtown, Rosemary District: What, where, when.
History of Newtown is the subject of a Conversation at the Crocker event. Educators, business leaders, and the Mayor of Sarasota will gather on the stage of the Crocker Memorial Church on Tuesday, October 14, to talk among themselves and with the audience about the History of Newtown, Sarasota’s African-American community. The conversationists will also… Read more
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Yup, it WAS “the good old days”
Nowadays it takes 5 fishermen and a boat to catch a kingfish. But back in the day… Sept 30 1913: For easy fishing, stay at the Bay Island Hotel. On the first day of kingfish season, a 4′, 27-pound beauty, complete with a mullet in its mouth, jumped 10 feet from the bay, over the… Read more
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JDeal Pump Organ – Returns in Top Shape!
The pump organ repairman angel arrived this summer!! Mr. Robert Senseman visited the Bidwell-Wood House in June when his mother Lois Ann Senseman arrived to film her Ordinary Historian video. Her grandfather, his great grandfather, was the yacht captain for John and Mabel Ringling. While touring the house we mentioned that the JDeal pump organ… Read more
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