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  • One Month til 25th Historical LeBarge Cruise !!

    25th FLOATING HISTORY LESSON SETS SAIL ON NOVEMBER 2, 2014 The Historical Society of Sarasota County (HSOSC) is hosting its 25th Historical Cruise and Tour of Sarasota Bay on the LeBarge tour boat on Sunday, November 2, 2014 from 11am to 1pm. The cruise will feature narration by popular local historian John McCarthy.  Guests can… Read more

  • 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

  • Yup, it WAS “the good old days”

    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