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A nickel for your thoughts?
That doesn’t quite have the ring of “a penny for your thoughts”, does it? Will we be saying “A Starbucks saved, a Starbucks earned” in the future? The American penny died last week in Philadelphia. It was 232 years old. The cause was irrelevance and expensiveness, the Treasury Department said. Nothing could be bought any more… Read more
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The Maps That Change Florida’s History
On Sunday, November 16 2025 our Conversation @ the Crocker at 2:00pm : Author James MacDougald will talk on Revisiting the Ponce de Leon and Narvaez Settlement Expeditions. He is working on an article that “provides evidence that the first European colony Read more
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Time passes slowly in Sarasota
Since we just changed our clocks, I thought you’d like to read this excerpt from a Jeff LaHurd article plus additional info from the Observer newspapers on the Palmer Bank Clock. Palmer Bank, standing proudly at Five Points in downtown Sarasota, was established in the Roaring 20s by Bertha Palmer’s sons, Honoré Palmer and Potter… Read more
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