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  • Watching history being made, Christmas-style.

    Don’t you love getting those photographic Christmas cards from family and friends? To cherish the ability to watch history being made as the kids grow? Remember, history isn’t in dusty old books. Sometimes it arrives in a red envelope with a Santa postage stamp. Today we share with you a Sarasota memory… Read more

  • The Day of Infamy. And its consequences.

    This Day in History: December 7, 1941, of course, The Day of Infamy, as FDR called it. When the US went to war, it shaped the future development of our entire county. Sarasota County was slowly emerging from the Great Depression at the beginning of 1940. The city’s new Read more

  • Have a drink. It’s legal again.

    This Day in History: On December 5, 1933, the 21st Amendment was ratified. The 21st Amendment repealed the 18th Amendment of January 16, 1919, commonly called the Volstead Act ending the increasingly unpopular nationwide prohibition of alcohol. Why did Prohibition start? By the turn of the 20th century, temperance societies were prevalent in the United… Read more