FORUM Summer 2022

FLORIDA READS
Our summer reading special section introduces you to this year’s Florida Book Award winners, with interviews by Colette Bancroft; takes you inside the resource-rich modern library (story by Janet Scherberger); and asks three notable Floridians about the book that changed their lives.
 

ANGRY YOUNG MAN
A noted journalist recalls the darkness—and defiance—of growing up in Jim Crow Florida. Part of our More Perfect Union series of stories presented in partnership with the National Endowment for the Humanities.
By Bill Maxwell

The COLONEL
When the Tampa carny worker who came to be known as Col. Tom Parker saw the young Elvis perform in Florida, a triumphant—and tragic—artistic partnership
ensued.
By Bob Kealing

WHEN GIANTS WALKED THE LAND
Distinguished University of Florida professor Dr. Bruce MacFadden brings back to
life the enormous creatures, from car-sized armadillos to carnivorous terror birds, that once ruled the state.

TREASURE
The idyllic tropical murals of Earl LePan once adorned many of South Florida hotels and buildings.
By Pam Daniel

A TASTE OF FLORIDA
The same family—and the same bread—have sustained an Ybor City bakery for more than a century.
By Dalia Colon