Highlights:
• 53 Great Florida Books
• Saving Sanibel
• The Way of the Trailer
• Fleeing Castro’s Cuba
• Miami Beach: Jewish Haven
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ONE FOR THE BOOKS
Presenting this year’s Florida Book Awards, with insider previews of the winners, authors’ favorite Florida classics, book-to movie standouts—and more.
By Pam Daniel and Janet Scherberger
THE WAY OF THE TRAILER
Novelist—and trailer park resident—Robert Plunket pens an ode to an iconic Florida way of life.
Illustrations by Regan Dunnick
SAVING SANIBEL
After Ian and in the face of climate change, can Sanibel’s visionary 1976 plan inspire new solutions for coastal communities?
By Thomas Ankersen
FREEDOM SPRING
In 1964, 18-year-old Bill Maxwell became a civil rights activist in one of the most segregated counties in Florida, joining a movement that would transform him — and the nation.
FLEEING CUBA
Eloisa Echazabal recalls fleeing Castro’s Cuba as an unaccompanied minor in Operation Pedro Pan.
SENSE OF PLACE
A 1991 essay by Nobel Prize winner Isaac Bashevis Singer and photographs by Richard Nagler evoke the era when Miami Beach was a haven for elderly Jews.
| Media Type | |
|---|---|
| Producer | Produced by Florida Humanities |
| Publication Title | FORUM Magazine |
| Publication Date | 2023 – Summer |
