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Department of State Featured on C-SPAN Cities Tour this Weekend

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Secretary of State Ken Detzner is pleased to announce that the Florida Department of State will be featured as part of special programing for the C-SPAN Cities Tour of Tallahassee this weekend, March 15-16.

Dr. Edmund Skellings

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After a competition of over four hundred Florida poets and selection by an anonymous national panel in 1980, Governor Robert Graham appointed Dr. Edmund Skellings the Poet Laureate of the State of Florida, a lifetime honor. Author of seven books of…

Voter Turnout

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Statewide turnout data going back to 1954.

European Exploration and Colonization

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Written records about life in Florida began with the arrival of the Spanish explorer and adventurer Juan Ponce de León in 1513.

Apprenticeship Program

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Established in 1983, the Folklife Apprenticeship Program provides an opportunity for master folk artists to share technical skills and cultural knowledge with apprentices in order to maintain their art as a vital part of our heritage. The Folklife…

Folk Heritage Awards

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The Secretary of State, with the recommendations of the Florida Folklife Council, confers Florida Folk Heritage Awards annually. The awards are given to outstanding folk artists and folk culture advocates who have made long-standing contributions…

Jacqueline Brice

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Jackie Brice, a native Floridian, has been painting since 1967. In her forty-five year career as an artist, Brice who lives in Jupiter has focused on painting rivers, back country and wetlands of the state she loves. Brice's paintings capture the…

Ricou Browning

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Ricou Browning is a Florida native who made his mark as a writer, director, actor and underwater stunt coordinator in the Florida Film Industry. A penchant for underwater stunt work began at Wakulla Springs in the 1940s when he learned to perform…

Clyde Butcher

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Clyde Butcher is often called "the Ansel Adams of Florida." Since the early 1980s when he moved to Florida from California, Butcher has built a career as one of the most highly regarded black-and-white landscape photographers in the world. Today…

Harry Crews

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A brilliant novelist and satirist in the Southern Gothic tradition, Harry Crews has put his name to 17 novels, two major collections, numerous short stories, essays and film screenplays. Crews also is credited as a gifted instructor and mentor for…

Bo Diddley

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The late Bo Diddley of Archer, near Gainesville, was one of rock music's principal architects in the 1950s. He is generally credited as the man who gave rock its beat—the "rock" upon which the "roll" was built. His innovative and original style of…

Gloria Estefan

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Gloria Fajarda was born in Havana, Cuba in 1957 but didn’t spend much time there. Her father took the family to live in Miami following the Cuban Revolution in 1959. As a teenager Gloria had little time for a social life. While her mother worked to…

William P. Foster

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William Patrick Foster, recognized as one of the world's most renowned band directors, was the creator and band director of the internationally acclaimed Florida A&M University (FAMU) Marching "100" Band for over 50 years. His innovative…

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