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Florida Artists Hall of Fame
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The Florida Artists Hall of Fame, the state's highest cultural honor, was established by the Florida Legislature in 1986 to recognize persons, living or deceased, who have made significant contributions to the arts in Florida either as performing…
The Great Depression in Florida
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Florida's economic bubble burst in 1926, when money and credit ran out, and banks and investors abruptly stopped trusting the "paper" millionaires.
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…
Robert C. Broward
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Robert Broward's 61 years of architectural practice in Florida have produced a legacy of nationally recognized architecture. As a teacher and mentor, he inspired the careers of two generations of noted architects. His consistent dedication to…
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…
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…
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
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The name "Marjory Stoneman Douglas" will resonate forever as one of the most important voices to emerge from the dawning of environmental consciousness in 20th Century America. A lifelong crusader for conservation and women's rights through her…
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…
George Firestone
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Florida's 20th Secretary of State, Firestone has been a Florida resident since 1936. He served in the Florida House of Representatives and the Senate before being elected secretary of state in 1978. As chief cultural officer of Florida, Firestone…
Alfred Hair and the Florida Highwaymen
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"Florida Highwaymen" is the collective name given to a small group of African American painters from Ft. Pierce, Florida, who began painting Florida landscapes in the late 1950s. Under the tutelage of local landscape artist, A. E. "Beanie" Backus,…
Duane Hanson
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A leading figure in contemporary sculpture, Duane Hanson adopted South Florida as his home in 1965. The style Hanson called "superrealism" produced a long series of life-sized sculptures of ordinary people in stunning detail. Hanson's work caught…
Martin Johnson Heade
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A major figure in late 19th Century American art, Martin Johnson Heade spent the last 21 years of his life as a resident of St. Augustine. Some of his most important works were created there, brilliant floral paintings of coastal environs, flowers…
Ernest Hemingway
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This preeminent literary figure of the 20th century moved to Key West in 1928, living there periodically through 1940. Hemmingway wrote all or part of his most famous works including A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, To Have and Have Not…
Zora Neale Hurston
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Zora Neale Hurston not only stands as the most celebrated black female writer ever to work in Florida, but also one of the undisputed titans of African-American literature in U.S. history. A major figure of New York's Harlem Renaissance in the…