The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission's (FWC) Chinsegut Nature Center in Brooksville will host its 14th annual Pioneer Day Celebration from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. tomorrow, Nov. 7. ...more

November 6, 2009

In celebration of the spirited 19th-century adventurers who settled Florida, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission's (FWC) Chinsegut Nature Center in Brooksville will host its 14th annual Pioneer Day Celebration from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. tomorrow, Nov. 7. ...more

November 6, 2009

The 17th century Pilgrims didn't have palm trees surrounding picnic tables for the first Thanksgiving dinner. And they definitely didn't dine off placemats woven from construction paper or sip from juice boxes. ...more

December 3, 2008

PLANT CITY Plant City native Anne Hull, a Washington Post reporter who helped expose mistreatment of wounded war veterans, is this year's recipient of the Lovejoy Award. ...more

October 9, 2008

I stood alone at the corner of the 300-year-old rock church in Wilmington, Del. The only other living being seemed to be an angry squirrel, hanging upside down in a maple tree, his tail shaking as he made it clear I was not welcome in the old cemetery. ...more

September 28, 2008

When George Sebring bought 9,000 acres in 1911 to build his town, not even a sand trail ran south from Avon Park. ...more

July 27, 2008

An undated photo of him in glasses and a full mustache benignly keeps watch in the lobby of the Sebring Chamber of Commerce building on the Sebring Circle. A buff-colored historic building that squats on North Ridgewood Drive, a few blocks away, bears his name on a sign that only those who look up notice. ...more

July 27, 2008

Mark Twain, Edith Wharton and other boldfaced names among the dead have something in common with living Americans in these hard financial times: ...more

June 20, 2008

The 13th Annual Fort Dade Mountain Man Rendezvous, an educational and family-fun look at 1800s life, continues from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. today and Sunday at Withlacoochee River Park, 12449 Withlacoochee Blvd., Dade City. Experience a living history village with lessons about Florida's early settlers; knife and tomahawk throwing, bow making; primitive arts, crafts and campsites; music; and vendors selling food, handmade clothing and jewelry, leather items, animal pelts, black powder supplies and cooking utensils. Cost is $2 for adults or $5 per carload; children 12 and younger are admitted free. ...more

February 2, 2008

The gated community adjacent to the Seven Springs Golf and Country Club got a new status symbol last Saturday, an historical marker commemorating the place where the Seven Springs community got its name and start. "We spend a lot of our time at our meetings deciding on the wording for these things," said Scott Black, co-chair of the Pasco County Historical Preservation Committee. ...more

January 19, 2008