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The Writing Around Florida program
hopes to foster an appreciation of Florida's heritage by encouraging
writers to utilize the State Archives of Florida's rich and extensive
photographic collections.
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Eyes Were Watching God |
- In support
of The Big Read’s selection of Their Eyes Were Watching God,
these photographs from the State Archives of Florida depict Zora Neale
Hurston, Lake Okeechobee, and images from the 1928 hurricane.
- Choose
one of these photographs to begin writing, or choose from one of the
categories on the left.
- Questions will
guide you to write about what you see.
- Look for clues that help you
figure out what's happening in the photograph.
- Save or print your essay.
- The Big Read is an initiative
of the National Endowment for the Arts designed to restore reading to
the center of American culture.
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| NEW AND
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ON FLORIDA MEMORY |
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| Selling, Telling, and Yelling: Florida broadsides and other ephemera, 1800-2000 Before television, radio, and the internet, Florida society communicated widely and often through broadsides, advertisements, flyers, and other ephemera. |
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Florida Blues Each of our neighboring southern states has placed a unique brand on the music’s form and sound—Florida hasn’t done a bad job of that in its own right. |
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Florida Cigars: Artistry, Labor, and Politics in Florida’s Oldest Industry Commercial cigar rolling first came to Florida in the 1830s and in the decades after the Civil War it became one of the most important industries in the southeastern United States. |
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