Rollins College is hosting a free lecture program on Florida’s Golden Age: 1880-1930 on Friday, February 10, from 9 a.m. to 3:45
Speakers will present a series of lectures on how the State of Florida evolved from one of the smallest Southern states into a booming center for tourism.
Speakers include Florida Poet Laureate Peter Mainke, American historian Gary Mormino, Florida Frontiers host Ben Brotemarkle, historian Chris Madrid French, preservationist Arva Moore Parks, professor Jack E. Davis, and Rollins professors Leslie Poole, Bruce Stephenson, Julian Chambliss, Paul Stephenson, Jack Lane, and Maurice O’Sullivan. Topics discussed include Spanish Colonial architecture, the creation of Coral Gables, and more.
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SCHEDULE:
Session I: Keynote (9 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.)
Welcome: Grant Cornwell, President, Rollins College
Introduction: Peter Meinke, Florida Poet Laureate
Keynote: Gary Mormino, Frank E. Duckwell Professor of History
Emeritus, University of South Florida, and Author of Land of
Sunshine, State of Dreams
Moderator: Jack Lane, Rollins College Historian and Editor of The
Florida Reader
Session II: The Man Made Environment (10:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.)
Speaker I: Arva Moore Parks McCabe, Author of Miami, The Magic
City and George Merrick’s Coral Gables
Speaker II: Bruce Stephenson, Rollins Professor of Environmental
Studies and Author of John Nolen, Urban Planner and
Landscape Architect
Moderator: Chris Madrid French, Executive Director, Casa Feliz
Lunch Break (11:45 a.m. – 1 p.m.)
Session III: The Natural Environment (1 p.m. – 2:15 p.m.)
Speaker I: Jack E. Davis, University of Florida Professor of History and
Author of Paradise Lost and An Everglades Providence
Speaker II: Leslie Poole, Rollins Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies
and Author of Saving Florida: Women’s Fight for the Environment in the Twentieth Century
Moderator: Paul Stephenson, Rollins Associate Professor of Biology
Session IV: The Cultural Environment (2:30 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.)
Speaker I: Ben Brotemarkle, Executive Director, Florida Historical
Society and Host of Florida Frontiers
Speaker II: Maurice J. O’Sullivan, Kenneth Curry Professor of
Literature at Rollins and Editor of The Florida Reader and
Florida in Poetry
Moderator: Julian Chambliss, Rollins Professor of History and Author
of Age of Heroes: Eras of Men