Florida's past Volume 1 people and events that shaped the state
Virtually every month for fourteen years, Gene Burnett wrote a history piece under the title "Florida's Past" for Florida Trend, Florida's respected magazine of business and finance. The first volume of collected essays from that series proved so popular among book readers that two more volumes have been published. Pineapple Press is now proud to make them available in paperback. Burnett's easygoing style and his sometimes surprising choice of topics make history good reading. Each volume divides Florida's people and events into Achievers and Pioneers, Villains and Characters, Heroes and Heroines, War and Peace, and Calamities and Social Turbulence
Biographies
x, 268 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
9781561641154, 9781561644452, 1561641154, 1561644455
1259372600
Preface by LeRoy Collins
Introduction
I. Achievers and pioneers
Dad Gandy's "crazy" bridge
Dr. Wall corrals yellow fever
Mary Bethune builds a college
Mother Tuttle of Miami
"Dark horse" Dave wins governorship
Zora Neale Hurston : Florida's black novelist
Dr. Gorrie cools Florida off
Young Whitaker discovers Sarasota
Dupont rescures Florida's busted banks
Florida-a wellspring for Delius'music
The bohemian birth of coconut grove
T. T. Fortune : Florida's black militant
Sidney Lanier : poet turned promoter
Horticulturist Dr. Perrine's senseless death
Marjorie Rawlings portrays Florida to the world
Educator Holt remakes Rollins College
The greeks conquer the sponge industry
St. Petersburg's "Romanov connection"
II. Villains and characters
Banker Ed Romfh : supreme iconoclast
"Bone" Mizelle was a cowboy's cowboy
The notorious Ashley Gang
Miami's horrendous "guest," Al Capone
He narrowly missed killing FDR
The denouement of "Bloody" Ed Watson
Eccentric Prince Murat dazzles Tallahassee
Florida's dubious dynasty : the porkchop gang
A Florida boy joins Lincoln's assassins
When Palm Beach courted royalty
III. Heroes and heroines
The "Little Alamo" at Cape Florida. Peggy O'Neale : "scandalous" first lady
Osceola : the Seminole patriot
Jackie Cochran : born to fly
Sister Bedell woos the indians
Jonathan Walker : freedom symbol
He replaced another on the gallows
Lake Okeechobee's "she-doctor"
Lakeland's female Lindbergh : Ruth Elder
Father Luis; cross conquers the sword
Florida's heroines for suffrage
IV. War and peace
Fast cars, rich men at Ormond-Daytona
Pristine Lake Worth is discovered
When Nazi u-boats stalked Florida
The war over a rogue's ear
Bartram remembers Florida's Eden
Tampa's "splendid little war"
The "dogs of war" who were puppies
A surgeon assesses the Seminole War
Governor Milton : A Civil War tragedy
The healing beauty of Bok's Tower
The rise and fall of Carl Fisher's Miami Beach
Florida's great train race of 1901
Kissimmee's world-famed airplane law
A private's eye-view of the Olustee Battle
V. Calamities and social turbulence
A killer 'cane hits Okeechobee land
To burn in a turpentine hell
The notorious Alston-Read duel
The "Binder Boys" burst the great boom bubble
Tampa terror and the cigar strike of 1910
The infamous "Gulags" of Florida's past
Armed only with integrity, Governor Carlton faced violence
The Flagler Divorce law furor
Near riot at the Jacksonville prizefight
Bad faith and avarice felled a banking empire
Bibliography
Index
Originally published in Florida trend since 1972