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  • The Ian Project Flyer: Tell Us Your Story and Make History

    The Ian Project: Tell Us Your Story and Make History

    Ongoing

    The Boca Grande Historical Society is starting a new project to collect your stories from Hurricane Ian. We will be conducting video and oral history interviews, while also collecting written accounts, photographs, and artifacts for our historic records.

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  • History First Flyer

    History First

    Saturday, April 1, 2023 | 10:00am - 4:00pm

    Visit the Boca Grande History Center for extended hours on the first Saturday of the month during the winter season.

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  • Book Cover: Fisherfolk of Charlotte Harbor, Florida by Robert F. Edic

    Let’s Talk About Florida – Fisherfolk of Charlotte Harbor

    Tuesday, April 25, 2023 | 4:00 pm

    As the twentieth century ends, so do many historic fishing traditions in Charlotte Harbor, Florida. Anthropologist and oral historian Robert Edic sets out to rescue this unique heritage from oblivion. In doing so, he gives us a glimpse of the lives of Gulf coast fisherfolk in the early part of the century.

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  • Book Cover: Coming to Pass: Florida's Coastal Islands in a Gulf of Change by Susan Cerulean

    Let’s Talk About Florida – Coming to Pass: Florida’s Coastal Islands in a Gulf of Change

    Tuesday, May 16, 2023 | 4:00 pm

    Coming to Pass tells the story of a little-developed necklace of northern Gulf Coast islands. Both a field guide to a beloved and impermanent Florida landscape and a call for its protection, Susan Cerulean’s memoir chronicles the uniquely beautiful coast as it once was, as it is now, and as it may be as the sea level rises.

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2022-2023 Season Events Archive

  • Book Cover: Totch, A life in the Everglades by Loren G. "Totch" Brown

    Let’s Talk About Florida – Totch: A Life in the Everglades

    RESCHEDULED - TBA

    "Totch Brown's memoirs of vanished days in the Ten Thousand Islands and the Everglades--the last real frontier in Florida, and even today the greatest roadless wilderness in the United States--are invaluable as well as vivid and entertaining, for Totch is a natural-born story-teller, and his accounts of fishing and gator hunting as well as his life beyond the law as gator poacher and drug runner are evocative and colorful, fresh and exciting."--from the foreword by Peter Matthiessen

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  • Maritime Lecture

    RESCHEDULED - TBA

    Live in the Community Center Auditorium 2:00pm - 3:00 pm. Reception in Woman’s Club Room 3:00pm - 4:00 pm.

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  • CANCELLED Field Trip: Peace River Botanical & Sculpture Gardens and Blanchard House Museum

    Thursday, December 8, 2022

    Lunch included.

  • CANCELLED Special Event: HERSTORY

    Tuesday, January 17, 2023

    At the Gasparilla Inn.

  • Book Cover: Florida Cowboys: Keepers of the Last Frontier, Photography by Carlton Ward Jr.

    Let’s Talk About Florida – Florida Cowboys: Keepers of the Last Frontier

    Monday, January 23, 2023 | 4:00 pm

    Photographer Carlton Ward has been documenting the often unseen world of Florida cowboys. Every day before dawn, they saddle their horses, coil their lariats and whips, and ride out to work the herds. Over 15,000 ranches raise nearly two million head of cattle--the living legacies of the longest history of ranching in North America.

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  • CANCELLED Then and Now: Photo Exhibit

    Thursday, January 26, 2023 | 9:00 am - 3:00 pm

    Photographs and commentary about the Island as it once was and how it is today.
    Under the stairs of the Boca Beacon Building. Free and open to all. Donations appreciated.

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  • History Bytes – Final Rest – Crystal Diff and Scot Shively

    Wednesday, February 1, 2023 | 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

    In the Johann Fust Library Loggia. Free–Donations Appreciated.

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  • Grande Reopening flyer

    Grande Reopening

    Saturday, February 4, 2023 | 10:00 am - 4:00 pm

    Join us as we celebrate the History Center's reopening and Kim Kyle's 20th anniversary with BGHS! Book sale: 30% off

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  • History Bytes – Family Memories – Julie Jean Robertson

    Wednesday, February 8, 2023 | 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

    In the Johann Fust Library Loggia. Free–Donations Appreciated.

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  • Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams book cover, by Gary R. Mormino, A social History of Modern Florida

    Let’s Talk About Florida – Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams

    Monday, February 13, 2023 | 4:00 pm

    Mormino’s book discusses when and how Florida has grown. It “focuses on the diverse people who migrated here; the developers of tourism, beaches, shopping malls and gated communities; new technology (from air conditioning to the space age); and the impact of this growth and development upon the environment.”

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  • History Bytes – Island Love Stories – Kathy Futch

    Wednesday, February 15, 2023 | 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

    In the Johann Fust Library Loggia. Free–Donations Appreciated.

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  • History Bytes – Post Mortem: The Boca Grande Hotel – Jim Blaha and Peg Kapustiak

    Wednesday, February 22, 2023 | 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

    In the Johann Fust Library Loggia. Free–Donations Appreciated.

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  • History First Flyer

    History First

    Saturday, March 4, 2023 | 10:00am - 4:00pm

    Visit the Boca Grande History Center for extended hours on the first Saturday of the month during the winter season.

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  • Then & Now: Pop-Up Exhibit

    Wednesday, March 15, 2023 | 9:00 am - 3:00 pm

    Location: The Bike Path on 4th Street next to the Post Office. Free and open to all. Donations appreciated.

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  • Weeds and Seeds Event Flyer

    Weeds and Seeds: A History of Dining in Southern Florida

    Tuesday, March 21, 2023 | 2:00pm - 3:00pm

    Live in the Community Center Auditorium.

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  • Tourist Season by Carl Hiaasen book cover

    Let’s Talk About Florida – Tourist Season

    Wednesday, March 22, 2023 | 4:00 pm

    Details and registration will be published once available.

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