Events
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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
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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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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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.
2022-2023 Season Events Archive
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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.
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CANCELLED Special Event: HERSTORY
Tuesday, January 17, 2023
At the Gasparilla Inn.
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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. -
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
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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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
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: 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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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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