Let’s Talk About Florida – One Island, Three Hometowns

Tuesday, December 5, 2023
4:00 pm

LET’S TALK ABOUT FLORIDA – Zoom Book Discussion

Join in a lively conversation about Florida history as depicted in literature about Florida. Free and open to all, register below for Zoom link.

One Island, Three Hometowns: Picturing the Three Communities of Gasparilla Island 1890-1960 with Rare Eyewitness Commentary by Those Who Lived the Lives

Editors: Charles Blanchard, Editor-in-Chief, Robert F. Edic, Archivist, and Kimberly Kyle, Administrative Director.

The following words were the guide and the inspiration in the creation of this compelling journey into time: The proposed book shall “… represent a new educational initiative on the part of the Boca Grande Historical Society and Museum. For the first time, the Society will make a significant part of its extensive photo-image archive available to the public in the context of the recorded recollections of people who grew up or lived a long time on Gasparilla Island, and who now have provided us with accounts of their personal memories as awakened by exposure to these images.”

Moderator: Editor Kimberly (Kim) Kyle

One Island, Three Hometowns by Charles Blanchard, Kimberly Kyle and Robert Edic - book cover

More Information: About the Editor

Kimberly Kyle has been Society Administrator since 2003. Kim moved to Florida in 1979 from Ohio and resides in Rotonda West, FL. She continues to have an avid interest in the history of Gasparilla Island and its surrounding Charlotte Harbor environments. You can visit her on weekdays in the Boca Grande Historical Society’s History Center at 170 Park Avenue, Boca Grande, FL.