Events
Do The Local Motion: Downtown Archaeology Walking Tour
Poe Plaza, 200 N. Franklin Street, Tampa, FL 33602
March 23, 12:00:00 PM — 01:00:00 PM
Do the Local Motion is a healthy and social way to enjoy your lunch hour and learn interesting tidbits about Tampa’s Downtown! Join FPAN\'s own Rebecca O\'Sullivan as she tours you around downtown Tampa and discusses all the interesting archaeology that has occurred there! Walks are free but a $5 donation is appreciated to fight childhood hunger in our community. Proudly brought to you by Where Love Grows and Tampa Downtown Partnership
Sharing the Secrets of Spanish Florida
Heritage Hall Auditorium, R.A. Gray Building, 500 S. Bronough Street, Tallahassee
March 23, 03:00:00 PM — 04:00:00 PM
Dr. J. Michael Francis spent years traveling to archives in Spain to research Spanish Florida. A new website, La Florida: The Interactive Digital Archive of the Americas makes all these documents from this period of Florida’s history available to the public for the first time. Join us as Dr. Francis shares the stories he has uncovered through his research. Dr. Francis is the chair of the department of history and politics at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg. He received his doctorate in history from the University of Cambridge. His teaching fields include colonial Latin America, Early Florida, Spanish Borderlands, the Pre‐Columbian Americas and Spanish Paleography. In February, he was appointed to the Florida Historical Commission by Governor Rick Scott. He is the author of numerous books and articles on Spanish Florida, includingMurder and Martyrdom in Spanish Florida: Don Juan and the Guale Uprising of 1597 and St. Augustine America\'s First City: A Story of Unbroken History & Enduring Spirit. He was recently featured in a PBS documentary,Secrets of Spanish Florida.
Lecture: Women of the American Revolution
Florida Museum of Photographic Arts 400 N Ashley Drive, Cube 200 Tampa, FL 33602
March 23, 05:00:00 PM — 07:00:00 PM
Florida Humanities Speaker Series: “Women of the American Revolution: Lost Voices of America’s First Generation\" presented by Roger Smith It was a time when women had few rights and no say in political decisions or other matters of importance. It was a time when it was believed that women didn’t have the emotional or mental capacities for higher learning and insightful thinking (and yet this era was known as the Age of Enlightenment!). This talk is about some of the most amazing, yet little-known, participants in the American Revolution, gathered from various collections of reports about women from each colony, of all races, free and enslaved. These women dared to resist the “norms” of 18th-century western culture in order to stand for their beliefs and their rights. These are stories of courage and hope from the nation’s first generation that would inspire women throughout the course of American history.
Submerged Sites Education and Awareness (SSEAS) Workshop
Dive Pros, 7203 US-98, Pensacola, FL 32506
March 23, 06:00:00 PM — 09:00:00 PM
The Submerged Sites Education and Archaeological Stewardship program is intended to train sport divers in the methods of non-disturbance archaeological recording and then give these trained divers a mission. The mission focuses on investigating sites in NOAA’s Automated Wreck and Obstruction Information System (AWOIS) with the goal of identifying possible historic shipwrecks and other submerged cultural sites. SSEAS divers are trained to recognize historic shipwrecks and cultural sites, to record the site using photography and hand-drawn site plans, and to fill out Florida Master Site File recording forms. The SSEAS program consists of taking the Orientation to Underwater Archaeology for Sport Divers training course. This course includes classroom, confined water, and open water instruction. Upon completion, participants will receive an FPAN Certificate of Training; a NAUI, PADI, or SDI Specialty Certification may be possible as well. Once training is complete, SSEAS divers are able to perform all necessary tasks and are encouraged to begin investigating AWOIS sites. To join us for SSEAS at Dive Pros in Pensacola, click the link above to register!
Archaeology Works: Archaeoastronomy
Gulf Coast Visitor Center, 815 Oyster Bar Ln, Everglades City, FL 34139
March 23, 07:30:00 PM — 08:30:00 PM
Cultures the world over have studied the night sky for thousands of years, using the stars for navigation, time-telling and more. In this talk, we\'ll learn how archaeologists study the importance celestial bodies have held for humans through the ages, archaeoastronomy happening right here in Florida, and how to start studying it yourself!