Florida Frontiers

Mary McLeod Bethune was a larger-than-life educator and activist whose legacy is now remembered with an eleven-foot tall, 6,000-pound statue carved by Nilda Comas. She used the last piece of statuary marble taken from the same Italian quarry used by Renaissance artist Michelangelo. The statue will represent Florida in the US Capitol building.

Ponce Inlet Lighthouse. Completed in 1887, the Ponce Inlet Lighthouse is the tallest in Florida, and a National Historic Landmark.

The John G. Riley House. Built in Tallahassee in 1890, the John G. Riley House is now a museum of African American history.

Mabel Norris Reese. Courageous journalist Mabel Norris Reese covered the infamous Groveland Rape Trial and Ku Klux Klan activities in Lake County in the mid-20th century.

The Florida Historical Society Public History Forum and the Annual Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Society Conference were held together in Gainesville, in 2022.