Florida Historical Society and The Alma Clyde Field Library
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Cocoa, FL 32922
(321) 690-1971

The short stories of Carolyn Teicher Potts.

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The activities of Horatio S. Dexter as a frontier diplomat plant, and Indian trader are well-documented in the historical archives. However, a study of his life through these various documents reveals a contrast of opinion as to his motives, his business acumen and his sensitivity to the Indians of Florida. 

Adam was on his bike headed toward the beach in Boca Raton, Florida to look for treasures washed up by the waves. Instead he bumped into Phillip, a man who enchanted him with tales of adventures growing up on the same beach during World War II. Adam found his treasure it was Phillip's friendship and amazing hair-raising adventures of life in the small town of Boca Raton during the war years.
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Joe Knetsch has successfully captured the problems and triumphs of early surveyors in Florida as they battled hostile Native Americans, disease, weather and political pressures to "lay out" the Florida Peninsula for settlement. Without these intrepid pioneers of the 19th Century, the Sunshine State would still be a daunting wilderness of swamps and jungles.
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The authors are not historians or experts of any kind but they have traversed the waters of the river by air boat from the flood-plain and marshes southwest of Fellsmere which mark its beginning, and later by larger vessel to the point where its waters join one of the great oceans of the world. We have endeaved to show the river as we saw it and to provide accurate descriptions and information.
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Cows in the Intracoastal Waterway? A bloodsucking night creature on the loose in Miami? The Virgin Mary on a cheese sandwich? Nationally known talk show host high on drugs? The mayor of one small town who banned Satan? The mayor of another small town who campaigned on a platform of "hot loins?" Yep! All this and more too! It's all in Eliot Kleinberg's Weird Florida II; In A State of Shock.
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This book includes an overview of the people, institutions, and events that shaped the establishment, growth and history of the African-American community in Orlando. We examine the creation of the neighborhood's educational centers, places of worship, and businesses, and the irony of how desegregation inadvertently led to the decline of the community. Significant instances of racial unrest in Orlando that are often overlooked are detailed in this manuscript.
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William Potter served as an International election supervisor in Bosnia-Herzegovina and as the Air Force legel advisor to the Office of the High Representative and government of Bosnia-Herzegovina. In addition, he served as the Head of the Rule of Law Department in the administration of the High Representative Paddy Ashdown.
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This book provides a look into the history of Leon County and its biggest city.
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Although he provides some great recipes in this book, he admonishes all cooks to use them as basic guide-lines and adapt them to taste.
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Ron McFarland's recollections of growing up in Brevard County in the 1950's and early 1960's provide excellent fodder for his wicked sense of humor and his somewhat warped "take on life."
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Re-print, Stories of World War II in Florida by Eliot Kleinburg.
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A book by William Darby.
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Not unlike all our lives this book is a series of stories, separate but interconnected. They are all true with the exception of some literary license where details were lost in the telling and retelling. Guardian Angel 911 will provide an insight to the sojourn of a native, born in the isolated hammocks and swamps of the real Florida, before the population exploded in the third quarter of the twentieth century. - J.T. Glisson
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A history of the Florida History Society by Dr. Jerrell Shofner.
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"This book is easy and interesting reading. It presents the “Life and Legacy” of the late Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune holistically and concludes with testimonies from living witnesses. The author narrates Dr. Bethune’s early years and documents how developments in those years influenced her later accomplishments. Permeating Dr. Bethune’s spectacular career is a philosophy based on deep religious convictions and held that “work was honorable, no matter how menial the task."
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"The Way Hit Wuz" is a novel about Florida's history similiar to Patrick Smith's book "A Land Remembered".
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In this biography, Drs. Joe and Mark Akerman manage to capture the essence of Jake Summerlin's life and the broader scope of Florida history.
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Canaveral Light is an explosive novel about the struggle of early Florida pioneers to live in harmony with the land and its native people.  Winner of the Patrick Smith book award from the Florida Historical Society.
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This book is a collection of essays on different aspects of Florida's important role in WWII.
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Brevard County History to 1955 by John M. Eriksen.

Joseph Mills White, Anti-Jacksonian Floridian by Ernest Dibble.
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“This is a must read for every railroad buff. It adds to the literature on Henry Bradley Plant and the machinations of late 19th century transportation barons. Plant led an interesting life—as a Confederate and a Yankee—juggling the demands for business success with an ever-changing political milieu. Plant’s achievements rivaled those of Henry Flagler in making modern Florida.” - Nick Wynne, The Florida Historical Society
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Florida Decades by James J. Horgan & Lewis N. Wynne.
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Ciudad De Cigars: West Tampa by Armando Mendez.