A Brief Guide to Florida's Monuments and Memorials [Paperback]

Ms. Roberta Sandler (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 4, 2008

Explore the state's most intriguing public markers, memorials, and monuments

Editorial Reviews

Book Description

Explore the state's most intriguing public markers, memorials, and monuments

"A good book that tells you the story behind the monuments, memorials, and statues wherever you go in Florida"--Stuart McIver, author of Death in the Everglades

"Will give readers and users a deeper appreciation for the rich history of the Sunshine State"--Paul S. George, author of Little Havana

Florida is dotted with a wide array of public monuments, statues, and memorials that commemorate significant moments in regional and national history. Many of these honor well-known people, places, or events, while others celebrate the obscure or nearly forgotten.

In A Brief Guide to Florida's Monuments and Memorials, award-winning travel writer Roberta Sandler presents a key to more than eighty of the most intriguing sites the state has to offer. Organized geographically, the book recommends stops throughout Florida and covers a full five centuries of state history. In-depth descriptions carefully chronicle the sometimes hidden stories behind the markers, including the person or the event honored as well as the process of erecting the monument or memorial.

From Civil War to civil rights, from Spanish colonization to the twentieth-century founder of Coral Gables, from Florida natives to famous visitors, intriguing monuments and memorials stretch from Pensacola to the Keys. Whether your interest is in the Okeechobee, Olustee, or Dade battlefields, the 1838 Constitutional Convention, the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935, John Ringling, Ponce de León, Herbert Hoover, Jackie Robinson, Ernest Hemingway, or a host of others, this book will reveal the stories behind the extraordinary people, places, and events celebrated throughout the state.

 

About the Author

Roberta Sandler is an award-winning writer whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Miami Herald, Baltimore Sun, Philadelphia Inquirer, and San Diego Union-Tribune.

Product Details

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: University Press of Florida; 1st edition (September 4, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 081303258X
• ISBN-13: 978-0813032580
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,149,413 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Coming to Florida? Don't leave home without this book., October 27, 2008

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Jay Humphreys (Florida, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Brief Guide to Florida's Monuments and Memorials (Paperback)

A lot of people think Florida has no history -- at least not unless it has the word "Disney" in it somewhere. Not true! Florida had more than 200 years worth of history before the United States were created -- and it's fascinating stuff. If you're the sort of person who likes to explore history on the road -- you have to have this book with you the next time you drive through the Sunshine State. Arranged with the amature historian in mind, it provides a location and explanation of markers and monuments that immortalize the conquistadors, Seminoles, entrepreneurs, dreamers and leaders who made Florida the wacky and wonderful place it is today. It's filled with monuments to events that are tragic, inspirational and just plain "different" -- plus, even dedicated historians are bound to find something new here (I've studied St. Augustine history for more than a decade, but didn't know about the Dade Memorial until I read this fine book.) You've seen the plastic mouse, now get up close and personal with some real Florida history by paying a visit to the monuments and markers in this outstanding guidebook.