Do you know a high school student who would love a week-long residential program on Eckerd College's beautiful campus in St. Petersburg? We are co-sponsoring a humanities experience in which students entering their junior or senior years will work closely with college professors in such subjects as philosophy, literature, rhetoric, and film studies. The camp is June 8-13. Students will be housed in dormitories. Scholarship assistance is available.

Zoraheads!  Join us for a free and live webinar on May 1. Virginia Lynn Moylan, author of Zora Neale Hurston's Final Decade, will discuss Hurston's later life and work in Florida. Subjects will include Hurston's role in the production of the first quality black baby doll to be made and sold in the U.S., and her coverage of the sensational murder trial of Ruby McCollum. In addition to filling in the missing details surrounding Hurston's last years, Moylan will explore the writer's controversial social and political views and writing during the racially and politically charged decade of the 1950s.

Our judges selected three finalists out of nearly 400 entries in our micro-fiction contest. Now the public is choosing the champ. Quickly, quickly! Voting ends April 30th at 5 p.m.

Check out our events

• Hear Patsy West, director of the Seminole/Miccosukee Photographic Archive, interpret the Seminole Wars from the vantage of the Miccosukee victors and their indomitable leader Abiaki, also known as Sam Jones: April 26, Ormond Beach.

• Learn about the political hotbed of Escambia County, where  flags and laws have changed, but the citizen's right to vote remains the cornerstone of the  community: May 1, Pensacola.

• Explore the early history of European settlement in Florida and the remarkably rich, yet often neglected history of colonization in the U.S. southeast in the 16th Century, a process that began almost a century before Jamestown: May 10, New Port Richey