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Dawn Shirreffs, with the Environmental Defense Fund, talks about Florida's Coastal Resilience Bill. The bill protects Terra Ceia, the Skyway Fishing Pier, and the Santa Fe, among others.

Links We Mentioned

Environmental Defense Fund

Coastal Resiliency Bill

Protect Florida's Future

Florida's Climate Future

Why mangroves matter

Mangroves 

FloridasClimateFuture.org

Find your elected official and tell them to approve funding for the Resilient Florida Grant Trust Fund or Resilient Florida:

Florida House of Representatives and Florida State Senators 

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Rick and Cathy talk about writing about Florida in front of an audience at their first-ever live podcast taping. 

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Cathy and Rick talk about only a few of the many Badass Florida Women in our history.

Women We Mentioned

Emateloye

Commodore Rose

May Mann Jennings

Mary Lee De Pugh

Mary McLeod Bethune

Joy Postle (and more about her, too!) 

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Florida author John Fleming joins the podcast to talk about his latest book, Wonders of Shadow Key.

Links We Mentioned

Wonders of Shadow Key

Review of Wonders of Shadow Key

Connections TV show (BBC)

John Fleming's website

Follow That Dream (movie)

The Legend of the Barefoot Mailman

Fearsome Creatures of Florida (and the website)

Dave Barry's Swamp Story

Songs for the Deaf

The Book I Will Write

Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods 

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Hilary Flower, author of The Kite and The Snail: An Endangered Bird, Its Unlikely Prey, and a Story of Hope in a Changing World, joins the podcast to talk about what prompted her to write the book. 

Links We Mentioned

Review of The Kite and The Snail

Limpkins

Snail kites

Apple snails

Slugs

Merlin bird app

iNaturalist app

HilaryFlowerAuthor.com

How To Spot a Snail Kite

Image courtesy of University Press of Florida

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Ryan and Cathy talk about Santos' Black history and how it's been erased, and put out a call for help from anyone who knows the history of the people displaced for the Cross Florida Barge Canal.

Links We Mentioned

The Zorg

Santos historical marker

Historic Santos Recreation Area

Negro League Baseball

Saving Santos

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Springs artist and activist Margaret Ross Tolbert joins Rick Kilby and guest co-host Chadd Scott to discuss her artwork and advocacy on behalf of Florida's springs.

Links we mentioned:

Aquiferious.com

AQUIFERious Facebook group

Margaret Ross Tolbert on YouTube

Proje SU coffee table book

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 Cathy Salustri and Ryan Worthington talk about Sundown Towns, apologies, and the problems the racism of the past still creates.

Links We Mentioned

Tougaloo College's Sundown Town database

Was Gulfport, Florida a Sundown Town?

South Pinellas Sundown Towns

Florida Sundown Towns 

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Buckle in for a wild ride... this episode starts in Bithlo, detours through Orlando Speed World, gets chased by a cobra, and then goes on an adventure through the springs. 

Links We Mentioned

Bithlo

Bithlo real estate

Orlando Speed World

Swampy

St. Cloud Serpentarium

Barberville Yard Art Emporium

DeLeon Springs State Park

Queenie the Waterskiing Elephant

Ginger Ale Springs

Green Springs

Sam Stoltz houses

Orlando Shine

Giant inflatable pigeons in Orlando

Photo of Orlando inflatable pigeons by Rick Kilby.

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Rick and Cathy talk about gentrification, the difficult relationship white people have with Black history, its place in Florida's history, and how Florida's Black history impacts modern-day Florida.

Links We Mentioned

Lincolnville

Fort Mose

Axe Handle Saturday

The Zorg

Eatonville's Zora Neale Hurston Museum

Kingsley Plantation

Carter Woodson Museum

Lincolnville Museum

Historic Hampton House

American Beach

A.L. Lewis Museum 

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