I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how our Florida panhandle ancestors produced their food, preserved it for the long winter and protected it from bad weather. While there is much about our current way of life that has its benefits, our fragility in the face of bad weather events is clearly laid out in … Continue reading Learn From the Past; Prepare for the Future
Escambia Farms
The Little Red (or White or Log) Schoolhouse in Northwest Florida: The Student Experience
This week we will skip forward a bit and leave the system and enter the schools of our ancestors. Many of our grandparents and great-grandparents in Florida attended those famous one-room schoolhouses. Generally, this meant all of the students were in the same room, studying materials for their own level; and the older students helped … Continue reading The Little Red (or White or Log) Schoolhouse in Northwest Florida: The Student Experience
Panhandle Photographs and Postcards
I love old pictures and postcards. I have been known to buy old photographs of people I don’t even know just because I can’t stand the thought that they are lost to descendants and languishing in an antique shop. While I have generally been able to talk myself out of purchasing photographs of unknown people … Continue reading Panhandle Photographs and Postcards
Escambia Farms: An Early Local Effort at a Planned Community
It was 1935 and the country was deep into the worst economic depression it had faced in a very long time. Florida had actually gotten an early start with one of its perennial land booms and busts in the 1920s. Followed by the bank failures and the stock market crash of 1929, folks in the … Continue reading Escambia Farms: An Early Local Effort at a Planned Community
Northwest Florida History & Genealogy 