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Walking Tour of Ybor City with Dr. Gary Mormino The digital resources available for this collection are MPEG 4 streaming video clips. There are currently 14 clips available. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "St. Petersburg's Unique Identity" Saint Petersburg Preservation will hold a Forum on "St. Petersburg's Unique Identity" on Monday, October 26, 6:30 - 8:30 PM, at the St. Petersburg Museum of History, 335 Second Avenue, NE on the approach to the Pier. Speakers will include Dr. Ray Arsenault, author of St. Petersburg & the Florida Dream; Dr. Gary Mormino, author of Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams; and Dr. Will Michaels, President of St. Petersburg Preservation and lecturer on St. Petersburg History at St. Petersburg College. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday, September 09, 2009 Ray Arsenault to moderate Sept. 23 candidate forum at Lakewood High Hosted by South Pinellas Area Neighborhoods (SPAN), a working collaboration between community groups that represent the interests of St Petersburg and Pinellas County’s southernmost neighborhoods. We represent nearly 10,000 households and are dedicated to improving and promoting neighborhood spirit, economic development and a positive image for the area south of Lake Maggiore by representing our neighborhoods through unified communications.The neighborhoods hosting are: Lakewood Estates Civic Association Greater Pinellas Point Civic Association Coquina Key Neighborhood Association Maximo Moorings Civic Association Broadwater Civic Association Raymond Arsenault is the John Hope Franklin Professor of Southern History and Co-Director of the Florida Studies Program at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg, where he has taught since 1980. A specialist in the political, social, and environmental history of the American South, he is author of the well respected and authoritative book detailing the history of our community, St. Petersburg and the Florida Dream, 1888-1950. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
GARY R. MORMINO Gary Mormino is the most prolific writer of Florida history who is still working as a full-time professor. He serves as the Frank E. Duckwall Professor of Florida History and co-director of the Florida Studies Program at the University of South Florida in St. Petersburg where he has taught since 1977.
Mormino also is co-author of at least three books dealing with Florida's environment. Such works include The Everglades: An Environmental History (with Raymond Arsenault and David McCally (1999); Death in the Everglades: The Murder of Guy Bradley, America's First Martyr to Environmentalism (with Arsenault and Stuart B. McIver) (2003); and Waters Less Traveled: Exploring Florida's Big Bend Coast (with Arsenault and Doug Alderson) (2003). A graduate of Millikin University (B.A.) and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Ph.D.), Mormino also has written extensively on immigration and urban America. In 1986, the University of Illinois published Immigrants on the Hill: Italian-Americans in St. Louis, 1882-1982. The following year the University of Illinois Press included in its inaugural Statue of Liberty Series, The immigrant world of Ybor City: Italians and their Latin neighbors in Tampa, 1885-1985 (with George Pozzetta). Presently he is completing a history of World War II in Florida.
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His most recent book, 
Authors abound in Florida Studies (FSP), a graduate-level Program of Distinction at USF St. Petersburg. During 2005 - 2006 seven books were published by its faculty, students, and Fellows. Regarding this bonanza of books from FSP scholars, most striking is the breadth of the scholarship and writing that reflects the interdisciplinary nature of Florida Studies,” says Gary Mormino. “This cross-fertilization is not an accident – it is what we hope for in the liberal arts. Disciplines and scholarship interact and influence each other,” he adds.