by Thomas Hallock | Sep 8, 2014 | Road Course
I kicked off the survey last week with a personal favorite, the Naufragios of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca. Cabeza de Vaca, he of the bovine cranium, landed off the Pinellas Peninsula on April 14, 1528. The date is easy–Maundy Thursday, the day before Good Friday....
by Thomas Hallock | May 2, 2014 | Road Course
I probably should not have taken the water. Blame scholarly curiosity. In 1803 a group of enslaved Africans jumped shipped here, at Igbo Landing, a tidal estuary off Dunbar Creek on St. Simons Island in Georgia. Written records conclude the slaves committed mass...
by Thomas Hallock | Jan 23, 2014 | Video
Recognizing 500 years since Ponce de Leon’s first Florida landing, the Florida Humanities Council landed a fat grant. To speculate on how the money should be spent, scholars gathered in St. Petersburg for a one-day conference. We each got five minutes. I took on...
