Posts

Featured Post

Loving - The Movie. A beautiful portrayal of a forgotten civil rights story

-
Image
Ruth Negga (2 nd from right) stars as Mildred and Joel Edgerton (right) stars as Richard in Jeff Nichols LOVING, a Focus Features release. Credit : Ben Rothstein / Focus Features   Mildred Jeter and Richard Loving grew up in the rural unincorporated town of Central Point, Virginia. They met in high school, spent time together, and eventually, when Mildred became pregnant, decided to marry. But this was the 1950’s and Mildred was African American and Richard was white. Virginia had anti-miscegenation laws which made their marriage illegal. How did these two young people get beyond Jim Crow and fall in love? Well that had a lot to with Central Point VA. Central Point was and is still a very rural area. At a distance of about 90 miles south east from Washington DC it was community with a history of poor farmers, black and white, ignoring the rules of segregation, living together. According to a 2012 article in the Washington Post , Central Point and Caroline Count...
Post a Comment
Read more

Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, FL

-
Image
  You might not expect to find a museum dedicated to Salvador Dalí in St. Petersburg, Florida, but you would be wrong. And St. Petersburg has Albert Reynolds Morse and Eleanor Morse to thank for it. Photo by Ebyabe vis wikicommons Reynolds Morse (1914-2000) was an Ohio industrialist. Reynolds and his wife Eleanor (1912-2010) purchased their first Dalí in 1943. Together they became consistent collectors of his work. In 1971 they created a museum for their collection in Beachwood, Ohio, near Cleveland. Their gallery was in a building at their industrial plant. In 1980, the city of St. Petersburg approached the couple and offered a new home for their museum. Originally in a warehouse near the city’s waterfront, in 2008 St. Petersburg commissioned a new building. They hired Yann Weymouth to design the new home for the collection.  Today, The Salvador Dalí Museum is home to over 1500 paintings, watercolors, drawings, and other artifacts. It has more recognized Dalí masterpieces ...
2 comments
Location: 1 Dali Blvd, St. Petersburg, FL 33701, USA
Read more

Fort DeSoto and Beach Towns in Florida

-
Image
  Like most of Florida’s coastline, the Pinellas Peninsula is lined with small islands or keys. Near the City of St. Petersburg, these islands offer beautiful beaches, some history, and, of course, resorts. Fort DeSoto Park Fort DeSoto Park covers five keys at the southern tip of Pinellas Peninsula. It sits at the main channel into Tampa Bay, so the site played a key role in several wars fought by and among the United States. The keys were used by the Union Navy during the Civil War to help anchor the blockade of Tampa Bay. In 1898, during the Spanish-American War, the local governments in Tampa and St. Petersburg were worried about being invaded, so they petitioned the federal government to build a protective encampment at the mouth of Tampa Bay. The fort was never fully enclosed by walls, so the only structure left is the poured concrete embankment that offered protection to the Laidley Battery, a collection of eight 12-inch mortars, of which four are left today. Fort DeSoto was...
Post a Comment
Location: North Beach At Fort DeSoto Park, St. Petersburg, FL 33715, USA
Read more