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Author and historian Peggy Macdonald spoke about some of the most notable women in Florida’s history at the Matheson History Museum on Thursday.
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Sam Goforth knows he’ll never discover everything about his ancestors, but finding out what he can is a trip worth taking.
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So who was Alice? Where did she come from? And how did she become the namesake of the biggest and most popular lake at UF?
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“Here is Home: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and Cross Creek” paints the vivid memories the elders of Cross Creek hold of Rawlings.
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Arts funding across Florida has been significantly cut from the 2018-19 state budget, and some organizations in Alachua County are seeing up to 80 percent reductions in grants in comparison to the previous year.
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Bill DeYoung on Phil Gernhard: "They say he could hear a hit on first listen. I don’t know if that’s particularly true because he recorded a lot of pretty bad records, too, but he had a pretty good track record for good ones, so I think maybe he did have a talent."
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Gainesville soul singer Little Jake Mitchell is a featured chapter in John Capouya's book, 'Florida Soul: From Ray Charles to KC and the Sunshine Band.' "Jake, as I say in my book, is basically, he’s the living history of Florida soul music and he continues to keep soul music alive."
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In the recent years Sweetwater Branch Creek along University Avenue and 4th Avenue has become a forgotten park and littered waterway. Now volunteers are trying to clean up the creek that flows through the downtown area of Gainesville, located between the Matheson History Museum Complex and the Alachua County Library District Headquarters.
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Back in the late 19th century and early 20th century, cattle used to roam freely on ranches around Florida, grazing on thousands of acres of public and private land.
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Today, Paradise is a mix of intersections, buildings, and paved parking lots.