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  1. From the archives: Internet was once sure St. Pete Pier was site of UFO landing
    Yesterday• History
    A photograph from a 1976 Tampa Bay Times story detailing how a St. Petersburg Pier laser art installation did not go as planned.
  2. Tampa residents once had a direct role in multiple Cuban revolutions
    Jul. 21• History
    Fidel Castro, with an unidentified onlooker, addresses a group in Ybor City during a visit to Tampa in November 1955 to solicit support and cash for his planned overthrow of the Cuban government.
  3. Tampa’s Gasparilla parades will sail on in 2022
    Jul. 20• Kids & Family
    Smoke billows off the Jose Gasparilla pirate ship as it carries members of Ye Mystic Krewe of Gasparilla along Seddon Channel for the 2020 parade in Tampa. After canceling Tampa’s signature event this year because of COVID-19 concerns, the Gasparilla parades will sail on in January of 2022, with advance tickets going on sale this week.
  5. Tampa’s St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church celebrates 150 years
    Jul. 15• History
    St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in downtown Tampa celebrates its 150th anniversary this month.
  6. Owners of now-razed historic Gandy house in St. Petersburg sue company building new home
    Jul. 14• Real Estate
    Neighbors and media gather near The Gandy Home, also known as the Mullet Farm, as it is torn down in St. Petersburg in 2018. The home was built in 1910 by shipbuilder Barney Williams, son of St. Petersburg co-founder Gen. John Constantine Williams. George "Gidge" Gandy Jr., who worked with his father and brother to built the Gandy Bridge, bought the house in 1921 and lived there with his family. (Times 2018)
  7. Historic marker could denote erased College Hill Cemetery’s location in Tampa
    Jul. 13• History
    Angela Alderman poses in the Italian Club Cemetery's parking lot, which is the possible site of the erased College Hill Cemetery. She is holding a copy of the death certificate for her great uncle, Frank Martinez, who died in 1917 and was buried in College Hill Cemetery. Pictured rear is the Italian Club Cemetery mausoleum.
  8. Creator of ‘Free-Range Kids’ updates call to give kids more independence
    Jul. 12• Kids & Family
    Author Lenore Skenazy created the book, blog and movement called Free Range Kids that urges parents to give kids more independence, similar to what they had as kids. She has updated her book in the wake of three states passing laws to protect parents from legal issues.
  9. La Segunda Bakery is expanding to St. Petersburg
    Jul. 9• Food
    Fresh-baked Cuban bread is coming to St. Petersburg this fall when iconic Tampa Bay bakery La Segunda opens on 4th Street N.
  10. Seminole Heights steeple will be gone by end of the month
    Jul. 8• History
    The Seminole Heights Baptist Church is being demolished. Its steeple will be gone by end of the month.
  11. Fireworks are legal on July Fourth now, but manners are still hard to enforce
    Jun. 24• Things To Do
    In 2019, children watch the fireworks display from the Boom to Bay event in Tampa, the last time the area had big public July 4 displays. Because of COVID-19 most cities across the country canceled fireworks shows in 2020.
  12. Tragedy of the Sunshine Skyway harbor pilot is now a one-man play
    Jun. 23• Stage
    Michael Horn stars as John Lerro, the harbor pilot in control of the ship that destroyed the Sunshine Skyway Bridge in 1980, in Mayday: Captain Lerro and the Skyway Bridge. The world premiere of the one-person play takes place June 25 and 26 at thestudio@620.
  13. Disney to debut 2 fireworks shows, kite show for 50th birthday
    Jun. 22• Theme Parks
    An artist's rendering shows the new nighttime spectacular, “Disney Enchantment,” that will debut Oct. 1 at Magic Kingdom. The show will feature music, enhanced lighting, fireworks and, for the first time, immersive projection effects that extend from Cinderella Castle down Main Street, U.S.A.
  14. Sun City Center couple married 75 years share the secret to their success
    Jun. 21• Life & Culture
    Tess and Paul Silverman pose for a portrait in their Sun City Center home on June 18, 2021, days before celebrating their 75th wedding anniversary.
  15. A Tampa Bay scientist on the nature of sinkholes
    Jun. 19• Community News
    Dr. Philip van Beynen, University of South Florida associate chair and graduate director of geography and environmental science programs, poses for a portrait at his St. Petersburg home in on Wednesday June 16, 2021.
  16. Demolition or preservation? Descendants of Pasco house’s builder and owner weigh in
    Jun. 17• Pasco
    The exterior of the Charles Anderson House is seen Tuesday, June 15, 2021 in Holiday. The county plans to raze the home and build a park and recreation trail on the property. The home was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.
  17. USF launches website to serve as a national hub for erased Black cemeteries
    Jun. 16• History
    Cardno Archaeologist KC Allen uses a trowel as she explores a possible grave shaft at the erased Zion Cemetery in Tampa.
  18. NAACP to Tampa: For Juneteenth, find Robert Meacham, a slave who became senator
    Jun. 12• History
    This portrait of Robert Meacham was taken around 1870. Meacham was an enslaved man who was later elected Florida senator.
  19. Newman Cigar Company wants to bring Cuban tobacco back to Ybor City
    Jun. 7• Tampa
    Eric Newman, president of J.C. Newman Cigar Company, with a bail of Cuban tobacco that was purchased before the embargo.
  20. Tampa archaeologists to search for Tulsa race massacre mass grave
    Jun. 3• History
    Cardno Archaeologist KC Allen uses a trowel as she explores a grave shaft at Zion Cemetery in Tampa in June 2020.
  21. Black communities around Tampa Bay were erased. Should cities pay to save the history?
    May 28• History
    Tampa's Black neighborhood known as the Scrub as it looked in the 1930s. The downtown neighborhood was later razed.
  22. The history of W.K. Kellogg in Dunedin and his ‘mansion’
    May 26• History
    The home at 129 Buena Vista Drive S in Dunedin seen during the years W.K. Kellogg owned it.
  23. In the 1970s, did siblings find a mass grave linked to an erased Tampa cemetery?
    May 26• History
    This retention pond, next to the the Italian Club cemetery at 2520 E 24th Ave, in Tampa, is where a mass grave was allegedly witnessed in the 1970s when the city was digging there.
  24. June brings a rainbow of Pride month activities around Tampa Bay
    May 25• Things To Do
    Rainbow flags flying in front of local businesses or in shop windows, as well as art installations and other decorations during 2018's St. Pete Pride celebration.
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