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  1. Plant City wants to save historic school building
    Yesterday• History
    The exterior of the 1914 Plant City High School Community Center in Plant City.
  2. In Tampa, drag shows date back 125 years
    Yesterday• History
    John Lind, once among the world’s most renowned female impersonators, performed in Tampa in 1917.
  3. St. Pete Yacht Club to be torn down, rebuilt in 5 years. Here’s why.
    June 2• News
    The St. Petersburg Yacht Club is seen in this Google Earth image.
  5. New Tampa Bay History Center exhibit tells 500 years of Black history
    June 2• History
    Curtis Stokes, chairperson of the Tampa Bay History Center board of trustees, looks at items on display before the ribbon-cutting ceremony as he walks through the new permanent Black history exhibit at the center. The new exhibit, Travails and Triumphs, chronicles over 500 years of Black history in the Tampa Bay area.
  6. Pride month events in Tampa Bay: parties, parades, concerts and more
    May 31• Life & Culture
    The quarter-mile-long rainbow flag being rolled up at the end of the Pride in Paradise Parade, with hundreds of people carrying the flag down the street in 2022.
  7. Netflix’s ‘MerPeople’ features Weeki Wachee Springs and Tampa Bay mermaids
    May 26• TV
    A still from "MerPeople," Netflix's four-part documentary series that revolves around mermaid culture. The series includes mermaids from Tampa Bay's own Weeki Wachee Springs State Park.
  8. Tampa park honors 7 brothers who served military from WWII to Desert Storm
    May 25• History
    Joe Vila, Willie Vila, Wilfred Vila, Hector Vila, Robert Vila, Denio Vila and Tony Vila at Vila Brothers Park in 2005. The brothers served in the military, spanning World War II to Operation Desert Storm.
  9. New dinosaur exhibit at Tampa’s Glazer Children’s Museum: Here’s your guide
    May 22• Visual Arts
    Madai Favaro, a museum educator with Tampa's Glazer Children's Museum, introduces Big John, the world’s largest documented fossilized triceratops skeleton, during a visit with kindergarten students from Booker T. Washington Elementary School in Tampa.
  10. Radio star Jack Harris to pitch Tampa City Council on a celebrity walk of fame
    May 18• History
    “It would be a great attraction for tourists and residents,” Tampa Bay radio personality Jack Harris said of his idea for a Tampa Walk of Fame.
  11. A Clearwater Waffle House led to fame for PBS landscape artist Bob Ross
    May 16• History
    Annette Kowalski and "The Joy of Painting" host Bob Ross met in Clearwater and agreed to become business partners over dinner at a Waffle House.
  12. I slept at Jack Kerouac’s home in St. Petersburg. You can, too.
    May 16• History
    The Jack Kerouac House of St. Petersburg, a nonprofit dedicated to preserving the writer's final home, is raising funds by welcoming fans into the house. A $250 donation and $100 cleaning fee gets you a night's stay.
  13. See the new Glazer Children’s Museum dinosaur exhibit opening in Tampa
    May 16• Life & Culture
    Booker T. Washington Elementary School student Zoey McCray, 6, gets a close look at Big John, the world’s largest documented fossilized triceratops skeleton, through a bubble dome at the Big John exhibit at the Glazer Children's Museum in Tampa.
  14. 158-year-old record proves Tampa slave trade continued after emancipation
    May 15• History
    The entry in the top left corner is a sales receipt for two enslaved teenagers. It was recorded with Hillsborough County on March 14,1865, nearly a year after the enslaved were declared free here.
  15. Property flipper sold Tampa a historic Black cemetery for twice its value
    May 10• History
    A pedestrian is seen at Memorial Park Cemetery in 2021 in Tampa. The cemetery opened in 1919.
  16. Florida Senate passes bill to establish program to find erased cemeteries
    May 4• History
    This is a map of Zion Cemetery that was filed with the Hillsborough County Clerk on Feb. 20, 1901.
  17. Tampa buys Black cemetery for $100,000 after accidentally losing it
    May 4• Life & Culture
    The City of Tampa has agreed to buy this segregation-era Black cemetery.
  18. 50 years ago in Tampa, a sold-out Led Zeppelin show beat the Beatles
    May 4• History
    Left: Robert Plant contorts his face as he sings to a sold-out crowd at Tampa Stadium on May 5, 1973. Right: An original flyer advertising the Led Zeppelin show that broke records.
  19. Is the century-old Tampa, St. Petersburg waterfront debate settled?
    May 3• Life & Culture
    The Pirate Water Taxi floats in the Hillsborough River along the Tampa Riverwalk on Jan. 22 in Tampa.
  20. Here’s what little we know about the slave-era residents of Tampa Bay
    May 3• History
    Shackles from the Spanish slave trade during the 1700s, displayed at the Tampa Bay History Center in downtown Tampa.
  21. $21 million Tampa Theatre renovation to add second theater, event space
    May 2• History
    John Bell, president and CEO of the Tampa Theatre in Tampa, gives a tour. An upcoming three-year, $21 million renovation will preserve the historic look while ushering in a new era, adding a second screen and a third-floor event space.
  22. Riverfest returns to Tampa Riverwalk with music, balloon glow, lantern parade
    May 2• Life & Culture
    A balloon glow will cap the night at 8:30 Friday and Saturday, like it did here in 2017, at Tampa's Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park for Riverfest. The event returns May 5-6.
  23. Bricking Ybor’s Seventh Avenue to restore historic look could cost $12 million
    April 28• History
    The City of Tampa government is considering paving Seventh Ave. in Ybor City with bricks.
  24. St. Petersburg disco club Good Night John Boy opening this weekend
    April 27• Things To Do
    The interior of the Cleveland location of Good Night John Boy, a 1970s-style disco nightclub. A St. Petersburg location is opening this weekend.
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