Come into the High Springs Museum for your Unique Gift Giving Needs
Southern Comforts Book by Sudye Cauthen / Limited Quanties - $15.00
Stocking Stuffers - $.50 to $10:00
Southern Comforts Book by Sudye Cauthen / Limited Quanties - $15.00
Stocking Stuffers - $.50 to $10:00
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Southern Comforts
Rooted in a Florida Place by Sudye Cauthen The Florida I love is perishing, says Sudye Cauthen. In Southern Comforts, this fifth-generation Floridian blends memoir, oral history, and cultural geography to explore the tensions between community and environment in America today and her own ambivalence about Alachua, the place just north of Gainesville where she was born and reared. Cauthen raises a cry for all that is lost as Florida's--and America's--landscapes and traditions are replaced by interstates, condos, shopping malls, and the new way of life they represent. Part self-reflection, part meditation, and part social analysis, Cauthen's work threads through the stories of blacks, whites, and Native Americans--men and women--including her own family members. Through their words and hers, Cauthen explores northern Florida's unique history, culture, and geography while she seeks a greater understanding of herself and her surroundings. Cauthen's journey takes readers down dirt roads and city streets, to her people's tobacco fields and churches. She sifts sand at an archaeological dig for the lost Spanish mission of Santa Fe de Toloca, peers into an aboriginal grave, and everywhere marshals evidence for the primacy of place in determining who we are. One story takes us on a fox hunt; another reveals lingering racial problems. Permeating the book is the ever-present menace of growth and development and what it holds for Cauthen's Florida. $15.00 |
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"Humbug Bags" "Humbag Bags" are so named because they are shaped like a hard-boiled British treat of old. Or perhaps it's because they are tricky-shaped holders for your most personal stuff and nonsense. Whatever the derivation, they're fun and useful for holding all sorts of things. Small - $5.00 Medium - $7.50 Large $10.00 "Mug Rugs" Insulated "Mug Rugs" for the train enthusiast in your family. $3.00 "Assorted Stocking Stuffers" Child's Tote Bag, Childs Engineer Cap, Jacobs Ladder, Train whistle, Postcards, Key Chains, Wind-up Train, Etc. $.50 to $10:00 |
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Help Preserve Our Local Heritage
Located in beautiful downtown High Springs, Florida directly behind City Hall inside the Old Schoolhouse! Enjoy traveling back in time learning about our local history, envision the day and the way people lived, worked and played!
Our museum is also very kid friendly!
Our museum is also very kid friendly!
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The High Springs Historical Museum is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization that relies on the generosity of it's friends and supporters to meet the expense of providing valuable exhibitions, educational material, access to historical collections along with the care and maintenance of all the unique memorabilia and artifacts. Your generous donation is tax deductible.
Certified with the Sate of Florida as a Non-Profit Corporation and as a charitable organization for receiving contributions and donations under Registration # CH40439 (Solicitation of Contribution for Florida Charitable Organization.
Certified with the Sate of Florida as a Non-Profit Corporation and as a charitable organization for receiving contributions and donations under Registration # CH40439 (Solicitation of Contribution for Florida Charitable Organization.
A copy of the official registration and financial information may be obtained from the Division of Consumer Services by calling toll-free within the state. Registration does not imply endorsement, approval, or recommendation by the state. http://www.floridaconsumerhelp.com/ Toll-free number 1-800-435-7352