{"id":244731,"date":"2026-04-24T13:33:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T13:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/244731\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T13:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T13:33:10","slug":"new-book-illustrates-history-of-popular-island-off-floridas-northeastern-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/244731\/","title":{"rendered":"New book illustrates history of popular island off Florida\u2019s northeastern coast\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.uga.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/weeklyreader.042726.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"619\" height=\"980\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/weeklyreader.042726-jpg.webp.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-112133\" style=\"width:250px\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The upcoming\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ugapress.org\/9780820375212\/palms-priests-and-pirates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u201cPalms, Priests, and Pirates: The Epic History of Amelia Island, Florida\u201d<\/a>\u00a0offers the first comprehensive illustrated history of the unique barrier island off the northeast coast of Florida.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Doster chronicles the island\u2019s \u201cremarkable story,\u201d from Native American settlement, through Spanish colonization and the founding of Fernandina, to periods of pirate raids, American \u201cpatriot\u201d invasion, Civil War upheaval and yellow fever outbreaks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Combined with images by Benjamin Galland, Doster\u2019s history offers readers an unparalleled understanding of Amelia Island\u2019s role in the broader history of Florida and the early formation of the U.S.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cPalms, Priests, and Pirates\u201d\u00a0aims to\u00a0celebrate the resilience and enduring spirit of Amelia Island, a place whose dramatic saga from its earliest occupation to the present has remained\u00a0largely untold\u00a0until now.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The upcoming\u00a0\u201cPalms, Priests, and Pirates: The Epic History of Amelia Island, Florida\u201d\u00a0offers the first comprehensive illustrated history of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[68122,28,30,29,107768],"class_list":["post-244731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-columns","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-weekly-reader"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}