FORT PIERCE \u2014 Celebrate America250 and sample a taste of Florida food history Saturday, June 13 at 2 p.m. at the St Lucie (Village) School when \u201cFlorida Talks\u201d journalist and author Dalia Colon presents \u201cTelling Florida Food Stories.\u201d<\/p>\n
This program is sponsored by the Florida Remembered Society through Florida Humanities\u2019 current \u201cFlorida Talks\u201d speakers\u2019 series celebrating \u201cFlorida Reflections: America 250 \u2014 Everlasting Florida.\u201d<\/p>\n
Presenter Colon will share an interactive overview of Florida\u2019s history told through the lens of our state foods, and she\u2019ll spark conversations on Florida\u2019s contribution to the American tale and the American table.<\/p>\n
From indigenous foodways, to the rise and fall of the citrus industry, to modern sustainability efforts, Colon will keep the discussion energized and personalized with audience story sharing, audio. and video clips, Colon\u2019s program complements the current exhibition at the St. Lucie (Village) School, \u201cRed, White & FOOD\u201d which welcomes all visitors.<\/p>\n
This local food heritage exhibition is provided through a collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution\u2019s Museum on Main Street and is funded by Florida Humanities with a grant from the Jacarlene Foundation.<\/p>\n
Other exhibition sponsors include Neill, Marquis, Osking & Hale, PLLC, and the Florida\u2019s Natural Growers Foundation.<\/p>\n
The St. Lucie (Village) School is located at 2501 North Old Dixie Hwy. in St Lucie Village. Admission is free for this program and exhibition.<\/p>\n
Light \u201cFlorida Foods\u201d refreshments will be served. Seating is limited, so reserve your place by calling (772) 267-4873.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT PIERCE \u2014 Celebrate America250 and sample a taste of Florida food history Saturday, June 13 at 2…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[89873,171,173,172],"class_list":["post-292357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-local_events","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292357","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=292357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}