{"id":337217,"date":"2026-07-11T21:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T21:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/337217\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T21:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T21:11:08","slug":"selby-library-celebrates-americas-250th-with-old-florida-history-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/337217\/","title":{"rendered":"Selby Library celebrates America\u2019s 250th with Old Florida history collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">SARASOTA, Fla. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/\">WWSB<\/a>) &#8211; Selby Library celebrated the nation\u2019s 250th anniversary Saturday with live music, family-friendly activities and a pictorial journey through historic old Florida.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Sarasota County Libraries and Historical Resources hosted the free event Saturday to celebrate America turning 250, as part of an initiative to share arts, history and other cultural programs with the community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Florida author Doug Alderson presented \u201cIconic Images of Florida,\u201d a pictorial journey through Old Florida, along with \u201cFlorida Dance,\u201d a collection of Florida stories spanning 1968 to 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WWSB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; Selby Library celebrated the nation\u2019s 250th anniversary Saturday with live music, family-friendly activities and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-337217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337217","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=337217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}