FORT PIERCE \u2014 Rollins Brown, a fifth-generation Floridian and descendant of local pioneers Annie and Benjamin Hogg, will discuss his family\u2019s history in trade and its role in shaping the American food system at 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 3, at St. Lucie Village School.<\/p>\n
The Florida Remembered Society (FRS) is hosting Rollins\u2019 program and a series of other America250 public programs \u201cFeeding the American Spirit with 250 years of Florida\u2019s Homegrown History\u201d through a grant from Florida Humanities, the Jacarlene Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.<\/p>\n
Brown\u2019s great-great-grandparents, the Hoggs, established one of Fort Pierce\u2019s first trading posts in 1879 with $100 of goods. Their customers included pioneers, Seminole Indians, and occasional travelers and tourists.<\/p>\n
The Hoggs\u2019 business grew from a palmetto shack and a trade boat along the river to the large general store the Hoggs built in the 1880s which still stands today in downtown Fort Pierce, the PP Cobb Store.<\/p>\n
Presenter Rollins Brown, 52, is a local rancher, attorney, and entrepreneur of one of the nation\u2019s largest farm-to-table food shipping companies supplying specialty fruits, beef and produce.<\/p>\n
His program will explore how \u201cThe more things change the more they stay the same\u201d as he compares and contrasts the Hogg\/Brown Family\u2019s diversity of trades from the pioneer trading post to modern technology and shipping.<\/p>\n
The program complements the current \u201cRed, White and FOOD\u201d exhibition at the St. Lucie Village School, which is presented through a partnership of FRS, Florida Humanities and Jacarlene Foundation, and the Smithsonian Institution\u2019s Museum on Main Street.<\/p>\n
The St. Lucie (Village) School is located at 2501 North Old Dixie, Fort Pierce, Fl 34946. Seating is limited; call (772) 267-4873 to reserve your place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT PIERCE \u2014 Rollins Brown, a fifth-generation Floridian and descendant of local pioneers Annie and Benjamin Hogg, will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172,563],"class_list":["post-411010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news","tag-st_lucie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411010","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=411010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}