Event Details
Saturday, Feb 15, 2014
A Day in Old Florida
Time: 10:00 am til 3:00 pm
Location: Faver-Dykes State Park
Description: Take a walk back in time and experience the “Old Florida” at this great festival! The event will feature living history demonstrations, including Pine Needle Basketry, a 1700s Trapper Trader Camp, a Timucua Native American display, a corn grinding experience, and more. Faver-Dykes State Park is located on Faver-Dykes Road off US1 South. This event is included in regular park admission fee of $5.00 per vehicle. For additional information call (386) 446-6783 or visit www.floridastateparks.org.
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FPAN is participating in this event.
Jacksonville AIA Lecture: Life and Death at Windover
Time: 12:00 pm til 1:00 pm
Location: Room 1101, Building 51 (Social Sciences) at the University of North Florida
Description: Archaeological Institute of America--Jacksonville Society and the Beaches Museum and History Park of Jacksonville Beach will be sponsoring a lecture titled "Life and Death at Windover: Excavation of a 7,000 Year Old Pond Cemetery" by Dr. Rachel Wentz, director of the East Coastal Region of FPAN. Two thousand years before the Great Pyramid was built people near Titusville were burying their dead in a pond. The excavation which began in 1982 uncovered 168 skeletons, tools, and mats used by this archaic culture. For more information contact Melva Price at (904)241-9411 or aiajaxsoc@gmail.com. or visit the website www.aiajax.org.
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FPAN is posting this event as a courtesy, we will neither be hosting nor attending this event.
