User talk:Horologium/May 2011

DYK for Florida (Where the Sawgrass Meets the Sky)
Another article contributed, thanks Victuallers (talk) 18:04, 13 May 2011 (UTC)

DYK on Florida Project page; history of Gainesville
There is a place to list Florida-related DYKs on the project page, although I'm the only one to post anything there recently. I finally got around to looking at those articles you linked on the Gainesville talk page. They will be helpful. I'm waiting for one more book to come in before I tackle the 20th century in Gainesville. -- Donald Albury 09:17, 14 May 2011 (UTC)

Florida State Symbols
I'll be glad to dig up some background on the citrus archive, moving image center and archive, railroad museums—all three of them, and transportation museum. I had some small hand in a number of these state symbols (Sand was always my favorite, having grown up on the beach). Give me a couple days. They are listed as separate sections in Chapter 15. Seems to me the easiest link would be to the entire chapter: http://flsenate.gov/Laws/Statutes/2010/Chapter15/All Since the entire Chapter is only (about) 14 "screens" long, it should not burden an interested reader too much - though individual links are certainly easy enough too. Richard Herring (talk) 02:42, 21 May 2011 (UTC)

Florida Citrus Archives

15.0325 Official citrus archive.—The Florida Citrus Archives, dedicated to Thomas B. Mack and located at Florida Southern College in Lakeland, are designated as the official citrus archive of Florida. History.—s. 57, ch. 2001-279. http://www.flsenate.gov/Laws/Statutes/2010/15.0325 -or- http://www.leg.state.fl.us/Statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=&URL=0000-0099/0015/Sections/0015.0325.html

Florida Southern College Announcement about new Archives http://www.flsouthern.edu/pubrel/0001news/Citrusarchives070201.htm Professor Thomas B Mack http://www.flsouthern.edu/citrusarch/mack.htm Museum Open House http://www.flsouthern.edu/pubrel/0102news/citrusArchives060502.htm 2004 award announcement http://www.flsouthern.edu/pubrel/0304news/Mack051304.htm nice pic of the archives http://www.flsouthern.edu/citrusarch/ which holds a number of archives https://www.flsouthern.edu/library/archives/

From 2001 Senate Bill 1912 analysis (this bill did not pass - it only had the designation of the Archive - that was rolled into a bigger Ag bill - SB 1922, which became Ch. 2001-279, LOF - as a floor amendment): "As reported in the bill, Florida Southern College in Lakeland has accumulated and maintains an extensive collection of citrus related materials. The collection is called The Florida Citrus Archives and is dedicated to Thomas B. Mack, the person most responsible for the success of the project. Florida Citrus Mutual, an association representing growers statewide, maintains that The Florida Citrus Archives are the largest collection of its kind by far and that they function now as the unofficial statewide citrus archives." http://archive.flsenate.gov/data/session/2001/Senate/bills/analysis/pdf/2001s1912.ag.pdf

I wrote to the Florida Southern archivist - we'll see what I get from her. If it's not adequate, Senator Alexander's assistant is a friend and I'd bet she could get us stuff.

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The 4 museums are from the 80's, so I'll probably make a trip to the State Archives next week. (Legislative history before 1997 is not available online.)

Finally, it occurs to me that for your main page, some pics from the Capitol rotunda might be nice (raised brass lettering of many of the state symbols). I can probably produce pics if you thing it would add interest. See the link below for what it looks like. http://www2.tbo.com/mgmedia/image/604/354/107102/capitol-protestors-want-to-pink-slip-scott/ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.229.7.53 (talk) 03:50, 21 May 2011 (UTC)