Rooted In Baseball: Yankees Owner Creates Hillsborough Town
By Charles Nelson
Here’s a trivia question for you. What Eastern or Southern Hillsborough community has a direct link with the New York Yankees? Well,...
Interesting Women Of Hillsborough County: Simmons, Brandon, Moseley & More
By Charles Nelson
Our history is a story about, and for, all of us. Sometimes that history is viewed through a single lens producing only...
Did You Know? Patron Saints For 50 States: Connecticut – St....
Catholic believers pray for the intercession of the saints in heaven so that they may pray for us on our behalf. Saints are able...
Faith & Footprints: Antarctica’s Catholic Ice Chapel
With the heat wave this summer reaching nearly every part of the world, one region that is experiencing the opposite weather is Antarctica. This...
Did You Know? Patron Saints For 50 States: Cape Cod, Maryland...
Catholic believers pray for the intercession of the saints in heaven so that they may pray for us on our behalf. Saints are able...
Homestead’s Plans Rest With Expanded Timberly Trust Board
The newly expanded Timberly Trust Board of Trustees is charged with making good on the promise to preserve a Brandon homestead erected in 1886...
Tampa Bay History Center Offers Exhibit Of Some Of The Earliest...
The Tampa Bay History Center has an exciting new exhibit called ‘The Shape We’re In: Early Maps of Florida.’ This unique exhibit, which runs...
Claiming Our History: The Legend Of John Ortiz, Little Manatee River...
By Charles Nelson
Legends have the power to entertain. In Southern Hillsborough County, Gulf City is the rumored mid-1600s stronghold of English pirate Ben Margoza...
Ruskin’s Almost ‘Twin City’: Morris Park Showed Promise But Never Came...
By Charles Nelson
Drive along Balm Wimauma Rd. today and look for the town of Morris Park. Once a dream of Ruskin’s founding father, George...
Faith & Footprints: St. Edmundsbury Cathedral – Suffolk, England
For more than 1,000 years, the site of St. Edmundsbury Cathedral has been one of worship and pilgrimage. The oldest and most admired of...
