Cars were streaming out of the dusty grounds of the Florida Frontiersmen in Homeland when first-time visitor Bobbi Dugas of Brandon arrived Jan. 23 at the 2009 Alafia River Rendezvous, a pre-1840s re-enactment. ...more

February 25, 2009

Modern-day history was made Jan. 21 at the Alafia River Rendezvous, a pre-1840 interpretive encampment at the Florida Frontiersmen's site in Homeland. ...more

February 25, 2008

As workers for the city collected and boxed the tattered effects of the homeless outside City Hall, a disheveled man walked up and began speaking out to anyone who would listen. ...more

February 7, 2008

Nearly three days after putting the homeless on notice, the city this morning began following through on its warning that personal belongings not removed voluntarily from sidewalks and other rights of way would be seized. ...more

February 6, 2008

On any other day, the Bergmans of Valrico are a normal, 21st-century family, thumbs texting, tiny wires connecting ears to musical devices, electronic gadgets beeping. ...more

January 23, 2008

For more than 200 homeless people in Pinellas County, the Christmas holiday was in marked contrast to last year. The residents enjoyed a holiday breakfast served by volunteers at the new Project Hope, a tent city on 126th Avenue. Later, Santa's helpers brought gifts. ...more

December 25, 2007

ST. PETERSBURG - For more than 200 homeless people in Pinellas County, today's Christmas holiday was in marked contrast to last year. ...more

December 25, 2007

Earlier this year, the city's homeless were bouncing from place to place, moving their tents and tattered belongings from one makeshift campsite to another. ...more

December 1, 2007

In Eastern Europe during World War II, young Aron Bielski and his three older brothers mounted what was, by most accounts, the biggest armed rescue of Jews by Jews during the Holocaust. ...more

November 23, 2007

Kipling memorialized the ability of a society to forget about its soldiers once the time of crisis had passed in his poem called "Tommy Atkins." Our country has on occasion shown a similar disregard for the welfare of our veterans as when President Hoover ordered Gen. McArthur to use force to drive a political protest of war veterans out of Washington, D.C. McArthur obliged by driving the marchers out of D.C. with fixed bayonets and ordered the burning of their encampment. Since then we have generally done better for our veterans, a farsighted G.I. Bill after World War II providing educational benefits, which well served the veterans and the nation for a generation. I personally will be forever grateful for the education I received under P.L. 550 at the end of the Korean War, without which I could never have attended college. ...more

October 12, 2007