Gateways to the Caribbean: Mapping the Florida-Cuban Connection

Date:
9/20/2019 at 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM

Event Description

Join Rodney Kite-Powell, Director of the Touchton Map Library and the Saunders Foundation Curator of History at the Tampa Bay History Center in the Root Family Auditorium at MOAS for a talk outlining the many connections and similarities between Cuba and Florida over the past 500 years. Cuba’s role as Spain’s “Key to the Caribbean” and Florida’s position as both “the southernmost” state in the continental United States and the northernmost area of the Caribbean allowed both to serve as gateways to the New World. Since the 1850s, Florida and Cuba have been bound together through business, cultural, and family ties that still endure to this day despite over 50 years of political and ideological separation.

Free for members, $7.00 for future members, or with paid museum admission.

Location:
Museum of Arts & Sciences - Root Family Auditorium
352 S. Nova Road
Daytona Beach FL 32114
Phone:
2024 Exhibit Sponsors
Sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Arts and Culture, the Florida Council on Arts and Culture, and the National Endowment for the Arts.