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Kathleen E. Kennedy
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manuscripts, early print, coconuts, nautiluses, media archaeology
Above: BL, Royal 18 D II, Lambeth MS 532
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But lots of southern FL isn't especially inviting to European-style settlement. It's swamp. The Everglades are a fraction of their original expanse. Lush, amazing ecosystem, and an important storm buffer, but inconvenient (to Europeans).
Everglades - Wikipedia
All this is to say that, right into the 19thc, Florida wasn't an especially important area to any (post)colonial govt. Ports it had. And swamps. And some farmland. A thriving Seminole population. That started to change late in the century, and the fruit-basket vacation capital began to be imagined.
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Kathleen E. Kennedy
@themedievaldrk.bsky.social
manuscripts, early print, coconuts, nautiluses, media archaeology
Above: BL, Royal 18 D II, Lambeth MS 532
For more on the banner artist, read differentvisions.org/aging-artists-and-impairment-in-fifteenth-century-england/
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