The Future of Florida's Coasts: What We Can Learn from the History of Tampa Bay

Florida's coastal regions face numerous challenges. The past offers lessons for how we can confront them. This program provides historical context for the threats Florida's coasts face and some hope from the history of Tampa Bay. Seemingly doomed by the 1970s, Tampa Bay rebounded and today is a healthy estuary and a site of a vibrant coastal culture thanks to the efforts of everyday people. Evan Bennett is Professor at FAU and author of Tampa Bay: The Story of an Estuary and Its People. Free admission, refreshments. Funded by Florida Humanities.