Brian Rucker: Summer Cruises in West Florida Waters

Program Type:

Books and Authors, Summer Reading

Age Group:

Adults
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Join us as the always-entertaining Dr. Brian R. Rucker discusses F. F. Bingham’s Log of the Peep O’ Day: Summer Cruises in West Florida Waters, 1912-1916, in which Bingham captures the unique time between the frontier period and the modern age. Dr. Rucker will share delightful stories from the book and present great descriptions of the local areas Bingham and his family traveled to, like the Narrows at Camp Walton and Choctawhatchee Bay.

Dr. Rucker is a professor of history at Pensacola State College, and he also teaches Florida History at the University of West Florida. He is past president of the Gulf South Historical Association, has served on the Florida National Register Review Board, and has authored and edited over 50 scholarly books and articles related to Florida and Gulf Coast history.

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