Florida Conversations Continues



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The Tampa Bay History Center continues its Florida Conversations Lecture Series with ”400 Years of Florida Maps”, a talk led by the History Center’s founding board chairman and map collector, Tom Touchton, on Thursday, February 17^th at 6:30 p.m.

Touchton will discuss his 30-year interest in cartography and his expansive collection of rare and antique maps and charts.

In 2009, Touchton, together with his wife, Lavinia, established the J. Thomas and Lavinia Witt Touchton Collection of Florida Cartography at the Tampa Bay History Center. The 25 maps currently on exhibit in the History Center’s Touchton Map Gallery span 400 years of exploration and settlement in Florida. The earliest map dates to 1513.

Co-sponsored by the USF Libraries Florida Studies Center and supported by WUSF Public Media, Florida Conversations features authors and presenters covering a variety of Florida topics, from politics to fiction, history to environmental issues.

Florida Conversations is free and open to the public. Public parking is available at St. Pete Times Forum East Lot, the Channelside garage and other city-owned lots. For more information, contact the Tampa Bay History Center at (813) 228-0097 or online at http://www.tampabayhistorycenter.org/.