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Vernon Peeples
Vernon Peeples commentaries primarily focus on Florida history. His political commentaries also are often delivered within an historical context. Peeples has one of the state’s largest collections of Florida literature - both fiction and non-fiction.
Vernon Peeples is the author of "History of Punta Gorda and Charlotte Harbor Area". He served in the Florida House of Representatives from 1982-1996. He is a member of the courtesy faculty of Florida Gulf University and a lecturer for the Florida Humanities Council. . Peeples is a fifth generation Floridian. He and his wife Edna Jane live in Punta Gorda.
WGCU 90.1 FM / WMKO 91.7 FM, a listener-supported service of Florida Gulf Coast University, is public radio for Southwest Florida, serving audiences from Sarasota to Marco Island with great music and NPR news.
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03-15-2010
The production of Naval Stores – or turpentine extracted from Pine trees – was one of the first cash generating industries to set up in Florida. This week on Vernon’s Views historian Vernon Peeples recalls the rise and fall of the naval stores business in the Sunshine State.
03-08-2010
This week on Vernon’s Views historian Vernon Peeples recalls his meeting with a woman whose courage in the face of adversity inspired generations of Americans.
03-01-2010
The city of Punta Gorda is recognized for its riverside parks. This week on Vernon’s Views historian Vernon Peeples recalls the origins of those parks - and the man behind them.
02-22-2010
This week on Vernon’s Views historian Vernon Peeples recalls the poet and composer Sidney Lanier’s time in Florida.
02-15-2010
Every week on Vernon’s Views we remind listeners that Historian Vernon Peeples is a fifth generation Floridian. Vernon’s family’s long history in the sunshine state often provides context for his essays. This week we learn about one of his pioneer ancestors.
02-08-2010
Several flags have flown over Florida: the Spanish flag, the Union Jack, the Confederate flag & the Stars & Stripes. This week on Vernon’s Views historian Vernon Peeples recalls another banner that also briefly flew above what would later be known as the Sunshine State.
02-01-2010
Two Florida Cabinet Members – CFO Alex Sink and Democrat and Republican Attorney General McCollum seem poised to win their party’s nomination for Governor. It’s expected to be a close race this November. This week on Vernon’s Views historian Vernon Peeples recalls Governor Fuller Warren - who was instrumental in establishing policies that still shape the state.
01-22-2010
The city of Ft. Myers is preparing for its annual “Festival of Light” celebrating the life and times of Thomas Edison who wintered in the City of Palms from 1885 until shortly before his death in 1931. Thomas Edison’s presence helped put the town on the map – but city’s root go back much further. This week on Vernon’s Views historian Vernon Peeples takes us to the Fort.
01-18-2010
Thousands of people will be converging at the end of the month for the annual Gasparilla Days celebration. Events get underway this Saturday, and the big parade marking the life and times of pirate Jose Gaspar is January 30th. So who was Jose Gaspar? Learn more from Historian Vernon Peeples on this week’s Vernon’s Views.
01-11-2010
The annual influx of snowbirds to Southwest Florida has begun – and so has the annual grumbling over crowded roadways. But as we hear from historian Vernon Peeples on this week’s Vernon’s Views - it’s all a matter of perspective.
01-04-2010
This week on Vernon’s Views historian Vernon Peeples remembers one of territorial Florida’s most prominent leaders.
12-28-2009
This week on Vernon’s Views historian Vernon Peeples gives us the back story on the founding and naming of the city of Punta Gorda.
12-21-2009
This week on Vernon’s Views from Historian Vernon Peeples recalls a holiday tradition – the memory of a large Christmas.
12-14-2009
This week on Vernon’s Views historian Vernon Peeples takes us back to Florida’s Second Seminole War – and recalls the service of an unsung hero.
12-07-2009
Revenue
from gambling and tobacco sales have brought prosperity to the Seminole
Tribe of Florida. This week on Vernon’s Views historian Vernon Peeples
recalls the Seminole’s struggle to survive as people plagued by poverty
and persecution.
11-30-2009
This week on Vernon’s Views historian Vernon Peeples recounts some of the big news stories in Florida in the year 1899.
11-23-2009
Recent
cold fronts have led to mullet runs in area waters – and many
Thanksgiving menus will include smoked mullet dip among the hors-
d’oeuvres. This week on Vernon’s Views historian Vernon Peeples says
that’s a good pick…
11-16-2009
Competitive sports have long attracted lots of followers…and gamblers. In pioneer Florida sail boat races were the order of the day. This week on Vernon’s Views historian Vernon Peeples recalls an epic race and the boats that battled it out.
11-09-2009
This week on Vernon's Views historian Vernon Peeples recounts the 19th century version of a visit to the spa - part of the Sunshine State's lost legacy.
10-26-2009
This week on Vernon’s Views
historian Vernon Peeples ruminates about Halloween and a long standing
Halloween tradition in his home town of Punta Gorda.
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