At What Price History?
Before there was Henry Flagler’s East Coast Railway, even before Ponce DeLeon went searching for the fountain of youth, native peoples — Aís and Seminoles — had a thriving culture in this area we now call the Treasure Coast.
Kristalyn Marie Shefveland, Ph.D., Prof. of History and Assistant Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, University of Southern Indiana, will discuss how these native peoples’ history was rewritten by salespeople and their imagery used by agricultural companies and others eager to cash in on this little slice of paradise when she reviews Selling Vero Beach: Settler Myths in the Land of the Aís and Seminole at the AAUW’s Book Review Breakfast, 9:30am Monday, Nov. 4, at the IRSC Richardson Center, 6155 College Lane, in Vero Beach.
Sponsored by the Vero Beach branch of the American Association of University Women, this Book Review Breakfast is the first of five for the 2024-25 season. All Book Review Breakfasts are free and open to the public. You are encouraged to bring a new or gently used children’s book to help stock the Little Free Libraries that the branch sponsors. For more information, go to AAUWverobeach.org.
AAUW-Vero Beach is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization.