From the late 1970s through the mid-1980s, Tallahassee was the home of a vibrant punk music scene. Today, Damien Filer heads up communications for Progress Florida. But when he was a student at Florida High, he was in a punk band called “Gothic Playground... See more
A mix of history and fantasy forms the plot of a play about the last night of Dr. Martin Luther King’s life. That play comes to the stage of Theatre Tallahassee starting this week. It’s the night of April third, 1968 and King’s assassination is just hours... See more
South Tallahassee’s Bond Community is full of history. Now, that history is displayed on a series of markers ringing the neighborhood’s Speed-Spencer-Stevens Park. Project leader Jarvis Rosier was among the speakers at the markers’ dedication on Friday’s,... See more
A Tallahassee lawyer-turned-writer has penned a work of historical fiction. This is not John Williams first book. Almost five years ago, he published the imagined sayings of his rescue greyhound, called “Tillie’s Tales.” Tillie passed on a few years back.... See more
Tallahassee’s history far pre-dates the arrival of Europeans in the 1500s. Now the area’s latest historical marker fully acknowledges the story of those original occupants.
The marker, at the J.R. Alford Greenway trailhead was placed by the Tallahassee Hi... See more