The history of the Palm Beach area, the Treasure Coast, and Lake Okeechobee is one of turbulence, growth, and especially change. Meet the visionaries and outlaws, physicians and poets who shaped this region of southeast Florida from the 1690s through the 1990s. Author William McGoun's stories are sometimes hair-raising, sometimes amusing, and always engaging. Well researched and dotted with photos from The Palm Beach Post archives, this collection of mini-biographies reads like a who's who of Florida history.

Online version of the print publication.

The Pioneer Cook in Southeast Florida is a new edition of FAU history professor Donn Curl's 1975 book which captures both modern recipes and a delightful social history of this region and the hardships faced by the frontier housewife. Find out how to make a Florida bouillabaisse, turtle egg pancakes, and creative uses for oranges, bananas and coconuts (pioneer and modern versions). Long out of print, the book features seldom seen photographs from the collections of the Boca Raton Historical Society & Museum.

Brings together the reminiscences of two pioneers who came of age in antebellum Florida's Columbia County and the nearby Suwannee River Valley. Though they held markedly different positions in society, the two shared the adventure, hardship and tragedy that characterized Florida's pioneer era.