NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2009 LISA M. FIGUEREDO
EMANUEL LETO
SUSAN CUESTA
PRESIDENT & PUBLISHER
EDITOR
COPY EDITOR
VIVIAN CAPOTE
DONNA GIGLIO
NATALIE CUESTA-WAKEFIELD
DAVID CAPOTE
SALES DIRECTOR
MARKETING DIRECTOR
EVENT DIRECTOR
EVENT PHOTOGRAPHER
ART & PHOTOGRAPHY CONTRIBUTORS HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY • THE FDR PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY • THE FLORIDA STATE ARCHIVES THE FLORIDA FOKLIFE COLLECTION • THE GONZMART FAMILY • THE LETO FAMILY USF DEPARTMENT OF SPECIAL COLLECTIONS • TAMPA TRIBUNE
CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Andy Huse Andy is a librarian and historian with interest in oral history, social history, the state of Florida, and culinary history. He has written numerous articles in magazines and academic journals, and has recently completed a centennial history of the Columbia Spanish Restaurant. Huse speaks on a variety of topics and has taught a graduate course on Florida food culture at the University of South Florida’s St. Petersburg’s Florida Studies Program. He works at the USF Tampa Library’s Special Collections department as a librarian and oral historian. Andy can be reached at ahuse@lib.usf.edu
Gary R. Mormino Gary, the Frank E. Duckwall Professor of History, is co-director of the Florida Studies Program at USF St. Petersburg. He is a prolific writer and author of a wide range of academic and popular books including The Immigrant World of Ybor City. He has written for the St. PetersburgTimes, Orlando Sentinel, and Miami Herald. He currently writes a bi-weekly column on state and local history for the Tampa Tribune.
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