Minorcan Culture ceremony at St. Augustine's Alligator Farms

Special events

Cultural exchanges

Exchange of persons programs

Rites and ceremonies

Dancers

Public speaking

Choir singing

A capella singing

Tourism

Alligators

Amusement parks

Singers

Seventeen color slides. 77-78: Images of the ceremony; 79-86: Park employee with Paul Wagner and Loomis; 87-88: Wagner and Father Coll; 89: Bulger; 90: Belland; 91-93: Reception with Jean Lee. The Minorcan Cultural Exchange Tour, which ran from 10/6-13/1983, was created through an agreement between the Florida Dept. of State and Minorca to celebrate Florida's two hundred year Minorcan heritage. First brought over as workers for a British plantation in the 1770s, most soon escaped the harsh working conditions and settled in St. Augustine. The tour was organized by Secretary of State George Firestone, the Bureau of Florida Folklife (Bulger, Belland, Loomis), Division of Historical Resources (Jean Lee and Paul Weaver) and the Florida Museum of History (Pat Wickman). The tour, with 140 performers and delegates from Minorca, consisted of a series of public performances and emerged out of the smaller program, the Minorcan Heritage Week held in May 1983. The tour traveled from St. Augustine, to the University of Florida, to EPCOT, to Cypress Gardens, then finally to Miami for departure back to Spain. Some records for the tour can be found in S 1578, Box 3, folder 81.

State Archives of Florida, Series S1577

1983-10-06

Florida Folklife Program

Still Image

S1577

v. 24

Color slides

S84-77 - S84-93

Minorcan Cultural Exchange Tour

Bulger, Peggy A.

Capella Davidson choir

Wagner, Paul

Belland, Merri

Lee, Jean

Loomis, Ormond

Wickman, Pat

Minorcans

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