Bring your chairs and enjoy a relaxing night under the stars at Collier-Seminole State Park. View stars, galaxies, planets, and nebulae! Interpretive presentation begins 30 minutes after sunset and will be followed by constellation viewing using telescopes. The event is hosted by the Friends of Collier-Seminole State Park and presented by Robyn Pritchard, Mike Usher, and the members of the Everglades Astronomical Society. • Event is weather permitting and subject to cancellation. Call on event day for an update at 239-393-7306. • Only flashlights with red covers are allowed in the viewing area. • No dogs, coolers or bicycles permitted in the event area. • Mosquitoes may be bothersome during sunset. Please apply bug-repellant before entering the viewing area.
Everglades Astronomical Society presents the sun as you have never seen it before! Look through specially designed telescopes and safely view the sun. See sunspots and solar prominences, and if you are really lucky, a solar flare. • Educational materials including sundials that work will also be available. • Please note that directly viewing the sun requires specially manufactured equipment and should never be attempted with any homemade materials. Blindness would be the likely result. • Stay after the sungazing for an evening program and a view of the starry night sky through telescopes with the Everglades Astronomical Society. • Events are weather permitting. Call the park the day of the event for update.
Bring your chairs and enjoy a relaxing night under the stars at Collier-Seminole State Park. View stars, galaxies, planets, and nebulae! Interpretive presentation begins 30 minutes after sunset and will be followed by constellation viewing using telescopes. The event is hosted by the Friends of Collier-Seminole State Park and presented by Robyn Pritchard, Mike Usher, and the members of the Everglades Astronomical Society. • Event is weather permitting and subject to cancellation. Call on event day for an update at 239-393-7306. • Only flashlights with red covers are allowed in the viewing area. • No dogs, coolers or bicycles permitted in the event area. • Mosquitoes may be bothersome during sunset. Please apply bug-repellant before entering the viewing area.
Olustee Battlefield Historic State Park, Florida's first state park, will commemorate the 162nd anniversary of the Civil War and host the 49th Annual Reenactment of the Battle of Olustee. Hear the cannons fire, smell the black powder, taste hard tack, watch battlefield surgeons perform their skills, listen for the thundering hoofbeats of the Calvary, the muffled drums, and the pounding of boots, learn about the battle through the voices of reenactors portraying their ancestors. Throughout the weekend, more than 1,000 demonstrators will present living history impressions of military and civilian life at the time of Florida's largest Civil War battle.
The living history weekend features a Civil War-era battle reenactment on Saturday, as well as the reenactment of the Battle of Olustee on Sunday. Period music concerts and crafts, lectures, battlefield surgical practices and the lives of both white and black civilians during the war will be portrayed by re-enactors. Military camps and drills by infantry and artillery are scheduled throughout the weekend. Color ceremonies, Cavalry, Authentic camps, exhibits, food and much more.
Friday is filled with educational programs and demonstrations for students of all ages. School groups may call (386) 397-7005 to register for the event.
On Saturday, demonstrations and programs will begin with a Medical Demonstration, and the Voices of Pride Reenactors will present a series of programs under the Ball Tent. Including presentations on Frederick Douglass and The Service of People of Color Served in the Civil War.
The Olustee Battle Civil War Reenactment is sponsored by the Florida Park Service, U.S.D.A. Forest Service, Olustee Battlefield Citizen Support Organization and The Baker County Tourist Development Council, and the Blue Grey Army of Florida, Inc.
For more information, visit www.floridastateparks.org/olustee or http://battleofolustee.org.
Food concessions will be available.
Pets are not allowed during the reenactment weekend.
Parking along US 90, at or close to the Battlefield is no longer permissible. ADA parking will still be available at the park. FREE shuttle service will be provided to the park from the Dowling Center, 1.5 miles east of the Battlefield on US 90.
Come out and join us for a chat with a Park Ranger. Bring all of your questions and sit back and relax in the shade of a pavilion while you learn about the history of Ponce de Leon springs.
Come out and join us for a chat with a Park Ranger. Bring all of your questions and sit back and relax in the shade of a pavilion while you learn about the history of Ponce de Leon springs.
Come out and join us for a chat with a Park Ranger. Bring all of your questions and sit back and relax in the shade of a pavilion while you learn about the history of Ponce de Leon springs.
Come out and join us for a chat with a Park Ranger. Bring all of your questions and sit back and relax in the shade of a pavilion while you learn about the history of Ponce de Leon springs.
Come out and join us for a chat with a Park Ranger. Bring all of your questions and sit back and relax in the shade of a pavilion while you learn about the history of Ponce de Leon springs.
Come out and join us for a chat with a Park Ranger. Bring all of your questions and sit back and relax in the shade of a pavilion while you learn about the history of Ponce de Leon springs.