All Events
MAY 25
Tampa Multicultural Café
Wednesday, May 25 | 5–6:30 AM
Step into the Multiculture Café and experience Jewish Heritage.
MAY 28
Central Avenue East Walking Tour
Saturday, May 28 | 10 AM
Tour “the Harlem of the South,” Tampa’s Central Avenue district.
MAY 28
Living History Saturday: Restoring Tampa’s Heroes
Saturday, May 28 | Noon – 3 PM
Join Andrew Lumish, best known as “The Good Cemeterian,” to discuss how his cemetery restoration work helps to tell the stories of Tampa’s heroes throughout history.
JUN 11
Ybor City Walking Tour
Saturday, June 11 | 10 AM
Tour Tampa’s only National Historic Landmark District and learn about early Ybor City people, social life and work culture.
JUN 15
History in 60: Ninety Miles and a Lifetime Away
Wednesday, June 15 | Noon
Ninety Miles and a Lifetime Away: Memories of Early Cuban Exiles recounts the first-person stories of people who witnessed the arrival of 600,000 Cuban refugees who came to the U.S. between 1959 and 1973.
JUN 16
Book Group – “The State You’re In” by Craig Pittman
Thursday, June 16 | 10:30 AM
With a folksy style, an eye for the absurd, and a passion for the history and environment of his home state, Pittman describes some of Florida’s oddest wildlife as well as its quirkiest people.
JUN 18
Downtown Tampa Walking Tour
Saturday, June 18 | 10 AM
Learn about Tampa’s compelling history as you stroll past City Hall, Sacred Heart Church, the Floridan Palace Hotel and even Tampa’s oldest bar, The Hub, on this guided trek!
JUN 23
Duckwall Lecture:
Dreams in the New Century
Thursday, June 23 | 6:30 PM
Join eminent historian and author Gary Mormino, Ph.D., as he discusses early twenty-first-century Florida.
JUN 25
Central Avenue East Walking Tour
Saturday, June 25 | 10 AM
Tour “the Harlem of the South,” Tampa’s Central Avenue district.
JUN 25
Living History Saturday:
An Afternoon With Frederick Douglas
Saturday, June 25 | Noon – 3 PM
Join Donald L. Dowridge Jr. as he portrays the famous social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman Frederick Douglas.
JUN 29
JUL 6 & 13
OLLI Course: Crossing the Hillsborough River Gave Rise to South Tampa’s Early Growth
Wednesdays, June 29, July 6 & 13 | 10 AM
Tampa’s early growth occurred on the east side of the Hillsborough River, with only a few settlers venturing across to the other side.

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