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Welcome to the companion website for The Florida Dream documentary. This site provides resources about Florida and includes documentary out-takes, audio clips, historical photographs, power-point presentations, bibliographics, and lesson plans designed by Florida teachers.

Produced by the Florida Humanities Council and WEDU-TV The Florida Dream documentary traces the great social, cultural, and economic forces that drove Florida's rapid growth and change over the past half-century. The film was inspired by the book Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams: A Social History of Modern Florida by USF St. Petersburg historian Gary R. Mormino.

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Journalist Cynthia Barnett believes that traditional attitudes towards water usage have put Florida on a collision course with a serious water-supply crisis. She discusses her book, Mirage: Florida and the Vanishing Water of the Eastern U.S.

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