The
Military Heritage Museum in Punta Gorda is marking Veterans Day with a
recitation of War Tales.  WGCU’s Valerie Alker reports.

Governor Charlie Crist paid a visit to Punta Gorda Thursday marking the 5^th
Anniversary of the day Category 4 Hurricane Charley made landfall in
the small gulf coast city.  He spoke at the newly built Charlotte
Harbor Event Center – which sits on the site of the old municipal
auditorium destroyed by the storm.  WGCU’s Valerie Alker reports.

General Motors may be bankrupt – but a shining
example of its glory days is thriving in Punta Gorda.  WGCU’s Valerie
Alker recently visited Rick Treworgy’s Muscle Car Museum and prepared
this report.

The
Southwest Florida Museum of history hopes to attract English and
Spanish residents with its new audio tours.  WGCU’s Luis Hernandez
reports.

State Road 80 east from Ft. Myers  in Lee County meanders through many older communities. There are the river towns  of Alva, Olga, and Ft. Denaud. (duh-no) And on the south side of roadway there’s Charleston Park. If you weren’t looking for it – you’d never know it was there.  But it has been since 1926, and many descendants of the original residents who worked in the surrounding fields and groves are still there.  WGCU’s Valerie Alker took a ride through Charleston Park this week with longtime community activist Alice Washington and recorded her story.

There's a special exhibit about Roberto Clemente at the North Collier Regional Park. The show runs through December 27th. WGUC's Luis Hernandez recently spoke with producer Bernardo Ruiz about his award winning documentary of Roberto Clemente. The film aired on PBS American Experience

A piece of history is at Florida Gulf Coast University this week. The University hosts a Holocaust-era boxcar to teach students and the community about the atrocities of genocide. WGCU’s Katie Pankow reports.

Underwater archeologists are exploring a cave deep below the surface of a fresh water spring in North Port for the first time in more than three decades. The work is funded by a grant from the National Geographic Society. They’re looking for clues about prehistoric life in Florida, and perhaps fundamentally change the archeological record. WGCU’s Mike Kiniry took a trip out to the spring and has this report…

Thanks to research being done at Florida Atlantic University, a long-extinct species of man is breaking a 30-thousand-year silence. Chris DiMattei has more.

Once a year for the last nine years a group of re-enactors gather on a field in the everglades to relive the bloody battles of the second Seminole war. For two days in front of hundreds of spectators, under the leadership of a group of Seminoles, they try to show a side of history most have never learned. WGCU’s Luis Hernandez attended this year and has this report.

Click on the image to the left to see more pictures from the re-enactment.

To see video of the re-enactment click on the box below.