September 2, 2010
Sarasota Journal
On This Day in 1947 -
Sarasota held its first annual Labor Day Regatta on the bay. Unfortunately Sarasota lost. The regatta did far better, however, and continues to be held as a celebration of the end of summer.
From Yesterday's Sarasota Calendar by Whit Rylee & Tom Payne
Editor's Picks
McCall House
The McCall House is located at 2445 Alameda Avenue in Sarasota Bay Park Subdivision within the city limits of Sarasota, Florida. The structure's style is best described as Craftsman with Eclectic influences. Along with its Craftsman design and construction techniques, evidence of other stylistic influences can be seen such as Prairie, Colonial Revival and Adam.more »
Oaklands-Woodlawn Cemetery
The Florida Mortgage and Investment Company deeded five acres in 1905 to Trustees John Mays, Willis G.P. Washington, Lewis Colson, Campbell Mitchell and J. P. Carter for a "colored" cemetery. The land was platted in 1910 as Oaklands Cemetery. For a few years in the late 1920s the cemetery was known as Pepperhill. By 1929 it was called Woodlawn.more »
Leagues of Their Own
When Sarasota’s black children dreamed of playing professional baseball, before Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, their models were players in the state and national Negro leagues. The local teams were the Nine Devils and the Sarasota Tigers.
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