200 Years Ago Meets Today in Tallahassee

Ben Gunter Posted: April 7, 2020

In 1820, Spain ratified the Florida Treaty, paving the way for Florida to become US territory. 

Here is what our community looked like in Tallahassee this spring, when members of Theater with a Mission (TWAM) helped kick off the planning for a bicentennial celebration at the Museum of Florida History, by playing characters who created Florida’s capital city 200 years ago.

left to right:  Twanda McBride plays plantation owner Anna Kingsley, Carolina Merida plays territorial governor’s daughter Ellen Call Long, Marcy Palmer plays educator Harriet Randolph, and Brian Wyatt plays architect George Proctor.  Photo by Sydney Schuhmacher.

Idy Codington plays territorial governor’s wife, Peggy Eaton, Brian Wyatt plays architect George Proctor, Marcy Palmer plays educator Harriet Randolph, and Russell Almond plays newspaper editor Ambrose Crane.  Photo by Sydney Schuhmacher.

Ben Gunter plays territorial governor William Duval, talking with Dave Lang, longtime Clerk of Leon County Courts.  Photo by Sydney Schuhmacher.

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