{"title":"A New Deal for Florida","authors":"D. J. Nelson","doi":"10.5744/florida/9780813056319.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813056319.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 2 explores both the nation’s and Florida’s reaction to the Great Depression, resulting in the New Deal and the creation of the Civilian Conservation Corps.","PeriodicalId":387658,"journal":{"name":"How the New Deal Built Florida Tourism","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117319320","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tourism, Conservation, and State Parks","authors":"D. J. Nelson","doi":"10.5744/florida/9780813056319.003.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813056319.003.0004","url":null,"abstract":"For Florida, conservation and tourism have always been linked. As many argued during the Great Depression era, we should conserve those elements that we can sell to visitors. This chapter looks at the development of both during the 1930s and how they led to the creation of the Florida Park Service.","PeriodicalId":387658,"journal":{"name":"How the New Deal Built Florida Tourism","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128557855","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The End of the Beginning","authors":"David J. Nelson","doi":"10.5744/florida/9780813056319.003.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813056319.003.0012","url":null,"abstract":"America’s entrance into World War II in late 1941 saw the cessation of the Civilian Conservation Corps. Numbers of both tourists and workers steeply declined as labor, funds, and resources were redirected to the war effort. This chapter looks at the hibernation and the Florida tourism and the park system. It also briefly looks at the eventual expansion of the Florida Park Service and the new properties that were acquired and purchased during and immediately following the war. By the 1950s, the Florida Park Service would transform itself into the authentic and natural antidote to what would be perceived by many as the artificial and crass Florida tourist attractions.","PeriodicalId":387658,"journal":{"name":"How the New Deal Built Florida Tourism","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121516876","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Florida Crackers and Yankee Tourists","authors":"D. J. Nelson","doi":"10.5744/florida/9780813056319.003.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813056319.003.0010","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 9 looks at those Floridians who rejected this manufactured version of a tropical paradise. Resentful of the changing political and economic priorities, these people (including ranchers, farmers, turpentiners, and North Florida politicians) saw “foreign” control over their livelihoods and culture. First we look at the development of the Florida Cracker as an idea and cultural construct. Long used as a derogatory label, writers such as Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings converted that image into one of resistance, illustrative of an alternative and “authentic” Florida. Finally, the chapter will conclude with two case studies, tick eradication and the anti-fire campaign, in which we see direct clashes between rural and agrarian peoples with those favoring the creation of a new Florida image.","PeriodicalId":387658,"journal":{"name":"How the New Deal Built Florida Tourism","volume":"2021 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127594391","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Improving Paradise","authors":"D. J. Nelson","doi":"10.5744/florida/9780813056319.003.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813056319.003.0008","url":null,"abstract":"Key to Florida’s tourism was the commodification of the state’s natural resources, tangible and otherwise. Florida developed a specific image of itself: tropical, exotic, safe, and natural. But reality did not always cooperate. In order to present the expected natural landscape for its visitors, the Civilian Conservation Corps created state parks that fit the popular image of what Florida was supposed to look like. It began to remove native fauna and flora, alter water flow, introduce exotic species, and artificially landscape areas that were then presented as natural. We will also look at similar processes in other areas of Florida. Although advertisements, publications, and other forms of popular culture celebrated Florida’s Eden-like qualities, many in the state still believed that paradise needed improving.","PeriodicalId":387658,"journal":{"name":"How the New Deal Built Florida Tourism","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131089060","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Mother Who Birthed the Florida Park Service","authors":"D. J. Nelson","doi":"10.5744/florida/9780813056319.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813056319.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"As the most powerful woman in pre–World War II Florida, May Mann Jennings was instrumental in the development of the Florida Park Service and its predecessor, Florida Forestry Service, as well as bringing the Civilian Conservation Service into the state for park work.","PeriodicalId":387658,"journal":{"name":"How the New Deal Built Florida Tourism","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122356834","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"State-Sponsored Tourismand the Building of Florida’s State Parks","authors":"D. J. Nelson","doi":"10.5744/florida/9780813056319.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813056319.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter offers a detailed look at the planning, construction, and advertising of Florida’s state parks. Of particular interest here is how the Florida Park Service served as an example of state-sponsored tourism. The New Deal era is the only time that Florida’s state government controlled the industry, using both local civic groups and federal relief programs to develop and sell its tourist resources.","PeriodicalId":387658,"journal":{"name":"How the New Deal Built Florida Tourism","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123558899","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The New Deal in Old Florida","authors":"D. J. Nelson","doi":"10.5744/florida/9780813056319.003.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813056319.003.0009","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 8 follows Governor Fred Cone’s failed attempt in 1937 to circumnavigate the federal restrictions over welfare funding in order to control state spending and patronage. This effort arose out of not only political motives but also as a way to directly challenge and reverse the efforts to commercialize Florida. Cone and others saw the power shift that the New Deal had brought: from North to South Florida, from rural and agrarian interests to urban and commercial, and finally from native Floridians to newly transplanted Floridians.","PeriodicalId":387658,"journal":{"name":"How the New Deal Built Florida Tourism","volume":"33 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116637901","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Sunshine State Emerges on the World Stage","authors":"D. J. Nelson","doi":"10.5744/florida/9780813056319.003.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813056319.003.0011","url":null,"abstract":"Near the end of the Great Depression, Florida ends the decade with a triumphant tenure at the 1939 New York World’s Fair, dozens of thriving tourist attractions, and a newly built Florida Park Service. By 1940, Florida enjoyed a thriving tourist industry that attracted more than double the entire population of the Sunshine State.","PeriodicalId":387658,"journal":{"name":"How the New Deal Built Florida Tourism","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127687786","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Florida’s Welfare State Parks","authors":"D. J. Nelson","doi":"10.5744/florida/9780813056319.003.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813056319.003.0007","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter explores the men who built the Florida state parks as enrollees in the Civilian Conservation Corps. Using both archival records and oral histories, the aim is to look at both the development of Florida’s state parks and the New Deal from the ground up.","PeriodicalId":387658,"journal":{"name":"How the New Deal Built Florida Tourism","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131629309","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}