Episode 4 of Detention By Design looks at the 1980 event that came to be known as the Mariel Boatlift and the turning point it marked for the U.S. immigration detention system. As 125,000 Cuban refugees landed in Florida, most spent only a day or two in a processing center - while Haitians were held for much longer. The lessons learned by the federal government during this often chaotic time would shape the years that followed.
Orlando’s 1889 railroad depot the one that put the “station” in Church Street Station began its life as part of rail magnate Henry Plant’s storied Florida empire.
Florida author Cynthia Barnett’s wide-ranging history of seashells, and the ocean-based animals that make them, reveals insights about some of nature’s most beloved and least understood objects.
Only about 40 years before the first bikini appeared in 1946, women piled on hats and yards of fabric at Florida beaches until one-piece knitted suits appeared in the 1920s.