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Author Keri Watson guides readers on a tour through New Deal era Sunshine State parks and post office murals. Even before the stock market crash on October 29, 1929, the Florida economy was depressed from two major hurricanes, a citrus export embargo, and the collapse of the real estate market. Florida desperately needed the relief promised by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal and actively participated in and benefited from a number of federally sponsored initiatives during the Great Depression. These programs were aimed at what the president termed "Relief, Recovery, and Reform," and they impacted every sector of society from banking and farming to art and architecture. This collection offers a detailed look at the state parks and post offices built in Florida between 1931 and 1946. Looking at Florida's Depression-era parks and post offices in concert elucidates the ways in which the natural and built environments work together to constitute the cultural landscape and provides insight into the role of the federal government in Florida's construction as an exotic and tropical paradise.
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Keri Watson (PhD, Florida State University, 2010) is an associate professor of art history at the University of Central Florida, a co-executive editor for
Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art and a speaker for the Florida Humanities Council. She is the coauthor, with Julia Listengarten, of
Visual and Performing Arts Collaborations in Higher Education: Transdisciplinary Practices (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023); the coauthor, with Keidra Daniels Navaroli, of
This Is America: Reviewing the Art of the United States (Oxford University Press, 2023); and coeditor, with Timothy W. Hiles, of
The Routledge Companion to Art and Disability (2022). Her research has been published in journals and edited collections.
