SWFAS was founded in 1980 to provide a meeting place for people interested in the southwest Florida area's archaeology, history and cultural past.
NEXT PRESENTATION
JANUARY 21, 2026, 6:00 PM, FT. MYERS, IMAG MUSEUM
Speaker: Robert Macomber, Author and Speaker
Topic: Key West in the Civil War
Robert N. Macomber is a multi-award-winning author, internationally recognized lecturer, and avid historical researcher. He is best known for his Honor Series novels, his storytelling style as a speaker, and many Reader Rendezvous around the world.
Mr. Macomber’s popular Honor Series of naval thrillers describe the career and personal life of a fictional American naval officer, Peter Wake, which starts in 1863, during the Civil War. From 1882 to the end of his career in 1908, Wake serves in America’s first espionage agency, the Office of Naval Intelligence. The novels illuminate the U.S. Navy’s critical role in the expansion of America from a continental country in the mid-19th century into a global power in the early 20th century, and beyond. Just when you think Peter Wake is through, we have his legacy to carry history forward!
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The Volume 78, Number 2, June 2025, pp97-122, issue of The Florida Anthropologist has an article by John Beriault and Bob Carr about the Bonita Bay Complex in southern Lee County. This is a 30-site complex that SWFAS was an active participant in identifying, recording, sampling, and excavation of many of these sites, and the Craighead Lab processed much of the excavated material. SWFAS also published the results of several of these sites. These early days of SWFAS was a very busy time for salvage archaeology, and the article describes the historical involvement of SWFAS during its early days.
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