Newtown Alive: : Courage, Dignity, Determination (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780983127314)

Rosalyn Howard, Ph.D. is a cultural anthropologist, ethnohistorian and retired associate professor from the University of Central Florida (Orlando), Department of Anthropology. Dr. Howard taught courses in cultural, general and linguistic anthropology and conducted in-residence ethnographic (community) research studies in Jamaica, the Bahamas, and Bermuda. She has conducted additional research and teaching projects in Florida, in the Caribbean region, and in Africa. Dr. Howard has written several books and numerous articles focused on her research about African and Native American peoples in the African Diaspora, particularly the Black Seminoles of Florida and The Bahamas. She has collaborated on several films about her research. Dr. Howard has been a member of the "Looking for Angola" research team since its formation in 2004. Vickie Oldham, M.F.A., is a consultant and community scholar, is well known as a former broadcast journalist and 'daughter' of Newtown. She has worked in higher education marketing and communications for nine years. Her responsibilities included branding and marketing three Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Oldham completed a documentary short about Newtown's history in 1992, "Triumphant Struggle," and was one of the producers of the documentary "Reflections: A History of Sarasota County" in 2003. She founded the interdisciplinary "Looking for Angola" (LFA) project in 2004 to identify archaeological and historical evidence of the early 1800s Black Seminole settlement, Angola, located in the Tampa Bay area. Traces of cultural artifacts have been unearthed. Before the LFA project began, this history was not well known. Through multi-platform marketing and communications, the story is now available to worldwide audiences.