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All $500 Premium Level Gift members receive:

• Annual subscription to FORUM magazine and FHC's e-newsletter
• Discount on registration for FHC “Gathering” trips
• Email notification of important FHC news & events
• Recognition in the Council's Annual Report and website
• 15% off purchases in the FHC online store
• Margaret Ross Tolbert note cards and the Selling the Sunshine State book

Margaret Ross Tolbert Note Card Collection
This box of twelve full-color note cards features Gainesville painter, and Florida Book Awards winner Margaret Ross Tolbert’s images of Florida springs. Each card is 5x7" and comes with an envelope.

Margaret Ross Tolbert is a painter based in Gainesville, Florida. Over the last twenty years she has executed series of paintings, drawings and lithographs from studios in the U.S., France and Turkey. She studied painting at the University of Florida with Hiram Williams where she received her MFA and BFA, with a minor in linguistics. A continuing focus of her work are the Springs of North Florida, whose paradisiacal presence provides a sense of ideal destination.

Selling the Sunshine State: A celebration of Florida Tourism Advertising by Tim Hollis
Hardcover, 352 pages. University Press of Florida, 2008

For more than a century, Florida has thrived on its image as an exotic playground. Selling the Sunshine State offers a scrapbook of bygone brochures, postcards, souvenirs, and photos, all designed to lure northerners (and fellow southerners) into the peninsula.

Tim Hollis's personal collection of Florida memorabilia and mementos lies at the heart of the nearly 500 color images included. Lovingly assembled, the book is arranged according to the state’s traditional tourism department regions, including the Miracle Strip, the Big Bend, and the Gold Coast, which allows readers to discover the lost attractions and sometimes shocking appeals in promotional material created from the 1920s through the 1970s.


Additional information: Only the portion of your contribution that exceeds the fair market value of your premium(s) may be considered tax deductible. The Margaret Ross Tolbert note cards have a fair market value of $15.00 and the Selling the Sunshine State has a fair market value of $34.95. The Florida Humanities Council is a 501(c) 3 nonprofit organization. All contributions are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.
Image source: Image source: Selling the Sunshine State, University Press of Florida, 2008