On the subject of history... as is graven over the door to the previous history department building at FSU, the Williams Building, "from an unknown source"... "The half of knowledge is knowing where to find it."

If you will perhaps expand whatever preconception you may have as to what is "local history"... Dale Cox's historical blogs center around Jackson County but then for some reason I can't account for Jackson County is the busiest center of historical and genealogical activity anywhere in this area... and Dale has a very readable style... so, if you have an interest in history and read a bit of his stuff, you will probably like it:

http://twoegg.blogspot.com/

http://www.twoeggfla.com/index.html

(Those are TWO SEPARATE blogs)

I'm working up towards writing a small piece myself, about The Town of Lee, Florida; a Town Robert E. Lee Never Visited. My uncles Greenberry and Henry Haven "founded" Lee at a hitherto undetermined date... and Greenberry once spun a tale about Robert E. Lee coming in on the train to see the town that was named after him, staying the night, and being served breakfast in the kitchen by Mrs. Haven the next morning. Robert E. Lee died in 1870... shortly after visiting his father Lighthorse Harry Lee's grave, then still on Cumberland Island, Georgia where he died (Lighthorse Harry has since been reinterred in Virginia). After visiting Cumberland Island, Lee visited Jacksonville and took a boat ride down the St. Johns. Lee's diary doesn't account for every second of every day, so he could have conceivably taken a train ride to Lee. But he didn't. Although Greenberry served in Gamble's Leon Florida Light Artillery (raised in Leon County) and Campbell's Independent Company of Georgia Siege Artillery (raised in Decatur County Georgia and garrisoning San Marcos de Alalachee/Fort Ward at Saint Marks, FL), he did so when he was 14 and 15 years old and he was still living in his father's home in Decatur County in 1870. Greenberry, Henry, and their half brother William Sampson Johnson who served as one of Jefferson Davis's bodyguards, and/or their widows) all later applied for Florida Confederate pensions and in their applications they all stated that they moved to Florida in the mid-1870s...

I believe that a certain young man heard Greenberry's tale, and unlike his elders present who knew it to be an amusing fabrication, passed it down by word of mouth till it got written into Madison County history books. Oh what a tangled web we weave... <G>