TWAM Florida

George Washington’s Mother’s Ginger Cake: Research to Recipes By Maggie Beth McGrotha My lifelong passion for cooking forged with my newfound passion for history in 2016 when I became the venue director of the Tallahassee Garden Club’s historic Rutgers House. My research to determine who occupied the Rutgers House from 1862 until 1893 led me to Charleston and a cookbook, The Carolina Housewife, by Jane Rutgers’ sister’s cousin-in-law, published in 1857. (Yes, we historians embrace these...

Portrait of Gálvez displayed at the US Capitol, by Mariano Salvador Maella This year marks the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Looking at Florida’s crucial but little-known role in the American Revolution turns a spotlight on Hispanic heroes who made independence possible for the USA – heroes Theater with a Mission (TWAM) is featuring in a new play called Feuding Families in Florida 1776. Take, for example, Bernardo Vicente de Gálvez y Madrid. Gálvez combined creative...