Koreshans and Fast Food
Here is a recent article from the website "Fast Food Club". I have no idea how or why a site that is apparently designed to help you find fast food, good food and
Koreshans and Fast Food
Cyrus Teed and the New Jerusalem
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Koreshans and African American History
It is not February, which is Black History Month, but an article in the August 17, 2025 News-Press, repeated from a February 20, 2016 article about the family of Nelson Tillis, purported to be the first African American to settle in Fort Myers. The article reminded us that although the information is very sketchy, there [ ]
Whatever Happened To…
For a long time, I have occasionally looked and searched the Internet to try and find anything related to the Koreshans who survived long after the death of Koresh in 1908. In those early days of the Internet, searches were not as good as what we have now. I ve mentioned the second generation Koreshans [ ]
Songs of the Koreshan sect found in soundbook in FGCU archives
April 24, 2025 Studying the Koreshans continues. Now that the Koreshan Archives are incorporated into the Archives of Florida Gulf Coast University, the opportunity to search and study them has brought about a new find, Koreshan music! WGCU, the NPR affiliate in southwest Florida published an article yesterday by WGCU reporter Meredith Galbraith. The FGCU [ ]
Every Year About This Time…
Every year about this time, during Halloween, someone shows up at Koreshan to see, or talk about, or experience(?) the paranormal. Are there ghosts at the Park? I suppose it is all done in good fun, although some take it quite seriously. Others, hopefully most, not so much. Our purpose on this site is to [ ]
The 1921 Hurricane Revisited
[The main part of this article is a re-posting from October 2014] As Florida braces for hurricane named Milton , there has been a great deal of talk about the 1921 hurricane known as the Tampa Bay Hurricane or the Tarpon Springs Hurricane . The direction that this hurricane took is different from the projected track of [ ]
Koresh and Waco – Cyrus and David
It has been nearly five years since I ve posted, and I never really intended to do so, but I ve been reading with some sense of what I want to call amusement , but this is not an amusing subject. I m talking about the recent discovery that the Branch Davidians in Waco Texas probably used some of [ ]
Koreshan “Monthly” Features
I realized that almost 20 years of work is located in this blog , which wasn t available back in the mid-1990 s when I started working at the Koreshan State Historic Site, now known at the Koreshan State Park. Since that time, the holdings of the Park have been moved to Florida Gulf Coast University, which is [ ]
July 2016
In this posting we want to highlight and publicize some of the other sites and resources that are available for studying the Koreshan Unity. In this day and age of Googling everything, it is nice to know that there are some solid resources available. One of the irritating things about Googling a subject [ ]
June 2016 – Page-3
From the Koreshan Archives About a month early, but in this post we find the birthday of a Koreshan who rarely gets mentioned, but one who contributed a great deal to the cause of the Unity. I m speaking of Nancy Cornelia Hawes Critcher She was born July 26, 1842, (please note that our genealogy [ ]