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Town Hall at 7:00 P.M.
71 N. Federal Highway, Boca Raton
Free Parking
Admission: BRHS Members - Free / Non-members - $5.00
Please RSVP at 561.395.6766.101 or for more information.

October 19, 2011
Women of the Boca Raton Army Air Field During World War II
Aubrey Kintop, a former intern of the Boca Raton Historical Society,
recently received her master's degree in history from FAU and currently
serves as FAU adjunct professor specializing in American history. Aubrey
will discuss her research on civilian and military women of the Boca Raton
Army Air Field during World War II.
November 14, 2011
Boca Raton's Historic Downtown: The Boca Raton Road Quarter
Bonnie Dearborn will present historic downtown Boca Raton Road
when it was Boca Raton's bustling downtown. She will introduce its 
distinguished owners/residents, identify its trendy architecture, and
show its transition into becoming an avant garde design quarter.
With a master's degree in Urban Geography, Bonnie Dearborn,
was the administrator of the South Florida Regional Historic
for the Florida Division of Historical Resources,
Florida Department of State for 12 years. She now works as a historic preservation consultant. A 28-year resident of Boca Raton, Bonnie has researched and prepared several nomination reports for placing historically significant properties on the Boca Raton Register of Historic
Places as well as on the National Register.
January 18, 2012
Boca Raton's Yamato Colonists During World War II
Ana Soto, a Miami-Dade county educator who received her master's degree in History from FAU in 2010, will speak on Boca Raton's Yamato colonists during World War II.
The Yamato settlement was established in what is today the northern portion of Boca Raton by Japanese immigrants in the early twentieth century. By 1940 only three of the original families during World War II remained in the area. Ms. Soto will discuss the experiences of these families during World War II and how they compared with that of Japanese citizens on the west coast of the U.S. She will also reveal the treatment of white and African American residents displaced by the government for the establishment of the Boca Raton Army Air Field.
February 15, 2012
The War Offshore:
German Subs off the Florida Coast During World War II
Boca Raton resident Eliot Kleinberg is the author of nine books about Florida and a long time reporter for the Palm Beach Post. He will discuss Florida's role during World War II and the German U-boat attacks that took place right off our coast in 1942.
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