Include Mandarin in Your Summer Reading

6/2/2016

Learn about Mandarin, its origins and history, as part of your summer reading with Mandarin on the St. Johns. Written by Mary B. Graff in 1953, this work includes early history of our area including Mandarin's role in the Seminole Indian and Civil Wars, details on early settlers and historic landmarks and buildings, and its progress into the 20th century. The book also contains several pages of historic photographs including the Mandarin "cottage" of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Copies of Mandarin on the St. Johns are available for purchase through the Mandarin Community Club. For more information, visit us online or call 268-1622.

Check out our additional titles with local and historical connections for your summer reading.

*Mandarin on the St. Johns
Author: Mary B. Graff

*Palmetto Leaves
Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe

**I am a Full-Fledged Florida Now – The Life and Times of Major William Wirt Webb
Author: Bob Nay

**Calling Yankees to Florida – Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Forgotten Tourist Articles
Edited by John and Sarah Whitmer Foster

**Legendary Locals of Jacksonville
Authors: Laura Jo and Kendall Brunson

***An American Beach for African Americans
Author: Marsha Dean Phelts

***Jacksonville by the Wayside
Author: Dorothy K. Fletcher

***Pilgrim in the Land of Alligators
Author: Jeff Klinkenberg

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*Available through the Mandarin Community Club
**Available through the Mandarin Museum & Historical Society
***Available through the Jacksonville Historical Society

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