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Lecture series
Lecture Series
The Pensacola Heritage Foundation is pleased
to present its 2026 Lecture Series
with Dr. Norm Haines and others.
The lectures are held every other Tuesday at The Wright Place, 80 E. Wright Street, Pensacola, Florida.
Doors open at 11 a.m., and lunch is served at 11:30 a.m. The lecture starts at noon and lasts one hour. Lecture cost is $5 for non-members and free to members. Lunches are $12.
Reservations are required for planning purposes and can be made by contacting Pensacola Heritage Foundation by email pnsheritage@yahoo.com or phone reservation 850-380-7759.
The deadline for the lunch reservation is the Friday prior to the lecture.
May 19: General John Campbell & The Siege of Pensacola by Norm Haines
June 2: Naval Aviation & Roy Geiger’s Path To Greatness by Norm Haines
June 16: The USS Pensacola: Mallory’s Mishap & Farragut’s Forlorn Hope by Norm Haines
June 30: The U. S. Army’s Camel Experiment by Gen. Larry Garrett
July 14: Guest Lecture
July 28: Gulf Breeze Part I: The Disappearance by Norm Haines
The July 9th program was presented and performed by the Pensacola Early Music Consort. The Consort performs music of the late medieval and Renaissance periods, approximately 1400-1600, music that would have been familiar to Don Tristan De Luna. Director Charles Tucker demonstrated and explained the various instruments played in the Consort, including recorders from the soprano through the great bass, the six-foot sub-bass. The sixteen-foot sub-sub bass, is currently one of only seven such instruments in the world and the only one in North America. Additional instruments were gemshorns, krummhorns, a hammered dulcimer and various percussion instruments.
The July 23rd lecture described the development of the road between Pensacola and St. Augustine from its beginning as disconnected animal trails to a constructed road. He also provided a biography of Father Michael Portier who was appointed as apostolic vicar for the territory from Mobile to St. Augustine.
