[Speaker: Ted Johnson]

Another great way for the stories to be preserved and to be shared is in a kind of partnership we were able to develop with another of our partners— the Timicuan Parks Foundation. We started this fishing clinic program. We work with the Florida Fish and Wildlife. 

The original idea was to set up three stations so that youth can come through and learn the basics of ethical angling. So, learning the anatomy of the fish and then when you're fishing, it's all catch and release so that you're not hurting the fish and you're not hurting yourself. And then the environment, make sure that you're cleaning up. The second station is knot tying, basic knot tying. And then the third is casting, which they are doing here, a little casting game where you throw out, you drag, it catches into one of the fish. And then we take them down to the water to try their luck, and they also receive a free fishing rod. 

We're learning so much about this community and their connection with the environment throughout history—reliance on nature and that connection. We figured why not add another element to this, which is more of a cultural history. So, we have a little stand that talks a little bit about some of the Indigenous practices that we believe were used here. But what better than to have the community come out and tell their story? We are not telling it.