Warm wishes to you for a terrific year ahead. If you know our magazine, then you know that Treasure Coast history is our franchise. One of our sections, called Living History, is intended to bring history alive by connecting past events to how they have shaped the present. We also try to bring history alive through the annual Treasure Coast History Festival, which we began six years ago.

As a child growing up on the Treasure Coast in the 1960s and early ’70s, I always had difficulty relating to popular images of Christmas such as carolers singing in snow-covered villages, sweater-clad ice skaters gliding over a frozen pond or horses merrily pulling sleighs. We simply didn’t have snow for the holidays, and many Christmases were warm enough to go to the beach.

Festival revisits rich history of the Treasure Coast   If you've been following our Cow Creek Chronicles series - or if you just want to learn more about early Florida cattle…