Jose Marti Park @ Ybor City
Getting my 3 dollars worth at Jose Marti Park in Miami Florida
Mike LaMonica one of the top 2 fastest butterflyers in the United States in his age group. He is a US Masters Champion and All-American for 2017.
Here he tunes up for the Dixie Zone Championships to be held Feb. 9-11 in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Ybor Walking Tour 6 - Jose Marti Statue
Part 6 of the Ybor City Walking Tour.
Florida Travel: Ybor City: Fine Cigar Capital of the World
A neighborhood steeped in history, Tampa's Ybor City was once the Cigar Capital of the World. From tobacco shops along Ybor's famous 7th Street to the J.C. Newman Cigar Company, the last surviving cigar factory in the city, the legacy of the cigar industry's influence is still felt today. If you're in Ybor, visit the J.C. Newman Cigar Company Museum and Ybor City Museum State Park, explore Jose Marti Park or just enjoy a cigar.
Key West History: Josè Marti Arrived for His First Visit to Key West
José Martí was born in Havana to Spanish immigrants in 1853. From a young age, he dedicated himself to the Cuban struggle for independence. During his life he visited Tampa 20 times, a place with strong ties to Cuba where he consolidated drive and advocacy to bring change to Cuba.
Martí attended university in Spain and studied law and philosophy. He published his first newspaper, La Patria Libre (The Free Fatherland), in 1869 and later El presidio político en Cuba (The Political Prison in Cuba), a protest against the abuse in Cuban prisons. He moved to New York in 1881, where he resided for the next 11 years.
Well-versed in Spanish literature, Martí wrote poems, essays, books, English translations of novels and journal articles. He also informed readers of major events and life in the United States in Spanish-language newspapers as an admirer of the country’s vigor, industry and Constitution.
Besides his literary prestige, Martí became known as a Cuban national hero and was invited to speak at Ybor City’s revolutionary clubs. In November 1891, he arrived to Tampa from New York via the Henry B. Plant railroad. He delivered two of his most famous speeches at El Liceo Cubano (The Cuban Lyceum), Vincente Martínez Ybor’s first cigar factory converted into a theatre, on 13th Street and 7th Avenue. That site became the headquarters of his visits.
Martí's speeches were published and read in cigar factories throughout Tampa and Key West. In both cities, he united different factions under a common cause—Cuban independence.
Martí loved Tampa and its people, and called the city “El Pueblo Fiel” (The Faithful Town). In 1892, he founded the Cuban Revolutionary Party and drafted its basic principles in Tampa. His compelling oratory raised money for the Cuban Independence Movement, and cigar workers offered a portion of their wages to the mission.
Martí and other Cuban insurrectionists were received by Tampa Mayor Herman Glogowski, who transported them from City Hall across the new Lafayette Street Bridge in his carriage to see the newly dedicated Tampa Bay Hotel. He was also hosted at the Pedroso House on 13th Street and 8th Avenue, the current location of Parque Amigos de José Martí (Friends of José Martí Park).
After celebrating his 40th birthday, Martí paid seven visits to cigar factories in Ybor City and held meetings and fundraisers at El Liceo Cubano. The growing number of cigar manufacturers in the city increased financial support for his endeavor.
Among Martí's friends in Tampa elected to City Council were Ramon Rubiera de Armas, Emilio Pons, Candido Martínez Ybor and Ramon Rivero y Rivero. Rivero is noted for having introduced Martí at his speeches, but also for his work as the publisher of many local Cuban patriotic newspapers, such as La Revista de Florida and El Critico de Ybor City.
The Cubans in Tampa frequently traveled back and forth between the city and their homeland. Martí listened to his compatriots’ grievances and reports about the atrocities of Spanish colonial reign, which made Tampa a safe haven to openly discuss their objections and desire to overthrow Spanish regime.
While in New York, a few days after his 42nd birthday Martí signed the order of uprising against Spain. He then directed his secretary Gonzalo de Quesada to deliver it to Fernando Figueredo Socarrás, West Tampa’s first mayor.
Socarrás requested cigar magnate O’Halloran to roll the decree into a cigar, which Quesada (later Cuba’s first U.S. ambassador) carried to Key West on Henry B. Plant’s steamship. There, Quesada handed the cigar to another courier who took it to Cuba aboard Plant’s steamer and gave it to Juan Gualberto Gomez.
Gomez opened the loaded West Tampa cigar with Martí's instructions and ordered Cuban insurrectionists to initiate the War of Independence, which began on February 24, 1895. Martí arrived in Cuba shortly afterward, but was killed in a small skirmish on May 19.
Martí’s “Cuba Libre!” (“Free Cuba!”) dream was ultimately fulfilled on May 20, 1902, when the country obtained independence. Several effigies of Martí are scattered throughout Ybor City, including busts and a statue which stands in José Martí Park.
2019 NEH Summer Institute: “José Martí and American Thinkers” with Anne Fountain
This presentation was apart of the 2019 NEH Summer Institute, The Center for José Martí Studies Affiliate at the University of Tampa.
José Martí was a thoughtful and well-informed reader of books, newspapers and articles that
reflected the intellectual as well as the political pulse of the United States from 1880 to 1895. His
knowledge of U.S. authors and their works affected his life, his political perspectives and his
writing. In the nearly fifteen years that Martí lived in the United States, he liberally absorbed
ideas and concepts from American writers, especially Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman,
but also from proponents of social change such as Helen Hunt Jackson, who championed the
cause of North American Indians. Emerson’s ideas permeate Martí’s work after 1882 and are a
presence in the Cuban’s most popular poetry, Versos Sencillos. Whitman’s verses reinforced
Martí’s deep humanitarian and democratic instincts and confirmed the importance of new poetry
for a new hemisphere. American thinkers exerted a significant influence on the Cuban writer, and
this presentation will offer notable examples.
Station 1 - José Martí Steps
The first stop on your historic walking tour of Ybor City's Cuban Club (El Circulo Cubano de Tampa).
Check this moron Kaseem Smith out!!
Already 24 hours later and they won't discuss what he might have been drinking or smoking or why he decided to try and pilot a garbage truck like a 747. Must not be any PC answers to these questions.
A city of Miami garbage truck slammed through a concrete barrier on Interstate 95 Monday afternoon and careened off the highway where it crosses high over the Miami River, landing inside a popular children’s park in Little Havana.
The accident — which miraculously occurred on a holiday when the typically bustling Jose Martí Park was quiet — happened around 5 p.m. on the I-95 southbound exit ramp to Southwest Seventh Street. Authorities said the driver, identified as city employee Kaseem Smith, plunged about 100 feet and was apparently thrown from the crumpled cab, which split from the garbage container.
Smith was seriously injured, and the truck crushed the back ends of two unoccupied cars. But no one else was hurt.
“Words fail me except to say we are blessed that it was on a day like today,” said Rosa Maria Plasencia, CEO of Amigos for Kids, which on school days hosts an after-school program for about 100 kids at the park. “That little area is a very small closed street where cars can park and turn around, and it leads right to the playground.”
Florida Highway Patrol investigators are working to determine what happened and why Smith lost control of his truck. The ramp was shut down after the dramatic crash, which clogged rush-hour traffic as drivers ran agog from their vehicles to stare down at the ground below.
“He just came flying down from the highway,” said Florida Highway Patrol spokesman Joe Sanchez.
The truck landed on its wheels with its big, blue trash bin overturned and leaning against a walkway wall. It was near a playground and pool at the park, 362 SW Fourth St., shortly after a group of high school friends finished a game of three-on-three basketball at the park. The impact of the crash sent debris and shrapnel flying.
“Basically, we heard what sounded like an explosion,” said Matheos Cremonese, 15, one of the ball players. “Then we looked up.”
American Latino Heritage Fund Roadtrip- A Little bit of Cuba in the US.
Dr. Wallace Reyes narrates the history of Jose Marti Park in Ybor City. The land where the park is erected is actually deeded to The Republic of Cuba and under the same guidelines as embassies is protected by the US government.
Babushka points out her paternal side is from the province of Oriente- her mother's side the Capital Havana.
Ybor Walking Tour 1 - Intro and Ybor City State Museum Courtyard
Part 1 of the Ybor City Walking Tour.
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Station 4 - Second Floor Foyer
The fourth stop on your historic walking tour of Ybor City's Cuban Club (El Circulo Cubano de Tampa).
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Charla - A Chat with José Martí
It is 1891 and José Martí (as portrayed by Chaz Mena) is preparing for his first trip to Tampa and Ybor City. Time is running out for the Cuban independence movement and Martí must inspire and galvanize his people to join the revolution against Spain in order to achieve a just society in Cuba. As he readies himself for the journey, Martí reflects upon his childhood, his studies, his writings, and his loves. Charla, which in Spanish means a chat, allows us to appreciate the challenges Martí faced in jump-starting the Cuban Revolution.
Charla - A Chat with José Martí begins touring this spring. For more information on scheduling this program contact Laurie Berlin at 727-873-2006 or via email at lberlin@flahum.org.
Swope, Rodante Historic Building Tour
View the rich history of the Historic Tampa Florida Brewing Company building, located in Ybor City.
Tampa Underbelly Tour Rides Again - Part 2
The group's first stop: China Yuan Seafood Restaurant.
Station 1 José Martí Steps