FamilyThe Pinellas County African American History Museum sits at 1101 Marshall Street in Clearwater, in the former Curtis Elementary School, a school built for Black children and named for the educator S. W. Curtis. It describes itself as a research…
LibrariesSeminole Community Library opens at eight in the morning four days a week and is open Sundays, which almost nothing else in the county manages. Two floors shared with the college, a quiet upper level, free first-come study rooms, and…
Places to WritePalm Harbor has an independent district library that opens at nine and runs to seven four days a week, with a coffee bar and a separate children's wing. The Barnes and Noble on US 19 covers evenings until nine, and…
HistoryClearwater Beach Library is the smallest branch in the county and opens three short afternoons a week. It has intracoastal views from the back windows, a summer crafts series and a local history series, and shares a site with a…
Book MarketingThis county is full of people who did something substantial somewhere else and whose children mostly do not know the details. If the person whose story you want is in their eighties, the useful timeline is not the book. It…
Book MarketingThe Barnes and Noble in Palm Harbor is store 3548, a purpose-built new location on US 19 and the newest large bookstore in Pinellas County. It sits seven miles north of the Clearwater store and the two get confused constantly.
Book LaunchTombolo Books opened in St. Petersburg's Grand Central District in December 2019 after two years as a pop-up and a crowdfunding campaign. Fifteen hundred square feet, seven thousand curated titles, more than a dozen book clubs, and an author list…
Places to WriteLargo Public Library is the answer to almost every version of this question. Nine in the morning until eight at night Monday through Wednesday, two floors, a cafe inside, bookable group rooms, a quiet garden and a park across the…
Children's BooksClearwater North Greenwood Library is the newest and most photogenic building in the city system. Bright stacks, a LEGO table in the children's area, a cultural display with a statue, and a large-windowed alcove reviewers call the best reading light…
MysteryDunedin has two rooms worth planning around and they cover opposite ends of the day. The library runs until eight on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Back in the Day Books stays open until nine Thursday through Saturday. Both sit inside…
BookstoresSam's Books is a booth in the Antique Village at the Oldsmar Flea Market, run alone by Sharon Micek for decades. The specialty is pre-loved children's books, the stock is chosen instead of dumped, and there are blocks on the…
LibrariesClearwater East Community Library keeps the widest hours in the Clearwater system, nine in the morning until eight at night four days a week plus all day Saturday. It shares a site with the St. Petersburg College campus, runs a…
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