Quick, what’s the oldest city in the continental United States? If you said St. Augustine…bingo; you’re mostly right. That small city on Florida’s east coast is the oldest continuously occupied European-established community in the states. But the people who built that settlement weren’t the first to try to put down roots in what would become the Sunshine State.
Today on the Best of Our Knowledge, a look at how Florida is trying to preserve its history.
We’ll also travel to Maine, where a controversy of posters in school led to a principal’s resignation and an important conversation about race.
And we’ll spend an academic minute exploring the connection between racism and obesity.
