Jason Vuic

Author, historian, exiled Florida Man; winner of 2021 FL Book Awards for THE SWAMP PEDDLERS (UNC Press). Other books include THE YUGO & THE YUCKS!

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Enjoyed being a part of the @Buccaneers Raise the Flags documentary on Amazon Prime. What a great piece of filmmaking. @TrentCooperFilm @JoeBucsFan

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Their stories were heartbreaking, and for a time focused the public’s attention on Arcadia, whose cowboy roots, poor-wage industries, and violent frontier history made it perhaps the most out-of-place place in FL. 4/4 #HistoricFlorida @Flasqueeze @FLMemory

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I've been off X for a bit, but wanted to say I have a new book out with @floridapress called "A Town without Pity: AIDS, Race, and Resistance in Florida's Deep South." In it, I examine two 1980s events that thrust tiny Arcadia, Florida, into the national spotlight. 1/4

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while the second involved the the HIV-positive Ray boys, 3 white, hemophilia-suffering brothers who contracted HIV and were banished from school and church and forced to leave town after someone burned down their house.​ 3/4

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@Non_Robot_Human Neat. Now, was there ever a time Wake started out with a better record than TX, Bama, and Clemson, then finished last in the ACC?

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@AmericanStudier @loumoore12 Doug was my fav player when I was 10. Definitely.

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@rodrakic Thx, Rod. Strik Press handled the Serbian edition, if that helps.

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@MaxChesnes Douche

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@jeffpearlman Ricky, they think, played that whole workhorse 1979 season while sick. Just awesome.

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Forty years ago this month: the Sarajevo Olympics.

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The story that got me was that during the siege of the 90s, the residents of Sarajevo chopped down their trees for firewood, so for caskets, they ripped up the seats of the Zetra Hall used for the closing ceremonies and set up graveyards outside. Was humbling to see. 4/4

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Did a really cool interview recently with the BBC’s Serbian language edition on the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, which opened 40 years ago today. 1/4 https://t.co/UltWSDnJRL

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And I spent 6 weeks on a fellowship at the IOC archives in Switzerland researching it. I also drug my poor wife to Sarajevo, where I interviewed the Games’ chief organizer and drove around from one destroyed Olympic venue to another in an ancient International Harvester SUV. 3/4

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@jeffpearlman I have ptsd from watching The Boy Who Liked Deer back in 1980.

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@wesleysmorgan I prefer the Ovo je Srbija owner-disputed duplex.

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@mrfolse1 In spite of…

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@TamaraLush She was the Bucs first secretary and later George Steinbrenner’s secretary. Can’t imagine the stories she could tell.

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@TamaraLush 2/2 The piratey drawings were nixed bc Raiders litigious & would have sued. Then a PR guy said how about a D'Artagnan-like character from 3 Musketeers, so Sparkman brought back Bruce. They almost nixed the winking too but a secretary said it was sexy so they kept it.

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@TamaraLush I interviewed the guys involved in selecting the colors & mascot. They first went with orange & aqua but the league office nixed it bc combo was too close to the Dolphins, then Lamar Sparkman, the Trib cartoonist, offered several Long John Silver piratey renderings. 1/2