The Schoolhouse Children’s Museum located at 129 East Ocean Avenue in Boynton Beach has been established to encourage families to learn the history of Boynton Beach and Palm Beach County.  The mission of the museum and interactive learning center features hands-on, interactive exhibits about history, maritime history, marine life, local   history, period home, general store, and school life displays. The “exhibits provide an interactive glimpse of life for early Florida Pioneers – before the days of computers, cell phones, televisions or even cars."

Revisit the old Florida railroad with your children. “All Aboard,” pick up passengers, and hop onboard the Orange Blossom Express for a ride back in time to the days of the early South Florida railway…

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The Mandel Public Library is located at 411 Clematis Street in West Palm Beach. If your child is grappling in school or just needs a little assistance to stay on track with their homework, the Mandel Public Library is willing to help. The library has brought in certified teachers, from Monday to Thursday for in person tutoring to assist your child with their schoolwork, ranging from basic homework needs to school projects or giving advice.

Mandel Library Homework Help Center help will be offered for kids grades K-5, Monday through Thursday from 4:00 p.m. – 6:45 p.m. and from 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. on Saturdays in the “Children’s Space” on the 3rd floor of the library. Teens will be offered the same opportunity for help from 5:00 p.m. - 6:45 p.m.…

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The Cultural Council for Palm Beach County is hosting Family Saturdays centering on Fiber Art. The first fiber art event will be Saturday, February 6, 2021.  The “Cultural Council Project Space Center” is located at 11 South “L” Street, in Lake Worth.  The Cultural Council is in partnership with: Kianga Jinaki, Artist/Owner of Kianga Art. The Cultural Council is committed to supporting the cultural community during this unique time by providing resources for artists and organizations.

Kianga Jinaki, a respected fiber artist, will curate an experience for the entire family to enjoy. With mixed-media assemblages using traditional and contemporary African textiles, the artwork created by each participant will be thematic and based on the African and…

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Located in the heart of downtown West Palm Beach, is a 5,000 square-foot museum gallery known as the Palm Beach Photography Center. The Center, located at 415 Clematis Street in West Palm Beach, is respected as a top-notch photographic center throughout the United States, offering world-class exhibits as well as a free museum experience for people of all ages.  The museum exhibitions explore the entire spectrum of photography, from the historic to the cutting-edge

Palm Beach Photographic Center is a 501(c)3 non-profit Arts organization dedicated to the community and the enrichment of life through the photographic arts. Our facility houses a world renown photography museum that is free to the public.  It is a nonprofit photographic and digital…

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Gerald Ford officially recognized Black History Month in 1976, calling upon the public to “seize the opportunity to honor the too-often neglected accomplishments of Black Americans in every area of endeavor throughout our history.” To commemorate and celebrate the contributions to our nation made by people of African descent, American historian Carter G. Woodson established Black History Week (then called “Negro History Week”) nearly a century ago. The event was first celebrated during the second week of February 1926.  February was chosen as Black History Month because the birthdays of the revered black abolitionist Frederick Douglass and President Abraham Lincoln fall during that month.

Countywide in Palm Beach County and The Palm Beach County…

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Have you ever wanted to learn to play the “sport of kings’ a/k/a polo? The International Polo School within the International Polo Club Palm Beach, 3667 120th Ave S, Wellington, Florida, is in full swing this season and entering its fourth year. The polo school is a full-service polo campaign. The school offers lessons, stabling, four, six, and 8 goal leagues, coaching leagues, and horse leasing.

The game of polo has evolved over 2,500 years into quite a display.  Polo is all about speed, finesse and great bravery of both horse and rider. Polo was at first a training game for cavalry units, usually the king’s guard or other elite troops played this training game. It is one of the world's oldest known team sports.[

What is now Wellington started…

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According to a recent study by WalletHub, a quaint city in Broward County, Florida was named one of the “happiest” cities in the U.S. Smile, Pembroke Pines, you are the happiest city in South Florida! The content Broward city of 170,000 residents ranked No. 21 on the 2020 list. 

Broward County is located south of Palm Beach County and north of Miami-Dade County.  This is the second most populous county in Florida, with just under 1.8 million residents. With more sunny days than not, Broward County is a favorite locale by globe trotters. Offering the warm Atlantic Ocean, white sandy beaches and beautiful seaside living, it is no wonder so many people flock to the area.

Pembroke Pines may have scored so well because it is known for its small town feel…

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It is easy to experience the Florida Everglades just west of Boynton Beach. Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee Wildlife Refuge is located just west of Boynton Beach, and a short drive from West Palm Beach.

Water in south Florida once flowed freely from the Kissimmee River to Lake Okeechobee and southward over low-lying lands to the estuaries of Biscayne Bay, the Ten Thousand Islands, and Florida Bay. For thousands of years this intricate system evolved into a finely balanced ecosystem that formed the biological infrastructure for the southern half of the state. early colonial settlers and developers the Everglades were potential farmland and communities. By the early 1900s', the drainage process to transform wetland to land ready to be developed was…

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The River Center continues to collaborate with the US Coast Guard Auxiliary “Flotilla 52” to provide a series of Boating Safely Classes targeted specifically to young boaters in our community. The River Center is in Burt Reynolds Park on US 1, just north of Indiantown Road in Jupiter.    

These virtual classes are provided through a generous sponsorship by the AustinBlu Foundation. The foundation is a not-for-profit dedicated to raising awareness and promoting educational programs to improve boater safety. The mission of the AustinBlu Foundation is “to make available to boaters of all ages the tools and technology which can help prevent near shore and off-shore boating accidents and to improve the chance of survival and recovery, should such…

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Bonjour et bienvenue Palm Beach County. Sign up for a French class and learn to read write and speak French fluently. These French classes are perfect for the beginner to late intermediate French speaking student. Learning French is the pleasure of learning a beautiful, rich, melodious language that is often called the language of love.  More than 300 million people speak the French language  on the five continents. French is the international language of cooking, fashion, theatre, the visual arts, dance, and architecture. A knowledge of French offers access to great works of literature in the original French, as well as films and songs. 

Join *French with Madeleine* for weekly Zoom conversation practices. Each week explore a particular theme…

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