The Catalyst Sessions w/ Bill DeYoung: Rui Farias 8-11-20

If you’re going to executive-direct the St. Petersburg Museum of History, it helps if you know and love St. Petersburg, and are obsessed with history.

Rui Farias ticks all the boxes.

“I was fortunate enough to live downtown,” Farias said Tuesday on The Catalyst Sessions. “It was just an amazing place to grow up. I still teach a Florida History course at St. Pete High, and I try telling my students what life was like in St. Pete in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s … my first job was selling the Evening Independent on the steps of the open-air post office.”

The museum itself goes back much farther. Begun as the St. Petersburg Historical Society in the 1920s, it has been the repository for papers, photographs and pieces of residents’ lives going back to the late 19th Century.  #stpetecatalyst #TapaBay #Radio #StPete #Florida #SPMOH