The Museum of the Everglades has spent years keeping this town’s history somewhere people can actually get to it, and once a month they set aside an hour to tell a piece of it out loud.

This month’s Third Thursday Talk is America 250 Spirit of the Everglades, and it happens this Thursday, July 16, from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. at the museum, 105 West Broadway Avenue in Everglades City.

Museum Manager Thomas Lockyear is presenting. The talk is a companion to the museum’s current temporary exhibit, American Spirit, American Dream, and it follows the people who have called this area home across two and a half centuries. The region’s indigenous people, the early pioneer settlers, and the modern-day entrepreneurs still working here today. Lockyear will share stories of the courage, resourcefulness, fortitude, ingenuity and vision it took to write those chapters, framed around the country’s 250th anniversary. Full details are on the Museum of the Everglades page.