Sacred Lands Preservation and Education

09/29/2026

We're so excited to spread the word - THE SMITHSONIAN IS COMING - via our new banner facing busy Park Street in City of St. Petersburg, Florida! Can't wait to host the Museum on Main Street exhibit from the Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian next spring! In the meantime, check out the latest issue of Forum magazine from Florida Humanities for great stories on Florida's 2 federally recognized tribes...it's a great warm-up for the Americans exhibit!

09/24/2026

I found this video I took from the roof of the family home at Sacred Lands Preservation and Education of peacocks enjoying the breeze from the air conditioner.

Sacred Lands's fall concert is coming up this Saturday evening and Denis Phillips predicts cooler, drier air. It looks like the perfect temperature to enjoy outdoor music on our Dolphin Stage, tucked away in a secret garden on the shore of Boca Ciega Bay!

We hope to see you there for multi-instrumentalists Vicki, Adam, and Howard at 6:30 on Saturday (9/26) enjoying the gulf breeze and a tropical fruit drink. (there's gonna be a fruit juice vendor).

Cost is $20 and you can donate on our website or buy tickets on Eventbrite (link below). This is a fundraiser for Sacred Lands Preservation and Education.

09/22/2026

09/15/2026

We're excited to be less than 2 weeks away from our fall concert at Sacred Lands Preservation featuring the dynamic musical duo of Vicki and Adam in trio form with Howard!

Enjoy talented multi-instrumentalists and the natural beauty of the Dolphin Stage venue at Sacred Lands on Saturday, 9/26 starting at 6:30pm.

Vicki and Adam have donated their talent and played for free at our Christmas benefit for the homeless, when Sacred Lands partners with St. Vincent de Paul CARES FL, and we love their hearts as well as their music.

This is a fundraiser for Sacred Lands Preservation and Education, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. Tickets are $20.

There is an Eventbrite link or you can donate on the Sacred Lands website to secure your place at the concert. I'll link the Eventbrite in the comment section.

08/27/2026

And then these beautiful lilies are not in the indigenous garden but are blooming. They were gifted to Frances Anderson years ago from the garden of an historic home that was being moved. Come see what’s bloomin

08/27/2026

The new Indigenous People’s garden is looking lovely and growing quickly. Here are a few pictures today

08/17/2026

We are deeply honored and excited to announce that the Smithsonian is coming to Sacred Lands next February!!

Sacred Lands Preservation and Education will represent St. Petersburg as one of five communities across Florida selected to host “Americans,” with grant funding to develop complementary public programs from Florida Humanities.

Florida Humanities describes the Americans exhibit this way: “Based on a major exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, “Americans” explores how deeply intertwined American Indians are in the culture of the United States. Throughout the tour, host museums will bring these themes to life through programs that consider this complicated history through the sharing of local stories about Native American history, culture and identity.”

We are deeply grateful to Florida Humanities for making this opportunity possible, and for their continued support of smaller museums and organizations like Sacred Lands in communities throughout the state.

This weekend, we got to help install the Americans exhibition at its first stop on its statewide tour, the Amelia Island Museum of History, where it will be on display for 8 weeks. It's a great place to visit! Sacred Lands is scheduled to open Americans in our Greenhouse Museum in St. Pete on February 12, 2027.

We'll post much more as the opening gets closer, including detail on our schedule of programming. Helping with the first installation was just too exciting not to share!

Museum on Main Street Florida Humanities Amelia Island Museum of History Edison and Ford Winter Estates Historic St. Andrews St. Petersburg Museum of History Preserve the 'Burg City of St. Petersburg, Florida Smithsonian Associates

08/09/2026

Night spider photographed while locking up after Sacred City kirtan on Friday. These are the amazing spiders that build a new web in one night. This was all gone by morning. How do they pack it all up? There are no traces the next day.

08/05/2026

If last Saturday's native plant event was your first visit to Sacred Lands come back some time for the history tour! You'll learn about the culture that built the shell mound, the Spanish expedition that landed here, and the history of the land from 1,000 AD to Sacred Lands Preservation.

We've got three different things going on this week. The history tours are Thur/Fri/Sun at 10am, we're hosting Sacred City Song Ceremony on Friday evening, and then Sunday evening there's Kirtan with Christine, Rasa, and Jolie!

More information about all of these are on the calendar on our website.

Pictured: ancient seashells on the main midden.