The Taste History Art & Culture Study Tours hosted 12th grade debutantes of the Frances J. Bright Woman’s Club of Delray Beach for an immersive trip via Brightline Trains traveling from the Boca Raton station to Overtown and the Design District in Miami on Saturday, April 18, 2026. The debutantes are 12th grade girls who attend high schools at Atlantic Community High School in Delray Beach; FAU High School in Boca Raton; Olympic Heights Community High School in Boca Raton; and Park Vista Community High School in Greenacres. Palm Beach County Commission Vice Mayor Marcia Woodward and City of Boca Raton Mayor Andy Thomson greeted the 12th grade students at the Boca Raton Brightline to give them send-off messages. Sponsors are BrightlineTrains, Schumacher Volvo Cars of The Palm Beaches, Delray Beach Toyota and Keiser Legal.
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Frances J. Bright Woman’s Club Charitable Foundation is a non-profit 501c3 100% volunteer community service organization
named in honor of Frances J. Bright, a Black educator, who came to Palm Beach
County, Florida in year 1899 and was hired in 1900 to teach at ‘colored’ school
#4 that was established in year 1895. Mrs. Bright was the first Black woman
teacher in Delray Beach. The school
initially operated from a thatched hut built by local Black residents located
on historic NW 5th Avenue in Delray Beach. It was the first public school in
Delray Beach. The first principal at Colored School #4 in year 1895 was Mr.
B.F. James of Miami (Lemon City). The school was a part of the Dade County
Public School System at that time because Palm Beach County was not incorporated
as a separate county until year 1909.
The mission of the non-profit Taste
History Art & Culture Study Tours is to offer curriculum based
multi-sensory educational experiences for students.
The non-profit Taste History Art
& Culture Study Tours program evolved from the non-profit Taste History
Culinary Tours of Historic Palm Beach County developed by historian and
volunteer tour guide Lori J. Durante and was launched in 2011. The Taste
History Culinary Tours evolved from the non-profit Narrated Bus Tours of
Historic Delray Beach, Florida that Durante created in a volunteer capacity in
year 2004 that expanded to include other cities that are Boca Raton, Boynton
Beach, Lantana, Lake Worth Beach, and West Palm Beach. Subsequently, school field trips were
also offered. The narrated history tours were hugely popular hosting over
10,000 people. Post the COVID-19
pandemic, in year 2023, the Taste History Art & Culture Study Tours were
launched as an additional option of history tours and it was established with its
own separate 501c3 status, and the late philanthropist Iris Apfel who
passed away in year 2024 made the lead financial donation in year 2023 for the
beginning year of those tours.
The mission of the non-profit Taste History Art & Culture Study Tours is to offer curriculum based multi-sensory educational experiences for students by providing historical information highlighting multi-cultures, ethnic cuisines, architectural designs, historical places, people, artifacts plus ways of life of the past of the area toured. The tour program is designed to be a school educational out-of-classroom experience, on the road, that infuses curriculum strands and benchmarks. The Study Tour creates an active, immersive, tangible experience and object-based learning for the students’ journey. Some of the ways in which the Study Tour helps and enhances the students’ educational learning:
ü curriculum
comprehension
ü memorization
ü observation
skills
ü critical thinking
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