On Tuesday afternoon in front of the Tampa Bay History Museum, six well known and not so well known names were announced as the second class of pioneers to be honored on Tampa's Riverwalk.
Blythe Andrew, Cody Fowler, Peter O. Knight, Kate Jackson, Paulina Pedroso and G.D. Rogers will join last year's group in being memorialized along the Historical Monument Trail that will wind around Tampa's Riverwalk.
"These six honorees are truly special people," said Steve Anderson, chair of Friends of the Riverwalk."They've been the foundation of the city. They've been leaders, most of them without ever being elected, they've inspired us …They stood their ground on just, maybe unpopular causes …"
This article appears in Apr 18-24, 2013.
