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OFFERS FUN SPACE FOR KIDS HAIRCUTS
Getting a haircut can be scary for young kids; that’s why finding somewhere your child feels comfortable is so important.
Pigtails & Crewcuts in Valrico offers up a safe space and kid-friendly salon with bright colors, televisions, a train table and a treasure box. Having an exciting space helps kids have fun while getting their haircut.
Pigtails & Crewcuts ofers a first-haircut package that includes a keepsake piece of hair and a certificate with a photo of your child in order to commemorate this special moment. Not only does Pigtails & Crewcuts ofer first haircuts, but there are packages for the whole family too.
“Our goal with this salon is to make the salon experience enjoyable for the entire family,” said Kimberly Bingheim, co-owner of Pigtails & Crewcuts. “It has been an incredible journey for our family.”
Other services include kid haircuts, mom and dad haircuts, bang cuts, detangling, shampoos, blow-dry, styling, fairy hair, ear piercing and nail polish. Pigtails & Crewcuts also ofers a 10-haircut package, which includes $30 in savings when
By Makenzie Atkins Noel
you purchase 10 haircuts. Because their son struggled when getting his haircut, Kimberly and Justin Bingheim were looking to find a more inviting environment to take him. During the search, they realized that there were not many kid-friendly salons in the area and decided to create that space for other families in the community.
Kimberly is passionate about ofering children a great experience for their first haircut because she remembers hers so fondly, as her aunt was the first person to cut her hair. Operating her own hair salon keeps her close to her aunt, who passed away, and Kimberly knows her aunt is proud of the safe space she has created for families.
“Getting a haircut can be delicate for children, and the first haircut is an extremely important moment,” said Kimberly. “We feel so blessed to have the opportunity to ofer other families a salon dedicated to them.”
For more information, please call the salon at 727-404-1839 or visit www.pig tailsandcrewcuts.com/valrico.
There’s a new exhibit at the Tampa Bay History Center, and it is called Key West and the Florida Keys: Mapping the History of the Conch Republic. The exhibit is on display now through Sunday, October 15 in the Saunders Foundation Gallery.
Key West and the Florida Keys have played an outsized role in Florida’s history. The Keys first appeared on a Spanish map in 1511, and they had been home to the Tequesta and Calusa for thousands of years. In modern times, Key West was at one point the largest city in Florida. It was home to wreckers, cigar makers, fisherfolk and other colorful characters.
The exhibit features historical and modern maps and charts. There are nearly 50 maps and charts in the exhibit. The oldest map is the 1511 Peter Martyr map of the Caribbean, and the newest is a 1988 map showing diferent locations of shipwrecks and (potential) sunken treasure. The History Center may add a 21st-century tourist map.
Every map in the exhibit is from the Tampa Bay History Center’s Touchton Map Library Collection. Rodney Kite-Powell, director of
By Kathy L. Collins
The Touchton Map Library holds approximately 8,000 maps, charts, atlases and other cartographic materials. All of it focuses on Florida.
Kite-Powell said, “Because of Florida’s unique geographical location and its very long political and military history, the collection includes hundreds of maps of the Caribbean and the southeastern United States. The Touchton Map Library encourages research within the collection and hosts two temporary exhibitions each year. Those exhibitions are held within the Saunders Foundation Gallery.”
Kite-Powell added, “The exhibit showcases the important and interesting history of Key West and the Florida Keys. Key West, in particular, was the most strategic and economically important city in Florida in the latter half of the 19th century. Its isolation and the lack of a reliable and continuous source of fresh water hampered its continued growth and development, and the island city was eventually eclipsed by other coastal cities, particularly Tampa. Shifting to tourism, the Keys and Key West became a playground for Floridians and Americans