Author: Vera Cleaver
Publisher: Beech Tree Paperback Book
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9780688109752
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →To add to the confusion life has already dealt her, 12-year-old Evelyn encounters some startling contradictions when she and her younger brother visit their sister and brother-in-law who live in Florida.
Author: Cathy Salustri
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2016-08-25
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 0813059658
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the 1930s, the Federal Writers' Project sent mostly anonymous writers, but also Zora Neale Hurston and Stetson Kennedy, into the depths of Florida to reveal its splendor to the world. The FWP and the State of Florida jointly published the results as Florida: A Guide to the Southernmost State, which included twenty-two driving tours of the state's main roads. Eventually, after Eisenhower built the interstates, drivers bypassed the small towns that thrived along these roads in favor of making better time. Those main roads are now the state's backroads—forgotten by all but local residents, a few commuters, and dedicated road-trippers. Retracing the original routes in the Guide, Cathy Salustri rekindles our notions of paradise by bringing a modern eye to the historic travelogues. Salustri's 5,000-mile road trip reveals a patchwork quilt of Florida cultures: startling pockets of history and environmental bliss stitched against the blight of strip malls and franchise restaurants. The journey begins on US 98, heading west toward the Florida/Alabama state line, where coastal towns dot the roadway. Here, locals depend on the tourism industry, spurred by sugar sand beaches, as well as the abundance of local seafood. On US 41, Salustri takes us past the state's only whitewater rapids, a retired carnie town, and a dazzling array of springs, swamps, and rivers interspersed with farms that produce a bounty of fruit. Along US 17, she stops for milkshakes and hamburgers at Florida's oldest diner and visits a collection of springs interconnected by underwater mazes tumbling through white spongy limestone, before stopping in Arcadia, where men still bring cattle to auction. Desperately searching for skunk apes, the Sunshine State's version of Bigfoot, she encounters more than one gator on her way through the Everglades, Ochopee, and the Skunk Ape Research Headquarters. Following the original Guide, Salustri crisscrosses the state from the panhandle to the Keys. She guides readers through forgotten and unknown corners of the state--nude beaches, a rattlesnake cannery, Devil's Millhopper in Gainesville--as well as more familiar haunts--Kennedy Space Center and The Villages, "Florida’s Friendliest Retirement Hometown." Woven through these journeys are nuggets of history, environmental debates about Florida's future, and a narrative that combines humor with a strong affection for an oft-maligned state. Today, Salustri urges, tourists need a new nudge to get off the interstates or away from Disney in order to discover the real Florida. Her travel narrative, following what are now backroads and scenic routes, guides armchair travelers and road warriors alike to historic sites, natural wonders, and notable man-made attractions--comparing the past views with the present landscape and commenting on the changes, some barely noticeable, others extreme, along the way.
Author: Gary C. Tarbert
Publisher: Gale Cengage
Published: 1983-05
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780810306332
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Bernice E. Cullinan
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2005-01-01
Total Pages: 930
ISBN-13: 9780826417787
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Provides articles covering children's literature from around the world as well as biographical and critical reviews of authors including Avi, C.S. Lewis, J.K. Rowling, and Anno Mitsumasa.
Author: Kevin M. McCarthy
Publisher: Pineapple Press Inc
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 524
ISBN-13: 9781561640126
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Here is the book lover's literary tour of Florida, an exhaustive survey of writers, books, and literary sites in every part of the state. The state is divided into ten areas and each one is described from a literary point of view. You will learn what authors lived in or wrote about a place, which books describe the place, what important movies were made there, even the literary trivia which the true Florida book lover will want to know. You can use the book as a travel guide to a new way to see the state, as an armchair guide to a better understanding of our literary heritage, or as a guide to what to read next time you head to a bookstore or library."--Publisher.
Author: Stephen Morrill
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2009-11-24
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0762761539
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Fun with the Family Florida leads the way to historical attractions, children's museums, festivals, parks, and much more.
Author: Gayle Avant
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 261
ISBN-13: 1882403843
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A compilation of submittals for the 2006 J. Robert Havlick Award for Innovation in Local Government and the Thomas H. Muehlenbeck Award for Excellence in Local Government. Award is sponsored by The Innovation Groups.
Author: Patrick D. Smith
Publisher: Pineapple PressInc
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781561642236
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Traces the story of the MacIvey family of Florida from 1858 to 1968.
Author: H.W. Wilson Company
Publisher: New York : H.W. Wilson Company
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 1320
ISBN-13:
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