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Florida’s Performing Arts Scene Is Not All Imported Shows
Barbara and I attended the second annual Walt Disney World International Festival of the Arts and I must confess watching top Broadway singers like Ashley Brown (Broadway’s original Mary Poppins) and Josh Strickland (original Broadway Tarzan) do the best Disney … Continue reading
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All Aboard Trains In Florida 2018
My wife does not like to travel by airplane even though we have gone from Florida to Chicago and Los Angles on Southwest Airlines. We are among the few people I know that have gone from Tampa to New York … Continue reading
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In Florida Santa Often Arrives By Boat
With a coast line of 1,350 miles (2,170 km) and over 940,000 boats of every conceivable size registered in the Sunshine State (#1 in USA), it is not to shocking to learn there seems to be as many Christmas boat … Continue reading
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Christmas At The Florida Parks: What’s New and Best
The end of Thanksgiving means that Florida’s major theme parks are featuring Christmas decorations and special events, many regular annual attractions that bring huge crowds. So what’s new and what is outstanding this year? Walt Disney World: The Christmas crowds … Continue reading
It’s Not Your Dad’s Kennedy Space Center Anymore
If you haven’t been to the Kennedy Space Center in recent years, you will shocked to see how the educational-entertainment complex has “rocketed” into the twentieth-first century in terms of tourist attractions. The VAB is the most amazing building in … Continue reading
Halloween Special: Florida’s Most Haunted House Awaits
As a historian I sit quietly while scores of television shows and movies and books describe flying saucers and uprisings from demons and zombies and witches and of course the Great Yeti hanging out at Disney Animal Kingdom when he … Continue reading
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Some Things Visitors Don’t Know About Walt Disney World
This will be a booming summer at Walt Disney World for Disney’s Avatar attraction has opened at Animal Kingdom to do battle with the Wizard and Dragon at Universal. Don’t expect the tradition Fast Pass to work well if you … Continue reading
Sarasota Is Still The City of The Arts
In 1936 circus magnate John Ringling died. The man once worth over $200 million dollars had just $311 in his bank account. Yet in his will he gave to the State of Florida Ca’d’Zan, his 1.2 million dollar waterfront mansion, … Continue reading
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Things In Florida That Scare Visitors: Fact and Fancy
As a person who writes blogs and articles about Florida, I get a lot of emails about whet people like and don’t like about my state. It may shock some of you that there are people in the USA who … Continue reading
Florida’s Biggest Stadium Does Not Have A Football Field
Spring training is just around the bend in Florida and I’m teaching a class as an adjunct in the building almost next door to the largest spring training stadium in the Florida Grapefruit League, George Steinbrenner Park, spring home of … Continue reading