Florida Books

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Wow! This was a really good book. It listed the major springs in florida and gave detailed discriptions and facts about them. Half of the discriptions also had pictures of the springs. It was extreamly nice to see what they looked like before you went. also, the book lists the top places for tubing,and scuba diving, along with directions on how to get to the springs. This book definitely desevers 5 stars!

In brief summary: a unique collection of contemporary editorial cartoons and a significant contribution, important to anyone interested in this facet of journalism in modern America. Nowhere exists a collection of all the cartoonists in one state. Pineapple Press, which specializes in Florida topics, published this first of its kind. Sixteen Florida newspaper cartoonists are represented here, giving readers a comprehensive opportunity to examine a wide variety of opinion on state, local and national issues. In his foreword, Pat Oliphant, one of the nation's best editorial cartoonists, offers acerbic comment on the state of editorial cartooning in America: not good. Oliphant commends author Harrison (a one-time newsman with a Ph.D., at the University of Miami) for undertaking the task of gathering this collection, with commentary and cartoons from each contributor, and describes the book as a "worthwhile historic document." It is that, and more. Author S.L. Harrison provides a perceptive introductory essay that provides a summary of editorial cartooning in America, noting that cartoons, once savage, biting and highly partisan, are today more often than not benign. Today, he notes, humor prevails: "the comic pages heavily influence the modern editorial page cartoon." A number of the Florida cartoonists, following the national example of Mike Peters and Jeff MacNelly, also produce a comic page feature in addition to their editorial page cartoon. For the record, cartoonists included in the collection are: Don Addis, St. Petersburg Times; Bruce Beattie, Daytona News-Journal; Clay Bennett, King Features; Earle Bowden, Pensacola News-Journal; James Casciari, Vero Beach Press Journal; Ralph Dunagin, Orlando Sentinel; Jake Fuller, Gainesville Sentinel; Ed Gamble, Florida Times-Union (Jacksonville); Chan Lowe, Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel; Doug MacGregor, Fort Myers News-Press; Jim Morin, Miami Herlad; Gene Packwood, Leesburg Daily Commercial; Jeff Parker, Florida Today (Melbourne); Wayne Stayskal, Tampa Tribune; Dana Summers, Orlando Sentinel; and C.M. Terry, Northwest Florida Daily News (Fort Walton Beach). One Florida cartoonist, Don Wright, declined to be included with his contemporaries. The omission is Wright's loss. This is a valuable book that brings to permanent print a number of artists who have not appeared in any collection to date. All are talented, a number are promising, some are outstanding: Jim Morin, a recent Pulitzer Prize-winner; Wayne Stayskal, who succeed Vaughn Shoemaker in Chicago; and Ed Gamble, who learned his trade at the Nashville Banner. No one interested in editorial cartoons should neglect this superb collection with excellent writing that introduces the reader to the artists who illuminate our newspaper pages with perceptive are and comment.

If you order this book be aware that it is a 2 volume set. The $99.95 includes both volumes. One of the other sellers under Used and New is trying to sell you One volume (half the book) for an inflated price. You can also buy this book from the publisher and you will get both volumes for the $99.95 price that is advertised. The book is great if you grew up in Florida and were attending all the dances locally. It has great info on the bands that put out records and who went on to stardom nationally. A lot of hard work went into this book since I know some of the local Tampa and Jacksonville bands and some of the people that became national successes.

I picked up this delightful book mainly because it had a chapter on Lu, the famous movie-star hippo of Homosassas Springs. I ended up reading it cover to cover, laughing & smiling the entire time. An absolutely enjoyable read. Highly recommended for anyone who loves animals, and wants to learn more about some of Florida's most interesting (and famous!) denizens.

Bruce Hunt is a native Floridan who has authored an ideal travel guide to the Sunshine State's most quaint, historic, romantic, and eclectic lodgings. Whether a traveler on business wanting an alternative to corporate chain hotels and motels, a vacationer seeking a truly special memory, or a resident wanting a holiday day trip, Florida's Finest Inns And Bed & Breakfasts can offer lodging ideas and recommendations to fit every budget, circumstance, and desire. If you are planning a trip to or through Florida, begin with a thorough browsing of Bruce Hunt's Florida's Finest Inns And Bed & Breakfasts!

Florida's First Big League Baseball Players offers fans of the game a short, charming view of baseball and Florida during a time when both were fresh with promise. Today, however, with both baseball and Florida rotting from excess - steroids, player/management strife, arrogance, contested elections, urban congestion - the lives shared here are refreshing. These players, eight of the first 26 born in Florida and making it to the show by 1950, offer without a hint of regret their stories about the game and coming of age in a state that was only then doing so itself. At the end of WWII, Florida had just over 1 million residents. It was smaller in population than South Carolina. By 1978 it had almost 4 million. Today, Florida endures like nats the fastest growing population in the nation, 17 million at last count. And it ranks #1 in the number of native born major leaguers because of it, 35 this season alone. But ill-planned growth has not been kind to either baseball or the land of flowers. These eight men remind us of what things were like then, and while not all of it was good, clearly, things were simpler and we long for that. Whether it is Andy Hansen going home to eat beans over a money dispute with the tight fisted Branch Rickey, Jimmy Bloodworth tearfully standing along the first base line on Lou Gehrig Day in the Bronx, or Russ Scarritt's devastating tale of hardship and loss, Florida's First Big League Baseball Players provides memories that would now be forgotten were it not for this record. Author Wes Singletary, previously known as Al Lopez's biographer, has preserved it and for this he deserves kudos. Florida's First Big League Baseball Players is full of good stuff and you will enjoy it.

If someone were to ask you how long Presbyterians have been in Florida, how might you respond? (No, the line "too long" does not count!). If you were to say that one should look to Florida's oldest city for the answer, you would be correct. Because Florida's oldest congregation is to be found in charming St. Augustine. But the Presbyterian presence in St. Augustine is much newer than, say, the Castillo. Florida Presbyterianism dates to 1824, the period just after the end of Spanish rule. A time that seems ancient indeed by most standards of Florida history. But not all that long ago, after all.

This history of the congregation of what was then the Presbyterian Church, later First Presbyterian Church and is now Memorial Presbyterian Church was written for its 175th anniversary. Ms. Harvey's book is what we might call a colorful tale, and includes some inspiring and not infrequently hilarious stories, as well as wonderful old photographs of ministers who certainly must have put the fear of God into their flock, if not given their wives terrifying nightmares.

From inauspicious beginnings with only 14 charter members and not enough men to elect separate boards of elders and deacons, to the church we can visit today, it is a remarkable journey of faith and faithfulness. Along the way you will read that only the Episcopal congregation in St. Augustine is an older Protestant congregation than the Presbyterian, in all of Florida. So too, in these pages you will find excerpts of 1820s-era stewardship letters, with these pithy lines: "For want of a few hundred dollars to complete this temple of God, here are souls going in crowds down to everlasting perdition." (If you find that approach to stewardship effective, do let me know!)

The book also tells a hair-raising tale of one pastor being so thoroughly disliked by the congregation that his name was expunged from the official list of the church's ministers until the publication of this book. You will hear of the sad loss of the Flagler family and their gracious response in creating a new edifice for this congregation, dedicated in 1890, amid much Gilded Age pomp. Mrs. Benjamin Harrison, the First Lady, as well as the Vice President of the United States, were on hand, as the new building took its place as the jewel in the crown of Spanish Colonial ambiance by which Henry Flagler transformed old St. Augustine into a winter paradise for the well-heeled.

Among the many colorful stories are the husband and wife benefactors who "fought" each other to pay for the church's magnificent pipe organ and the poor pastor who, in hoping to promote tourism to St. Augustine, inadvertently maligned most of its residents in print. His ill-advised book was on the shelves at noon and by suppertime he was packing his bags, his days dwindling down to a precious few. In more recent times, the story of the 20 foot copper cross atop the huge dome and the sewing ministrations of Mrs. Palmes (yes that is her name) in creating the choral robes are all well worth reading. You can obtain the book from Memorial Presbyterian Church, 32 Sevilla St., St Augustine, FL 32084. But I suggest that you visit St. Augustine and buy the book on site. That way you can enjoy the spectacular building that the Standard Oil magnate Henry Flagler gave to the congregation in memory of his beloved daughter.

After some serious beachcoming on the Gulf Coast of Florida, I found myself increasingly interested in the mysterious fossil material that was washing up onto the beach. I checked this book out at the local library and was able to identify all kinds of interesting fossils including an ancient tooth from a 3-toed miniature horse! It was such a good resource that when the new edition was published, I had to own a copy for myself. Great book!

this is a very cool book. I live in Pensacola,and know about a few of the places the author talks about, but I found a few new ones. My girlfriend and I plan on checking them all out one by one. Can't wait.

Mike