The day recognizes the famous ‘Checkers’ speech made by vice presidential candidate Richard Nixon in 1952. In the speech he spoke about his new dog, ‘Checkers’. It was 2 decades later that Nixon would utter the words, “I am not[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Swampy and friends celebrate National Elephant Appreciation Day! Did you know there is a home for elephants in Fellsmere, Indian River County? Here’s the National Elephant Center website. You also can learn more about the National Elephant Center in Fellsmere[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Trilby, Zuber and Alva get in the pirate mood above. A couple centuries ago the above might not be such an unusual scene on certain parts of our Florida coastline. There were many pirates that thrived on getting treasure from[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Trilby’s efforts to make a felt hat for Zuber demonstrates Zuber’s inability to read a ruler. There are very few locally owned mens stores in Florida and finding one that still sell hats is hard. The best is Nathan’s Menswear[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy scarfs a few hoagies in honor of ‘Eat a Hoagie Day’. Locations for hoagies can be spotty across the state. there are far more in southeast Florida likely due to the large amount of people originally from the northeast,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Happy National Peanut Day! Trilby happily munches Florida peanuts. There are hundreds of acres of land farmed in Florida for peanuts. Here’s the website for the Florida Peanut Producers Association: Home Here are a series of articles about peanut production in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Ortona the egret beats Zuber to the ice cream treat! You canj learn more about Chocolate Milkshake day by clicking here: http://parade.com/506552/alison-abbey/shake-it-up-on-chocolate-milkshake-day-sept-12/ #ChocolateMilkshakeDay Save
Trilby finds hot cross buns at the Lake Worth Farmers Market. He then eats them all. Pasco Pete is ready to scurry Trilby out of there before the booth owner notices the buns gone. You can learn more about Hot[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Alva gets hungry reading so much and uses her book as a tray to carry a Swanaon TV dinner out to chew on. You can learn more about TV Dinner Day by clicking here: http://wtkr.com/2016/09/10/eat-up-its-national-tv-dinner-day/ #TVDinnerDay
Bunny cuddles up with a copy of ‘Freddy goes to Florida’ and her Teddy Bear. Walter Brooks began writing a series of books in the mid-1920s about a farm of talking animals that included a pig named Freddy. The first[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy and the gang are taking full advantage of International Literacy Day and reading all they can. Hope you get a change to turn more than a few pages yourself today! You can learn more about International Literacy day by[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
3 Swampy celebrates International Day of Charity. Here are just a few of the charities that Swampy is involved with and supports. We hope you’ll get involved, too! There are so many charities involving our state of Florida that could[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…