Starts tomorrow another season of mystery as to just how many hurricanes will visit us this year?
Archive for Swampy’s Florida News
Here’s Noel Mitchell, silk hat on head, pitching land to those gathered in Miami in the 1920s. Notice the fellow in the front who seems to be counting his cash. Wish i could transport in time and stop the fellow[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Thought I’d share this found out there in internet land! Here’s their site: http://www.perpetualkid.com/manatea-infuser.aspx
The newest Swampy book premieres this weekend – ‘Billy Bowlegs Pirate Festival’. The book was created for the Fort Walton Beach Chamber of Commerce‘s annual Billy Bowlegs Pirate Festival. Swampy’s Rob Smith, Jr., writer and artist of the book, will[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s the finished painting that I painted last Saturday at the Florida Parent Educators Association meeting in the The Knowledge Exchange booth. Below is a photo of me starting the painting. The painting location was taken from a photo I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s the First Presbyterian Church in Pensacola. The church was established in 1845, yet it wasn’t until 1888 until the first church was built. Eventually the 1888 was replaced with this one in 1967.
Swampy Tonight: at the 4th annual Orlando Before Disney party put on for members of the huge Facebook group. The folks putting this event together at the Loch Haven Neighborhood Center did a great job. All put on by volunteers[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Rowley family just visited Swampy in The Knowledge Exchange booth to complete their collection of Swampy’s Florida books. We’re all at the Florida Parent Educators Association convention in Osceola County.
Florida historian, Hampton Dunn, tags a series of Florida historic locations with one page reviews and history. The state is well covered by being broken up in three parts, Central, East and West Coasts. The volume is dated and a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy and Rob were at the first day of the Farewell Reunion of the Doolittle Raiders in Fort Walton Beach today, April 14th. The first photo is Swampy and the manager if the Raiders, Tom Casey. Then a photo adding[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sorry to learn of the death of Lilly Pulitzer today. Her extremely popular clothing line, that sparked a trend seen today by other clothes makers, was all the result of our orange groves. A spill of orange juice created a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Historic Derby Street Chapel is just south of the Historic Cocoa Village in Brevard County. The structure was built between 1919 and 1924 for the Seven Day Adventist Church. The building changed hands amongst a number of faiths over[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…