Visited noted astrologer Dikki-Jo Mullen in Orlando this past Friday. She’s been part of all forms of media presenting astrological charts since the early 1970s. She started at WDBO radio. Went on to the morning program at pop station BJ105[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for Florida People
It was on this day in 1937 that Amelia Earhart was born in Atchison, Kansas. Earhart left from Miami International Airport July 1st, 1937, to fly from around the world. While crossing the Pacific Ocean, she vanished into history. You[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Lilly Pulitzer is known most for the extremely popular clothing line she created. The Florida citrus inspired line sparked a trend duplicated today by other clothes makers. The clothes style was a result of her interaction with her husband’s Florida[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A fencing pose led by little Lucille Heintz in the 1940s at the Lido Casino in Sarasota. This photo is from ‘Sarasota Times Past’ by Bernice Brooks Bergen. Click here to purchase your own copy of the book or below.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s Florida Postcards: Flagler’s Hotel Ponce de Leon in Saint Augustine.
Here’s, what is known today, as Flagler College in St. Augustine. At the time of this undated postcard this was, as it was built, the Hotel Ponce deLeon built by Florida pioneer Henry Flagler as he built the Florida East[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s Florida Postcard : Owen Godwin & friends at his Gatorland, south Orange County.
Here’s Owen Godwin with his friends at the place he started, Gatorland. The postcard is undated, but I would guess this is from the mid-60s. Swampy’s handler, Rob Smith, Jr., had the opportunity many years ago to speak with Owen’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s #Florida : Man in the Swamp Report – Circus historian Larry Kellogg
Circus historian Larry Kellogg talks about Tampa cartoonist Art Maynor and about Circus World, the tourist attraction that was in Polk County. The video was made at the 2015 Florida Antiquarian Book Fair that is annually held the second weekend[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s, one of Swampy’s heroes, Zora Neale Hurston’s 125th birthday today! Proud to have been a small part of starting the Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities years ago. I’ll be sure to remind you all of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s sharing friend John Roses’ post celebrating the momentous 100 years of, the comic strip he writes and draws, ‘Snuffy Smith’. A strip that has significant Florida connections! The strip actually saw it’s first print June 17th, 1919 as ”Take[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sorry to learn of the death of former Rollins College president Thaddeus Seymour at 91 years old. There have been many presidents of Rollins College since it opened in Winter Park in 1885. Knowing quite a bit of Rollins history, and one[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
One graduate from 1956 became the most famous from the high school: Janet Reno, later to be US Attorney General. Here she is with Wright Pearson in the voted most intelligent of the Class of ’56. Reno died[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
John Young, one of 12 people to step on the moon, died today at 87. John Young moved to Orlando from Georgia in the early ’40s and went to Princeton Elementary School (Just as did Swampy’s Florida’s Rob Smith, Jr.)[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…