Swampy’s Florida says Happy Read a Book Day!

by on September 6, 2024 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Florida Books, Swampy's Strips

It’s always a good day to read a book and better yet to read a book about Florida. Here Swampy is reading one of the finest book about trains in Florida, ‘Speedway to Sunshine’.

What is your favorite fiction or non-fiction book of Florida?

‘Speedway to Sunshine’ by FEC historian Seth Bramson is a must-get book to understand the FEC, train travel and it’s setting in Florida history.
Click here to purchase a copy: http://amzn.to/2c3C21F
This book is part of the Swampy’s Florida library.
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Desert Inn is demolished….

by on September 5, 2024 at 5:39 pm
Posted In: Swampy's Florida History

Jeff Banks, from elsewhere in Facebook, reports that The Desert Inn at Yeehaw Junction is being cleared away.
I know the owners were looking for ways to revive the building. Thing is, the owners were looking for ways to survive BEFORE the 18 wheel truck smashed into the structure. No one stepped forward that made it happen.
Wonder what may be proposed in it’s place, if anything.
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August 28th events & birthdays – from Swampy’s Florida live.

by on September 5, 2024 at 12:00 pm
Posted In: Swampy's Florida live illustrations

I live drew this last week right here.
Made it up as I placed ink on paper. no pencils.
I’ll be doing the same this evening.

Celebrated birthdays of native Tampa & baseball’s Lou Piniella.
Also, Miami native and actress Roxie Roker, from ‘The Jeffersons’.
Aviary bookmaster, Roger Tory Peterson is noted for documenting so very many of our Florida birds with the heron.
George Church was born on McDill Air Force Base (See today’s postcard) and proceeded to develop scientific techniques in biology and genetics, which i drew Lou playing with.

Next live is this evening, 7pm. Feel free to type anything Florida in the comments area i might draw from.
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#Baseball #Inks #Draing #Draw #Florida #DrawFlorida #McDillAFB #TheJeffersons

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August 5th – Florida history, Ink & Storytelling live & making it up as I scribble!

by on September 5, 2024 at 8:58 am
Posted In: Swampy's Florida live illustrations

August 5th – Florida history, Ink & Storytelling live & making it up as I scribble!
7 – 8-ish pm tonight on the Swampy’s Florida Facebook page.

Place a Florida word in Comments to launch from or I may pick from…

Who is your favorite Florida bird?

Florida related events from today:



  • 1717 Britain’s King George I issues Proclamation “For Suppressing Pirates in the West Indies”, granting pirates who surrender a pardon (re-issued 1718). This has a major effect inland and offshore of the land, to be later named, Florida.
  • 1925 29th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Bobby Jones. At the same time one of the early golf courses in Florida is being laid out in Sarasota and will open in 1926 and dedicated to Jones in 1927. The Bobby Jones Golf Club still exists todqay with muliple courses and hiking paved trails.
  • 1950 38.7 inches (98.3 cm) rainfall – over several days – in Yankeetown, Florida (state record).
  • 1957 “On the Road” by Jack Kerouac is published by Viking Press in New York. Kerouac worked on the final version of the book in College Park, Orlando.
  • 1986 NASA launches DoD-1 (classified Department of Defense satellite) from Cape Canaveral.

  • 2017 Hurricane Irma becomes the most powerful hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic Basin region with winds of 185mph (280km/h)

 

Florida related birthdays from today:



– 1916 Frank Yerby, writing historical novels, including ones of Florida, born in Augusta, Georgia (d. 1991).


  • 1936 Alcee Hastings, disgraced American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Florida), born in Altamonte Springs, Florida (d. 2021).

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If you would like to help cover the costs of pens, paper, etc.:

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It’s 1942 & the postcards were flying! – Swampy’s Florida postcards.

by on September 5, 2024 at 6:00 am
Posted In: Florida Postcards

As is stated on the back of this October 9, 1942 postmarked postcard, “Tampa is an important key point in the nation’s defense system, with it’s U.S. Army Air Bases-McDill and Drew Field.” For some reason there is a postmark from Los Angeles, California. On the flip side, there is another postmark from Tampa.
The message is from P.V.T. Virgil Gookin (Sounds like a Jerry Lewis character) to “Boomer”. The card is addressed to PFC Edwin Worden (Hard to tell. Gookin’s script is tough to figure). Gookin writes that the Army Air “got me after all”. He also adds that florida is “hot”.

This postcard is part of the Swampy’s Florida collection.
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#Flordia #Tampa #TampaFlorida #WWII #WorldWarII #History #FloridaHistory #Military #Postcards #Collectibles #FloridaPostcards #Airplanes #Planes #McDillAFB

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