A bit of kindness to help two wary travelers across a tributary of the Peace River.
You can learn more about World Kindness Day here:
https://www.randomactsofkindness.org/the-kindness-blog/2961-make-kindness-the-norm
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50 years ago households dreamed of such furnishings advertised for television viewing. Rather astounding how tasteful & stylish additions to the home transform into the dull flat screen panel of plastic and screen nailed to walls today.
The convoluted Wall Street story of the Radio Corporation of America and it’s fate is best covered here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RCA
This advertisement is from the November 9th, 1972 DeFuniak Springs Herald.
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Here’s Swampy engulfed in a sea of Florida non-fiction from the Swampy library that lies deep in a secret bunker far under the swamps of the Big Cypress Preserve.
There are so many great non-fiction Florida history authors to ead with the family from Charlton W. Tebeau, Lawrence Will, Jesse Earle Bowden, Kevin McCarthy, Canter Brown, Jerrell Shofner, etc.
You can add to your Florida library in your secret bunker by going to your local bookseller!
You can learn more about Family Literacy Day by clicking here:http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/calendar-activities/celebrate-national-family-literacy-20681.html
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Swampy’s Florida traveled to Leesburg on Veterans Day to honor a family of veterans. Swampy’s friend, Sarah Hardy has a family goes way back in Florida history. The photo above is of a large part of her immediate family. Most all buried there served our country, or a spouse of, from Afghanistan all the way back to the Civil War.
It was an honor to be there and learn of the historical connections of Sarah’s family and their investment for our country.
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Here’s the first graduating class of Pensacola’s naval training station in 1915.
This photo is from ‘Yesterday’s Florida’ by Nixon Smiley.
You can purchase a copy by clicking here or below:
https://amzn.to/2PVo74w
This book is part of the Swampy’s Florida collection.
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Swampy & the gang salutes those throughout our American armed forces that served to give us the freedom we have today!
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Here’s the Old Christ Church in the pioneer village in Downtown Pensacola. The structure was built in 1832. The interior looks as if the church is still active. In fact, the church has not been active for services since 1935. The City of Pensacola acquired the structure then. Since then various historic entities has handled it and, today a thousand bucks can get you married in this peice for Florida hsitory.
Click here to learn more about this church:
https://historicpensacola.org/weddings-gatherings/historic-venues/events-at-old-christ-church-/
This structure is in a village of Pensacola historic buildings and museums. Well worth a day to drift from building to building. But do note schedule of openings and Downtown events that can disrupt that schedule. I learned that last the hard way.
You can learn more and plan your truip here:
https://www.visitpensacola.com/directory/historic-pensacola/
You can see the earliest Swampy stuffed marker stuck into the white picket fence.
This photo was taken around 2012.
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To Alva, a vanilla cupcake is more like a giant cake.
You can learn more about Vanilla Cupcake Day here:
http://www.foodnetwork.com/fn-dish/holidays/2011/11/national-vanilla-cupcake-day
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This recipe is from the 1950 copy of ‘
This book is part of the Swampy’s Florida collection.
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The bear chases the gang north through Brevard County night through the sky of billions and billions of stars.
Today, astronomer and scientist, Carl Sagan was born in 1934.Â
Sagan died in 1996.
Tomorrow: Vanilla on top!
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The hugging bear has plenty of ample time to chase those three around to hug them some more!
Learn more about Ample Time Day by clicking here:
http://worksmartlivesmart.com/national-ample-time-day-november/
Tomorrow: Billions and Billions….
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Downtown St. Petersburg during another Boom, post WW II. The area was thriving and would well into the ’60s.
The strip of trees jutting off shore and into the water is what is better known today as the pier area. Hard to imagine all of those trees there today.
In the foreground is The Vinoy Hotel, built during an earlier Boom of the 1920s. Opened in ’26 and still open today.
You can plan a visit, stay or just learn more of The Vinoy here:
https://thevinoy.com/
That’s Beach Drive to the left of The Vinoy. Just about all of that area left of Beach Drive has multi-story structures slong it today.
This postcard of Downtown St. Petersburg was mailed on January 19th, 1948 to Miss Elva Ulrich, 175 Clinton North, Rochester, New York. The card states that the sender had been in the hospital and hopes to see the card receiver soon. It’s signed “your first friend 552”. Have no idea what that means and that’s likely the intent. 🙂
The Vinoy Hotel is prominent in the foreground and the roadway to the pier in the mid-ground. In the background is Albert Whitted Field.
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