Jackie Gleason and his new home in Miami Beach in 1964: the Miami Civic Auditorium, later renamed The Jackie Gleason Theater. From ‘How Sweet It Is – The Jackie Gleason Story’ by James Bacon. Click here if you would like[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s Take You Child to the Library and Trilby was briefly in the library until he was caught eating through the cookbook section. So Zuber gets the honor to read a book as Trilby examines the corner for an hour[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A bit about the 100 year celebration of John D. MacDonald’s books. From Travis McGee to non-McGee books. Also how to get books of MacDonald from me! Also a bit of Florida television history involving Simon and Simon and MacDonald.[…]↓ 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…
This Labor Day is a good day to go to your local book store Hopefully you have one nearby and purchase a volume or two to read. Even better to buy a book based in or about our great state[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Time for a good book about Florida and Swampy is well indulging! You can indulge, too! Nab a book off the shelf at your home, your local book store or library and log in a few pages or more this[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Florida, Land Of Images by Nixon Smiley My rating: 4 of 5 stars Nixon Smiley has collected a series of informative essays of various historical markers in Florida history. Each is very well written and most provide a very good[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I like to start each year reading a Mike Shayne novel. The stories are hard to solve and uses real locations around Miami and Miami Beach at the time the stories are written. The books are now nearly impossible to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Pioneer, Go Home! by Richard Powell My rating: 5 of 5 stars Part of my Florida collection – Can’t ask for more from a book than a great story, great writing and a consistent tone, in this case, of humor.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Melbourne A Century of Memories by Melbourne Chamber of Commerce My rating: 5 of 5 stars This book is part of my Swampy’s Florida book collection: This is a wonderful selection of columns telling of the history of Melbourne and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Florida Indians and the Invasion from Europe by Jerald T. Milanich My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is a very thorough book. Covering Florida’s early history, how the Spanish explorers roamed the state, the indian interactions, archaeological evidence found.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Resort Nurse by Diana Douglas My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is part of my Florida book collection. I picked this up noticing the Florida location and considered it a romance novel. I hadn’t read one before. However, after[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…