This is something I wrote some time back. But since we’re getting into summer and some of us may still…

Here’s one of my favorite stories about how the old Florida “Pork Choppers” did “bidness.” One day in 1947, a…

I wrote this some years ago about a man who started out being just another news interview subject and ended…

On Christmas break in 1974 Dave Smith and I took a road trip to Washington, D.C., and on into Pennsylvania.…

It’s true that the buffalo don’t have much room to roam on Paynes Prairie. But imagine how cramped their distant…

Some cynic (probably me) once described Gainesville as a college town in the middle of the prison belt. But that…

Remember Granny? Rose McDonald was a beloved figure among Gainesville’s downtown street person community. Everybody seemed to know and like…

I originally wrote this piece several years ago for The Sun. Oddly, with a bit of updating it seems as…

Listen, Florida has always been fertile ground for confidence men, quick buck artists, dream weavers and rascals. It’s our history.…