Listen. If you haven’t been to City Hall recently you really ought to drop by. Out on the front lawn…
What’s going on here?
I was out and about this morning taking a lot of photos for a forthcoming blog about the atrocious state…
Ron’s magical mystery tour
You’ve been to Orlando to see the Big Mouse. Check. And you consumed an industrial-sized tropical drink in a neon…
Our best kept secrets
This is something I wrote some time back. But since we’re getting into summer and some of us may still…
The ‘Glades on a bet
Here’s one of my favorite stories about how the old Florida “Pork Choppers” did “bidness.” One day in 1947, a…
Councille Blye’s Coventry
I wrote this some years ago about a man who started out being just another news interview subject and ended…
Look what we’ve done
On Christmas break in 1974 Dave Smith and I took a road trip to Washington, D.C., and on into Pennsylvania.…
Why the buffalo roam
It’s true that the buffalo don’t have much room to roam on Paynes Prairie. But imagine how cramped their distant…
Sunrise to sunset
Some cynic (probably me) once described Gainesville as a college town in the middle of the prison belt. But that…
Invisibles ride among us
Remember Granny? Rose McDonald was a beloved figure among Gainesville’s downtown street person community. Everybody seemed to know and like…
