He mostly kept rock music at arm’s length, but Lenny Dee was St. Petersburg’s first – and to date only – real rockstar. During the period...
It all began with a little tree, a sapling brought from its native India in the 1880s by orange grove owner Robert D. Hoyt, and planted...
Tom Reese told the author of On the Road to hit the road. Legendary beat novelist Jack Kerouac, living out the last alcoholic years of his...
St. Petersburg’s journey from provincial town to bustling metropolis can be measured in the story of the Festival of States. What started in 1896 as a...
Ken Breslauer, who’s authored numerous books on Florida’s long-vanished roadside attractions and mid-century tourism, believes he understands why native Floridians – like him – treasure memories...
The story of Winter, the young bottlenose dolphin rescued on the east coast of Florida and brought back to life at the Clearwater Marine Aquarium, resonated...
The namesake of St. Petersburg’s historic bayfront airfield was also the city’s first hometown hero. Born in St. Pete in 1893, James Albert Whitted was the...
Just give me Dixie, where folks are smilin’ And all the while invitin’ you there. Where friends will greet you, say ‘I’m glad to meet you’...
It was state-of-the-art in 1954, when it was built. But in 2022, the Williams Park Bandshell is strictly old school. The green, Chevron-shaped high ceiling is...
Gulfport’s stately Stetson University College of Law was a product of the 1920s Florida Land Boom. Developer I.M. “Handsome Jack” Taylor put up the Mediterranean Revival-style...
