Seasons of real Florida / Jeff Klinkenberg ; foreword by Randy Wayne White.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Klinkenberg, Jeff.

Series:

Florida history and culture series

The Florida history and culture series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Manners and customs.

Florida--Description and travel--Anecdotes.

Florida.

Florida--Biography--Anecdotes.

Florida--Social life and customs--Anecdotes.

Genre:

Anecdotes.

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xv, 261 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2004]

Summary:

No wonder Jeff Klinkenberg loves Florida. At any time of year he can find a place to enjoy or a person with an irresistible story. Arranged by season, the book opens in the fall, which Klinkenberg says is like spring in the north -- a time of celebration. Fair weather, good food, and the joys of nature lie ahead, described here in essays that are like time capsules of "old Florida values." Preserving the past, they reveal Klinkenberg's waggish appreciation of the state's history, folkways, and landscape. Many pieces focus off the beaten path and on modern rogues who seem to turn their backsides to the subdivisions and shopping malls that pave the state. Other pieces pay homage to Klinkenberg's literary heroes who have written in and about Florida, such as Pulitzer Prize-winner Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Rawlings's companion and memoirist Idella Parker, Everglades crusader Marjory Stoneman Douglas, and novelist Ernest Hemingway. Klinkenberg also revisits an old St. Johns River campsite of nineteenth-century botanist William Bartram, whose encounters with alligators there were as alarming as Klinkenberg's today with beer cans and soda bottles. For anyone who has a stake in the real Florida -- resident, tourist, naturalist, or newcomer -- this tour of the seasons of the state will linger in memory like the aroma of orange blossoms on a clear winter night.

Contents:

Fall

1. The Subtle Season 3

2. Peebles 6

3. Flamingo Tourists 11

4. Inmate No. 793362 16

5. Clyde Butcher 23

6. The Smallwood Store 28

7. Pictures of History 32

8. Travels with a Bear Man 38

9. Torreya State Park 43

10. The Herlong Mansion 47

11. Old Woman River 56

Winter

12. Last Fish Monger 67

13. Fruit Hog 73

14. Mister Citrifacts 76

15. Miss Ruby 80

16. In the Footsteps of the Masters 86

17. Smoked Fish 94

18. Winter Perfume 98

19. Minding the Manatees 103

20. What Lies Beneath 107

21. The Yearling Restaurant 114

22. Black Seminoles 119

23. His Father's Voice 124

Spring

24. Coconuts and Alligators 135

25. Bartram's Travels Through Our Dreams 139

26. Idella 146

27. Mastry's Bait and Tackle 154

28. Barren Beauty 158

29. Tom Gaskins 162

30. The Guru of Fly-Fishing 165

31. Marjory Stoneman Douglas 168

32. Builder of Boats, Keeper of History 171

33. No Such Thing as a Dead Gator 176

34. When Trees Talk 183

Summer

35. A Florida Boy Keeps His Cool 193

36. Loincloth Man 196

37. Kiss of the Swamp Angels 200

38. Cracker Cattle 205

39. Florida's Deepest Roots 210

40. Shell Woman 217

41. Wakulla Springs 222

42. A Fisherman Named Hemingway 225

43. Man out of Time 230

44. For a Song 235

45. Soul Food 239

46. Dark Night of the Soul 244

47. Firefly Doc 253.

ISBN:

0813027136

OCLC:

53435231