David Cohen, the founder of Manifest Distillery and a self-described “gin-head,” wanted to get his gin recipe just right, so he experimented with more than 30 botanicals and compounded them in multiple ways in his distillery before discovering the perfect blend. The mix master’s final product is a New World style gin that features six […]
Gray Malin, famed for his aerial fine-art photography series focused on beach scenes from around the world, grew up in Dallas but has fond memories of wintering at his grandparents’ home in Vero Beach. “I remember the sunsets being pretty spectacular,” he says. Inspiration for his over-water series hit Malin at The Palazzo hotel in […]
Florida has the longest history of cattle ranching in America, beginning when Ponce de León brought cattle and horses to the New World from Spain in 1521. When my ancestors moved to Florida with the first waves of American settlers in the mid-1800s, cattle had been living wild in the Florida woods for three centuries. […]
The Sunshine State has a thriving community of collectors and sellers of vintage Lilly. Retailers say the quality of the garments is a big factor in their market value—Lillys hold up in construction and print if they’ve been cared for properly over the decades. Flamingo scoured the state to find the best Lilly stashes from […]
It’s “Bobby Bowden Day” at Doak Campbell Stadium. Every Saturday during the fall in Tallahassee used to be Bobby Bowden Day, but this one, October 26, 2013, is official: the first time the coach has been back to the field named for him since his forced retirement three years before. He waits near midfield, wearing […]
Anguished after being left at the altar, Nora Dinsmoor, a wealthy spinster in Alfonso Cuarón’s Great Expectations (1998), hides away in her mansion, Paradiso Perduto, interacting only with her niece, Estella, and a young orphan, Finn. But before she even appears on screen (wearing Cleopatra makeup and a manic expression), her dejection surfaces in Paradiso […]
A little past midnight on a July morning, when exotic constellations light the sky, my wife Jane, our Toller retriever Smarty and I head across A1A and down a series of wooden steps to a lower platform overlooking the ocean in southern Melbourne Beach. Within a few minutes, a loggerhead turtle emerges from the waves, […]
A look at vintage Lilly designs and how the artistic crew behind her famous patterns fatefully linked with the Palm Beach socialite in the 1960s and helped create the blueprint for an iconic fashion brand
THE HENRY B. PLANT MUSEUM Tampa In 1891, railroad, steamship and hotel magnate Henry Plant spent $3 million to build a 511-room Moorish Revival resort known as the Tampa Bay Hotel. It had an 18-hole golf course, a flower conservatory and a heated swimming pool. Crippled by the Great Depression, the hotel closed in 1932 […]
