THE COMING ADVENTURE
the Once and Future King is in my Cornish part plans
Still waiting for friend to confirm time off.
Well, I’ve claimed to have seen two ghosts in a hotel room.
Monticello is included in THE BEST SMALL TOWN UNDER THE SUN (Howard), it lists watermelon as a popular crop along with pecans peanuts, cotton (popular since before the Civil War) and corn as well as strawberries, blueberries and raspberries
There’s fishing in Lake Miccosukee (8 miles from the town and in above picture) and hunting (with land owner’s permission and a license of course) for deer, small game and birds.
Tennis, soft ball and hand ball are possible at Jefferson Co. recreation park on the edge of town and you can play golf and swim at the Monicello Country Club. And for the less active there’s a library and dog racing at the Jefferson Kennel Club.
There are a few of the open-air spirits; the more domestic of their tribe gather within-doors, plentiful as swallows under southern eaves.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, The Celtic Twilight
Oh and about those ghosts. According to the Gainesville Sun: The Palmer House (1840) has witnessed object flying around and they’ve even snapped a photo of a ghostly woman in 19th century clothing. http://www.gainesville.com/article/20091025/magazine01/910269984
And there’s a(nother) book about the town(well at least it’s ghosts) as well: Haunted Monticello Florida, full of tales of ghosts and paranormal encounters written by Betty Davis and those Big Bend guys we mentioned earlier and includes legends, tales and personal stories of ghosts and the supernatural. http://www.northwest-florida-travel.com/haunted-monticello-florida.html
Then there’s (see picture at top)
620 West Washington St.,
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/18166#sthash.hSemdeYO.dpuf
1 hour ghost tours available by reservation only,
scheduled between 6-9 pm. –
There’s said to be angelic music in the Safari room, an unseen pipe smoker by the 1927 elevator, a woman in white, an unknown occupant on the 4th floor not to mention ghostly apparitons and more.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
The murdered do haunt their murderers, I believe. I know that ghosts have wandered on earth. Be with me always — take any form — drive me mad! Only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!
EMILY BRONTE, Wuthering Heights
