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I watched it free on Ovation yesterday
At first glance, this 1991 comedy looks like another formulaic fluff-piece with a standard fish-out-of-water scenario–in this case a hotshot young doctor (Michael J. Fox) whose cross-country drive to become a Beverly Hills cosmetic surgeon is interrupted when he crashes in the rural hamlet of Grady, South Carolina. But as Fox’s character is urged by the folksy locals to stay–an offer made tempting by his romance with a law student (Julie Warner)–this unassuming little movie just gets better and better thanks to a sharp script and a splendid supporting cast. Well, okay … maybe Woody Harrelson and Bridget Fonda aren’t used to the fullest of their abilities, but for the most part this is a charming and surprisingly intelligent comedy that’s good enough to compare favorably to My Cousin Vinny, a film with which it shares much in common. Fox has all the right moves to make his character both bullish and ultimately agreeable, and Julie Warner’s performance may leave you wondering why this fine actress didn’t immediately rise to stardom. –Jeff Shannon
https://www.quotes.net/movies/doc_hollywood_3175
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While Dr Hollywood is supose to happen in of the town is Grady, S.C. the filming location is no where near there.
In fact it was filmed in Florida:
Micanopy, Florida
and whether you like the movie or not—I know it’s another fairy tale escape piece with lots of laughs and a comfortable feel of small town warmth -some thing which don’t seem to happen enough lately
https://www.visitflorida.com/en-us/cities/micanopy.html
and the town is such a pleasant break from the non-stop tourism of Florida that its really worth a visit—something I’ve done several times over the years of residency in Florida
https://destinationmainstreets.com/florida/micanopy.php
The history and beauty of Micanopy, Florida
The Europeans have been in Micanopy area much longer than they have in the rest of the state—except St. Augustine it was a site of cattle grazing and the like for the early Spanish from the St. Augustine settlement …something that most people don’t know
https://www.floridarambler.com/florida-lodging-cabins-bb/micanopy-herlong-mansion-old-florida/
and finish up with a tour of the town:
virtual Dive—Christ in the Abyss
https://sanctuaries.noaa.gov/vr/florida-keys/christ-of-the-abyss.htmlhttps://sanctuaries.noaa.gov/vr/florida-keys/christ-of-the-abyss.html
Bat Tower
In an effort to control mosquitoes in the Keys, this strange structure was built to house “skeeter eating” bats. The project was abandoned when not enough bats were attracted to the 35′ tall oddity. A historical marker is all that remains of the bat house.”
Charlie Carlson
Strange Florida
the unexplained and unusual.
This statement that the historical marker is all that remains was incorrect when the book was written in 1997—-bu it turned out to be the truth as the tower which had stood since 1929 was destroyed by a hurricane in 2017—they were just 20 years too early—but the marker is along the main road the the Bat tower was further back and off the tourist beaten path–but then few have ever described me as a tourist I in fact have a piece of wood that was blown off the tower years ago—a friend of mine that was a carpenter picked it up and made me a coat rack of it.
The end: https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/sugarloaf-keys-bat-tower-destroyed-in-hurricane-irma-9716936
The story of the tower https://www.visitflorida.com/en-us/cities/key-west/the-keys-perky-bat-tower.html
Oh and there are 3 stories about the bats in the keys according to Keys legends
That they put bats in the tower but they soon deserted it.
That they tried to attract local bats to the tower but they never came
And my favorite
They bats were placed or came or both to the tower
and the mosquitoes ate them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXQB6l-owfI&feature=youtu.be
Hoe to do an online applications for University of Florida
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lp__yOghSr4&feature=youtu.be
Edinburgh Royal Mile
The Tollbooth Kirk
http://cityexplorerstours.com/edinburgh-travel-guide/the-hub.html
It contains the city’s highest spire
Formerly St. John’s Church
Associated with John Knox (1505=72)
https://reformationhistory.org/johnknox.html
Gothic Building
buy Agustus Pugen & James Gillespy Graham
https://www.facebook.com/pg/CambusnethanPriory/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1010472709004091
Hasn’t been used as a church since 1984
Opened as the Hub 1999
http://cityexplorerstours.com/edinburgh-travel-guide/the-hub.html
Enhance your virtual cocktail party with Cocktails around the world
https://www.thediscoverer.com/blog/6-cocktails-from-around-the-world/?
Separated by a wall & 200 years are the homes of two musicians who chose London & changed music.
Welcome to Handel & Hendrix in London
the Jimi Hendrix Experience in LONDON https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/14/travel/jimi-hendrix-london.html
Jimi Hendrix who lived here in the late 20th century.
and the museum is haunted: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1334045/Exorcist-called-to-banish-ghost-in-Handels-house.html
but not by either muscian
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and we’re back to Key Weird—I mean West
Key West Winery
https://www.thekeywestwinery.com/
103 Simonton St,
“Wanted Winos!”
an outlet for fruit-based wines. With Key Lime wine their signature flavor.
Originally the home of Jack’s Saloon (opened in 1889) and quickly became truly infamous.
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Up staris is Berlin’s Cigar and Cocktail Bar, remembering the glory days of Cuba
And so ends our tour of Key West too bad we aren’t really there—we could have relaxed at Berlin’s
Black Heritage Sites in Palatka, Florida
Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
https://www.facebook.com/pages/New-Bethel-A-M-E-Church/167357036632643?rf=1099815546718626
719 Reid St,
https://www.nps.gov/nr/feature/places/pdfs/16000270.pdf
Organized by the residents of Newtown in 1866.
Romanesque Revival style constructed the church 1908 – 12
Finley Homestead
https://www.visitflorida.com/en-us/listing.a0t40000007qvYxAAI.html
522 Main St.
Private Home NOW
2-story frame structure which was the home of
Adam Finley
https://books.google.com/books?id=oCWuX0–iAIC&pg=PA168&lpg=PA168&dq=finley+homestead+palatka&source=bl&ots=-24en_9vkX&sig=ACfU3U0PoNf_37ncKuR1w5BQ2LgvtpZCHw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiQ1-6jmZHpAhWhmeAKHTSaBsoQ6AEwAXoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=finley%20homestead%20palatka&f=false
Old Central Academy High School
https://www.visitflorida.com/en-us/listing.a0t40000007qvOHAAY.html
127 Washington Street
Established 1892, It became the first accredited black high school in Florida in 1924. The original building here was destroyed by fire in 1936. This present building was built in 1937 and is now the County School Board Service Center.
reportedly in October 1924, there was a small storm in New Smyrna Beach and it reportedly dumped 23″ of rain in 24 hrs. that’s about 4,000 tons of water or so I was told.
another event we lost to the CV LD
I took part in one of those sea battles—my hubby collected rotten veggies that we threw (we chartered a sail boat and crew —- an got some others–just a few—-to come along with us and help pay) or rather he did. In anticipation of the whole trip I went to all kinds of low price stores and bought really bad perfume and then I bought a bucket and a long range water gun- I mixed the perfume with sea water and the rest is a new chapter in the battle.
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Helping to feed, clothe, shelter and educate those in need
http://www.medievalwarfare.info/templars.htm
The history of the Order in the East is extremely hazy in this period and in fact one of their earliest recorded actions appears to have been a humiliating defeat. During a campaign of Fulk in Gilead , Runciman relates, ‘a band of Moslems managed to cross the Jordan close to its junction with the Dead Sea and to raid Judea, where thy lured to its destruction by the tactics of feigned retreat a company of Templer knights sent against them.
It was indeed some time before the Templers and other knights present in the Holy Land developed taticts to counteract those of the Moslems and the Seljuk Turks who each employed means of warfare different from those to which European knights had been accustomed.
https://www.history.com/news/knights-templar-facts-crusades-wealth
The Templers made good use of these early experiences and later became the military strategists of the kings and crusaders who fought for the Holy Land.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/the-northerner/2011/jun/27/whatever-happened-to-the-knights-templar
This movie is all fairy tales (with some true points but not so you’d notice)—so once you accept that you can go on and just enjoy the major production with all the battles and broad views of war fare and my favorite Orlando Bloom movie. Check it out below.