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Did you know they make Whiskey in Florida?
Florida – Handmade, distilled, and bottled on the farm in Umatilla, Florida. Very smooth with all the wonderful spiciness and deep finish you expect from a great Whiskey
So now you know.
all our nice fairies and the like may well have scary origins of not so nice creatures take for instance Ireland’s legends.
“Ireland then, may not be as charming and pleasant as it irst seems. Beneathe the surface of Irish folklore—long equated with shamrocks and leprechauns ——-lies a dark strand concerning the watching dead
It is a brave man or woman who will adventure out along a lonely Irish raod, where old churchyards and failing Great Famine villagses
nestle amongs the far-off trees, as twilight falls across the countryside. Who knows what he or she may encounter before reaching his or her destination. Dark, blood-drinking fairies or the malignant marbh-bheo, hungry for fresh human flesh? …. Or even worse, the unquiet shade of Abhartach? Who knows what horrors lie out there in the growing darkness of the Celtic night
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OK back to our wanderings thru Florrida
We drove thru town and past International Drive and the theme parks and we continue Southwest on I-4
US 27 passes thru this area and by-passes the small towns that set on Florida’s back bone , this was built in 1956…but there is another road that moves down this same route, the original road known as ALT. US27 and further south Co Rd 17 and they are what is known as the Scenic Highweay which dates to a time when hwys had names not number in the 1920’s.
We’ll exit I-4 on US 27 south.—this area has an interesting history of unsucessul development at least for tourism.
Two years after Disney’s Florida Project started taking its first guests (1973), a large circus tent appeared at the corner of Interstate 4 and Highway 27 (just south west of the Magic Kingdom) in Haines City FL.) This oversized tent-shaped building was a preview center for Circus World.
Along with Sea World and Cypress Gardens, publishing company Harcourt Brace Jovanovich purchased the park in 1986. The new owners promptly closed the park after determining that a new theme for the site was needed. The circus themed attraction had never really managed to attract large crowds. Their new park, Boardwalk Walk and Baseball would open a year later,
Boardwalk and Baseball was the new theme park built near Haines City, Florida, . It opened in April 1987, Base Ball CIty Statium was built in 1988. and it all closed January 17, 1990.
The land was sold to developer Victor Posner in 2001. The ballpark was torn down in 2005 to make way for the new Posner Park; a retail complex with several big box stores opened on the site in 2008 and is still actively (or was before the virus) open and selling
We will continue on to Davenport on Tuesday–see you then
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The trip we took to Ireland (the year we drove—me in England—my friend Susi in Ireland)—I went to the Irish Tourist Bureau (Republic of Ireland) provided this booklet to me—the only cost was for the hotels I was to stay at and I received vouchers which we turned over to the hotels we stayed at along the way and they received their funds from the tourist services. It was beautiuly done with excelent information on sights to see as wll as locations, etc on the places and of course driving directions—-We had a wonderful trip with little planning on my part—the serivce is still active and though I do not know what services they offer I would suggest that you check with them first if you wish to see the Republic of Ireland.
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One of the things I have enjoyed is the old horror movies—-without the butchery of modern genre, and thus forced in many cases to actually develop plots and story lines—-something often missed when blood and hacking bodies passed for them. But I also enjoy the silliness of thos days for example:
“The spread of popular vampire humor awaited the creation of the widely recognized stereotypical cinematic vampire by Bela Lugosi
in the 1930s .
The first major attempt to exploit the humorous possibilities of Lugosi’s Dracula
occurred in the 1948 Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstien.
The plot of the movie revolved around Dracula’s
attempt to steal comedian Lou Costellos’ brain and place it in the head of the
Lugosi returned to his Dracula role for the spoof, which iin retrospect received high marks as one of Abbott and Costello’s best movies. It was said to be far superior to Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll adn Mr. Hyde (1953), in which an unamed acor mad a cameo appearance as Dracula”
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As to the movie we took our quote from today just read this clipping from the Key Wet Paper on the movie made locally.
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I so recommend that you try a visit to Amelia Island and Fernandina—there are all manner of thing to see and do here—-as I am fond of reminding you Florida is so much more than the manufactured parks —- get a live visit the real thing…..but you might want to wait till things open up more.
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More of my musing on Arthur (as in the Once and Future)—from some of my ramblings on paper
Ther were the Goddess’ priestesses with their strong Amazon body guards to protect them in the calvacade of mn, not all of whom still reviered the old ways and saw the priestesses as just another group of camp collowers to giv services from bandaging their wounds , doing their laundry or mor intimate activitives.
Everywhere were tents–some of the commander’s were elaborate affairs–some dated back to the Romans, some of newer origins more or less opulent depeding on the men/man. Common men slept in the open or in make shift lean-tos of wood andd leaveed branches. Some even had patched together tents of cured (from the oder not very well) hides or even woold cloth treated it oils to resist moisture.
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Mount Dora Florida—A place by any other name ?
Mount Dora is named for the lake it borders, everyone I have spoken to is sure of that, but after that things get a little vague. Well we do know that the Mount came from the quick ascent of the land from the lake sure to heights of amazing amount of feet—at least for predominately flat and often covered with water because its so low, land in Florida. We know that the lake was name in about 1846 – 1848 when surveyors we mapping the state out.
Florida had been settled by Spain and even after the English arrived with a long line of coastal colonies Spain held Florida-–when England captured Havanna Cuba she used that to broker a trade for Florida and as part of a treaty in 1763. When the British left after loosing the war they returned Florida to Spain in 1783. In 1819 the US acquired Florida from Spain and Florida became a state in 1845. Then came the survey of the pennisula.
It is accepted that the surveyors named the lake—but there it gets foggy. For year I and most everyone else had been told that the Dora for which the land was named was Dora Ann Drawdy who along with her huband James came here in 1846 from Irwin Co. Georga and established a farm. Then in 1848 those surveyrs came to the area and due to her kindness to them (in the manner of some food and water) they named the lake Dora after her. Eventually she and her family move to Seneca 10 miles north of the original farm, after her husband joined the Confederate Army and was killed. She never returned to the area.
But more recently this has been investigated and the history has been revised, seems that Dora had 2 husband, her first James she married and became a widow with three chidren all in Georgia. She later married William Draway, a cousin, after his death and they moved to Florida in 1850 or somewhere there after. William joined the Confederate Army (infantry) and died in 1862. While the lake was named by the surveyors at least 2 years before she and her faimly arrived here.
So since it’s too late to ask the surveyors I guess we’ll never know who or what it was named after—But Ms Drawdy has a street-more like an alley named after her.
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