6 Virtual Tours of Stunning Frank Lloyd Wright Homes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Who wrote “The Godfather” novel, the basis of the movie by the same name?

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Top 15 Things to Do in Key West, Florida

 

 

Key West has several claims to fame—for instance it’s the Southern Most City in the US, then there all the eclectic people who have lived here and made the town a laid back place like you may never have been in before.  When I use to go there (don’t know if it still is) it had the most restaurants per capita in the USA and some fantatic B&B’s.

 

 

 

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• Ambrosia Key West
• 622 Fleming St,
• Key West, FL 33040
•  (305) 296-9838

 

Situated in a restored mansion in Old Town.  Suites have private entrancess and verandahs,.  Lush tropical garden.  Island Breakfast.

 

 

• Free Wi-Fi—Free breakfast—Free parking—Accessible—Outdoor pool—Air-conditioned

 

 

From 3-unit Old Town guest houses with shared bathrooms plus a heart down-home family breakfast to 200 room luxury waterfront hotels with all the amenities and then some, Key West offers a range of accomodations that give people of all lifestyles what they’re looking for.  And each place has a charater all their own, often very much like their owner and/or manager

 

 

 

 

The Banyan Resort

 323 Whitehead St,

 

 

 

Refurbished Victorian homes with contemporary suites.  Each with French doors opening into a private patio or verandah.  Lush tropical gardens including two massive Banyan trees.  a jacuzzi, waterfall and lily pond.

 

 

With all the Bed and Breakfasts on this island choosing accommodations can be challenging.

 

 

Duval Street – Key West Florida West Tour

 

 

 

 

Site of Palmyra

 

 

 

Palmyra, the ancient city of central Syria, attained real importance only after Roman control was established about AD30.  Later in its decline Palmyra was taken by the Arabs and sacked by Tamerine, and its ruins were forgotten until the 17th c.  The swirling desert sand, kept in constant motion by the wind, accelerates the ruins, slowly wearing down the marble and stone carvings.

Larousse Encyclopedia of Archaeology

General Editor: Gilbert Charles-Pecard

 

 

 

ISIS destroys historic ruins in Palmyra, Syria

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shows are at Cornell Fine Arts Museum

Rollins in Winter Park

 

Summer 2021:  https://www.rollins.edu/cornell-fine-arts-museum/exhibitions/

 

 

 

 

 

Second Harvest Wood Bank

www.FeeedHopeNow.org

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

15 Best Things to Do in Talladega (AL)

 

 

 

Davey Allison of a well known NASAR family was a sucessful driver in the Winston Cup races–in 1993 Davey, a newly licensed  helicopter pilot, drove his bird into the tarmac at Talladaga Speedway and died of his injuries the following day, he was 32.  Both Davey and his younger brother Clifford, who was killed in a single care crash at Michigan International Raceway at age 27 are buried at Highland Memorial Gardens in Brighton, Alabama.

Where Are They Buried?  How did They Die?

Tod Benoit

 

 

Davey Allison 

Clifford Lawrence Allison 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cross Creek (events, things to do, eat and so on)

 

 

 

I’m returning you to Cross Creek again as I love it there and hope you will too.

 

 

long agoas time goes Author Marjorie Kennan Rawlings came to this settlement of 800 (I don’t know if that number is then or now.) South east of Ganesville.  Whil h was staying her she wrote books all but one about Flrida..

 

 

 

 

 

the State Site:

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park

 

18700 S. County Road 325
                                                      Cross Creek FL 32640                                                           9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily

 

 

 

• The park grounds are open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily.
• Guided tours of the farmhouse interior are available Thursday through Sunday at 11 a.m., 1 p.m., 2 p.m. and 3 p.m.
• Usually you must take a tour to see inside the house—but I have been allowd to walk thru it with my friends and a few other vehicles and I gave a narrative since I have read bunches about it.

 

 

 

Admission

• $3 per group in one vehicle. Please use the honor box to pay the fee; correct change is needed.
• The farmhouse tour fee is $3 per adult and $2 per child. Please bring exact change as change will not be provided. Credit cards are not accepted at this time.

 

 

The area around the park and for several miles in all directions remains relatively unchanged since the author’s living her with herons fishing,  deers in the wild and bees visiting the flowers wild and otherrwise.

 

 

 

Rawlings wrote unti her death at age 57.   In 1883 the movie Cross Creek was made based on her life.

 

 

 

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 

 

 

 

To get  there take I-75  exit on the East Micanopy exit

Take County Road 346 east to

 

County Roadd 355 south

 

to Cross Creek.

 

 

Cross the bridge and follow 325 to  the right.  The house is 1/2 mile from the bridge on the right.

 

 

 

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings: Video Highlights of Events at the MKR Historic State Park

This site has multiple videos including tours of the farm among many other topics about the author.

 

 

 

 

 

The Yearling | Full Family Drama Movie

 

 

 

(just down the road from Cross Creek) Folks in

Island Grove

considered the people of Cross Creek

a little “biggety” according

to Marjorie Rawlins.

 

 

Cross Creek before Marjorie

 

 

 

 

The Yearling Restaurant – Cross Creek, Florida

 

 

 

 

 

Mammoth Fort Jefferson, the “Gibraltar of the Gulf,” is proteted by a seemingl insiginificant seawall.  Just as the reef has protected the harbor, the seawall was designd to protect the fort from storm waves and enemy attack.  Indeed, the seawall acts as an artificial reef-calm, protected water one one side and sea surge on the other.

Dry Tortugas National Park:  Walking the Seawall

 

 

 

 

 

 

www.spcai.org

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

www.highlandartsguild.org

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

12 virtual garden tours to do from home

Here are 12 free virtual garden tours, from the UK and abroad,

 

 

 

 

Tetbury, Gloucestershire:  Sisley Garden Tours, a family run company, has been taking visitors around our best green spaces for almost 30 years.  A new programme of tours or late this year and into 2022 has just been announced including a five-night Cotswolds.  Exclusivee tour that takes in Prince Charles royal garden at Highgrove

Discover Britain

 

 

 

The English Garden Tours Specialist

 

 

 

 

 

 

Palatka, Florida ⭐️🌎 AMERICAN CITIES 🌎⭐️

 

 

 

I found a few more houses in Palatka of historical interest to encourage you to look into your own town

 

 

 

Pictured above is the first of three on River Street:

 

 

 

 

Samhain (one of the four Celtic fire festivals) is celebrated on Oct. 31 – November 1 (Halloween).  It is the end of the harvest, the beginnng of winter and once marked the Celtic new year.  At Samhain, the barrier between our world and the Otherworld thins, allowing contacts between the spirits (faeries) and humans.  Normal rules of human conduct do not apply and one may “run wild”.  Great bonfires are lit and participants join hands and circle the fire, or young men take blazing torches and circle (sunwise) their homes and lands to protect them from evil spirits.  This was also a feestival of the dead and the church easily   able to transform these holidays into All Saint’s Day (November 1) and All Soul’s Day (November 2)

Celtic Taboo Mythology p.2

 

 

 

Samhain (Samain) – The Celtic roots of Halloween

 

 

 

 

 

www.royalarmouries.org

 

 

 

 

 

www.wish.org

 

 

www.kiplinhall.co.uk

 

 

 

 

Virtual Tour of St Bartholomew’s Hospital and West Smithfield

 

 

 

St Bartholomew’s Hospital in London was origionally founded as part of the Priory of St Bartholomew’s in 1123, and still exists today.  making it the oldeest continually operating hospital in England (that is still on the same site). Other hospitals were established by local guilds and would only contain a few beds, while others were used for specific aliments such as leprosy.

Hospitals & Universities

BBC History Revealed.

 

 

The Time of Leprosy: 11th Century to 14th Century

 

 

Who earned the nickname “Moses” for her role in the Underground Railroad?

 

 

 

 

Eleanor of Aquitaine, born c1122-24, is perhaps one of the most famous queens of medieval western Eruope.  Th only woman to be crowned queen of both Francxe and England, her long life, and position as one of the wealthist duchesses of western Europe enabled her to exert great influence in both countries.  Eleanor’s early life at the Aqutanian court afforded her a great education and sophisticated upbringing.

Eleanor of Aquitaine:  The Powerful Dynasty

Dr. Gabrielle Storey

BBC

 

8 of the best Scottish Gin Schools to learn how to make your own gin on your travels this summer

 

 

 

 

 

 

All of my first, last and main pictures were taken on one or another of my visits to London

 

 

60 Ways to Serve Pork Chops