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FEATURES

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TRANSFORMING CARE

M.T. Mustian Center rises to meet the future. by JASON DEHART

120 NEW IN TOWN

Families escape war, find friends and hope.

RENDERING COURTESY OF TALLAHASSEE MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE

by KIM HARRIS THACKER

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23 IN EVERY ISSUE

42 CITIZEN OF STYLE

Devilish diva defines fashion her way.

23 RELATIONSHIPS

Authors Barbara Hamby and David Kirby share many loves.

26 GREAT OUTDOORS From wild to mild, Tallahassee trails beckon.

28 EDUCATION

Ginny Stewart takes The Bard to school.

32 CHAMPIONS Boys and Girls Club thriving under Lee Wagner.

34 CHARACTERS

48 WHAT’S IN STORE

A roundup of retail happenings

GASTRO & GUSTO

51 LIBATIONS

Cordials offer sweet satisfaction.

54 DINING IN Fall for this easy, outdoor feast.

56 DINING OUT

Goodwood is Rev’d up about new cafe.

37 FOR HER Perfume is the finishing flourish.

40 FOR HIM Find your signature cologne.

EXPRESSION

67 MUSIC Tallahassee

Winds deliver both breeze and tempest.

70 ART Marina Brown

feeds her daemons.

DESTINATIONS

81 GETAWAY America’s

Most Haunted is a city built upon bones.

86 QUICK TRIP

74 STAGE Adult classes keep ballerinas on pointe.

76 BOOKS Tim Dorsey brings murder and mayhem to Sopchoppy.

Stella, a flirtatious fragrance by Tocca

SELF-PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST / TAKE TO THE TRAILS / A COUPLE AND THEIR COUPLETS

Oldest of trees dwell deep in Torreya State Park.

ABODES

133 EXTERIORS

“She shed” supplies pretty sanctuary.

142 INTERIORS

Steve Isbell finds beauty in the broken.

PANACHE

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Sweet dreams await with the right mattress.

144 DIY Infuse candles

with favorite scents and colors.

146 GARDENING

Go native with wild beauties.

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Congolese and Syrian families who fled violence and bloodshed find sanctuary and friendship in Tallahassee. Five-year-old refugee Angela starts school here this fall. Her big brother, Misimango, 11, has been in school for two years. Photo by Lindy Allen Photography

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PHOTOS BY PHIL SEARS (70), WOODLAND FIELDS PHOTOGRAPHY (23), SAIGE ROBERTS (37) AND COURTESY OF REV CAFÉ (56)

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60 YEARS OF COLLECTING:

PRESERVING OUR REGION’S IDENTITY ON EXHIBIT JULY 29, 2017– JANUARY 7, 2018

In celebration of the Tallahassee Museum’s 60th anniversary, this new exhibition highlights 60 special artifacts from the Museum’s extensive permanent collections. Each of the selected objects, from pre-history to the late 20th century, tells a unique story that helps us link to the past and our regional identity. A centerpiece of the exhibition will be the Museum’s recently restored dress of Princess Catherine Murat, the great grandniece of George Washington and wife of Achille Murat, Prince of Naples and nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte. This will be the first time in almost 40 years that the dress has been on display to the public. TALL AHASSEEMAGA ZINE.COM

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128 ↑ CAPITAL CITY COUNTRY CLUB

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OPENING NIGHTS Musicians called

“Criers,” five composers, a soloist and a work of poetry all figure in a commissioned work that will be introduced as part of the performing arts series’ 20th year.

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THE BEACH 89 VISIT The arrival of fall only enhances the siren call of the coast, when crowds diminish, prices drop and the beaches save the best for last.

162 CALENDAR

Our calendar is bursting with concerts, 5Ks, seafood festivals, craft-beer revelry, and the return of the Florida Jazz & Blues Festival as Tallahassee and its surrounds celebrate the arrival of fall.

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Preparations for Thanksgiving Day include new running shoes and practice 5Ks as thousands of runners get ready to trot.

179 MEDICAL PROFILES

Meet medical professionals whose training, experience, energy and heart help keep our community in good health.

Best of Tallahassee • Holiday Gift Guide • 2017 Top Singles Event Recap PROMOTION

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SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2017

PRESIDENT/PUBLISHER BRIAN E. ROWLAND

EDITORIAL DIRECTOR OF EDITORIAL SERVICES/EDITOR Steve Bornhoft MANAGING EDITOR Laura Cassels ASSISTANT TO DIRECTOR OF EDITORIAL SERVICES Kim Harris Thacker STAFF WRITERS Hannah Burke, Erin Hoover CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Marina Brown, Jason Dehart, Elizabeth B. Goldsmith, Tisha Crews Keller, Thomas J. Monigan, Karen Murphy, Rebecca Padgett, Audrey Post, Kirstin Redfield, Sara Santora

CREATIVE CHIEF CONTENT OFFICER Lawrence Davidson DIRECTOR OF PRODUCTION AND TECHNOLOGY Daniel Vitter SENIOR ART DIRECTOR Saige Roberts DESIGN DIRECTOR Jennifer Ekrut PUBLICATION DESIGNERS Charles Bakofsky, Shruti Shah GRAPHIC DESIGNERS Meredith Brooks, Sarah Mitchell CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS Carolyn Allen, Dave Barfield, Lucas Barrios, Cuneo Creative, Lawrence Davidson, Kacy Dennis, Alex Fogg, Colin Hackley, Scott Holstein, Lindy Allen Photography, John Norman, Alicia Osborne, Ann Possis, Johnston Roberts, Saige Roberts, Brian Rowland, Sarah Scott, Phil Sears, Ann Shuck, STM Photography, James Stefiuk, Kim Harris Thacker, Woodland Fields Photography

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In this edition of Tallahassee Magazine, we profile two community projects. One is the product of heart. The other is the product of heft. Stories of refugees and their quest to escape oppression and ethnic cleansing have figured prominently in the news in recent years. Opinions, many of them strong, vary about who should be allowed to enter the United States and who should be kept out. The topic of refugee relocation is inescapably charged politically, but it is not our purpose to referee the debate it has brought about. Rather, in a story by Kim Harris Thacker of our editorial team, we have sought to personalize the issue by profiling members of the Syrian and Congolese refugee communities in Tallahassee. We explore the demeaning, deplorable conditions that these new residents of our town left behind and the challenges they face as they work to establish new lives here. Kim immersed herself in the small community of refugees in Tallahassee. In particular, she met and got to know closely families of Congolese heritage. She discovered that they have never felt that they belonged to any country because they’ve lived for the past 10–20 years in refugee camps outside of the nation of their birth, the Democratic Republic of Congo. Kim also met Syrians who had been victims of terrorism, but were treated like suspected terrorists when they sought resettlement through the United Nations. Kim and her family have learned that these displaced individuals all have a compelling story to offer even if they can’t yet tell it in words that you or I can understand. Please set aside time to closely read Kim’s story. As part of her reporting, Kim has listed various ways in which you can help, and you very well may find yourself getting involved and expanding your horizons. And all of us who

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are products of ancestors who departed faraway places to seek a better life in America would do well to reflect on our own personal histories. I alluded to two community projects. The second is taking shape just a few blocks west of Rowland Publishing’s offices on Miccosukee Road. I refer, of course, to the construction of the M.T. Mustian Center at Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare. The state-of-the-art surgery center is scheduled to open early in 2019. It truly will, as Mickey Moore, president of the TMH Foundation, told Tallahassee Magazine editor and my director of editorial services Steve Bornhoft, “transform the delivery of health care services” in Tallahassee and beyond. “It will be a wonder,” Mr. Moore simply said. It is significant to note that the $260 million Mustian Center was made part of TMH’s strategic plan back in 2008. At that time, however, the hospital lacked the financial strength to support a bond issue of the size required to make the project a reality. Getting there required commitment and a concerted effort on the part of the hospital and the generous support of the communities it serves. That is to say that many, many people will have had a hand in bringing about the success that the Mustian Center will represent — success that will be a fitting tribute to the legacy and contributions made by the visionary Mr. Mustian, who thankfully lived to see the day when plans for the center were put in place. While the Mustian Center is in many ways a singular project, TMH is not alone in advancing health care in our community. Capital Regional Medical Center has committed to the construction of two new emergency room facilities, one at Capital Circle and Orange Avenue and the other on North Monroe near Interstate 10.

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GREAT CAPACITY, BOUNDLESS COMPASSION

Further, our town is home to thousands of doctors, nurses and other health care professionals, all of whom are dedicated on an individual level to staying atop advances affecting their specialties and to providing patients with the best care possible. We find ourselves, then, in a community that has the capacity to make worldclass health care, generally reserved for metropolitan hospitals or large research hospitals, available right here. And we live in a town with the compassion to welcome and work to accommodate people who arrived totally unfamiliar with our culture, traditions, mores and more. Here, there is much to feel great about. Be well,

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FALL FORWARD It was the Fourth of July and the sacred music wouldn’t play. Hundreds of runners, cued up at the start line for the annual Firecracker 5K, conducted at Cascades Park, grew agitated — at 8 a.m., it was hot already — as race personnel tried to cut on a recording of the National Anthem. Finally, there came surrender. “We are going to have to go a capella,” a man with a bull horn announced, and presently the throng raised a noise more woeful than joyful — lowing Holsteins came to mind — while continuing to shift its weight from left legs to right, like cows. All of this was maybe not a good sign. But, the race underway, I settled into my pace with about 60 percent of the field in front of me and worked to hold on. All went well until, without slowing down, I reached for a cup of water at an aid station with maybe a mile to go to the finish line. I got my weight too far forward, sped up in an effort to regain my balance and slammed into the asphalt at my top speed of, oh, 12 mph. Three point landing. The heels of my hands and my chin. And then, as I slid forward, I scraped the inside of my elbows and bruised several ribs. My bell had been rung. The music played. An aid station volunteer — a girl with a sweet voice — asked me if I were OK and told me she could round up a nurse. I firmly declined that offer, stubbornly struggled to my feet, walked for a time and then jogged to the finish line. For two weeks thereafter, I could

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not cough without sharp pain. Sixteen days elapsed before I would run again. But there was an upside to the setback. It enabled me to let loose of lesser irritants, like say the Leon County Tax Collector’s offices, that place where you go when it comes time to renew your driver’s license in person. On my way to work, I reported to the office on Apalachee Parkway where I discovered that remodeling was in progress and was directed to the office on Capital Circle by a security guard, two ax handles wide, who never looked up once during our brief conversation and referred to Cross Creek Square like it were a landmark. Upon entering the office at CCS, I was the only customer in the place. Several employees idled at windows. I was told to take a number and to have a seat. After a spell, my number was called. “Now serving number one.” My dealings with the clerk went OK for starters. Social Security card, check. Two pieces of mail sent to your current address, check. Birth certificate, rejected. It was dismissed as an illegitimate “crib souvenir” because it was issued by a hospital and not an agency of government. The presence of my footprint on the certificate carried no weight. I left the CCS office with a temporary license and feeling like a parolee. At the house, I dug a government-issue birth certificate out of a file cabinet and, following a weeklong cooling off period, made the drive to the tax collector’s office up yonder by I-10. Nice new digs. Got a passing grade on my paperwork. Advanced to the photo station. Didn’t break anything there. Was returned to the paperwork station where I handed

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over my expired DL and my temporary DL and a humorless clerk prepared to print my new license. “Sir, our records indicate that you have been issued a driver’s license by the state of Illinois,” the clerk said, pronouncing the “s.” She read me a Chicago street address, askI went down to the ing if I had ever lived there. Oh, the obscensacred store/ ities left unscreamed Where I’d heard the that passed through music years before/ my head right then. I have not been to But the man there Chicago since before said the music I learned to drive. The wouldn’t play. clerk banged away at her keyboard until she — Don McLean, “American Pie” finally succeeded in expunging the bogus information. When at last she handed me my new DL, she congratulated me as if I had passed a CPA exam or had crushed the GRE. Geez. But the fall, you see, has enabled me to recognize that the DL renewal misery, relatively speaking, wasn’t all that bad. Should you experience similar trials, you may wish to eat a sidewalk. Or employ a stress-relieving technique that I have employed lately. Silently sing to yourself the lyrics to “American Pie.” Helpfully, they are nearly as long as some of the workplace meetings I attend.

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Professors, authors and mates for 36 years, Barbara Hamby and David Kirby personify love poetry.

f you didn’t know better, you would assume David Kirby and Barbara Hamby were science professors. For 36 years, they have found equilibrium as a married couple, as distinguished professors of Florida State University’s English Department and as award-winning poets. What’s their formula for balancing love and language? Chemistry. “Marry someone you can’t keep your hands off of,” said Kirby jokingly, yet seriously. “When you read advice columns, they say look for someone with similar values, someone you agree with on money and children — those types of things. But I think, if you feel passionately about someone, everything else works itself out. You can’t fake chemistry.” They are playful and witty, both in their relationship and in their writing, which is infused with comparisons of Elvis to Tolstoy and of the evolution of rock and roll to Little Richard. They even published an anthology of poetry together, titled, “Seriously Funny.” While their humor is well intact, their appreciation of diction and the power of poetry is even more impressive. They are authors of multiple award-winning books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, Robert O. Lawton distinguished professors and recipients of Guggenheim fellowships. It is apparent that they adore their jobs

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and each other; but one is left to wonder if pursuing the same career — especially a creative one — ever becomes a competition. Not for this couple. You will find them composing poems while cooking dinner or talking lesson plans while gardening rather than being spiteful about each other’s success. “In our house, it’s all poetry all the time. And it’s really beautiful,” said Hamby. “The best thing in my life is waking up to David every morning, but also being able to share the love of our careers. We are very supportive of each other, and there’s really nothing to be competitive about, because we write so differently.” “If you love someone, things like that don’t matter; and we are never competing for the same thing at the same time — it’s just worked out like that,” said Kirby. “It’s pretty much 24/7 talking about strategy. It’s so deeply pleasant and rewarding to live with someone who has the same passions and interests you have.” Their love of sharing the written word extends beyond the pages they construct in their offices and into the lives of the students they instruct. Kirby describes teaching as an “opium-like addiction.” Because they both teach creative writing and poetry courses, their students sometimes overlap, leading some students to refer to the pair as their “poetry mom and dad.”

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“Without really trying for it, we find ourselves in parental roles, because a good parent is firm with their child and makes demands, but also encourages and nurtures,” explained Kirby. While they are “proud parents” who dote upon their students, they find equal pride in one another, cherishing the small moments of daily life together and celebrating the monumental career landmarks. “When David was a finalist for the National Book Award, he had to read from his book,” said Hamby. “I was sitting in the second row and looked around to see that he had the audience in the palm of his hand. It was so beautiful. That was one of the times I was most proud of him. I know I’m his proud wife, but he’s just the loveliest person.” Kirby shares the same enthusiasm for his wife’s accomplishments. “Barbara is a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, which is impressive in itself, because it’s excruciating to apply “In our house, for,” said Kirby. it’s all poetry all “It took me four the time. And it’s times to get it. I know one person really beautiful.” who it only took — Barbara Hamby one time, and it’s Barbara Hamby.” Partners in a sup“You can’t portive marriage, fake chemistry.” colleagues in a competitive field and — David Kirby avid travelers (Florence being their favorite destination), there must be some aspect of their lives in which they differ. “We do have different likes and dislikes,” assured Kirby. “For instance, Barbara loves champagne and I don’t. I love Creedence Clearwater Revival, and she can’t stand them.” It is evident that they share a way with words. This couple enlists the capabilities of words on the page, but also in communication with one another. The impact of using language poetically, sincerely, sentimentally and fervently is not lost between these two. TM photography by WOODLAND FIELDS PHOTOGRAPHY

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Park is a local outdoor-enthusiast favorite, because it has something for everyone. Scenic trails are interspersed and wind around the baseball diamonds, soccer fields, basketball courts, a BMX track and a remote-control car course. One minute you can be cheering on disc golf competitors; the next, you’re immersed in the woods, walking oaklined trails where sunlight barely filters through the canopy. Delightful surprises, such as babbling creeks, a railroad track or a graffiti-laden bridge, wait just around the bend. Trails through Tom Brown Park include Magnolia Mountain Bike Trail (3.1 miles), Cadillac Mountain Bike Trail (1.35 miles), Fern Trail (3 miles), Goose Pond Trail (paved) and nature trails throughout. ADDRESS: 501 Easterwood Drive

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Hundreds of bright blooms scent the breeze wafting in from nearby lakeshores, which are visible through the trees that line Maclay Gardens State Park’s many trails. For a

fee of $6, you can explore the manicured, secret garden, with its brick walls covered in tendrils of ivy, catch an unforgettable view of the turquoise reflection pond, and hike along two nature trails that wind through the woods overlooking Lake Hall. For $2, you can enter the state park through the back entrance off Meridian Road and explore five miles of shared-use trails that pass by Lake Overstreet. With its gorgeous gardens, this state park is a crown jewel in Tallahassee’s jewelry box. ADDRESS: Main Entrance – 3540 Thomasville Road; Back Entrance – Across from Forestmeadows Parks & Athletic Center at 4750 N. Meridian Road 3

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inny Stewart’s classroom bustles with excited children. Little hands grasp pencils and crayons, sketching out words and coloring hand-drawn images of Hermia and Lysander. Having just read a few pages of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Stewart’s second-grade students are hard at work on their individual Shakespeare portfolios. While many people begin to read Shakespeare later in life than Stewart’s second graders, the Gilchrist Elementary School teacher believes that introducing Shakespearean literature to young children can be highly beneficial to them. A longtime Shakespeare enthusiast, Stewart acted on her passion — and the inspiration she found in renowned author Lois Burdett’s “Shakespeare Can Be Fun!” children’s book series — and wrote a proposal for a “Shakespeare Can Be Fun” grant, which she received. The

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Club of Tallahassee, several of whose members serve as mentors to club kids. One mentor led a boy to confine his anger to a boxing gym. Another, an architect, is encouraging his mentee to pursue a technical career and made it possible for him to attend a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) camp at FAMU. Wagner sings the praises of Leon County school officials who have made school-based club sites possible. Just a few years ago, the club was on its deathbed, its future no more certain than that of its most desperate member. Liabilities, Dixon said, exceeded assets by more than $1 million.

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ammie Dixon isn’t much of a storyteller, but he took a stab at the latterday parable about the girl and the starfish. You know the one. A girl happens upon a stretch of beach littered with thousands of starfish. She is observed by onlookers as she picks up a few and tosses them into the ocean. One man, in particular, mocks her efforts, telling here that she cannot possibly save them all. Undeterred, the girl picks up another starfish and returns it to the water, exclaiming, “I made a difference to that one.” Her resolve proves contagious. Others join her. And still others. And, before long, all the starfish have been saved. For Dixon, the CEO/president of Prime Meridian Bank, the girl is a metaphor for the Boys & Girls Club of the Big Bend, which he serves as a board member. “People in the more affluent parts of town read about the south side, shake their heads and mutter that something needs to be done,” Dixon said. “They are absolutely right about that. We do have to do something, even if it’s one child at a time. We need to get more people in this community to understand what Lee Wagner is doing to promote accountability and responsibility among young people. Lots of us need to pick up a starfish.” Wagner became director of the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Big Bend three years

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Recalled board member Todd Sumner, an attorney, the club’s board of directors so dwindled in size that it was no longer possible to form committees. The board served as a committee of the whole regarding all of its activities. Virtually overnight, the club went from 17 sites to four. (It has now rebounded to seven, three of them in Gadsden County.) But it survived, despite contracting state funding, Sumner said, due to the dedication of a stubborn few and because it was sorely needed. “We change lives, and we save lives,” he said. “We give kids hope and opportunities that they otherwise wouldn’t have, and, if we weren’t there for them, there is no one else who does what we do.” Wagner is a club kid himself. He grew up in a public housing development in a single-parent household in Bristol, Virginia, located about “We change lives, 100 miles north of Knoxville, and we save lives. Tennessee. The club there was a proving ground for Boys & We give kids hope Girls Clubs personnel, and and opportunities Wagner encountered such that they otherwise formative influences as David Roark, who would become the wouldn’t have, and, regional vice president for the if we weren’t there organization in the Southeast, for them, there is no and Gary Cain, currently the president/CEO for the Boys & one else who does Girls Clubs in Orlando. what we do.” “I have always been around — Board member good people,” Wagner said, Todd Sumner, attorney “and now I am fortunate to be surrounded by board members who are genuinely committed to serving kids.” Club programs adhere to a “Formula for Impact,” which has three priorities: academic success, character and citizenship and healthy lifestyles. “We want kids to graduate high school with the tools they need to succeed and a plan for their future,” Wagner said. “They need to know the importance of voting and civic participation and the importance of proper diet and exercise.” “We need to take care of our own and consider how we best build out an infrastructure that will take care of our kids,” Sumner said. “If you intend for your community to prosper, you have to invest in its youth.” “We can’t escape the fact that every night, we return kids to the environments where they learned bad behaviors, sometimes as a matter of survival,” Wagner conceded. “Sometimes — it seems like every day — we have to make a fresh start. But we do, and we will.” TM

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teve Isbell’s home, studio and yard are filled with what he refers to as “opportunity art.” “Where other people see junk, I see what could be,” the 67-year-old Vietnam veteran states. A coffee pot, two serving spoons and the door handle of a vintage automobile become an elephant; nuts, bolts and sections of tubing form a long-legged alien; a few gnarled pieces of driftwood, arranged just right, make a fine alligator. “One thing leads to another — that’s how I make my creatures,” Isbell says. Most unusual of all Isbell’s artistic creations, however, are his electric guitars — made from roasting pans, cigar boxes … even a shovel. “I’ve always enjoyed making things,” Isbell says. He comes from make-do cowboy stock and was born on a cattle ranch

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Mexico once Isbell arrived in the Sunshine State, he never went back to the Land of Enchantment. On his way to Florida, however, he did make a pit stop or two: in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, and overseas, in Vietnam. “We moved to Muscle Shoals when I was 16,” he says. “In the ’60s, everybody in music recorded over there. I heard the Allman Brothers, Marshall Tucker, Charlie Daniels, Bachman–Turner Overdrive, Wilson Pickett, Wet Willie … I heard the Little Ol’ Band from Texas back when they were cowboys that didn’t have beards. Even Rod Stewart used to record there.” In spite of Isbell’s exposure to rock, bluegrass and soul music during his teenage years — and an obvious talent with the harmonica, which he had played from his childhood — he was a self-described “jock” in high school. An injury prevented him from taking a scholarship to play football at Auburn; but it didn’t keep him from joining the Air Force and heading to Vietnam, where he worked on fighter jets. “I’ve always been good at working with my hands,” he explains. While in Vietnam, he met a man from St. Marks who spoke of his hometown with fondness. “I decided, once I got back, that Muscle Shoals wasn’t the place for me,” Isbell says. “I thought I’d try out St. Marks. But when I drove through Tallahassee, I liked it so much, I decided to move there instead. Then, 18 years ago, we moved out to Monticello.” Isbell’s 30-mile distance from Tallahassee hasn’t prevented him from frequenting the bigger city on weekends to sell his creations at craft fairs. “I get real good reception from people about my stuff,” he says. There’s something about his three- and four-string electric guitars, in particular, that appeals to the crowds. Maybe it’s the brightly colored Cuban cigar-box bodies; maybe it’s the guitars’ soulful, Depression-era sound. For whatever reason, these guitars are captivating and, like their maker, one of a kind. TM

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n the board room, along a hallway or airborne somewhere nearby, a pleasant scent hovers, suggesting the presence of a man wearing a fine cologne. For some, the scent is a signature. Choosing the right one is a matter of spending time with someone who knows fragrances and trying various products. Colognes react differently on the skins of different men, so the match of man to cologne is highly personal. Consider also the time of year, as certain scents harmonize best with the mood and attire of the respective seasons. To read about award-winning men’s colognes and other stars of the fragrance world, browse the Fragrance Foundation website at Fragrance.org. Glimpse the makers and machines behind Hall of Fame colognes such as Acqua Di Gio (Giorgio Armani) and CK one (Firmenich). Then, hunt, patiently. Brittani Revell, business manager at Hearth and Soul, recommends trying

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out the Bond No. 9 brand of perfumes and colognes, which the store carries. “It’s a luxury fragrance line that has scents that are unisex, as well as man- and woman-specific. They specialize in a concentrated formula, with scents inspired by areas of New York City,” says Revell. She explains that some scents offer a savory base and a spicy floral middle; or they can be grounded in a cedar wood or musk undertone. Each cologne’s aroma easily adapts to daytime or nighttime wear. For your more widely known colognes, Dillard’s is the place to go. To match your collared shirt or chinos, go for Ralph Lauren Fragrances’ Polo Blue Men Eau de Parfum Spray, which has a woodsy, earthy scent. If Ralph Lauren colognes don’t quite suit you, or they seem too heavy, try the Giorgio Armani Acqua di Gio Pour Homme Fragrance, a delicate spritz that contains notes of herbs and hints of citrus — perfect for stowing away in your vacation luggage. TM

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Vintage Revival

Michelle Torregrosa curates style from across decades by REBECCA PADGETT

PHOTOS BY SAIGE ROBERTS (FAVORITE THINGS)

very time I drove past Divas and Devils House of Style, the eclectic and intriguing window display caught my eye. But instead of hitting the brakes, I allowed my busy schedule to keep me moving onward. I knew, though, that I would visit the store someday — and that when I did go, it would be for a story. When I finally entered this treasure trove, which overflowed with leather goods, crystals, fringed vests, beaded mini-dresses and silver-plated turquoise, I knew two things: First, I wanted this to be my closet; and second, there were, without a doubt, many stories within this store’s walls. Michelle Torregrosa, the owner, operator, stylist, vintage lover and visionary behind Divas and Devils, beamed at me over a beautiful tulle skirt she was unpacking from a box. She led me past racks of vintage clothing to a plush leather couch. With her sitting opposite me, I was able to appreciate, fully, the 1960s look she channeled that day: a cozy, yet fitted T-shirt with “Love More” emblazoned across the front; a floor-length skirt adorned in a kaleidoscope of colored daises; chunky, wooden platform shoes that peeked out from underneath her skirt; a ring on nearly every finger; and her hair breezily, effortlessly pulled back. Jimmy Hendrix even crooned through the stereo. As I looked at her and her boutique, I found it hard to believe that she hadn’t studied fashion; but her weekends spent treasure hunting through garage sales and These Are a Few of vintage stores with her grandmother were Her Favorite Things enough of an education. ➺A vintage kimono from Thailand For 21 years, Torregrosa has curated a that she found at a garage sale on store unlike any other in Tallahassee. Divas the way home from the hospital after having her first son and Devils mingles handmade local pieces ➺A vintage Grateful Dead T-shirt with international brands and one-of-athat she’s had for years kind-vintage finds. If you can find it in a ➺ T he ring her father made for mall, you won’t find it here. What you will her mother in Coconut Grove find is a woman who believes in the power on their third date that clothing can portray. ➺ A beaded mini dress she wore on “Fashion is art that you wear, and every New Year’s Eve in Amsterdam. (It’s day you are painting what you feel inside,” the same dress Jennifer Lopez wore Torregrosa said. “We are all artists, and in her “I’m Into You” music video.) artists have no rules. Go with what you are ➺A Stetson hat that she had made and molded to her head at the factory feeling and what feels right.” ›› photography by ALICIA OSBORNE

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Torregrosa certainly does. One day she might be dressed in a vintage rock ’n’ roll tee with cut-offs, the next day, a floor length kimono paired with a flapper dress. Her fashion icons include Alexander McQueen, Coco Chanel, Kate Moss, John Galliano, Edie Sedgwick, Florence Welch and Torregrosa’s own grandmother. Their influences are present in her adoration of all things feminine, feathered, tasseled, leathered, fringed, rock ’n’ roll and vintage. “I would rather people look at my outfit and be curious about it than no one notice me at all,” said Torregrosa. “There have been a few times when I thought, ‘Maybe I should change,’ but I had to stop myself and think, ‘Don’t do what everyone else is doing.’” This is a mantra she instills in the women who have gone through her rigorous internship program, where they are taught that fashion extends beyond trends, that clothing is a form of storytelling and that customers should find more, in her store, than clothing. “I have a policy that everyone who enters the store has to leave with something,” Torregrosa explained. “That doesn’t necessarily mean an item. It could be a positive interaction, an experience that made them feel something or a newfound confidence or perspective.” Torregrosa has helped a high school girl with a heart surgery scar find a prom dress that made her insecurities flee. She has encouraged women who come into her store doubting their ability to wear certain items to give them a try. She has gained customers who sometimes come in just to chat. Through a variety of threads, she has woven together stories. TM

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↑ Like her shop, Torregrosa’s closet at home manifests her love of the exotic, the rare and the nostalgic. She considers attire a means of storytelling.

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o you wrap up your evening meal with friends, and somebody pulls a bottle of Baileys Irish Cream from the fridge and points to the coffee maker. Another friend takes out a bottle of Kahlua and a box of hot cocoa mix. Yep, the evening’s not quite over yet. “Cordials” are traditional afterdinner beverages that are hard to pass up. These liqueurs are essentially sweetened and flavored distilled spirits. The term “cordial” is most often used to refer to “dessert” spirits that are chocolaty or creamy in nature, such as the aforementioned Kahlua or Baileys. The whole idea behind a INGREDIENTS liqueur is to add extra fla¾ oz. dark rum ➸ ➸¾ oz. coffee vor to certain beverages, and flavored liqueur there are many flavors and ➸ 1 cup brewed coffee types to choose from. Ac2 tbsp. whipped cream ➸ ➸ 1 chocolate covered cording to mixologist and coffee bean writer Colleen Graham, writing for TheSpruce.com, Pour rum and coffee liqueur into a coffee glass. Fill glass liqueurs can have a single with hot coffee. Top with a specific flavor, or consist of dollop of whipped cream a blend of different flavors. and garnish with a coffee bean. (Allrecipes.com) Orange-flavored liqueurs in particular are very popular, and many orange liqueurs exist. The ones most commonly seen behind the bar are triple sec, curaçao, Cointreau and Grand Marnier. ➸½ oz. amaretto “Then, there are proprialmond liqueur ➸ ½ oz. rum etary blends protected by ➸ ½ oz. peach schnapps specific brands and known ➸ 2 oz. cranberry juice only by that brand’s name. ➸ 1 oz. cream ➸ 2 oz. orange juice Recipes involving some of ➸ 1 oz. sweet and sour mix these liqueurs, like Averna, Benedictine, Chartreuse Put everything into a blender. Blend and add ice and Frangelico, date back until smooth. Serve in a tall centuries and are as popuglass. (drinksmixer.com) lar today as they ever were,” Graham wrote. “Due to their sweet nature, many liqueurs can be a considered digestif and are great when served straight with dessert.” TM

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FIRE UP A FEAST FIT FOR A CROWD Canned food, yes, but it’s not what you think by KIM HARRIS THACKER

ou’ve seen milk cans in people’s gardens; they’re decorative and vintage and very “country.” Not that long ago, they were also quite useful. As the name suggests, dairy farmers used them to transport milk from the farm to other locations. So what’s a poor milk can to do, now that small-scale dairies aren’t around as much as they used to be? Why, cook dinner, of course! But exactly how much milk-can dinner can a milk can can? Well, a 10-gallon can will feed 25–30 people; a 5-gallon can will feed 12–15. In our family, we need a 10-gallon can. Plus some side dishes to round things out.

Milk Can Dinner Serves 25–30

INGREDIENTS: ➸ 20 ears sweet corn, shucked and broken in half (reserve a few husks for lining the bottom of the can) ➸ 25 medium-small red potatoes, scrubbed and unpeeled ➸ 8 sweet potatoes, peeled and cut in thirds — optional ➸ 3 pounds carrots, peeled and halved (don’t use baby carrots) ➸ 5 medium onions, peeled and quartered — optional ➸ 4 heads green cabbage, cored and quartered

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➸ 40-50 Polish or German sausages, or Bratwurst (brown ahead to bring out the flavor; you can also use bacon, pre-cooked ham or browned pork roast) ➸ Water and chicken broth to equal about 4 quarts ➸ Salt and pepper OTHER OPTIONAL VEGETABLES INCLUDE: ➸ 6–8 red and/or green bell peppers, halved ➸ 2 heads cauliflower, cored and quartered ➸ A few cloves of garlic, whole and peeled

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MILK CAN PREPARATION: Make sure the milk can is clean, unpainted and rust-free. Wash the milk can thoroughly with dish soap, then rinse well. Remember to wash the lid! FILLING THE MILK CAN: Place a thin layer of cornhusks on the bottom of the can to insulate the food from the fire. (You can also put cabbage leaves from an extra cabbage on the bottom. They may burn, but they will protect the rest of the

vegetables.) Add water to the milk can to equal 1 inch in the bottom of the can. (Pre-measure the liquid needed before adding the vegetables. You will pour the same amount of chicken broth over the top of the vegetables, after you’ve added them.) Place the red potatoes in the can over the cornhusks. Then add layers of carrots, onions, sweet potatoes, corn, cabbage and, finally, sausages. If necessary, stuff the sausages in last and place a testing red potato on top of them. Salt and pepper as you layer, or let guests season their own food. Add the chicken broth. CAUTION: If your milk can has a lid, place it on at a slant, not tightly, to allow steam to escape. A tight lid will cause steam to build up, which can lead to a pressurized volcano of food.

COOKING TIME: Place the filled milk can on the cement blocks above the fire. After about 45 minutes, the can should begin to steam. An hour from that point, the food should be done. Add more wood to the fire as needed. If the can stops steaming, add more water. SERVING: Pour off the liquid before emptying the can into large serving containers. Concrete-mixing tubs, available at hardware stores, and foil-lined wheelbarrows are perfect serving dishes for this fun, outdoor dinner. Optional toppings include butter, sour cream, salt and pepper, ketchup, hot sauce and shredded cheese. Perfect side dishes to accompany this meal include baked beans, coleslaw, rolls with honey butter and homemade root beer (also made in a milk can).

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FIRE PREPARATION: Dig a shallow pit, 8 inches deep by 20 inches square. Place two cinderblocks, which will support the milk can, on either side of the pit. Build a steady (not roaring) fire between the two blocks. As the wood burns down, continue to add kindling little by little to maintain an even temperature while cooking.

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Goodwood Revs Up for Café Opening Love of place is key ingredient for operator Joe Costanzo by AUDREY POST

oe Costanzo’s family had everything to do with his decision to open a second location of the Rev Café at Goodwood Museum & Gardens this fall. His wife, Jaclyn, and two older daughters loved going to Fanny’s Café at Goodwood, and they were disappointed when it closed so the building could undergo badly needed restoration and renovation. Costanzo later learned that Goodwood wanted a restaurant back in the building once the work was done, and he was intrigued. One Saturday morning, when he and his daughters were roaming the grounds to kill time while his wife was at a nearby dentist’s office, Costanzo had a chance encounter with one of Goodwood’s co-executive directors. “I went home and called TalCor, the commercial agent handling the rental,” Costanzo said.

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Having a Rev Café at Goodwood is expected to bring the same kind of positive changes to the historic Tallahassee property that Costanzo’s original Rev Café brought to downtown Monticello when it opened in November of 2016. The Rev not only brought venison sliders and shrimp ’n’ grits to a small town that was pretty much limited to Mexican fare in the evening, it also brought a much-needed venue for a nice dinner and cocktail or glass of wine as well a place to grab coffee to go in the mornings. “Rev up” in the morning and “rev down” in the evening, enjoying the charm and architecture of the Jefferson County Courthouse square. Goodwood’s leadership says Rev Café is a perfect fit for Goodwood. “We think it’s very important to have an eatery on the premises, because it gives visitors an opportunity to linger on

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site and enjoy the grounds,” co-executive director Jennifer Humayun said. “Plus, Joe is doing great things with Southernstyle food, which enhances the story of Goodwood and its legacy of hospitality.” Costanzo describes his food as “American rustic,” or classic Southern food with an upscale twist: fried green tomatoes with a chipotle aioli and baby kale salad with a peach vinaigrette dressing. He uses locally sourced products as much as possible, including Johnston’s sausage for jambalaya, satsumas for Sunday brunch mimosas, and local honey and Tallahassee-based Proof beer for beer bread with honey-butter. Six of the eight beer taps at Rev Café in Monticello pull Florida craft brews, including two from Tallahassee (a Proof and a Lake Tribe), two from Jacksonville and one each from Apalachicola and Tampa. The other two brews are pineapple cider from California and a popular mass-market light beer. Among the wine selection are four types of blueberry wine from a winery near Ocala. Costanzo is all about offering options. The basic chili at his Monticello location is vegan, but diners have the option of adding bison, venison or Angus beef. The burgers come in bison, venison, Angus beef or Portobello mushroom. He’s very proud of the fact that almost 100 percent of the menu can be prepared gluten-free. “For so long, the only gluten-free option out there was a salad,” he said. “That drives me crazy. A lot of things can be made gluten-free, including the batter for frying chicken and the bun for a burger.”

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← Rev Café opens this fall in the former Fanny’s Cafe, with offerings such as the Rev Up burger, grilled crab cakes, pastrami-wrapped shrimp, and mushrooms and grits. Open for lunch and dinner, the Rev serves Tallahassee craft beers and Ocala blueberry wines.

Costanzo plans to offer a similar menu at the Goodwood location, although he will leave many of the details to the discretion of the Goodwood location chef. While Costanzo has been in the restaurant business most of his life, he focuses on the business and branding aspects. He’s also a big believer in giving back to the community — another tie-in with Goodwood and its mission of being a community venue where history is preserved and shared, the arts are enjoyed and significant life events are celebrated. The Rev Café in Monticello participates in fund-raisers for worthy local causes and provides space for an outdoor farmers’ market on Saturday mornings. Costanzo’s sense of civic duty was formed early: Young Joey Costanzo was one of Boynton Beach’s “lemonade kids”: three boys, ages 11 and 13, selling lemonade on the side of the road on Saturdays in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Joey, his brother David, and friend Joey Scanzano raised almost $10,000 for the American Red Cross. The South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported that many people made donations without ever tasting the lemonade. The Monticello location is open Tuesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., with a Saturday brunch. There are plans to open on Mondays, too. The Goodwood location likely will start with lunch and dinner Monday through Saturday and later add brunch. Being open in the evening is something new for any café at Goodwood. “This will significantly expand our audience and bring in the young professionals who might not be able to come for lunch during weekdays, but who can come by for dinner or a drink after work,” Humayun said. For Costanzo’s family, the big attraction was and remains the building that houses the café. When it was built in 1915, Goodwood’s then-owner, wealthy New Jersey widow Mrs. Alexander Tiers, called it Camellia Cottage. Tiers, who was known to friends as “Fanny,” used Goodwood as her winter estate and built several of the prominent structures on the property, including Jubilee Cottage for entertainment and parties. Camellia served as the cabana for the nearby swimming pool, and guests who weren’t ready to retire at the end of an evening’s festivities in Jubilee moved over to Camellia to continue their revelry, prompting Goodwood staff who cleaned up the next day to nickname it, “The Rough House.” Both Fanny’s — the last café to lease the space — and the earlier Paula’s Cabana Café gave a nod to Goodwood’s history in their names. The proprietor of Fanny’s, who also runs a catering business, opted not to bid on a new lease after the restoration project, Goodwood officials said. The $100,000-plus restoration and renovation earned Goodwood and architects Barnett Fronczak Barlowe & Shuler accolades from the Tallahassee Trust for Historic Preservation. On a personal level, it saved a place for Constanzo’s family treasures. “My wife is really into British culture, and she’s passing that love on to our daughters,” Costanzo said. “Going to the Rough House is like going (out) for tea. It’s a sense of place.” TM

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Fifth & Thomas

At Fifth & Thomas, music is a sensory experience that satisfies the musical appetite. It serves up the best music in the area, delivered in a homey atmosphere of honky-tonk chic. Its indoor and outdoor spaces provide kicked-back, beautiful settings for events ranging from family gatherings to corporate retreats and private chef tables. says Shannon Moore, a partner at GMT Pubs. “We want our team to be happy, our guests to be ecstatic and our artists to have a venue where they love to play. We have accomplished that by putting together a group with over 50 years of combined industry experience that knows how to create success.” Fifth & Thomas hosts a revolving roster of musicians whose genres

range from jazz to rock and country and more. National acts that have appeared on the main stage include: American Aquarium, Lucero, Cracker and John Moreland. As a music house, Fifth & Thomas is the complete package for all who seek the best in entertainment, ambiance and drinks. Fifth & Thomas invites you to discover and enjoy all that it has to offer. Indulge!

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when they peek at the menu, with several dishes under $20. With inventive cocktails not found anywhere else and enticing half-off drinks during “What sets happy hour Monday us apart through Friday, including select wines, from other draft beers and restaurants in premium liquors, the Tallahassee restaurant has the perfect ambiance to is that we unwind in. With eloquent, colorful strive to be and creative dishes, one innovative.” could swear they just – Chef Paul Hamm came from a bustling metropolitan restaurant. Executive Chef Paul Hamm’s natural talent is evident in every dish he creates. “What sets us apart from other restaurants in Tallahassee is that we strive to be innovative,” Chef Paul says. “We want to present our ideas creatively on the plate.” Chef Paul also believes in a farm-to-table philosophy, where all the ingredients, down to the tiniest of details, are locally sourced. Birthdays, anniversaries, girl’s night or a hot date, The Blu Halo has the ambience Tallahassee was previously missing. Experience the Halo Effect and taste what has everyone talking!

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The Blu Halo offers affordable brunch on the weekends, making it a great place for families. With bottomless bellinis and endless mimosas, it’s also the perfect spot for a girl’s day. Brunch hours are 10 a.m.–2 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays.

Take a trip under the sea with the sensational Seafood Tower! Available on Friday and Saturday nights and featuring the chef’s seasonal selection, this dish, available in half or full quantities, is enough to satisfy even the most avid seafood lovers.

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After 40 years, Andrew’s is still an energetic, casual, see-and-be-seen spot. House favorites include a popular lunch buffet, hamburgers, sandwiches, salads and pasta dishes. Downtown delivery. Mon-Thurs 11:30 am-10 pm, Fri-Sat 11:30 am-11 pm, Sun 10:30 am-9 pm. 228 S. Adams St. (850) 222-3444/Fax, (850) 222-2433. $$ B L D

AVENUE EAT & DRINK

This downtown restaurant offers a melting pot of flavors fresh from the South, served in scrumptious dining presentations. Sunday brunch is a not-to-be-missed treat. Mon-Fri 11 am-10 pm, Sat 9:30 am-10 pm, Sun 9:30 am-9 pm. 115 E. Park Ave. (850) 224-0115. $$$ B L D

BURGERFI

BurgerFi uses all-natural, free-range beef and is dedicated to sustainable practices. Tallahassee Magazine’s Best of 2015 winner among hamburger joints, their menu is packed full of tasty, savory and creative hamburger and hotdog creations as well as fresh-cut french fries and gigantic onion rings. Vegetarian options, frozen custard, beer and wine are also available. Sun-

Thurs 11 am-10 pm, Fri-Sat 11 am-11 pm. 1817 Thomasville Rd., #7. (850) 629‑4333. $L D

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Chicken Salad Chick exceeds expectations with 15 different chicken salads to choose from, served in a bright setting. There are also deli sandwiches, side items and soups, and a cookie of the day. Multiple locations. Hours vary. (850) 894-2502. $$ L D

CYPRESS RESTAURANT ★

To make a special evening a cut above the rest, bring the celebration to Cypress. Known for its sophisticated take on Southern cuisine, this restaurant won readers’ votes in 2014, 2015 and 2016 as Best Celebration/ Special Occasion and Best Fine Dining restaurant. Mon-Thurs 5-9:30 pm, Fri-Sat 5-10 pm, Sun Closed. 320 E. Tennessee St. (850) 513-1100. $$$ D

DOG ET AL ★

For the ultimate in comfort food, Dog Et Al offers hand-held deliciousness for the “down to earth” and “uppity” dogs in us all. Foot-long and veggie entrees alike grace this award-winning menu. If the entire family is down for the dog, be sure to ask about their incredibly valued family packs. Mon-Fri 10 am-7 pm, Sat

10 am-6 pm, Sun Closed. 1456 S. Monroe St. (850) 222-4099. $ L D

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A relaxed, fine dining establishment, The Edison is so much more than just a pretty face. Equipped with a beer garden, wine cellar, casual café, openair alternatives and a gorgeous view, this historic building and restaurant has quickly become a Tallahassee favorite. Mon-Thurs 11 am-11 pm, Fri

11 am-midnight, Sat 10 am-midnight, Sun 10 am-11 pm. 470 Suwannee St. (850) 684-2117. $$/$$$

FOOD GLORIOUS FOOD ★

The name says it all! This restaurant boasts a palate-pleasing combination of personalized service, eclectic ambiance and award-winning cuisine and is the Best Desserts winner for 2016. Tues-Thurs 11 am-2:30 pm, 5:30-9 pm; Fri-Sat 11 am-2:30 pm, 5:30-9:30 pm; Sun 10 am-2:30 pm, 5:30-9 pm. 1950 Thomasville Rd. (850) 224-9974. $$ L D

HOPKINS’ EATERY ★

Hopkins’, a Best of 2016 winner, provides more than just your average sandwich. Favorites such as the Ultimate Turkey and the Linda Special, and a variety of salad meals keep customers coming back for more. And the food is healthy, too! Multiple locations. Hours vary. hopkinseatery.com $ L

ISLAND WING COMPANY

Get baked! Island Wing Company won’t serve you up greasy, fried wings; instead, they bake them and prepare them fresh. They don’t stop at wings, either: Try the mac ‘n cheese, burgers and tacos paired with a cold beer. Mon-Thurs 11 am-12 am, Fri-Sat 11 am-2 am, Sun 11 am-12 am. 1370 Market St. (850) 692-3116. $/$$ L D

JUICY BLUE

Located in the Four Points by Sheraton Downtown, this cool lobby restaurant offers breakfast, lunch and dinner. Unique dishes include tapas with a twist, such as the Georgia peaches with caramel. Sandwiches, salads and a nice variety of seafood, pasta and chicken dishes round out the menu. Mon-Fri 7 am-11 pm, Sat-Sun 7 am-midnight. 316 W. Tennessee St. (850) 422-0071.

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KOOL BEANZ ★

Eclectic and edgy, both in menu and atmosphere, Kool Beanz delights in art present both on the walls and your plates. This offbeat alternative won Best Casual Dining in Tallahassee. Dinner Mon-Sat 5:30-10 pm, lunch Mon-Fri 11 am-2:30 pm, brunch Sun 10:30 am2 pm. 921 Thomasville Rd. (850) 224-2466.

GREAT SUSHI —DOWNTOWN! Espresso Bar with locally roasted coffee, Sushi to Stir Fry, Specialty Salads, Wines, Craft Beers & Sake M–Th 11:30 a.m.–10:00 p.m. | F 11:30 a.m.–10:30 p.m. Sat Noon–10:30 p.m. | Sun Noon–10:00 p.m. Wi-Fi | Eat | Drink | Hangout 109 E. College Ave. (850) 681-6868 jasmine-cafe.com

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gather before home football games, Madison Social offers something for everyone. Madison Social earned Best Happy Hour honors in 2016. Mon-Fri 11:30 am-2 am, Sat-Sun 10 am-2 am. College Town, 705 S. Woodward Ave. (850) 894‑6276. $$ L D

PAISLEY CAFÉ

Guilt-free lunch has never been easier now that Paisley serves up food fresh from the bakery and a garden full of wholesome treats. Mon-Fri 11 am-3 pm, Sat-Sun 10 am-3 pm. 1123 Thomasville Rd. (850) 385‑7268.

Sage’s menu masterfully melds regional influences, including Southern and French. The setting is gorgeous but cozy, and the outdoor patio sets a charming, romantic tone for a relaxed evening. Mon Closed; Tues-Sat 11 am3 pm, 6-10 pm; Sun 11 am-2:30 pm. 3534 Maclay Blvd. (850) 270-9396.

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VERTIGO BURGERS AND FRIES ★

Vertigo is home to some of the juiciest, funkiest burgers in town. The modern building provides a no-frills setting to enjoy such favorites as the Vertigo Burger — a beef patty served with a fried egg, applewood bacon, grilled jalapeños, sharp cheddar and Vertigo sauce. Mon-Sat 11 am-9 pm, Sun

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Rated Best Hibachi for 2016, Osaka provides dinner and a show, with the chefs seasoning and preparing your meal right in front of you. It’s a meal that’s sure to leave you satisfied as well as entertained. Sun-Thurs 11 am-10:15 pm, Fri-Sat 11 am10:45 pm. 1690 Raymond Diehl Rd. (850) 531-0222. $$$ D

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THE WINE HOUSE

Dedicated to providing the best selection of wines and craft beers, the knowledgeable Wine House staff serves by the glass, allowing you to sample before you purchase in the retail outlet. The loft bar is tastefully decorated and available for events. Mon-Sat 10 am-7 pm. 1355 Market St., #A1. (850) 893-2254. $$

THE WINE LOFT WINE BAR ★

Chosen as a Best of winner in 2016, Midtown’s Wine Loft offers a superb wine list, creative cocktails, quality beer and tasty tapas. Mon-Thurs 5 pm-2 am,

Fri-Sat 4 pm-2 am, Sun Closed. 1240 Thomasville Rd., #100. (850) 222-9914. $$ D

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SONNY’S REAL PIT BAR-B-Q ★

Nothing satisfies a rumblin’ stomach quite like a plateful of hot, savory barbeque; and if you’re looking for the tastiest grilled dishes, 2016 Best Barbecue winner Sonny’s has them in spades. Hours vary. Multiple locations. $ L D

WILLIE JEWELL'S OLD SCHOOL BAR-B-Q

The definition of “old school,” for the folks at Willie Jewell's, is slowsmoked, saucy and of seriously large portions. “Every meal comes with a side of hospitality.” Mon–Sun 11 am–9 pm. 5442 Thomasville Rd. (850) 629-4299. $$$ L D

BREAKFAST/ BRUNCH/BAKERY THE EGG CAFÉ AND EATERY ★

When you’re looking for breakfast favorites, even if it’s lunchtime, The Egg is the place to be. Their made-to-order items use the finest ingredients, and they were voted Tallahassee’s best 15 times, including the 2016 award for Best Breakfast. Light breakfast fare is available at The Egg Express, a second downtown location in the R.A. Gray building. Tues-Sun 7 am2 pm. In Evening Rose at 3740 Austin Davis Ave. (850) 907-3447. $$ B L

TASTY PASTRY BAKERY ★

The owners of Tasty Pastry have an extensive background in baking and take pride in being Tallahassee's oldest bakery. Working with the finest quality ingredients and using their own family recipes, they excel in making the best cakes, cookies, breads, pies, pastries and casseroles in Tallahassee. Mon-Sat 6:45 am-6 pm. Sun Closed. 1355 Market St., #A5. (850) 893-3752. $

JASMINE CAFÉ

In the heart of downtown, you can enjoy artfully crafted sushi rolls, authentic stir-fry, specialty salads, shareable appetizers and a well-stocked wine, craft beer and sake bar, all with a view of bustling and beautiful Tallahassee. Eat, drink, hang out and just roll with it. Mon-Fri 11 am10 pm, Sat 12-10 pm. 109 E. College Ave. (850) 681-6868. $$ L D

KIKU JAPANESE FUSION ★

From tempura to teriyaki and from sushi to sashimi, Kiku Japanese Fusion fuses vibrant flavors with fresh ingredients. There’s a reason Kiku was voted Best Sushi in 2016. Mon-Sat 11 am-1 pm, Sun 12-11 pm. 800 Ocala Rd. (850) 575-5458. $$ L D

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In 2016, Masa earned the title of Best Asian in town — and with good reason. Their menu offers a creative blend of Eastern and Western cuisines. Mon-Fri

11 am-3 pm, 4:30-9:30 pm; Sat-Sun 123 pm, 4:30-9:30 pm. 1001 N. Monroe St. (850) 847-0003. $/$$ L D

CAJUN COOSH’S BAYOU ROUGE ★

This Best Cajun Restaurant winner for 2016 brings the best of the Bayou State right to your table. The menu is jam-packed with Louisiana-style dishes, including favorites like jambalaya, crawfish etouffee, po’boys and seafood gumbo. Not in a Cajun mood? Coosh’s also offers classic hamburgers, salads and chicken wings. Mon-Tues 11 am-10 pm, Wed-Fri 7 am-10 pm, Sat 8 am-10 pm, Sun 8 am-9 pm. 6267 Old Water Oak Rd. (850) 894‑4110.

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CATERING BLACK FIG ★

Black Fig proved itself as the premier catering company in Tallahassee by serving up the Best Catering in 2016. Gourmet fare for any gathering or occasion presented creatively and professionally. 1400 Village Square Blvd., #7. (850) 727-0016.

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KLASSIC KATERING

The culinary masterminds behind Klassic Katering know how to transform an event from drab to fab. With a ton of flavor and a pinch of panache, they will cater to all of your foodie needs. MonFri 9 am-5 pm, Sat-Sun Closed. 6753 Thomasville Rd., #108. (850) 894-0423.

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GREEK SAHARA GREEK & LEBANESE CAFÉ Sahara’s fusion of Greek and Lebanese cuisines is unmatched in the area. A large menu and friendly staff cater to all tastes. And don’t forget to order the falafel! Mon-Wed 11 am-9 pm, Thurs-Fri 11 am10 pm, Sat 12-10 pm, Sun Closed. 1135 Apalachee Parkway (850) 656‑1800. $$

INDIAN SAMRAT INDIAN RESTAURANT ★

You can smell the fragrant and warm spices as you approach the restaurant, assuring you of an exotic and ethnic experience. Samrat was voted Best Ethnic for their preparation and presentation of delicious, authentic Indian cuisine. Mon-Sun 11:30 am-2:30 pm, 5-10 pm. 2529 Apalachee Pkwy. (850) 942-1993. $$ L D

ITALIAN/PIZZA BELLA BELLA ★

Take your taste buds to Italy with a trip to Bella Bella, voted Best Italian in 2015 and 2016. This locally owned and operated restaurant has a cozy atmosphere and serves all the classics to satisfy your pasta cravings. Mon-Fri 11 am-10 pm, Sat 4-10 pm,

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MOMO’S ★

After devouring a slice “as big as your head” at this 2016 Best Pizza winner, chain pizza simply is not gonna cut it. From the black-and-white photos to the bathrooms decorated in album covers, the restaurant has an unmistakable and enjoyable “hole in the wall” vibe. Multiple locations. Hours vary. (850) 224‑9808. $ L D

TIFEO ITALIAN TAVERN

Crisp toppings. Freshly prepared pizza dough. A traditional, Tuscan woodfired oven. What more could you ask for? Formerly Joe Mama’s, Tifeo offers quintessential casual Italian dining. 5-10 pm. 1307 N. Monroe St. (850) 577-1231.

MEXICAN EL JALISCO ★

In the mood for sizzling enchiladas and frozen margaritas? Make your way to the 2016 Best Mexican/Latin American Restaurant, El Jalisco, where they do Mexican cuisine to perfection. Multiple locations. Hours vary. $ L D

TACO REPUBLIK

The Egg Cafe & Eatery 3740 Austin Davis Ave. T – Sun 7 am – 2 pm (850) 765-0703 The Egg Express (R.A. Gray Building) 500 South Bronough, Room G-22 M - F 7:30 am - 3 pm | Sat 10 am - 3 pm (850) 907-EGGS (3447) Lite Breakfast Fare

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An authentic taqueria, Taco Republik specializes in creating tacos and burritos in abstract and delicious ways. Located in the heart of Midtown, this restaurant is beloved for its bold flavor combinations and wallet-friendly prices. Mon-Thurs 11 am-9 pm, Fri-Sat 11 am-10 pm,

Sun Closed. 1122-8 Thomasville Rd. (850) 559‑5464. $ L D

SEAFOOD/STEAK THE BLU HALO

Blu Halo is a high-end culinary experience featuring dry-aged steaks and fresh seafood along with fine wines and a martini bar. The gourmet farm-to-table menu selections include a wide variety of smallplate appetizers and high-end chops. A private dining room for up to 20 guests is available. Mon-Thurs 4-10 pm; Fri 4 pm-close; Sat 8 am-2 pm, 4 pm-close; Sun 8 am-2 pm, 4-10 pm. 3431 Bannerman Rd., #2 (850) 792-7884. $$$ L D

CHOP HOUSE ON THE BRICKS

This family-owned, upscale restaurant serves local organic and sustainable meats, seafood, poultry and produce. Craft beers, fine wines and specialty drinks complement dishes such as the Bone-In Ribeye, Plantation Quail and Chop House Burger. Their Knob Creek Bourbon Bread Pudding is a dessert favorite. Tues-Sat 5-9:30 pm, Sun-Mon Closed. 123 N. Broad St., Thomasville, Ga. (229) 236-2467. $$ D

GEORGIO’S

If George Koikos is in the house, you can count on a visit from him to your table during your meal. His hands-on commitment to quality, food, service and a personal touch have kept his restaurants in business for more than 50 years. Mon-Sat 4-10 pm, Sun Closed. 2971 Apalachee Pkwy. (850) 877-3211.

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MARIE LIVINGSTON’S STEAKHOUSE ★

Dining at Marie Livingston’s is upscale yet comfortable and always a special treat. Not just a restaurant that serves up savory cuts of prime rib or marbled steaks, this 2016 Best Steakhouse winner is a Tallahassee tradition, and newcomers owe it to themselves to make it a priority to visit. Mon-Fri 11 am-2 pm, 5-9 pm; Sat 5-9 pm; Sun Closed. 2705 Apalachee Pkwy. (850) 562-2525. $$ L D

SALTWATER SEAFOOD COMPANY

Celebrate the spirit of historic Apalachicola Bay coastal lifestyle with fresh-caught seafood and a sensational, handmade cocktail all in the refined setting of Saltwater Seafood Company. They promise the fare doesn’t get fresher unless you catch it yourself. Mon – Sat 11 am – 10 pm, Sun 11am – 9 pm. 1926 Capital Circle NE. (850) 402-3014. $$ L D

SHULA’S 347

The legendary Miami Dolphins’ head coach brings the quest for perfection to the dining table at his namesake restaurant, located in Hotel Duval. Keep it light and casual with a premium Black Angus beef burger or a gourmet salad, or opt for one of their signature entrées — a “Shula Cut” steak. Reservations are suggested. SunThurs 5-10 pm, Fri-Sat 5-11 pm. 415 N. Monroe St. (850) 224-6005. $$$ L D

SOUTHERN SEAFOOD ★

Whether you’re looking for fish, shrimp, oysters, scallops, crab or lobster, these guys have you covered. The 2016 Best Seafood Market winner brings the ocean’s freshest choices to Tallahassee’s front door. Mon-Fri 10 am-7 pm, Sat 10 am-6 pm, Sun 12-6 pm. 1415 Timberlane Rd. (850) 668‑2203.

Visit our comprehensive, searchable dining guide online at tallahasseemagazine.com/Restaurants.

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including many local high school band directors and several who are retired from the profession, as well as lawyers, engineers and a variety of other professionals. Together, they comprise a standard concert band with wind instruments ranging from flute to euphonium. The musicians’ ages are all 18+, and Dunnigan describes their skill level as “very advanced high-school level” through professional-level musicians. Many of the Tallahassee Winds musicians are involved in church or other community musical groups, and individually, all practice from 4–10 hours per week, with some working on the craft even up to 20 hours per week. They also attend formal rehearsals on Tuesday evenings at FSU. For Plack, “providing this service to some really good people” is what makes the evening rehearsals (after a full day of practices with students) worthwhile. One Winds musician is Gary Zirin, a clarinetist who spends his days as aide to Leon County Commissioner Kristin Dozier. He grew up playing music and studied

the art at FSU. After graduation, he began to look for an outlet for his “musical thinking” and heard about the Tallahassee Winds. “Music is something that was a part of me for so long,” he says. “I missed it after I got out of school.” Another clarinetist, Ginny Densmore, is a retired music teacher at Florida High. She says she feels “lucky to have a place in town to play really, really good music.” But perhaps the most fervent evangelist for the influence of the Winds — and adult community bands in general — is Helene Linn, who has played bass and alto clarinet with the group for the past 12 years. She’s an accomplished musician in her own right, having attended the University of Miami’s Frost School of Music. “I’ve been playing the clarinet since I was eleven,” she explains. “Music is the core of my soul. I experience the most incredible amount of pleasure when I play. … It’s wonderful to be given the gift of music, and to be able to give it back to the community is very important to me.” TM

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ome begin as small children. Others come to it in middle school, as an elective class. And a few pick it up as older adolescents or even adults. But no matter when or how they get to musical performance, from the moment certain people first pick up their instrument, they are hooked. Dr. Patrick Dunnigan describes the desire to create and engage in music as a lifelong addiction — something that musicians just can’t give up. And Dunnigan would know: He’s the director of bands at Florida State University and is a co-conductor/co-director, with Dr. David Plack, for The Tallahassee Winds, a community outreach program under the auspices of FSU’s College of Music. The Winds began in 1997 under the direction of former School of Music associate dean Dr. Bentley Shellahamer as a way for FSU faculty to give back to a community that nurtures their school’s musicians, and as an outlet to the musical talent that percolated among Tallahassee’s former band and music students. Dunnigan and Plack were both witness to the impact that Shellahamer’s early Winds group made in the community, and when he retired, they realized that if they didn’t step up and fill his shoes, the group would fall away. In spite of their busy schedules as full-time band directors at FSU and the fact that their positions with the Winds are unpaid, Dunnigan and Plack are committed to providing a quality musical outlet for the community — in part because they know what it’s like to have the musician’s itch. “People don’t think of music as a lifelong skill, vocation, or what have you,” Dunnigan says, “but (musicians) need to keep playing. They have to. They want to. They must.” Today’s Tallahassee Winds is the musical home of 70 musicians —

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ho knows how these daemons begin? Or have they always been there, sleeping in the crib beside the baby, whispering into its little ear, or guiding a chubby hand with a thick stub of chalk? For most painters, poets, players of music and dancers of steps, the world is not, and never has been, a quiet place. Not in our heads, where our senses reside, and, consequently, not in our bodies, which are conduits and fountains for the transmogrifications that have, ohso-mysteriously, occurred — those translations and interpretations and syntheses that happen — sometimes, it seems, without our active participation. D.H. Lawrence knew them, those little artistic daemons that woke him at night with a new idea. And Monet, as he watched colors collide and disengage, when purple filled the sky and it made sense. Musicians who see arabesques dancing like cerulean ribbons tied to the tip of a bow also know what it means to live in a world where an object is more than it seems, and a piece of paper, a concrete block and a leaf drying alone, on a driveway, are merely analogies for beauty in other forms. And so it is with me. Art, or experiencing the world with what seems to be a heightened awareness of form and sound and connections and underlying meanings, was always there. From my earliest days, the color of skin, the way light would fall against a clapboard, a shadow’s distortion at sunset or the sound of Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade, the only classical record my tradesman’s family had to play, were emotionally distracting and needed to be reproduced as a play, a story, a painting or a dance. Heightened senses I became a dancer, first — give voice to the a soloist with Ballet Russe de cacophony of life, Monte Carlo, in the U.S. and manifested one image, song, ballet or story at Europe — and later, a nurse, a time. Here, Marina in surgery, psychiatry and Brown portrays a hospice. I played the cello with fellow dancer in Flamenca II. the Tampa Bay Symphony on an instrument whose caramel voice sings as it rests against my heart. And all the while, the stories spilled out in poems, paintings and, later, in books where colors danced, just as I could make them on a canvas. To make a painting? First is the listening — with eyes, yes, but also with ears, or with the heart, perhaps. I saw a beautiful black man pumping gas; his skin was filled with an aqueous flood of blues and oranges, reds and siennas. I saw a dancer bent forward, light outlining her muscles in dazzling chrome. I heard an old man sing about having no home and read of a woman murdered in a church. All of these became ››

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paintings to share — color-tinted stories about a world saturated with noisy, visual poems. And so, if we have dinner, expect the paper tablecloth to be covered with sketches, impressions of diners sitting nearby and the Styrofoam take-home box dotted with profiles or gesticulating hands. If you glance in my purse, please know that the magazine scraps are swatches of color I will remix at home, and that the dry twigs and stones and bodies of bugs that line my shelves are homage to a world that brings joy at any moment on its long trajectory. But daemons are needy. I and other painters and artists indentured to their care feed them with light. We groom them with words. We serenade them with beautiful sounds and dance for their pleasure. And in return, like a lover who cannot tell the difference between the caress given and the caress received, we have served a greater purpose … the secret one, whispered in our ears so long ago, as babes. Marina Brown’s newest novel, Lisbeth, won the Silver Medal from the Royal Palm Literary Awards, and was published in May. Her first novel, Land Without Mirrors, won the 2013 Gold Medal from the Florida Authors and Publishers Association. Her most recent exhibition of paintings was at the Meek-Eaton Museum at the historic Union Bank in Tallahassee. TM

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↑ Adult students at Sharon Davis School of Dance continue to perfect their turnout and celebrate the joy of movement.

“With adults, you can talk about the anatomy and the physics and the different ways of engaging different muscles, and obviously there’s a much higher intellectual level with the adults than the young children,” said Helman. “So it’s really fun to work with them in that different way and challenge them in a different way than we do with the kids.” For the dancer with previous experience who wishes to join a company that performs regularly at events throughout Tallahassee and at a culminating yearly recital, Dance Tallahassee hosts open auditions. Ashley Adams, director of Dance Tallahassee, was a theater major at Florida State University who went on to perform as a Rockette in New York City for five years. “When I decided to move back to Tallahassee, it was kind of like, ‘What do I do now?’” said Adams. “‘What’s the best thing I can do, and how can I share my love for dance with the community?’ I saw a need and a niche for it. (When) I went to FSU … there weren’t really options for dance classes for college students or young adults, specifically.” It seems that the void has been filled as dancers young and old, experienced and beginner, have found havens in rosin-scented rooms. “Any dancer, whether professional or at the amateur level, will tell you that those four walls make up more than just a room with mirrors from floor to ceiling, ballet barres spanning the perimeter of the room and traces of rosin on the floor,” said Del Calzo. “Those four walls make up home.” TM

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he images that ballet conjures up are interest and joy in movement and dancing,” likely bun-headed little girls in rosy Helman said. pink tutus or lissome, graceful women Each class begins with a barre stretch folwith superior turnout, gnarled feet and lowed by classical conditioning that focuses calves envied by most athletes. While not all on technique and alignment. The dancers of us can be the next Fonteyn, Pavlova or then take to across-the-floor exercises, such Copeland, you can still reap and enjoy the as sautés (jumps), jetés (leaps) and piroubenefits of ballet. Yes, even as an adult. Esettes (turns). The remainder of the class is pecially as an adult. spent working on choreography. This past On any given Tuesday night at Sharon May, the adult class opted to perform a recitDavis School of Dance, a group of women al piece, which they worked on for months slip on pink canvas ballet shoes, extend their to learn and perfect. legs onto a wooden barre and for an hour, Pas de Vie Ballet offers a similar class their minds are filled only with classical mustructure, with students seeking comparable sic, counting to eight and feeling the sheer physical and mental benefits. Natalia Botha, joy of movement. co-artistic director of Pas de Vie, and Del Cal“One thing I love about adult ballet is that zo both stated some positive effects of ballet, it attracts a variety of people,” said Jackie including increased flexibility, cardio strength, Del Calzo, dance teacher muscle tone, memory capacat Sharon Davis School of ity and spatial awareness; imDance. “From college stuproved balance, posture, coordents, to young professiondination and self-control; and als, to busy moms and career relief from stress. women, to retirees. From beNot only do the adult stuSHARON DAVIS ginners, to those that grew up dents benefit from ballet inSCHOOL OF DANCE 1232 Timberlane Road taking years of dance. Even struction; the instructors ben(850) 893-5900 their cultural backgrounds efit from teaching them. Beand views of dance as an art cause the students have made PAS DE VIE BALLET 3510 Weems Road form are different.” the conscious choice to attend, (850) 290-2247 Meagan Helman, the participate in and focus on school director at Tallahassee classes, they are a joy to teach. DANCE TALLAHASSEE Ballet, says her adult classes “Adults are typically more 833 W. Gaines St. also attract a wide age range. open to receiving assistance Dancetallahassee@ Like Del Calzo, this is someand information,” said Botha. gmail.com thing she loves. “They are more disciplined in TALLAHASSEE “What’s great about the their appreciation of presentBALLET adult classes is you have peoing their bodies in a beautiful 1940 N. Monroe St. (850) 224-6917 ple coming from all walks of form. They receive openly life, but they have this shared and dance freely.”

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expression ← THE AUTHOR NOT AT WORK Tim Dorsey relaxes outside a franchise motel — his favorite, the one with a numeral in its name. A self-described “survivor of journalism,” Dorsey is a prolific writer of Florida-based novels who frequently travels the state gathering material.

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hen Rafael Nadal won his 10th French Open tennis title in June, John McEnroe asked him if he ever fears that his latest win in a major tournament will be his last. Nadal confessed to no such fear. Tim Dorsey is built differently, way differently, and produces titles of a different sort. In April, he ambled to the front of an upstairs room at The Edison restaurant in a gaily colored print shirt festooned with cocktails, shorts that struggled some to do their essential work, crew socks, Velcro-closure shoes and a boyish haircut that positively said mischievousness. Dorsey, from downstate, was in town to address adoring fans as part of the Word of South Festival on a day that coincided with the Worm Gruntin’ Festival in Sopchoppy. It is doubtful that attendance at the latter much affected turnout at the former. The crowds are distinct, although Sopchoppy figures prominently in Dorsey’s latest novel, Clownfish Blues.

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Dorsey began his speech by photographing his audience with his phone, something he does routinely, explaining that he likes to document all of his book tours, not knowing if there will be a next one. As he did so, he told a story about a couple for whom attendance at a stop on one such tour changed their lives. He photographed that audience, too, later posting the group shot on Facebook. There, easily recognized in the image, was the couple, both of who were married at the time, just not to each other. When their other halves discovered the photo, two divorces ensued and the Dorsey fans, encouraged

surely by their mutual interest, got hitched. Here, then, was the kind of anecdotal stuff that one would expect from Dorsey. Of such stuff, his novels are stitched. When he affords himself a few days away from the keyboard, one-time journalist Dorsey likes to travel the back roads of Florida with a camera, collecting shots of places that may figure in a future book. For him, he said, writing is like method acting. Employing the vocabulary of acting coach/pioneer Konstantin Stanislavski, he said it is important to “experience” a place before attempting to “represent” it in print. To wit, the gymnasium in Sopchoppy, built in Spanish Mission style from native lime rock in 1935 as a Works Progress Administration project. The rocks, rather than uniformly hewn, were pieced together in the fashion of a stone chimney. The gym hosts monthly performances of the Sopchoppy Opry, and you can rent it yourself for 200 beans a day. We encounter the gym early in Clownfish, on page 12, where it is likened to the Alamo. A few pages later, Dorsey’s recurring protagonist, Serge A. Storms,

Tim Dorsey’s latest novel, Clownfish Blues, rapidly travels through plot turns … and the state of Florida, from Sopchoppy to South Beach. At its center is an effort by schemers to game the Florida Lottery by frantically buying up as many combinations of five numbers as time will allow.

escorts a local woman, Lou Ellen — whom he meets at the Sopchoppy Grocery sizing up zucchinis — to the idle facility. Serge picks a lock, throws back a bottle of malt liquor and consummates his minutes-old relationship with Lou Ellen at midcourt. Dorsey’s novels move quickly, and Serge is hard to resist. Clownfish has much to do with a scheme to game the state lottery, but it passes through North Florida, as many Dorsey novels do, and its stops in Sopchoppy, Port St. Joe and the Apalachicola National Forest are sure to engage Tallahassee readers. Serge, who can be relied upon to devise fabulously elaborate ways to dispatch bad people who capitalize on the frailties of the vulnerable, resists the term, “serial killer.” “Serial killers are sick, pathological,” Dorsey said. “Serge is a sequential killer. He detests bullying and dispatches scam artists and low-lifes who will not listen to reason. He lives “ Serial killers are in Florida, so he is kept sick, pathological. very busy.” They all die slowly. Serge is a The enterprising Serge sequential killer. carries worm grunting He detests bullying to a new level, setting aside stob and rooping and dispatches iron in favor of a sound scam artists and system that he buries in low-lifes who the ground and cranks up with the bass on full. It is will not listen to enough to drives buckets of reason. He lives crawlers from the ground in Florida, so he is — and centipedes, snakes and small mammals. kept very busy.” Dorsey, who favors —Author Tim Dorsey hotels that include a numeral in their name, is not always content with things as they are. He tells the story of the time that he dickered with a hotel maintenance man who had air-conditioning units set at 72 degrees. Dorsey prefers 65. As a product of difficult negotiation, the hotel staffer lifted the cover off the unit in Dorsey’s room, punched buttons, and 72 became 69. Dorsey wasn’t satisfied. Left alone, he closely examined the unit, whose model number he has memorized, and decoded it. Turning to his audience at The Edison, Dorsey brandishes and displays his phone. On the screen is a photo of a thermostat. It reads 60. Dorsey is as proud as Serge would be standing over a shyster staked out over a fire ant bed. TM

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alking down the historic, cobblestone streets of “America’s Most Haunted City,” I’m not sure if it’s really a ghost or just my overactive imagination raising the hair on the back of my neck. In the quiet twilight, the moss-draped, majestic oaks and the centuries-old homes and buildings lining Savannah, Georgia’s river and city squares certainly seem to whisper to me to discover their stories. Annually, nearly 800,000 tourists hire one of the city’s 20+ ghost tour companies to hear Savannah’s macabre tales — and learn a little history. Their goal is to be

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completely entertained — and, sometimes, a little scared. On this misty evening, I joined their ranks. I chose to see the city’s spooky sites by horse-drawn carriage. Others are led on walking tours or trolleys, while the more adventurous hitch a ride in a hearse. In 2002, Savannah received the designation as the most haunted city in America from the American Institute of Parapsychology. Erica Backus, Visit Savannah’s director of Public Relations, said the designation adds a level of uniqueness to the travel experience. “Every day, we celebrate the mystery

of Savannah’s ghost culture,” she said with a laugh. The tour guides will tell you, though, that the designation is more than just a tourism ploy. To them, there is no doubt that an abundance of spirits haunt Savannah. “It is the most haunted city in the U.S., hands down,” swore Spooky Steve, a former Florida State University student and current guide with Hearse Ghost Tours. He continued, “Very few cities have such a calamitous past. Every bad thing that could happen to a city has happened here.” In fact, over its nearly 300-year history, Savannah has seen yellow fever, three wars, famines, slavery and natural disasters.

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← The city’s historic downtown district encompasses 24 public squares, many etched with graves marked and unmarked. → Wright Square is nicknamed for the many hangings executed there.

Death, devastation and destruction are as much a part of Savannah as its river and Southern charm. “It’s a necropolis — a city built upon its own dead,” Spooky Steve said. “If human remains are found in Tallahassee while digging a sidewalk, everything stops, forensic teams are called and the newspaper covers it. In Savannah, it happens all the time. There are children’s playgrounds built on graves, and streets and sidewalks are built right over the top of human remains.” Tim Nealon, founder and CEO of Ghost City Tours, said that Savannah “definitely has an aura about it.”

Unlike many large cities, Nealon explained, Savannah gets really quiet at night, with most of its citizens heading indoors. River Street closes down, giving the tourists and poltergeists a chance to get to know each other. Shannon Scott, owner of Shannon Scott Tours, said, “Talking about ghosts in Savannah is like talking about the weather in other towns. Everybody has a story. I was standing in line at the grocery store the other day, and the guy behind me was talking about the ghost in his house.” So where are Savannah’s most haunted spots? Topping the lists are Savannah’s public squares. According to Ghost City Tours website, “Savannah’s Historic District is home to 24 squares. Some were laid out during the city’s founding years when General Oglethorpe settled the area, while others are more recent additions from a century or so ago. But all have a story to tell — beneath the grass, the benches, the picturesque landscape, some were old burial grounds or execution places.” TALL AHASSEEMAGA ZINE.COM

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Wright Square is ranked as one of the most haunted of Savannah’s public squares. It was one of the first four squares constructed in the city. With the original courthouse and jail located across the street, Wright Square was known as the “Hanging Square.” On my tour, the horse’s feet clopped, clopped along East York Street and East State Street as our guide told the story of Alice Riley. In 1734, Riley and her husband, Richard White, were Irish servants, serving William Wise, a harsh, prominent member of the community. Wise was found dead on March 1, 1734, in his house, with his head resting in a large bucket of water. He had been drowned. Riley and White were reported missing from Wise’s farm and suspected of killing the cruel man who had, allegedly, raped Riley, repeatedly. Riley and White were found, charged and convicted of murder. White became the first person hanged in Savannah. Riley was discovered to be pregnant with Wise’s child. The magistrate decided to wait until the birth of the child before hanging Riley. Shortly after the baby’s birth, in January of 1735, Riley was hanged at the gallows at Wright Square. The baby boy, James, died two weeks later. Riley and her baby were buried near the square on York Street. Legend has it, Riley professed to be innocent until her very last moments. Over the hundreds of years since her execution, there have been numerous reports of a woman in old-fashioned clothing stopping visitors to the square, asking for help finding her baby. Riley’s apparition has reportedly appeared to more people than any other ghost in the city of Savannah. Our tour guide pointed to the graceful oaks of Wright Square and said, “If you notice, these oaks have no Spanish moss. They say, Spanish moss will not grow where innocent blood has been shed.” Another spot that most tour guides rank as the “top most-haunted” is the home at 432 Abercorn Street. “Officially, 432 Abercorn Street is so evil, it is only known by its address,” said Spooky Steve. Nealon described the residence as

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“sinister,” and said that one of his guides reported being scratched down his back during a visit to the house and that other visitors have reported being pushed or shoved or having their cameras knocked out of their hands. Scott called the Hampton-Lillibridge House the most haunted in Savannah. He insists it was once studied by Duke University, which ranked it a “level three or four” for poltergeist activity. Luckily, I didn’t find out until after I had checked out of my hotel, the River Street Inn, that Nealon considers this former cotton warehouse; the alleyway beside it, called Factor’s Walk; and nearby Tondee’s Tavern to be some of Savannah’s most haunted locations. If I had known, I probably would not have slept a wink. Maybe the eerie feeling I’d had earlier wasn’t just my imagination playing tricks on me after all. Scott says that even the most skeptical in Savannah usually become believers in the paranormal. He challenges anyone moving to Savannah, “Give it six months. You’ll have your own ghost stories to tell.” TM

↑ The Mercer-Williams House, site of a murder and featured in the film Midnight In The Garden of Good and Evil, is one of the most visited sites in Savannah, along with the River district, where the author lodged at the River Street Inn.

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↗ Rare in Florida, bluffs and gorges etch the landscape at Torreya State Park, along the Apalachicola River.

positioned to defend against any Union vessels that might try to ascend the river to attack Columbus, an important industrial city at the time. The gun emplacements of the “Hammock Landing battery” are still visible and can be seen along the hiking trail below the Jason Gregory House, which was originally built in 1849 on a plantation across the river at Ocheesee Landing. After the war, the Gregory House fell into disrepair and was donated to the CCC in 1935. The CCC moved it piece by piece and reassembled it on the plateau where it currently affords incredible views of the river. The house, which is about 80 percent original, is filled with appropriate antique furniture and appointments and is open for tours. A replica of the home’s kitchen is separated by a breezeway from the house and serves as a visitor center and park office. Nature is perhaps the biggest attraction at the park. There are forests of hardwoods, towering pine trees and ancient magnolias. Flowering plants like jasmine, azalea and dogwood light up the trails during the spring. Wildlife is abundant; it’s estimated that 100 species frequent the park.

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There are also deer, bobcat, gray fox, beaver and the Barbour’s map turtle. A word of caution: Be mindful of alligators when hiking down to the river’s edge. In some places, the trails are steep and may not offer a quick or easy egress in case of such an encounter, so keep your eyes open. There are about 16 miles of arduous hiking trails available for hiking and primitive camping. There are two main trail loops, 30 campsites with electricity and water, and three primitive sites, each with four spots. Day hikes and overnight hikes are permitted, but Keene said “primitive” means you have to backpack in to the site from a trailhead. There are also two youth camp areas that can accommodate between 20 and 40 people. Picnic pavilions can be reserved for large parties, but are ordinarily first-come, first-served. Naturally, the park’s busy seasons are spring and fall, when the weather is coolest. Civil War re-enactors stage a living history encampment the first Saturday in February. Summertime is naturally buggy and hot, but holiday weekends in the hot months are always busy, Keene said. TM

TORREYA STATE PARK is located 13 miles north of Bristol off State Road 12 on County Road 1641. For more information, call (850) 643-2674. Hours are 8 a.m. to sunset, year-round.

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n hour’s drive west of Tallahassee there’s a strange, mountainous world on the east bank of the Apalachicola River. It’s a land of rare plants, tall bluffs and steep gorges that’s full of natural and historical wonders. The Civilian Conservation Corps built Torreya State Park during the Great Depression. It was one of the original state parks built by the CCC in the 1930s. Florida Caverns State Park is another one, built by members of the same crew that built Torreya. The park derives its name from the rare coniferous Torreya tree first described by Hardy Bryan Croom back in the 1830s and named for an American botanist, Dr. John Torrey. This tree can only be found on the high bluffs overlooking the Apalachicola River. “The CCC built the park because of the unique environment here, and to preserve the rare Torreya tree,” said Kevin Keene, park ranger. The high bluffs provided a natural strategic location for Confederate cannon during the Civil War. The guns were

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Projects Bring Sea Life Closer to Emerald Coast Shore BY THOMAS J. MONIGAN

onverting an inspired concept into reality can often be a daunting task, but that hasn’t stopped Andy McAlexander and the South Walton Artificial Reef Association. “Definitely unique,” is how Alex Fogg describes the thriving, SWARA-created snorkel reef that was planted just off Grayton Beach only two summers ago. “It’s one of those things you have to see to believe it and understand it.” Which is something Fogg is paid to do as part of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. And as such, his job is to help SWARA execute the plan McAlexander and his board created in 2013 for three more snorkel reefs, to be followed by nine nearshore reefs and two offshore reefs. “All the sites are major public accesses that the Walton County Tourist Development Council maintains and are of the highest use,” McAlexander said. “And we also did our very best to evenly distribute the locations across the 26-mile-wide county. Our hope is that through the use and exploration of the reefs by residents and

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visitors, we’ll create an awareness of how unique that environment is and that we ought to take steps to preserve it.” As the owner of the Mac Farms produce business and a local Realtor who enjoys diving as a hobby, McAlexander was attending a Restore Act conference that was addressing the aftermath of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon/BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. And the idea was born. “I started thinking about if there was something I could create for Walton County that would have a positive impact for the community as well as the environment,” McAlexander said. “Something that had a net return for everyone — what would that be? Since Walton County does not have a pass into the Gulf of Mexico, I thought of creating a nearshore reef system because most of our visitors enjoy paddleboarding and kayaking. So if we could give them something to do that has an environmental impact, without needing a boat and motor to get there, that would be special. And it’s taken off from there.”

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SWARA board member Bill Horn spent 22 years as a marine fisheries biologist with the FWC Artificial Reef Program. “I’ve always wanted artificial reefs off of Walton County,” Horn said. “My family’s owned a place in A vessel equipped with Seagrove Beach a crane lowers a cast since the 1950s. concrete structure into Locals know the water as part of an artificial reef-building what our tourists project. Reefs have probably don’t: been placed off Walton There are no County well within paddleboard range. natural reefs until you get out to 100 feet deep, so there’s no place for reef fish and reef critters. What we’re doing will bring a whole different suite of fish that wouldn’t have been in that area, like snapper, grouper, butterflyfish and damsel fish. From large fish that people like to catch to tiny little fish that are just pretty to watch and enjoy.” The impact of the first reef was immediate, according to McAlexander, Horn and Fogg. “Within hours, there were fish swarming around it,” McAlexander said. “And we’ve seen in subsequent dives that it’s alive. We’ve had documented sightings of fish not usually seen that close to the coast, plus green turtles, tunicates (similar to sponges) and all kinds of barnacle growth.” Cost of the first project was just short of $190,000, including a $150,000 grant from the Walton County Tourist Development Council. Future costs would run between $200,000 and $250,000 per project. Thanks to help from engineer Matt Trammell and Taylor Engineering in Destin, the necessary permits were secured. And SWARA is working with Fogg and the FWC to obtain some of the $1.2 million Walton County is receiving as part of the BP oil-spill money known as Early Restoration Phase Three Funds from the Natural Resource Damage Assessment Program. “It’s been a team effort,” McAlexander said, his face lighting up with a big smile. “I’m very proud that our community and our government have embraced the reef program, and hopefully we will all reap the benefits of it for decades to come.”

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all while enjoying world-class wines in a glorious waterfront setting. A new wine and food festival is coming to WaterColor in South Walton. Produced by Destin Charity Wine Auction Foundation (DCWAF), Harvest Wine & Food Festival is poised to become one of the Southeast’s premier fall events. “We are thrilled to present Harvest Wine & Food Festival to the Emerald Coast,” said DCWAF president John Russell. “We are thankful to our friends at WaterColor for coming on board as our official venue and lodging sponsor for this extraordinary event benefiting children in need in Northwest Florida.” The Destin Charity Wine Auction Foundation (DCWAF) is one of the nation’s premier fundraising organizations. It raises money for 15 Northwest Florida children’s charities that assist at-risk youth in the local community by tackling a variety of issues including homelessness, food insecurity, mental health, education, medical care and much more. The Destin Charity Wine Auction has been ranked the

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number three “Top Charity Wine Auction in the U.S.” by Wine Spectator magazine. The Harvest Wine & Food Festival will feature some of the world’s premier vintners, proprietors and awardwinning chefs showcased throughout four eventful days that are sure to delight food and wine enthusiasts. The festival kicks off Thursday evening with a variety of wine dinners held along iconic Highway 30A, each featuring a celebrity winemaker. On Friday, Nov. 3, the Al Fresco Reserve Tasting held at WaterColor Beach Club will offer festival-goers a selection of library wines that feature rare vintages not easily accessible to the average consumer. An array of perfectly paired hors d’oeuvres and live music all set to a breathtaking Gulf Coast sunset will make for a memorable and elegant evening.

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The Grand Tasting, to be held from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 4 in Cerulean Park, is the main event and is designed to highlight harvest season at the beach. Large seafood, barbecue and provisional stations manned by celebrity chefs and complemented by the best restaurants along the Emerald Coast are combined with tasting stations featuring over 150 wines from around the world. Craft beer and spirit tents and an exclusive VIP experience will also be available. “We’ve created a new tradition for festival-goers along the Emerald Coast that sets us apart,” Russell said. “Guests should be prepared to taste their way through every staple of coastal cuisine ranging from freshly caught seafood to farm fresh vegetables and cheeses all the way to traditional smoked barbecue prepared by the South’s finest pit masters.” Wine industry superstar Alycia Mondavi of C. Mondavi & Family

will be in attendance at this year’s festival, pouring a variety of exquisite wines for patrons to enjoy. A silent auction featuring a variety of rare wines, “staycations” and unique experiences will open Friday, Nov. 3, and will run through Sunday, Nov. 5, at noon. The opportunity to purchase wine and other merchandise on-site will also be available throughout the festival. Go to HarvestWineandFood.com for a full schedule and breakdown of wine dinner vintners and locations.

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Back Beach Barbecue opened in June 2017 by Danny and Monica Cosenzi, the duo behind the famed Restaurant Paradis located in Rosemary Beach. Danny and Monica have always emphasized their staff is really more like family. Starting Back Beach Barbecue has been a collaborative effort with Chef/ Partner Mark Eichman, Pitmasters Chris Mack and Shane Kirkland and all around “MVP” Donnie Sellers being essential elements in its establishment. Back Beach Barbecue is cooking up a delicious menu of their famous 12-hour slowcooked meats for Harvest Wine & Food Festival that is sure to impress. All festival culinary stations will be hosting short demos each hour showcasing the incredible coastal fare offered throughout the day. Be sure to stop by the barbecue pit to learn from some of the best pit masters on the Gulf Coast. (850) 249-0822 BACKBEACHBARBECUE.COM

ABOUT DESTIN CHARITY WINE AUCTION FOUNDATION Destin Charity Wine Auction Foundation’s (DCWAF) mission is to connect wine enthusiasts with events to raise money to benefit children in need in Northwest Florida. Founded in 2005, DCWAF has donated more than $15 million to Northwest Florida. Those dollars have impacted the lives of over 90,000 youth, including those afflicted by health issues and abuse. Learn more at DCWAF.org or facebook.com/DCWAF. TALL AHASSEEMAGA ZINE.COM

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A Day Outside and Dinner Nearby Florida’s Most Beautiful Parks Are Closer Than You Think

BY ERIN HOOVER

Quiet and relatively undeveloped, Florida’s “Forgotten Coast” could not be more distinct from popular conceptions of the Sunshine State. Nature is the name of the game, here, with the added bonus that you’re never too far away from an oyster bar. Don’t forget the insect repellent or your appetite.

Fans of monster classic “Creature of the Black Lagoon” may recognize some of the film’s backdrop when visiting Wakulla Springs, where beauty runs deep. The park boasts some of the world’s largest and deepest freshwater springs. Swimmers and sunbathers will love the charming, kid-friendly beach outside the Wakulla Springs Lodge, built in 1937, which also offers a full-service dining room, soda fountain, gift shop, and bathhouse. Be sure to take a riverboat ride down the winding Wakulla River, where manatees can be spotted, especially in cooler months. 465 Wakulla Park Drive, Wakulla Springs, (850) 561-7276 STROLL TO LUNCH, FULL DINNER OR SNACK: Wakulla Springs Lodge, 550 Wakulla Park Drive, Wakulla Springs, (850) 421-2000

St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge

It doesn’t get much wilder than the St. Marks Wildlife Refuge, which comprises over 70,000 acres of habitat, along 45 miles of Gulf coastline and crossed by the Florida National Scenic Trail. Forest swamps, lakes, marshes and seagrass beds nurture an exceedingly high diversity of plants, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals, and invertebrates. Opportunities for fresh and

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saltwater fishing are plentiful here, and two boat launches provide access to Apalachicola Bay. 1255 Lighthouse Road, St. Marks, (850) 925-6121 GRAB A BEER WITH THE BIKERS: Ouzts Too, 7968 Coastal Highway, Newport, at the St. Marks River Bridge, (850) 925-6448

Bald Point State Park

Located where Ochlockonee Bay and Apalachee Bay meet, Bald Point is not your typical beach. Visitors seek out this scenic state park for its birding, wildlife spotting, fishing, and hiking. Beachgoers looking for a stretch of undeveloped and wild shore can access the water at three points, while nearby, five trail heads lead to miles of hiking through sandy coastal scrub. In the fall months, it’s common to spot bald eagles and other migrating raptors or monarch butterflies on their way south. 146 Box Cut Road, Alligator Point, (850) 349-9146 ADMIRE THE WATER WHILE YOU DINE: Angelo and Son’s, 5 Mashes Sands Road, Panacea, (850) 984-5168

St. George Island State Park

A Gulf barrier island accessible by way of a four-mile bridge, St. George Island is known for

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its pristine, white-sand beaches, consistently rated among the best in the U.S. and perfect for an afternoon of swimming or sunbathing. Fishing opportunities also abound on the Gulf and Apalachicola Bay sides of the island, and the park is famous for shelling. Highly recommended for a daytrip from Tallahassee. If you’re able to stay over, either by renting a house on the island or pitching a tent at one of the park’s campsites, take the opportunity nightly to stargaze. 1900 E. Gulf Beach Drive, St. George Island, (850) 927-2111 ENJOY SCRUMPTIOUS, NO-FRILLS, FRESH CATCH: Lynn’s Quality Oysters, 402 U.S. 98, Eastpoint, (850) 670-8796

St. Joseph Peninsula State Park

This is another top-rated beach and park, at the tip of Cape San

Blas across St. Joseph Bay from Port St. Joe. The sand is white and the water is clear at this relatively untouched section of shoreline, where you’re likely to be the only person on the beach and shelling, snorkeling, and scuba diving (offshore) are encouraged. Some of the tallest sand dunes in the state are found here, as well as nesting turtles. Campers love this park for its ample facilities with water, electricity, picnic tables and grills, and primitive camping available in the preserve. Visitors from near and far choose to return year after year. 8899 Cape San Blas Road, Port St. Joe, (850) 227-1327 FEATURING OYSTERS THAT “SLEPT IN THE BAY LAST NIGHT”: Indian Pass Raw Bar, 8391 County Road 30A, Port St. Joe, (850) 227-1670

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Explore the History

Florida’s second oldest lighthouse stands on the shores of Apalachee Bay. The historic St. Marks Lighthouse is situated in St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge and welcomes visitors year-round.

Commune With Nature

Gulf Specimen Aquarium boasts the largest array of touch tanks in the continental US. Get up close and personal with marine life at this family-friendly, nonprofit aquarium.

Grab a Paddle Just a short drive from Tallahassee, Wakulla County is the perfect escape. Explore the natural wonders of Florida.

From spring-fed rivers to black-water streams to crystal-clear coastlines, you can spend hours exploring our beautiful waters by canoe, kayak or paddleboard.

Cast a Line

Take a Dip

Immerse yourself in the cool waters of Wakulla Springs. Dive off the 22-foot observation deck or take a river cruise. Home to alligators, manatee, and over 180 species of birds, you’ll discover our wilder side.

There’s a reason Wakulla County is known as a “Sportsman’s Paradise,” and there are no shortage of picturesque locations to take advantage of the wealth of freshwater and saltwater fishing opportunities.

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Dig Into History, Beach Sand and Gulf Seafood in Pensacola BY KIM HARRIS THACKER

Whether you know it as “The City of Five Flags,” “The Nation’s Oldest City” or “P-Cola,” the beautiful, coastal city of Pensacola, Florida, is an ideal vacation destination. Here is a sampling of the area’s many unforgettable attractions.

The refurbished and fabulous Saenger Theatre, built in 1925, was a busy venue during its early years, showing silent movies, Vaudeville productions and Broadway shows. It later became a traditional movie theater. Twenty years after it closed in 1975, heavy renovations transformed the longvacant Saenger into a cultural affairs center for the city. It now welcomes performers such as singer/ songwriter Jackson Browne, jazz singer Harry Connick Jr., magician David Copperfield and the colorful puppets from Sesame Street. Find more artistic performance at the University of West Florida’s Center for Fine and Performing Arts, which regularly hosts Ballet Pensacola and the Pensacola Little Theatre.

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Sun, sand and saltwater enthusiasts find all three elements in abundance on Perdido Key, a barrier island south of Pensacola that boasts beaches that have consistently been ranked by the Travel Channel as among the best in the country. Perdido Key is also home to a national park and two state parks, all with public beach access.

Dine and Sip

From seafood to cheeseburgers and from Pinot Noir to root beer, Pensacola serves it all. One of the most popular restaurants in the area is The Fish House, which

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boasts an impressive Southern seafood menu directed by a James Beard award-winning chef. Try the snapper with The Fish House’s famous Grits à Ya Ya: smoked gouda cheese grits topped with Gulf jumbo shrimp, bacon, mushrooms, shallots, spinach and a creamy sauce. Another Pensacola landmark is Joe Patti’s Seafood Company, selling fresh Gulf fare for feasts you prepare on the deck of your vacation lodging.

Family Fun

Young and old will enjoy Sam’s Fun City, combining amusement park rides and arcade games with a great water park, called Surf City. Here, younger kids can splash in the kiddie pools and fountains, their older siblings can rocket down the water slides and adults can join in or chill at poolside. When you’re ready to rest, go for a float on the 750-foot-long Endless River.

Golf

More than a dozen golf courses can be found in and around Pensacola, with personalities unique to the Gulf Coast. Golfers will enjoy — and perhaps be challenged by — the fresh breezes blowing in at seaside links such as Lost Key and Perdido Bay Golf Club; but they’ll also love teeing up on the hilly inland courses, which are lined with hardwoods and towering pines. FUN FACTS: PGA Masters champion Bubba Watson grew up

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in Pensacola, and the Scenic Hills golf course at the University of West Florida is the only golf course in Florida to have hosted a U.S. open.

History & Heritage

History buffs find treasure here, strolling the streets of Pensacola, which was the first city to be established by Europeans in what is now the continental United States. Founded in 1559 — long before Jamestown, shortly before St. Augustine — the colony was short-lived, destroyed by a hurricane the same year, and was reestablished a century later, in 1667. Twenty-eight homes and properties that date from this period are open to the public as museums and/or living history centers. Also open for tours is Fort Pickens, standing guard at the tip of Santa Rosa Island. This fort pre-dates the Revolutionary War.

National Naval Aviation Museum & Blue Angels The first naval air station in the United States, NAS Pensacola is

located just outside the city. The air station is home to the renowned Blue Angels, the U.S. Navy’s flight demonstration squadron, and the National Naval Aviation Museum. The museum boasts more than 150 restored aircraft from the Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard and displays thousands of artifacts from the nation’s aviation history. Visitors can take a “flight” in one of the Flight Simulators at the museum or catch a movie on the giant screen in the museum’s theater.

Shopping

Take a break from the sand and head to Downtown Pensacola, where you’ll find galleries and boutiques offering trendy garments, hand-made jewelry, fine art, eclectic home furnishings and unique cuisine. The main street downtown, Palafox Street, is designated one of the “10 Great Streets in America.” For more details, browse VisitPensacola.com.

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Music, Food and Fun for Everyone Panama City Beach Pepsi Gulf Coast Jam SEPT. 1–3

More a start to an event-packed fall than an end to summer, Labor Day weekend in PCB means Pepsi Gulf Coast Jam. This highly anticipated concert has been bringing the hottest country music stars to the beach since 2013, ratcheting up the bar year after year. This year is no exception. Headlining acts for 2017 include Luke Bryan, Little Big Town and Jason Aldean. Book a concert package from a participating lodging property for special seating and free shuttle rides to Frank Brown Park. GulfCoastJam.com

28th Annual Lobster Festival SEPT. 11–17

The biggest seven-day lobster festival in Florida takes place at Schooners during the middle of September. Lobster tournament divers hunt for local lobsters and vie for prizes, while spectators devour delicious lobster dishes and participate in a sand sculpting contest. Schooners.com

Bloody Mary & Music Festival OCT. 21

17th Annual Thunder Beach Motorcycle Rally OCT. 25–29 & MAY 2–6

Known as “The Most Biker Friendly FREE Rally in the United States,” Thunder Beach Motorcycle Rally is held twice yearly in Panama City Beach during the first weekend in May

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Enjoy all-you-can-drink bloody mary samples from 25 vendors before casting your vote for the best bloody mary. The winner (the “Big Tomato”) will be awarded a trophy and some serious bragging rights. A full bar and local eats will also be available. Admission is $20 per person ($15 for military/first responders with ID). The spectacular Gulf of Mexico provides the backdrop for this event held at Schooners. GrandLagoon.org

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Emerald Coast Cruizin’ NOV. 8–11 & MARCH 7–10

Twice a year, Panama City Beach pays homage to the classics … cars that is. Activities include cruise-ins, concerts, parties, vendors, food, parades and celebrity appearances. Car enthusiasts of all ages are welcome to check out the thousands of hot rods, customs, muscle cars, trucks and classics on display. EmeraldCoastCruizin.com

29th Annual Junior League of Panama City Holly Fair NOV. 9–12

While it is certainly a unique shopping experience, Holly Fair, held at Edgewater Golf and Beach Resort in Panama City Beach, is also a holiday tradition that helps to fund the Junior League of Panama City’s many community projects. Over 90 merchants will set up booths at the fair in order to sell apparel, jewelry, home goods,

holiday items and loads more. Guests will also enjoy live music and great food. jlpanamacity.org

Vintage Market Days of Northwest Florida NOV. 10–12

Vintage Market Days, held at Frank Brown Park in Panama City Beach, is an indoor/ outdoor market held twice each year in varying communities across the U.S. Marketgoers will have the opportunity to shop for original art, antiques and vintage items, clothing, jewelry, handmade goods, decor, food and much more, all in plenty of time for the season of gift-giving that is right around the corner. vintagemarketdays. com/market/nw-florida

Chili Vibrations NOV. 17–18

Anyone convinced that his chili is the best around can face off with others (who probably believe the very same thing) at the Chili Vibrations World Music Festival & Chili Cookoff at the world famous Spinnaker Beach Club. Musical performers will include The Hip Abduction, The Movement, Passafire, Leilani Wolfgramm, Horizen and Fish Out of Water. The cookoff competition will take place in red chili and salsa divisions. Top three place winners will receive cash prizes and trophies. Chilivibrations.com

Beach Home for the Holidays THANKSGIVING WEEKEND

Pirates of the High Seas Fest Oct. 6–8 Columbus Day weekend brings waves of fun-filled adventure to Panama City Beach each year with the annual Pirates of the High Seas Fest. The whole family can play together, and weekend activities include a scavenger hunt, pirate invasions, water battle, kids parade and main parade, live music, fireworks and so much more! VisitPanamaCityBeach.com

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Kicking off Thanksgiving weekend, Beach Home for the Holidays includes a funfilled lineup of activities and events to entice families from far and wide to build new traditions and celebrate the season together in Panama City Beach. Highlights include the lighting of a 30-foot Christmas tree, magical Santa’s Village and holiday music concerts (past acts include Wynonna Judd, John Berry and Panama City POPS Orchestra). VisitPanamCityBeach.com

Panama City Beach Marathon DEC. 2

Runners can choose from a marathon, halfmarathon, 5K or kid’s fun run in this popular annual event — regardless of the division, all win with a view of the Gulf of Mexico to guide them along. PCBMarathon.com

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Ninth Annual Beach Ball Drop DEC. 31

Celebrate New Year’s Eve on the beach! A family-friendly countdown at 8 p.m. culminates with fireworks and 10,000 beach balls being dropped over the crowd. As the seconds tick down to midnight, thousands of revelers watch the Celebration Tower as a glowing beach ball descends to signify the start of a New Year and kicks off a second round of fireworks. Live music sets a festive tone all night long! VisitPanamaCtyBeach.com

2018 EVENTS Winter Resident Appreciation Day

JAN. 18, FEB. 8, FEB. 22

Celebrate your snowbird status with coffee, doughnuts and giveaways at the Lyndell Center at Panama City Beach Senior Center. You’re bound to make some new, fairweather — in the very best way — friends. visitpanamacitybeach.com/ events/winter-residents

Winter Resident Homecoming JAN. 23

Celebrate your return to your winter home with a special “homecoming” dance, DJed by Jim Lawson and held at Laketown Wharf Resort in Panama City Beach. visitpanamacitybeach.com/events/ winter-residents

Panama City Beach Mardi Gras & Music Festival FEB. 9–10

The most family-friendly Mardi Gras celebration on the Gulf Coast, this twoday festival takes place in Pier Park and is one of the most fun Mardi Gras events anywhere. Enjoy a weekend filled with parades, float tours, street fair, kids zone and live music (and lots and lots of beads). VisitPanamaCityBeach.com

Winter Resident Senior Prom 2018 FEB. 13

Grab your date and put on your dancin’ shoes for this special event, held at Edgewater Beach Resort in Panama City

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and mid-October. Bikers from around the country enjoy scenic rides along the Emerald Coast, live entertainment and local cuisine. ThunderBeachProductions.com

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Ironman Florida Nov. 4, 2017 What began as a challenge between groups of Navy Seals has become one of the most recognized endurance events in the world. The Ironman consists of a 2.4-mile swim, a 112-mile bike ride and a 26.2-mile run, with the Florida edition of the challenge serving as one of the most popular races on the circuit. Too much to take on? Check out the new Ironman 70.3 Gulf Coast in May … half the course with all the fun! Ironman.com

Beach the evening before Valentine’s Day. visitpanamacitybeach.com/events/ winter-residents

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MARCH 23–24

Guests can raise a glass while mixing and mingling with elite chefs, mixologists and top tastemakers at this hip signature spring event. UNwineD features superb craft beer, spirits and wine from around the world, along with culinary creations by Northwest Florida’s leading chefs, accompanied by outstanding musical talent (2016 featured Grammy-nominated and acclaimed American folk-rock band The Avett Brothers). VisitPanamCityBeach.com

Seabreeze Jazz Festival APRIL 18–22

Named a “Top 10 Jazz Festival in the

USA” by JazzIZ Magazine and recently nominated as “Best Jazz Festival” at the Oasis Smooth Jazz Awards, the Seabreeze Jazz Festival combines top national smooth jazz artists with a full weekend of fun, sun, great beaches and good times. The event attracts thousands of fans from the U.S., Canada and Europe for the ultimate performance-packed weekend of jazz. SeabreezeJazzFestival.com

Competitors then bike 56 miles on an outand-back course through rural Bay County and Panama City Beach. The final leg, a 13.1-mile run, concludes with a spectacular finish at the Edgewater Beach & Golf Resort. IRONMAN 70.3 Gulf Coast will offer 50 slots to the 2018 IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship.

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Jeep enthusiasts from throughout the United States travel to Frank Brown Park for this five-day event dedicated to all things Jeep. This family-friendly event includes obstacle courses, bonfires, jeep parade, bounce houses, live music and so much more! JeepBeachJam.com

MAY 12

This newly rebranded endurance event, previously known as the Gulf Coast Triathlon, begins with a 1.2-mile, open water swim in the Gulf of Mexico.

Jeep Beach Jam MAY 15–20

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Happenings Pensacola, Fort Walton Beach, Destin, Sandestin, Seaside, South Walton, Port St. Joe, Apalachicola, St. Marks Beach Blast Triathlon & Duathlon SEPT. 9

Run, bike and swim with hundreds of other athletes in a speed and endurance race through beautiful Beacon Hill, between Mexico Beach and Port St. Joe on the Gulf of Mexico. Choose to compete in a duathlon or triathlon, at a sprint or Olympic distance. After the race, refuel with some delicious food and beverages at Veterans Memorial Park in Port St. Joe. beachblasttriathlon.com

Hispanic Fest 2017 SEPT. 10

Hispanic Fest, held at the Emerald Coast Convention Center in Fort Walton Beach is a family-oriented, cultural and educational festival showcasing Hispanic music, dancing, artwork and food. This year’s event includes live music, a variety of vendors, educational presentations, a fashion show, a kids zone, and more. Special appearances by non-Hispanic performers and dance groups will also take place. Unitedforagoodcause.org

Swim. Bike. Run. 31st Annual Sandestin Triathlon SEPT. 23

The 31st Annual Sandestin Triathlon will lure more than 700 participants for a half-mile swim in the Gulf of Mexico, a 20-mile bike ride along the coast and a

four-mile run through Sandestin’s beach and bayside community. Proceeds benefit the Sandestin Foundation For Kids. sandestintriathlon.com

Emerald Coast Home, Boat And Car Show SEPT. 23–24

This health fair and business expo, held at the Emerald Coast Convention Center in Fort Walton Beach, gives attendees the opportunity to receive free health screenings and evaluations while browsing one of the greatest selling events in the area, with 120 vendors. More than $10,000 in door prizes are given away. Emeraldcoasthomeshow.com

40th Annual Pensacola Seafood Festival SEPT. 29–OCT. 1

Head to Seville Square, Fountain Park and Bartram Park in Historic Downtown Pensacola for this memorable and delicious three-day festival, featuring live music, a poster contest, the Don McCloskey 5K Walk/Run and boat loads of seafood. fiestaoffiveflags.org/pensacola-seafoodfestival

Eggs on the Beach SEPT. 30

Bay Breeze Patio invites cooks and tasters to celebrate a day of food, fun and grilling/

smoking competition. Proceeds benefit Food for Thought and The Fisher House of the Emerald Coast. Taster tickets are $32.50; cost is $50 for a six-person cook team. 10 am–1:30 pm at Seascape Resort, 112 Seascape Drive, Miramar Beach. eggsonthebeach.com

Destin Fishing Rodeo OCT. 1–31

The Destin Fishing Rodeo, based in Destin Harbor, is held each October, all month long. Nightly Weigh-ins are held on the docks behind AJ’s Seafood and Oyster bar from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Kids are encouraged to participate, with significant prizes offered to all who weigh-in a fish. All Destin Fishing Rodeo events are free for viewing and open to the public. destinfishingrodeo.org

21st Annual Florida Scallop & Music Festival OCT. 6–7

The annual Scallop Festival is a familyfriendly event that draws huge crowds to George Core Park in Port St. Joe for live music, arts and crafts, a kids’ zone and, of course, the ultimate seafood treat: local scallops. Try ’em steamed, fried, grilled, blackened or tossed into a traditional Southern dish. It’s all good. This year’s festival features award-winning artists such as Love and Theft and Tobacco Rd Band and includes a 5K race, scallop cook-off and educational exhibits. scallopfestfl.org

Destin Seafood Festival

The 39th annual Destin Seafood Festival is a family-friendly, weekend event on Destin Harbor that stretches from Emerald Grande to Heron Harbor. The festival highlights local seafood, with live music all weekend on multiple stages and Kids Zones chock full of activities for the kiddos, including the ever-popular Mingo Toss. destinseafoodfestival.com

10th Baytowne Beer Festival OCT. 13–14

The Village of Baytowne Wharf at Sandestin presents its 10th annual Beer Fest. This year’s event features more than 200 craft beers from around the nation, on-site craft brewers, samplings,

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Fall Junk Fest OCT. 14

Antiques vendors, artists and DIY-ers are among the merchants who sell an assortment of treasures at the annual Fall Junk Fest at DeFrance Antiques in Fort Walton Beach. Items available for sale include furniture, antiques, jewelry, vintage decor and handmade items. Live music and great food are part of the fun. fwbchamber.org/events/Fall-JunkFest-2017-4511/details

Autos & Oysters Auto Show OCT. 28

An event that brings autos and oysters together? What’s not to love? Bring your family and your appetite to this fun event, held on Water Street in the historic fishing village of Apalachicola. apalachicolabay. org/event/autos-oysters-auto-show

Best of the Emerald Coast

Festival of the Arts

The 2017 winners of the 18th annual “Best of the Emerald Coast” readers poll will be on display at Grand Boulevard in Sandestin, showcasing the reasons why our community awarded them “Best of” accolades. The public is invited to meet the winning vendors, experience their goods and services, and enjoy an evening of food, fun, fashion and entertainment, benefiting the Junior League of the Emerald Coast. emeraldcoastmagazine.com/bestofec

Mattie Kelly Arts Foundation hosts the 22nd Annual Festival of the Arts at the Mattie Kelly Cultural Arts Village in Destin, showcasing the original artwork of more than 100 artists from across the United States, competing for $10,000 in prizes. The festival celebrates art, music, food and family fun, including live music, art activities for children, local cuisine and a wine/beer garden. MattieKellyArtsFoundation.org

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7th Annual Gumbo Throwdown OCT. 26

The Gumbo Throwdown is Fort Walton Beach’s biggest event of the year, when local restaurants compete to see who makes the best gumbo in town. Attendees sample a huge variety of gumbos, as well as beer, wine and beignets. Ticket sales benefit Fresh Start for Children and Families. destinchamber.com/ events/details/7th-annual-gumbothrowdown-19085

St. Marks Stone Crab Festival & ‘Bring Back the Monarchs’ Butterfly Festival OCT. 28

The annual St. Marks Stone Crab Festival brings thousands of crab-lovers from far and wide to the tiny fishing village of St. Marks to enjoy a parade, live music, children’s activities, the handcrafted

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Florida Seafood Festival NOV. 3–4

The 54th annual Florida Seafood Festival is a celebration of all things seafood, held in historic Apalachicola’s Battery Park, at the mouth of the Apalachicola River. Festivalgoers will enjoy oystershucking and oyster-eating contests, a parade, the 5K Redfish Run, the Blessing of the Fleet and renowned musical talents performing on the outdoor stage. Floridaseafoodfestival.com

Seeing Red Wine Festival NOV. 9–12

The Scenic Highway 30A community of Seaside hosts a four-day wine festival that includes reserve wine tastings and a brunch with guest winemakers. Each evening, wine aficionados enjoy some of the finest cuisine the Gulf Coast has to offer, as Seaside restaurants showcase their best offerings, paired with featured wines. seeingredwinefestival.com

Harvest Wine & Food Festival NOV. 2–5

The inaugural Harvest Wine & Food Festival is produced by Destin Charity Wine Auction Foundation, at WaterColor in South Walton. Sip and savor some of the world’s finest wines and culinary selections. Key events are Celebrity Winemaker Dinners, Al Fresco Reserve Tasting, and the Grand Tasting. All festival proceeds benefit the Foundation’s mission to help children in need in Northwest Florida. dcwaf.org/ events/2017/11/harvest-wine-foodfestival

Foo Foo Festival NOV. 2–13

Pensacola’s annual Foo Foo Festival is a memorable 12-day celebration of artistic expression, enthralling performances, eclectic entertainment, cultural events and more. Find a full listing of events, dates, times and admission prices online. foofoofest.com

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Blue Angels Veterans Day Weekend Air Show NOV. 10–11 The NAS Pensacola Blue Angels, performing 70+ shows per year, go all out for Veterans Day with a “Homecoming” air show. For two days, experience the thrill and adrenaline of watching the precision maneuvers of the U.S. Navy’s elite flight-demonstration squadron. The show also features the U.S. Navy Leap Frogs parachute team, Shockwave Jet Truck, and some of the best civilian aircraft performances in the nation. Head to the Gulfside Pavilion in Pensacola for a great view of the aerial action. naspensacolaairshow.com/

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live music and more. Beer aficionados will be able to sample domestic and international options, including specialty, seasonal and not-yet-released beers. baytownewharfbeerfestival.com

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Where Strummin’ Man Sets Sail

PA N A M A C I T Y

Plan now to attend Strummin’ Man, an international ukulele FLORIDA festival held in Panama City, Florida, featuring talent from

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October 13-15, 2017 Three full days of music, food and entertainment on historic St. Andrews Bay. Concerts & Jams Open Mics Workshops Ukulele Cruise Jazz Brunch

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Panama City kicks off the inaugural Strummin’ Man Festival this fall at the marina in Historic St. Andrews. The Ukulele Orchestra of St. Andrews, known around town as Ukes St. Andrews, is organizing the festival, which is sponsored by Destination Panama City and Holiday Inn.

With the instrument’s broad appeal, the orchestra is a diverse group of locals, including a rocket scientist, computer programmers, bankers, photographers, educators – even folks who have never picked up an instrument. “We try to balance skill with fun,” Jones says. “We want to sound our best without making it so rigorous it discourages anyone from playing – or joining.”

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From October 13-15, the city will welcome international ukulele artists for concerts and workshops as well as local and visiting ukulele enthusiasts – and of course curious neophytes. “Most of us had no playing experience or musical background when we started,” says Jennifer Jones, a charter member of the orchestra and director of Bay Arts Alliance. “The ukulele is approachable and non-intimidating, it’s just a fun instrument, and we’re so diverse and welcoming.” The Ukes St. Andrews hatched in 2014 when a local businessman invited friends to play. “He said, ‘If you play, I’ll pay for the ukuleles,’” laughs Jones. The group has grown to a core of more than 100 musicians, although rarely all are free to join for one event. “We are big enough now that there are always enough people on hand for us split into two groups and play two gigs at once,” she adds.

Since their beginning, the group has prioritized supporting local music education. Noting that the ukulele is a great gateway instrument, Jones explains that the orchestra, a 501(c)(3), has provided hundreds of ukuleles to Bay County schools and libraries. “One advantage the ukulele has over introductory wind instruments like the recorder is that you can sing to it,” Jones says. “It allows children to use the musical instrument they’re born with in concert with the ukulele.” True to this mission, the Ukes will donate all profits from Strummin’ Man to buy instruments for Bay County school students. “We hope to raise enough to donate ukuleles to any school in the county that wants them,” Jones says.

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In addition to immersive offerings such as workshops, jam sessions and openmike stages, Strummin’ Man Festival will welcome some of the world’s leading ukulele artists, including Lil’ Rev, an award-winning multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and music-historian; Rachel Manke, one of the brightest stars in the ukulele universe; Taimane, whose expansive repertoire spans from Bach to Led Zeppelin; and duo Sarah Maisel and Craig Chee. Tickets are available in advance at www.standrewsukes.org. Through August 31, attendees can take advantage of early-bird packages ranging from all-access weekend passes for $85 to day passes for $15.

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all on the Forgotten Coast has a lot to offer anyone wanting to escape city life for a day, a weekend or longer. Along the bays, beaches and byways there are many opportunities to slow down and take it easy. While there, we recommend visiting the following locations: DINING 1

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Beautiful classic cars will line the streets of historic downtown Apalachicola on Saturday, October 28, during the awardwinning “Autos & Oysters” Car Show! (844) 272-2523 downtownapalachicola.com

(850) 653-3222 23 Avenue D, Apalachicola

DRIVING DIRECTIONS FROM TALLAHASSEE Head south on South Monroe Street toward Apalachee Parkway. Turn right onto East Orange Avenue, then take the first left onto South Adams Street and continue onto Crawfordville Road. Turn right onto US-319 South and explore the next 50 miles.

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TAMARA’S CAFÉ & TAPAS BAR Known for flavorful Latin dishes featuring fresh, local seafood, Tamara’s provides a distinctive atmosphere — and the tapas bar offers the best live music in the area!

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GULF SPECIMEN AQUARIUM

A unique experience to get up close with sharks, sea turtles, starfish, octopus and other sea life from the Gulf of Mexico. One of the largest touch tanks exhibits in the U.S. (850) 984-5297 gulfspecimen.org

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Transformative Facility New M.T. Mustian Center at TMH anticipates the future of health care by JASON DEHART

The center is designed to accommodate advancements in medical technology for the next 50 years. RENDERING COURTESY OF TALLAHASSEE MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE

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t’s not every day you get to design and build a hospital from scratch. At Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare, that’s exactly what it’s like for local health-care leaders as the M.T. Mustian Center takes shape at the corner of Miccosukee Road and Medical Drive. Named for the late M.T. Mustian, the hospital’s first CEO, the center is a five-story, 340,000-square-foot addition, due to open in 2019, that represents a $260 million investment in construction and equipment for TMH. It also is the first major development of its kind in the hospital’s 50-year history. The existing building has been tweaked and adapted as far as its layout will allow, and the new “tower” has been designed to accommodate the region’s health-care needs for the next 50 years. In fact, the current CEO hails it as a “transformative facility.”

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“It will be state of the art. It will be as nice and as modern as anything you’ll find in Chicago, Atlanta and Philadelphia,” said TMH President and CEO Mark O’Bryant. “It’s going to allow for changes in technologies. We call it our 50-year building. You don’t want to build a building and have it full in five years or 10 years. Or, one that’s not able to accommodate changes in technology. So we really took a broad view of it.” The Mustian Center will feature 28 operating rooms, which will replace all existing operating rooms, four interventional suites for neurosurgical and vascular procedures, and 72 adult medical/surgi“It will cal intensive care beds. Sixty of these will be operational be state upon the center’s opening of the late next year, with expansion art. It space available for 12 more will be beds. All told, the center will host all the necessary support as nice services for the ORs and the and as modern as beds, such as preadmisanything you’ll find ICU sion testing, perioperative in Chicago, Atlanta services, a post-anesthesia care unit, sterile processing and Philadelphia.” services, blood banking, respi— CEO Mark O’Bryant ratory therapy, CT imaging, pharmacy and materials management. Those changes will service the hospital’s market growth, while the new operating rooms will operate on a much bigger scale to handle plenty of equipment. The smallest OR at the Mustian Center will be 625 square feet, compared to the smallest existing size of 336 square feet. “When we looked at our surgical platform, we recognized there’s an evolving environment around technology. And even though our current surgical platform is sufficient to meet those needs, it’s not sufficient to accommodate changes moving forward,” O’Bryant said. “Some of the rooms are small, some of the rooms aren’t configured as well as they should be, and the pre- and post-support areas aren’t large enough to allow for growth.” Simply put, the new operating rooms had to be built bigger because surgical machines take up a lot of space, according to Dr. Chris Derosier, microsurgery specialist. “This is out of necessity. As OR technology has improved, the equipment that we use has also increased, so in order for us to be able to function efficiently and safely, we had to expand the operating room size to be able to include the available technology but also leave room to grow as technology continues to improve,” Derosier said. “The scalability of our ORs that we are building is extraordinary. I think it demonstrates a good bit of forethought and vision.” Derosier said there’s a broad spectrum of technology coming into play, from intraoperative technology and

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integration of radiology to surgical imaging, laparoscopic and robotic surgery. “The other thing that’s really going to be nice about it is we’re going to be able to use more of this technology to communicate with the patients and the families … so the patients can see it and have a better understanding of their care and be able to participate in it a little bit more,” he said. O’Bryant said that TMH has, in the recent past, mitigated space issues through partnerships with off-campus facilities such as the Red Hills Surgical Center, which has given surgeons the ability to move certain “lower acuity” cases — the ones that don’t necessarily need a big hospital. “But still, with the growth we’re experiencing, we needed a new surgical center to accommodate those changes but also to allow us to grow,” he said. The new tower makes maximum use of space to allow for improved patient flow and family comfort. “It’s going to really optimize efficiency of care. Patients will walk in the front door, register, and walk right into their preoperative room. They’ll go straight from there to surgery, recovery room, the same preoperative room and back home,” Derosier said. Dr. Carlos Campo, ICU director and pulmonologist, is pleased with the new ICU layout and design. “In the ICU there is a lot more space for family to stay and spend time. Toward the back of the room there’s a sofa that can be converted (into) better sleeping accommodations, like a sleeper sofa instead of a recliner,” he said.

Customized Design O’Bryant said the new facility became part of the hospital’s strategic plan back in 2008, but to see it become a reality TMH needed a higher level of funding that it didn’t have at that particular time. “This is a $260 million project. That typically requires financing at the highest level. That requires bond financing,” he said. “In 2008, TMH didn’t have the financial backbone to support a major bond of that nature. So we had to improve our financial status to allow us to competitively go out and draw down a bond. “That meant making sure that we had margins to show stability in financial performance. We had to significantly build up ‘days of cash’ because that’s also a measure important to the bond markets. We were finally able to go out and secure a very competitive bond.” Designing the workspace and patient environment wasn’t a job left to architects, alone. TMH administrators, physicians, nurses and even patient representatives all had input in how the new operating rooms and ICU rooms would flow and function. Patient representative Marsha Smith Hill is one of many people to have benefited from TMH care over the years, and her personal connection made her an obvious choice

‘This is What we are Capable of ’ TMH Foundation President confident Mustian Center will stimulate donations BY STEVE BORNHOFT

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The structure of the intensive-care unit and surgery center is taking shape. The new facilities will support growth in the medical services TMH can offer to the region.

for the design panel. She gave birth to her youngest daughter, faced down breast cancer and was treated for a heart condition at TMH facilities. She was recommended by her OB/GYN, Dr. Andrea Friall, and enthusiastically offered suggestions for making families feel more comfortable at the hospital. “Thanks to the wonderful, gentle, caring team at TMH, I’m still living today. It was wonderful to be involved in this stateof-the-art center. We met once a month for a solid year,” she said. “We listened to each other. Some of us were patients, some were family of patients and some were staff from TMH.” Her suggestions were simple, but little things do make a difference. “I asked for the linen hamper to be covered, so it would not be seen. I did not want to see a dirty linen hamper showing in the beautiful rooms. They now hide in the counter space,” she said. Campo said the design team took seriously the smallest of details, such as the location of beds, lighting, compressed

Middleton Truett “M.T.” Mustian came to Tallahassee Memorial Hospital as administrator in 1964 and was CEO of Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare until his retirement in 1989. He continued to serve TMH in the role of president emeritus and as head of the TMH Foundation, promoting projects to ensure the institution’s future. He died in May at the age of 96.

ickey Moore, the president/chief advancement officer of the Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare Foundation, looks forward to introducing the community to the M.T. Mustian Center, anticipating that it will result in increased awareness of the hospital and generate financial support. “The Mustian Center certainly will put us in a different league where the hospital and its clinical format are concerned, given its technology and all that it will be able to do,” Moore said. “When you talk about transforming care, advancing health and improving lives,” he added, citing TMH’s mission, “there will be nothing like it for miles and miles and miles.” Moore said the center will be a conversation piece, a point of pride for Tallahassee and a “wonder.” “The center will be unlike anything that has ever been seen in this community. When walking established and prospective donors through the center, we’ll be able to turn to them and say, ‘This is what we are capable of. We just need your involvement and your participation to raise all areas of the hospital to the same level.’ ” Moore said he expects to have detailed fundraising plans related to the center, including a provision for private tours, in place by mid-2018 or about eight months prior to the center’s opening. “We will have naming opportunities available so that a donor meeting a certain threshold may have an operating room or a waiting area or an intensive care unit named in honor of his family or anyone he chooses,” said Moore. He is confident that the M.T. Mustian Center will be a community enhancement with which people will want to be associated. In addition to the progress being made on the Mustian Center, Moore pointed to other noteworthy gains that TMH has made recently, including becoming a Trauma II emergency center — one capable of initiating definitive care for all injured patients — and a comprehensive stroke center. “Those achievements took education, certification, investment and equipment,” Moore stressed. And, of course, the support of the community. “Generally, I cannot say enough about the generous support that the hospital has received from so many for so many years,” Moore said. “It has made it possible for us to get to the point where we are today … and where we will be in the future.” TALL AHASSEEMAGA ZINE.COM

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“Incorporating lessons learned and collaboration with all parties involved leads to a better product. This will be a firstclass facility to serve Tallahassee and surrounding counties.”

air, TVs, switches and oxygen outlets. Room mockups were built in a nearby warehouse to give physicians a chance to physically interact with their new environment and equipment before the real deal was built. “Good things came out of that,” Campo said. “We realized we needed to move things around or have more mobility with this equipment and that equipment or where the lights would go, where the — Senior project manager outlets would go, so it was Brian Smith very helpful.” The goal was to do what’s best for the patients and make it as efficient as possible, according to Dr. Hank Hutchinson, orthopedic trauma surgeon. “All the equipment decisions were brought to the surgeons so we could have input in what we felt would be the best way and most efficient way for us to take care of the patients,” Hutchinson said. He added that the new tower and new operating rooms should be “superior to” any facility

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he’s seen before, thanks to the new tech and new integrated systems that will, for example, allow surgeons to consult with outside physicians during surgery. “If I had a question about something during surgery and had a question for the pathologist, those things can be done in real time. At least that’s the plan. I think that’s neat,” he said. Of course, for a project of the Mustian Center’s scale, you need the right contractor. TMH picked Brasfield & Gorrie, a Birmingham-based general contractor that “Modern Healthcare” magazine ranks third among the nation’s top contractors in health-care construction. The rating was based on 2016 revenues, with Brasfield & Gorrie near the top that year with more than $1.04 billion in completed health-care construction projects representing 3.8 million square feet of project space. Senior project manager Brian Smith said the Mustian Center is a significant — and unique — project for the company. “Incorporating lessons learned and collaboration with all parties involved leads to a better product,” Smith said. “This will be a first-class facility to serve Tallahassee and surrounding counties.” Smith added that new projects such as the Mustian Center give him and his colleagues a chance to examine workflows and make improvements.

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Renderings show internal designs that were collaboratively created by medical professionals, patient representatives and architects. Some rooms were built as mock-ups to allow medical teams to try them out in a test environment.

“It is also a great time to see where technology can aid in efficiency. Equipment is being used that decreases the amount of storage space needed while greatly improving the time it takes to assemble supplies for procedures,” he said. Meanwhile, the construction work itself is boosting the local economy, according to Mike Roche, senior project superintendent, a Tallahassee native who’s thrilled to be back in his hometown working on such an important project. “I love it. I’ve worked for 20 years to try to get back home to Tallahassee, so this is exciting to me,” Roche said. “This has huge benefits to the community. This new facility has a lot of great new features and aspects for the community in terms of jobs and technology.”

There are about 289 workers of various trades on site at any given time, Roche said. A majority of the workforce is made up of workers who are from the local area — Tallahassee, Crawfordville and Quincy. Some crews came from Jacksonville, Orlando and Atlanta. Wages vary according to trade, but they have one thing in common: They all spend their hard-earned money here. “It’s fantastic. You’ve got guys who have a steady job and are making good money,” Roche said. “It impacts all the little shops around here. Probably 60–70 percent of our guys go to lunch around here every day. You’ve also got some guys from out of town and they’re staying in hotels. A project this size has so many people working for it. You (continued on page 177) touch every industry.” TALL AHASSEEMAGA ZINE.COM

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LIKE YOUR HEADBAND.” These were the first words I ever said to a refugee. In my defense, the headband was adorable in Suzanna’s black hair. It was pink and plastic — the kind of headband I remember wearing as a kid. The kind that pinched behind the ears and, when my sister and I played Star Trek, slipped over the eyes and transformed me into Geordi La Forge — never mind gender differences. “Thank you,” Suzanna replied, touching the headband with her fingertips. She has never heard of LeVar Burton, Star Trek or PBS television programming, but she, too, has dreams — dreams that actually have a chance of being realized, now that she and her family are in Tallahassee. “Your turn.” Misimango, who sat across from Suzanna, gestured to the Uno cards Suzanna held. She scanned her hand, made a decision and placed her card on top of the pile. “Green three!” Misimango said.

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Siblings Misimango, 11, and Angela, 5, were among the first refugees of Congolese descent to come to Tallahassee. Misimango is in his second year of school. Angela is attending school for the first time.

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The other children in the circle groaned, good-naturedly, but they knew they’d have to be quicker if they wanted to beat Misimango at identifying colors and numbers in English. I watched the game for a few minutes, and then I joined another group of refugees, including Misimango’s 8-year-old brother, Kibonge. This group taught me to count to 10 in Swahili. A small argument arose among the children when we got to 10; there are different words for the number, depending on which dialect of Swahili is spoken. I wrote both words in my notebook, and then I read the list of number names aloud. “Nzuri,” Kibonge said, giving me a thumbsup. “Good!” Like most of Tallahassee’s young refugees, Suzanna, Misimango and Kibonge were born amid the destitution of refugee camps, where their parents had fled from war-torn homelands. For them, coming here was like coming to another world. In the best refugee camps in Africa, shelters are built from wood, with tarps for roofs. But often, refugees are forced to live in huts made from whatever materials are readily available in the surrounding countryside, such as sticks and grasses. In Mozambique, where Misimango and Kibonge were born, flooding has been a terrible problem, and many refugee camps turn into mud pits, where disease runs rampant. To curb the spread of lice, fleas and other parasites, refugees’ heads are often shaved to the scalp. Flooding also leads to the migration of old civil-war landmines to new locations, sometimes miles away from their original, noted positions. In Syrian refugee camps, the majority of which are located in Jordan, Turkey, Lebanon and Egypt, the shelters are usually tent-like structures made with wooden stakes, rope and tarps. Some lucky individuals live in corrugated tin boxes. The conditions in all of the camps are, in the eyes of the citizens of first-world countries, deplorable. Health care and medicine is limited, and health-care providers are often unqualified. The food rations are almost never sufficient, and the heads of families are lucky, indeed, to find work outside of a camp. If there is a school within a camp’s boundaries or in a nearby town, the quality of education is generally poor, because there are not nearly enough teachers.

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Like any group of kids, Tiba, Misimango, Angela (front row), Loy, Kibonge and Nestor (back row) tease, pinch, tickle and squish one another good-naturedly during family photos.

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Agency Works to Make Refugees Self-sufficient Under the purview of the U.S. government, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) supervises the resettlement of refugees in many cities throughout the country, including Tallahassee. Following is an interview with Una Bilic, the Tallahassee site director for the IRC.

Tallahassee Magazine:

How is it that a refugee comes to live in the United States instead of another country?

Una Bilic: A lot of people think that the refugees choose to come here, but that isn’t the case. They don’t get a say in where they are sent. They go to whatever country accepts them. Some people are in refugee camps for 10–12 years. When their names finally come up on the resettlement list, they are thoroughly vetted. If they are coming to the U.S., we have our own 12-step security clearance that refugees have to pass — 13, if they’re Syrian. They are established as a complete non-threat. TM: If the process is so strict, why do you think some people are afraid of refugees coming here? UB: We’re scared by people

that are different from us, or different from what we’re used to. Sometimes fear can be a good thing, because it can motivate a person to become educated; but sometimes fear is useless. People don’t have to be afraid of the refugee resettlement process. They can learn how it is done online, through the State Department. Also, people need to keep in mind that 67–70 percent of all refugees are children.

TM: What part does the IRC play in bringing refugees to Tallahassee? UB: First of all, there are nine

agencies in the U.S. that are like the IRC — approved by the U.N. for refugee resettlement. We are the only agency that is entirely sectorial, meaning we function solely on

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donations and on funding from the State Department. Refugees are assigned to whatever city can fill their needs — the most important need being a community. We have two major refugee communities here in Tallahassee: Syrian and Congolese. Whether or not we get a group of refugees also depends on what housing is available and what our office capacity is. Once we know a family is coming, the process goes really fast. We have to follow a certain timeline. A lot of the work happens before the family even sets foot on American soil. For example, we find them a place to live, and we furnish it with the basics. The day after we pick them up from the airport, they sign their lease. We don’t sign it for them; they sign it. Our purpose is to help them to obtain self-sufficiency, and this is the first step. We also take them to all of their appointments, which we set up in advance: interviews, health checkups and meetings to sign up for state-funded benefits. They enroll in English language classes, and the children enroll in school. We teach them how to use the bus system, and we give them a grocery store orientation, so they know how to buy food. Most importantly, we help them to establish a community here. We have learned that when refugees build a strong community, they help each other with assimilation. It’s the IRC’s responsibility to teach them how to become economically selfsufficient, how to gain cultural competence and how to develop community.

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“When the refugees first got here, they were entranced by the drinking fountain, because they had never seen free-flowing water before,” said Shannon Haire, the assistant principal and ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) coordinator at Riley Elementary School, which is where I met Suzanna, Misimango and Kibonge. “Sometimes the Congolese boys come to school wearing pink and purple clothing, or shirts with flowers on them. We really want to encourage these kids’ excitement over beautiful things, because that’s a part of who they are. But at the same time, the American kids don’t always understand where the refugees are coming from, culturally. So we have to help the refugees to wear socially acceptable clothing. It’s a balancing act.” Riley Principal Karwynn Paul is enthusiastic about his refugee students’ progress. “These children are growing in so many ways,” he said. “You can’t measure their growth

FAR LEFT: Despite a 12-year gap in age, sisters Loy and Angela share a special bond. LEFT: Kibonge, Misimango and Angela play “Rock, Paper, Scissors,” a game the boys learned in their Tallahassee school before they knew what scissors were. BOTTOM LEFT: Soft-spoken Tiba offers a shy smile. BELOW: Nestor shows his skills in soccer, a popular sport among Congolese and Syrian refugees.

just by their grasp of English — although their English is getting much better.” “All of our refugee students have come to us ‘nonproficient’ in English,” said Kinisha Mims, the ESOL coordinator and guidance counselor at Astoria Park Elementary School, another of Tallahassee’s “refugee” schools. “But I told their teachers, ‘Don’t assume they don’t know things; some of them do know what you’re trying to teach them, but they just don’t know how to communicate

in English that they know it.’ Two of our Syrian students’ parents were university professors. But there are also some kids who came to us never having gone to school at all.” One of these children is the youngest of three Syrian refugees who came to Tallahassee with their parents in the fall of 2016. He was assigned to Morgan Brown’s first grade classroom at Astoria Park. “He was scared, because he didn’t know how a school day worked,” Brown said. “He hid under his desk and wouldn’t communicate with anyone.” To compound the issue, he had been near bombing in Syria, so loud sounds — like the alarms that went off during the school’s fire drills — terrified him. “But now he understands everything I say,” Brown continued. “It’s crazy to see the progress he has made.” “Many of the refugees are happy to be here, at first,” said Althea Valle, the ESOL resource teacher for Leon County Schools. “But then they get frustrated because they can’t communicate, and they stop trying. They need help to get past that (continued on page 204) frustration.” TALL AHASSEEMAGA ZINE.COM

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AT A GLANCE: I’m from Michigan and came to Tallahassee because of FSU’s First Year Abroad program. (My first year of college was in Spain and England.) I will graduate with a degree in international affairs and criminology in 2018 and plan to go into immigration/ human rights law. VOLUNTEER HISTORY: I’ve been working with Tallahassee’s Student Refugee Outreach since the end of last March. I tutor, and I also help with child care while parents are tutored. FAVORITE ASPECT OF VOLUNTEERING: Being able to see the progress of those I work with. FAVORITE VOLUNTEER MOMENT: My middle school student and I were making Mother’s Day cards. I noticed that my student was making two cards, but she wouldn’t let me see them. At the end of the lesson, she gave me one of the cards. It read, “Happy Mother’s Day! I am so thankful to have you. I love Emilie.” BEFORE I STARTED VOLUNTEERING, I THOUGHT … I might not be able to connect with or properly assist the refugees, since I’m young and don’t speak Swahili, Arabic or Kinyarwanda (the official language of Rwanda). NOW I THINK … that if I can’t directly assist my Congolese and Syrian friends with something, I’m confident that I can at least point them in the direction of someone who can.

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BIO: I’m a wife and the mother of two beautiful daughters, ages 19 and 11. VOLUNTEER HISTORY: I’ve been a volunteer in Leon County Schools for 15 years. I started volunteering with the refugees at Riley Elementary last fall. FAVORITE VOLUNTEER MOMENT: When we played a game of Uno with the kids. It was relaxed, and they weren’t under any kind of pressure. BEFORE I STARTED VOLUNTEERING, I THOUGHT … I might not have what it takes to help these children, as I do not speak Swahili. NOW I THINK … One person can make a difference. Simple teaching techniques, games and songs are beneficial to these children. Throw in love, positive reinforcement and some Skittles, and you have the makings of a successful tutoring session.

Liz Byington BIO: My family and I have lived in Tallahassee for two years. My husband is a pathologist, and we have five children. VOLUNTEER HISTORY: I work with two groups of second-graders and one group of first-graders. FAVORITE ASPECT OF VOLUNTEER WORK: The kids are so sweet; they find joy in the smallest things. The first time I gave one of the kids a Skittle, he popped it in, and then he pulled it out again to look at it.

AGE: 40

BEFORE I STARTED VOLUNTEERING, I THOUGHT … I’m just a mom, without any ESOL training. I’m just going to use what I know to help these kids. NOW I THINK … these kids, who have lost everything, are so appreciative and so full of joy and excitement. I don’t want the difficulties they encounter here to take that joy and excitement from them. I want them to succeed.

John Searcy

with a degree in criminology and international affairs. I’m now seeking my medical school prerequisites. Eventually, I’d like to work overseas for Doctors Without Borders or a similar organization.

AGE: 24

VOLUNTEER HISTORY: I was one of the first volunteers to work with Syrian refugees at Astoria Park.

BIO: I’m from Jacksonville, and I just graduated from FSU

FAVORITE ASPECT OF VOLUNTEER WORK: Seeing the

children progress with their language abilities. BEFORE I STARTED VOLUNTEERING, I THOUGHT … that working with Arabic-speaking children would really help me with my Arabic. NOW I THINK … It’s not about us, as volunteers; it’s about the kids.

SHELLIE NEWMAN AGE: 63

BIO: I am a mother of four children, all grown, and my husband and I have lived in Tallahassee for the last 20 years. I love music! VOLUNTEER HISTORY: I volunteered at my children’s schools while they were attending, and currently, I work with the refugees at Riley. I also engage in other service projects associated with JustServe.org.

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FAVORITE VOLUNTEER MOMENT: On our last day with them this past school year, we sat down and played games and just talked with them. It was amazing to me to see how far their language skills had come. BEFORE I STARTED VOLUNTEERING, I THOUGHT … that I couldn’t do it because I had no official training, and I was a tiny bit scared. OK, I was totally scared! NOW, I THINK … I am so lucky to have had the opportunity to meet these exceptional children and to learn more about them.

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AGE: 41

BIO: My husband and I have three kids, and we moved to Tallahassee five years ago for his job at FSU. I teach piano lessons and enjoy reading, exercising and being outdoors. VOLUNTEER HISTORY: I started volunteering with the IRC in June of 2016, gathering and sorting donations, helping with apartment setups and driving refugees to appointments. I began tutoring at Riley in September of 2016. FAVORITE VOLUNTEER MOMENT: When I asked one of the kids about his family, and he was so proud to be able to say that his mom has a job. BEFORE I STARTED VOLUNTEERING, I THOUGHT … Since I didn’t have a degree in ESOL education or any formal training, I was skeptical of how much I could help. NOW I THINK … It doesn’t require an extensive degree to help these kids. Forget yourself and jump in.

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RETURN OF A CLASSIC Capital City Country Club charts a new course

apital City Country Club, the most historically significant golf and country club in Tallahassee, has seen it all. Through lean years and good years, it has remained the cornerstone of the community’s social bedrock. Before other golf and country clubs came on the scene, CCCC was the only golf course in town and played host to many prominent Tallahassee residents, legislators, judges, governors and more. “It’s a special, special place,” said Jay Revell, president of the Capital City Country Club

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board of directors. “If we can get more people to come … and dedicate some time and effort and investment into creating something that is really fantastic for the long term, I think the sky’s the limit for us.” The club dates to 1908 when leading residents tried establishing a small golf course on the grounds of The Grove. Known as the Tallahassee Country Club, it proved unsuccessful. A new Tallahassee Country Club was founded on the site of the current Capital City club in 1924. The club was private until it was given to the city in 1935. The city turned it

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into a municipal course and enlarged it to a regulation 18-hole course designed by renowned golf course architect A.W. Tillinghast. Revell said CCCC is significant because it is perhaps the only Tillinghast-designed course in Florida that’s still in operation. Financial difficulties and the need for infrastructure improvements led the city to lease the property back to the Tallahassee Country Club in 1956. That was the genesis of the Capital City Country Club. Today, the regal old flagship has gone back to being a private club and is finding new

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footing with improved facilities and new management. Revell praised the significant financial investments to the golf course and club made by Integrity Golf Company during its two-and-ahalf year management tenure. “They made at least a $600,000 capital investment into this property while they were here. If you talk to any member today, they will tell you the course, the facilities, everything is in the best shape it’s been in years,” he said. However, Integrity recently decided to reduce the number of courses it manages, and Capital City was on that list, Revell said. The country club was quick to find another management company, Honours Golf, which is based in Birmingham, Alabama. Honours manages prestigious golf courses worldwide, including Lost Key Golf Club in Pensacola, and King & Bear and Slammer & Squire at the World Golf Village in St. Augustine. The change in management was effective June 1. Revell said it’s going to be a great partnership. “They’ve been wonderful to work with,” Revell said. “They’ve got high levels of expertise in everything from marketing to member services down to revamping our retail operations and revamping our food and beverage operations. It’s really a great opportunity to take what we were able to accomplish during our time with Integrity and now hopefully take it to the next level.

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“It’s been pretty good. Back in the olden days, back when I started in ’78, ’79, it had that country club atmosphere. You had a lot of retirees, you had a lot of business owners. It has a rich heritage. Some of the most important people were here back in the old days. Most of the governors, the judges, the lawyers, all were here. Integrity has brought a lot of changes, brought a lot of things back to the club. Right now, you’re getting a lot of younger families moving back to the downtown area, and they are joining the club.”

Paulette Gordon JOB: FOOD SERVICE EMPLOYED: “30-SOMETHING” YEARS

“You do what you have to do. It’s just a challenge every day I come to work because really and truly, you don’t know what to expect one day to the next, so you really have to be dedicated to what you do and enjoy what you do. Me and Stone are like sister and brother. We’ve been friends ever since I came here. And we enjoy working with one another. I enjoy what I’m doing and get pleasure from pleasing people and getting their input in what I do — seeing what I present to them, that makes me feel like I’m really wanted here.”

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JOB: TENNIS PRO EMPLOYED: 38 YEARS

“Greatest job in the world. I started out teaching (members), and I’m now teaching their children and now their grandchildren. So that is an amazing generational experience. But people are basically the same. People come to a country club to be catered to and to enjoy themselves. That doesn’t change. You hear it from every member that they love coming out here. There’s something about this place as opposed to most other clubs that they go to. They feel like there’s a level of belonging that they like.”

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“Integrity specialized in capital improvements, and I think Honours is going to help us specialize and grow the membership.” Speaking of which, general manager Mike Abate said the country club will aim its membership efforts at young people and families who are choosing to live in the downtown core once again. “We made our membership rates and our offerings more competitive. We have a lot of fun here,” said Abate, a former Integrity manager who transitioned to Honours. “Our demographic is between the ages of 20 to 40. That’s ideal for us. Those younger families are what we’re looking for.” Revell said several factors are aligning in favor of Capital City’s membership goal. “Developments like Cascades Park, Gaines Street and FAMU Way are signs that we are actually probably better located for the next century than some of the other clubs in town,” he said. “Also, the people who are really leading the golf market today are people who have a deeper appreciation for the game and its history probably than they have had in a long time. There’s a deep, growing appreciation for golf architecture that wasn’t

there for the last 50 years. And I think we are uniquely situated to take advantage of that.” Ultimately, though, all are welcome to join the club, and there are no barriers to membership. “We want anyone who loves Tallahassee, who loves spending time with family and friends, who wants a unique environment in which they can do that, to come be a member. There’s no reason for us to hold anyone out of being a member of this club. We’re wide open to the entirety of the population,” Revell said. Abate hopes that clubhouse renovations, improved landscaping and greens will be a big draw, along with excellent service. “We’re going to continue to provide an exceptional product to our members, and we’re

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going to continue to deliver great service,” he said. “We’re going to make this affordable and very inviting. We offer the pool, and we offer five tennis courts here. For me personally, I fell in love with this property when I first set foot on it. When I came on board I told the team right up front we’re going to deliver an exceptional product, we’re going to deliver exceptional service, and there will not be any exceptions to it.” Revell said the club’s future success depends on a lot of work, investment, strategic thinking and partnerships. “There’s a lot of good signs, and if you read into those tea leaves like I do, we can be a club that is deserving of a great membership that wants to do great things,” he said.

A brief history of a venerable club

➸ The first incarnation of Capital City Country Club was developed when leading citizens established tennis courts, croquet grounds and a six-hole golf course at The Grove in 1908. This club was organized as the “Tallahassee Country Club.”

In 2001, Sidney Matthew — a golf aficionado and author of several books about the game — wrote a four-part series about golf in Tallahassee for Tallahassee Magazine. He explored the lives of local golfers who witnessed how golf evolved in the capital city, but he also wrote about the origins and development of the town’s flagship golf course, Capital City Country Club. Here, based on Matthew’s work, new interviews with current country club leadership, and other sources, we hit the highlights in the life of CCCC.

➸ In 1914, George Perkins bought the Houston property about a mile south of town and decided there was enough interest to build a golf club there. He hired Herbert H. Barker, an English golf course architect, to design what is now the back nine at Capital City Country Club. The club was known as Hill City Country Club until around 1923, when Perkins decided to get out of the golf business and sold the club to the membership. “A number of prominent citizens

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met at the Tallahassee Chamber of Commerce and decided it was in the best interest of the community to have an outstanding golf facility and so they decided to raise the funds to purchase the property from Mr. Perkins as a re-incorporated Tallahassee Country Club,” said Jay Revell, current vice president of the Tallahassee Chamber of Commerce and president of the CCCC board of directors.

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➸ The Tallahassee Country Club was formally organized on Feb. 28, 1924.

➸ During the Great Depression, golf courses went out of existence and the property was liquidated, sold and developed into other commercial endeavors. The benefactors of Tallahassee Country Club had other goals in mind for their land. On Aug. 27, 1935, the clubhouse and golf course property were deeded to the city, and it became a municipal golf course.

➸ The federal government’s Works Progress Administration made improvements to the Tallahassee Country Club course thanks to a $35,000 grant. The new golf course was also fortunate to have the advice and counsel of one of America’s premier golf course architects, Albert W. Tillinghast. Tillinghast was then employed by the PGA of America as a consulting golf course architect. Thanks to Tillinghast’s input and an infusion of cash, an additional nine holes were added to make Tallahassee Country Club a regulation, 18-hole golf course in 1938. ➸ In 1948, the old clubhouse at Tallahassee Country Club was situated beside the present 13th green, which was then the 18th green. ➸ The city continued to operate the Tallahassee Country Club as

a municipal course until 1956, when it decided for financial reasons to offer it back to club members. Mayor J.T. Williams Sr. signed a lease Feb. 14, 1956, returning the operating rights to members of the Tallahassee Country Club, and on May 4, 1956, the club became private again. An additional nine acres would soon be added to the property along with a new clubhouse, swimming pool and tennis courts. Blair Stone, club president, fulfilled a promise to jump into the new pool during the grand opening in 1957.

➸ In 1989, the downstairs lounge area was renovated. The 19th Hole grill was updated, and the grill’s dining room was expanded along with the men’s card room. A new golf pro shop was also built. The clubhouse was given a major facelift during a renovation project between January 1999 and July 2000. ➸ The club successfully negotiated an ongoing relationship with Honors Golf, a national golf course management firm, in 2017. Many new things are in the works, including a full-service golf shop. General Manager Mike Abate said the facility hosts about 40 golf tournaments a year now and he expects that number to increase with new programs like the Capital City Charity Series that will kick off “in the very near future.”

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A ROOM OF YOUR OWN

A little imagination can turn a backyard shed into a private escape

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Oui, oui, mesdames et messieurs! The French farmhouse-style of decorating is tres chic worldwide and is particularly suited to transforming a backyard shed into a potter’s paradise.

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A shed is transformed into a stylish office space with simple features, well-designed lighting and thoughtfully placed windows.

hen you look at that shed or out-building in your backyard, do you imagine turning it into a personal haven? Do you become a painter, a fitness guru, a gardener — even a writer — with a room of your own? Perhaps you simply need a place to sip a glass of iced tea or wine and get away from it all. If creating the retreat of your dreams sounds good to you … then let’s get started. The purpose of the remodeled shed determines its design. Traditionally, sheds hold a jumble of rusting mowers, cast-off sports equipment and household discards. The new, retrofitted versions go beyond that: They are organized by theme and offer inviting, clean, comfortable, stay-a-while spaces. Variations include man caves or pub sheds complete with bars and stools; creative nooks with art supplies and weaving looms; offices with desks and reading chairs; elegant garden or greenhouse sheds; pool cabanas with guest-ready towels, floats and sunscreen; party sheds with speakers and a disco ball; havens for music practice; workout places with fitness equipment; and the ultimate “she shed” or personalized place to escape. Sheds need an entry door and, if possible, windows. French doors allow in natural light. When placing the doors and windows, consider the view, airflow and privacy. Most sheds are positioned with doors facing the house. They may need insulation and electricity for fans or lights. A few more practical points: A tiny entrance area,

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with rocks, stepping-stones or decking will keep the interior from getting muddy. For interior flooring, vinyl is probably best for paint spills and gardening messes. For comfort, make sure the shed is tall enough to stand in. It should be sturdy and watertight. For art projects and gardening, water access from a garden hose or nearby spigot is necessary. Depending on the function of the shed and who is going to use it, décor styles include vintage, classic, whimsical, rustic, shabby chic and modern. A “she shed” could have lace curtains, wicker and pastels or wildly colored paintings. The mix is what makes it unique. A gardening shed could have a rustic, green theme with hooks and tools neatly displayed above a table or countertop used for filling pots. A bin full of potting soil would also be helpful. Most sheds need shelves, cabinets, surfaces and a place to rest and reflect. To make it your own private escape, decorate with things you make or collect. Here is the place for that crystal chandelier or the rope-seat stools and antlers for the walls. Finish with landscaping, such as small palm trees or plants in brightly colored pots, and window treatments — maybe Bahama-style shutters for those tiny windows. Displaying before- and after-renovation photos would be fun, too. Whatever you do, don’t let your personal haven become a center for discarded objects, harking back to the old shed it once was. Creative, retrofitted sheds are expressions of the soul. TM

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The same impulse that leads men to claim family dens as their own is driving women into their backyards: the wish for personal space where one autonomously calls the shots, whether in the course of work, play or quiet reflection. Erika Kotite writes about this in her book She Sheds: A Room of Your Own. “The typical man cave is either in the garage or the den/bonus room. Both are part of the main house. So men are in a sense returning to the house. Women, on the other hand, are getting outside and away, creating their own ‘club’ that is well away from the home,” Kotite observes, musing, “What does this signify? Perhaps a cosmic balancing act encouraging men to nest and women to wander.” Kotite also speculates that she sheds may be an adult echo of girls’ fondness for playhouses and tree forts where they were the queens of their castles. For certain, they present opportunities for creative self-expression and, like man caves, provide respite from the daily duties of managing family life.

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SWEET DREAMS Choosing the right mattress by ELIZABETH B. GOLDSMITH

e spend a third of our lives sleeping. Knowing this, isn’t it worth finding the most comfortable mattress? With all of the choices that are out there, such a task can be daunting. Rest assured, however, that once you’ve equipped yourself with a little knowledge, you will be well on your way to a good night’s sleep. Let’s start with mattress sizes. Conventional beds come in single or twin (39” x 75”), twin extra-long (39” x 80”), double

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or full (54” x 75”), queen (60” x 80”), king (76” x 80”) and California king (72” x 84”). Two twin beds can be put together to form a wider king-sized bed, and this might be the solution for the couple that wants to sleep together but prefers different levels of firmness in their mattress. Many people choose to place a mattress on a box spring. Most king-sized beds don’t come with king-sized box springs, because they’re almost impossible to fit through a doorframe; rather, two smaller box springs are laid side-by-side beneath the mattress. A box spring necessarily raises a bed’s height — as does a bed frame, which keeps a bed off the floor — and it’s important to remember that bed height matters. Some people enjoy climbing a couple of stairs to get into their fairy-tale-height bed, but such a bed is not recommended for older people or those who get up and down in the night. It’s not petfriendly, either. On the opposite end of the bed-height spectrum is the college-apartment classic, which is to place a mattress directly on the floor and simply roll out in the morning. Now let’s talk about mattress type. Think of a mattress as a large, upholstered pad

that consists of a core or “support layer” surrounded or topped by a “comfort layer.” Today, many mattresses are made entirely from high-density foam; other types of mattresses have a layer of springs at their core. Spring-core mat← For some, a tresses sometimes boast a good night’s sleep is an pillow-top surface, which elusive dream. is just what it sounds Buying the right mattress can like: a soft layer attached help the dream come true. to the face of a mattress. All-foam mattresses are generally more expensive than spring-core mattresses, with some king-sized models costing a thousand dollars or more. They also tend to be firmer and have less bounce than mattresses with springs. If you’re unsure whether you want a soft, medium, firm or extra-firm mattress, lie down on a few beds in a mattress or furniture store. For a couple with differing needs, two-sided king-sized beds offer firmness controls and adjustable height levels to suit each person. Many mattresses come with cooling gel inserts or are topped with memory foam. Some may be upholstered in luxury plush fabric or organic latex or cotton. Whether or not these features are desirable depends on your idea of what makes for a good night’s sleep. A removable, washable mattress pad is recommended for use with just about any mattress, because it prevents stains and protects the sleeper from allergens and irritants, such as dust mites or bed bugs. Pads range from thin and inexpensive to thicker, more substantial options that offer yet another layer of softness to a bed. How often should you replace your mattress? For a while, the general rule was every 10 years; now, one hears eight years or sooner if the mattress sags in the middle or becomes damaged. Get the right mattress and transform your bed into a haven. The expense is worth it. If you think it’s time for a new mattress, it probably is. TM

Getting good rest every day often requires thoughtful planning and good purchases. The right kinds of evening routine can help prepare your body for sleep, such as steadily reducing noise and activities and dimming ambient lighting as bedtime approaches. The temperature of your bedroom and the volume of air flow from fans can improve or impair your sleep. Also, keep pillows and sheets in fresh, comfortable condition.

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abodes SUPPLIES NEEDED FOR THE PROJECT ➸ Clean glass containers

Small (4-oz.) jelly jars work really well.

➸ * Candle wax, preferably in

granulated or grated form You can grate it yourself with an old cheese grater.

DIY

SET YOUR HOME AGLOW

➸ Double boiler Try using a

saucepot filled with water in which you place a few canning rings that can support a quart mason jar. The jar will hold the melting wax.

➸ Candle dye Optional

Make candles with favorite colors, scents

➸ Aromatherapy oils or

essential oils Optional, but you may want to try a few drops of clove, orange and eucalyptus for a fresh, outdoorsy scent.

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➸ Wicks with metal bases

(tabs) Make sure the wicks are long enough for your containers.

They lend a cheerful glow to a jack-o’-lantern’s grin and cast a homey light over a Thanksgiving Day dinner. They’re candles, folks — and they’re super easy to make.

➸ Hot glue gun and hot glue

A drop of hot glue on the metal base of your wick will secure the wick to the inside of your candle container.

➸ Barrel of a Bic pen This will

help you to press the wick into the bottom of the container (see images 1 and 2).

➸ Clothespins You’ll use one on

each candle to keep your wick upright while the wax solidifies (see image 3).

➸ Wooden kebab skewer

STEP 1 Thread a wick down the barrel of the pen (see image 1). Put a drop of hot glue on the metal base of the wick and use the pen to press the wick to the bottom of your candle container (see image 2). When the glue is dry, pull the wick straight and clip it with a clothespin that can rest across the opening of the jar (see image 3). There should be no slack in the wick. Repeat for all containers.

STEP 2 Melt the wax in the double

boiler, then remove the jar of wax from the heat source. Add the scented oils and dye and stir with the wooden skewer. For strongly scented candles, add 10 drops of oil per candle.

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STEP 3 Carefully pour the melted wax into each container a little more than ¼ inch from the rim, reserving enough wax to “top off” the candles after they’ve cooled (see image 4). Allow the candles to cool. (This will take several hours.)

➸ Hot pads They’ll help you

handle your hot wax container.

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and pour it into the concave dip that will be in the center of each candle (see image 5). Pour enough wax to fill the dip and to just cover the entire surface of each candle (see image 6).

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➸ Scissors Trim your wicks to ¼

inch taller than the top of your candle.

STEP 4 Re-melt the wax you reserved

STEP 5 Trim the wicks to ¼ inch.

This is for stirring your wax once you’ve added the scented oils and dye.

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*There are many types of candle wax, but for glass container candles, a wax with a low or medium-low melting point is essential, or your container will shatter when you pour in the hot wax. Paraffin wax is great for container candles, but it’s also petroleum based and a non-renewable resource. Soy wax is a renewable resource, but it does not hold scent very well. Beeswax candles last a long time and carry their own scent (but you can also add scent to them). Beeswax is a limited resource, which means it’s expensive. photography by SAIGE ROBERTS

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Your Monthly Garden Chores

LANDSCAPES GO WILD WITH FLOWERS

SEPTEMBER

➸ Divide and transplant clumping perennials, such as Lily of the Nile (agapanthus), swamp lilies (crinum lilies) and daylilies (hemerocallis). ➸ Sow seeds of cool-weather vegetables, such as lettuce, spinach, mustard and radishes. Transplant collards, cabbage and broccoli.

ADDING WILDFLOWERS to your landscape

reaps a multitude of benefits: It provides a habitat for bees and other pollinators; it reduces the amount of water needed to maintain your garden, eliminating the need for fertilizers; and, of course, it beautifies your property. Choose a location with good drainage that gets at least six hours of sun a day, and stick with native plants.

➸ Make sure your winged friends have access to water. Change water in birdbaths, daily. Fill a flowerpot saucer with moist sand for the butterflies.

TAKE YOUR PICK Create a new flowerbed using native wildflowers, or add them to an existing bed. You might already have some of these natives in your garden: Milkweed (Asclepias tuberosa), Leavenworth’s coreopsis (Coreopsis Leavenworthii), Blanketflower (Gaillardia pulchella), Blazing star (Liatris), Black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta), Southern bee blossom (Gaura augustifolia) Tropical sage (Salvia coccinea) and Threadleaf coreopsis (Coreopsis lanceolata).

SEED OR SEEDLING Some native wildflowers are available as bedding plants, but others will need to be grown from seed. The best time to sow wildflower seeds in North Florida is in September and October. Check out the wildflower seed grower cooperative’s website, FloridaWildflowers.com, for lists and pictures of wildflowers for your specific area. The Florida Wildflower Foundation website, FlaWildflowers.org, offers lots of practical advice, too.

GO NATIVE Make sure you’re using the native plant and not one of its non-native relatives. For example, Tropical Milkweed (Asclepias curassavica) does not die back in winter; thus, it encourages monarch butterflies to remain in our region rather than migrate south, where they can survive the winter. Native wild petunia (Ruellia caroliniensis) is a well-behaved perennial; non-native Mexican petunia (Ruellia simplex, R. brittoniana, R. tweediana), often available in big-box stores, grows three feet tall and is invasive.

BEE KIND Stop using pesticides, which kill bees and other pollinators. Most bees and wasps are not aggressive and will avoid you.

OCTOBER

➸ Plant strawberries this month for a tasty spring crop. Choose varieties for our region. If space is limited, plant them in a large container. ➸ Plant cool-weather annuals, such as snapdragons, foxgloves, pansies, petunias and alyssum. Larkspur, sweet peas and poppies can be grown from seed quite easily. ➸ October is usually a dry month, so check to see if supplemental watering is needed.

Threat to lawns Tropical sod webworms (Herpetogramma phaeopteralis Guenée) are caterpillars that chew on blades of grass, resulting in a lawn that looks ragged, thin and brown. Despite their name, they are not limited to the tropics and have been found throughout the Southeast. The larvae of a tiny brown moth (Lepidoptera Crambidae), sod webworms live in the thatch that accumulates just above the soil in turf grasses. According to the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, the peak season of infestation in North Florida is fall. A number of organic products will kill sod SOD WEBWORM webworms, including products containing Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis) and spinosad, which won’t harm birds, bees or mammals. It’s important not to use a broad-spectrum insecticide, because it would also kill other insects that are beneficial and that attack webworms, including ladybugs and Trichogramma wasps. The best option for keeping your lawn sod webworm free, however, is prevention. The main cause of caterpillar infestations is overuse of fertilizer. Keep your lawn mowed to the appropriate height, and use fertilizer sparingly. If you must water your lawn, water it deeply once a week. Shallow watering leads to thatch, which provides a home for the pest.

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With its high ceilings and plethora of expansive windows that invite in natural light and offer lake views, this Tallahassee home evokes feelings of peace, warmth and happiness.

LIST PRICE: $945,000 ADDRESS: 8020 Lanternlight Road SQUARE FOOTAGE: 4,522 BEDROOMS: 5 FEATURES: Brick, 3.08 lakefront acres, oversized master with double-sided fireplace, spacious secondary bedrooms, ample closet space, personal baths, potential mother-inlaw suite with sitting room and private bath downstairs, plenty of windows, hardwood floors and lakeside fire pit REALTOR SAYS: “This lakefront, traditional home features soaring ceiling heights and floor-to-ceiling windows, allowing for tons of natural light. An expansive deck, fire pit and Jacuzzi make this house an entertainer’s dream.” CONTACT: Lindsay Elliott, Realtor/Partner, Hill Spooner & Elliott, Inc. Real Estate, (850) 545-2463, Lindsay@HillSpooner.com

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Good Things Come in Threes Rosehill residence receives new owner by REBECCA PADGETT

What makes a beautiful home even more beautiful? A happy family inside. Three, it seems, is this recently purchased home’s lucky number: The three-story home is situated on almost three acres with availability for three cars to park in the garage. The window-lined walls, abundance of spacious rooms and outdoor space — perfect for pool parties — were key factors that lured in the buyer.

LIST PRICE: $1,100,000 SOLD PRICE: $1,000,000 ADDRESS: 244 Rosehill Drive SQUARE FOOTAGE: 8,924 BEDROOMS: 7 BATHROOMS: 8 YEAR BUILT: 1991

REALTOR SAYS: “This house is perfect for entertaining and family gatherings. It was recently updated with new paint and a new roof. Majestic grounds with beautiful live oaks, this stately three-story brick home is on almost three acres with a large, sparkling pool and an attached threecar garage!” CONTACT: Elizabeth Ekk, Broker Associate/Owner, Ekk & Hamilton Realty, (850) 567-3455, Elizabeth@ EHRealtyGroup.com.

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Luxury Living on the Lakeside Relax in this boaters’ paradise by REBECCA PADGETT

For many, a day spent on or by the lake presents tranquility and sheer bliss. You could experience those sensations daily in this new-to-the-market home, which sits on the shores of Coastal Dune Lake. Steer your boat into open waters or relax by the lake, coffee in hand and a breathtaking view before you.

LIST PRICE: $989,000 ADDRESS: 120 Shannon Drive, Santa Rosa Beach SQUARE FEET: 2,465 BEDROOMS: 4 BATHROOMS: 2 YEAR BUILT: 1997

APPEAL: “Lakesedge is a charming home on Coastal Dune Lake that was built with the coastal lifestyle in mind. This home was remodeled to create a more open floor plan and enhance the lake views from every room. Outside offers a private dock and boat lift on Eastern Lake, one of the few lakes that still allows boats with motors.” CONTACT: Ann Hammonds, Realtor, ResortQuest Real Estate, (850)585-3559, Ann@ AnnHammonds.com

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FOUNDATION CARDS FOR A CURE HONOREE

I found the Tallahassee Memorial Cancer Center when my son had an Eagle Scout project to build an arbor in their Healing Garden – it was also where my father-in-law was receiving radiation treatments at the time. Maye Walker – a breast cancer survivor and activist who donates her time to the Tallahassee Memorial Cancer Center Healing Garden – graciously worked with us with the eagle project, and I thought, this is a special place. This led me to begin working as a registered nurse in the radiation department. As fate would have it, I later became Dr. Iman Imanirad’s nurse. I was on a six-month mammogram schedule as my physician was concerned about an area in my left breast, where I found a lump and a biopsy was taken. It was a Friday at work when Mary Swain, MD, radiologist, called to tell me I had cancer. A week later she called again to let me know the pathology report was back and it was triple negative breast cancer. There was silence on both sides. She said she usually wasn’t giving this information to someone who was a nurse and realized the impact the news had on me. I thought to myself, get to work and think about this later. Wow, triple negative! Of course, I went home to do research and the reality set in. I had been aching under my armpit and down my arm, so the fear of metastases was always in the back of my mind. I knew surgery would give me answers, but the wait could be long. I had not told my children yet because I wanted as much information as I could get, and I selfishly wanted their life and mine to stay “normal” as long as possible. My husband, Randy, and I have two boys and a girl, and at the time they were 17, 19 and 21. My daughter was a senior in high school. A typical teenager and active volleyball player, her worries consisted of college, prom and things a high school senior thinks about. All of my extended family is in Tallahassee, and I knew once my diagnosis was out, our world would never be the same. Randy, a few close friends and coworkers knew – but this time allowed me to think, cry, pray and find my strength through my faith in God. Instead of saying “why me,” I started saying “why not me.” I have a book by Anne Graham Lotz titled, “WHY.” She recounts how her son was diagnosed with cancer and how she prayed with him. “We acknowledged that he could bring God glory through faithfully trusting him if the cancer led to death, or if the cancer went into remission, or if the cancer was surgically and successfully removed, or if the cancer simply disappeared.” I felt those words; I needed to pray, have faith and trust God. I knew I had the best doctors around me and an amazing group of coworkers by my side. Some of my patients asked me if I was going anywhere else to get continued on page 2 Advertorial

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treatment. My answer was easy – absolutely not when the best are right here. Surgery was a defining moment. I knew my life could change drastically after that, but at this point, I was ready to move forward. I can certainly appreciate the emotions patients face between diagnosis, further testing, waiting on results and getting surgery scheduled. I remember waking up in recovery after my double mastectomy, and Randy telling me the lymph nodes were negative. Groggy, all I could think was ‘thank you.’ Chemotherapy was next. I scheduled a patient for chemotherapy and he started the same day I did. It was so strange to be on the receiving end. Each treatment, I felt blessed to have people I worked with taking care of me. A co-worker gave me a card with a girl pushing a boulder that said, “You may not see us standing behind you on the front end, but we are all there pushing that boulder with you.” Family and friends also pushed that boulder. Meals were provided that helped give us a sense of normalcy, and my book club and Sunday school sent cards, texts and more. Random acts of kindness carried my family and me through such a difficult time. “I am a cancer survivor,” is a term I have a hard time saying for many reasons. My story is not remarkable, and as an

oncology nurse I live and breathe cancer most every day. There are so many courageous people who I admire: people who don’t see a cure in sight — who just hope for scans that show remission or at least don’t show progression; people who keep enduring treatment after treatment to stay alive a little longer to be with family and friends another day — who are just waiting for the shoe to drop and be told it is progressing, that it’s time to try a different regimen. They are truly courageous. I am honored and blessed to be a part of the team at One Healing Place. Each person at the Cancer Center makes a difference – from the greeter when you walk in the door and the schedulers who know you by name, to the medical assistants, nurses, physicians, housekeeping, management, and behind-the-scenes heroes who get authorizations for treatments and scans. There is research being done to find new treatments and funding is the driving force, but we need to remember to take care of those that take care of us too. Also, to remember not only those with breast cancer, but everyone enduring a cancer diagnosis. This community is blessed to have so many people dedicated to helping patients through their cancer journey. Thank you for helping me through mine. To a cure for all cancers. With gratitude and love, Lea Lane

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Florida Diabetes Camp Out of more than 29 million people in the United States living with diabetes, five percent are diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. With so few of the population having type 1 diabetes, resources and education – especially for children diagnosed with it – are often not widely known. Thanks to the partnership between the Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare (TMH) Foundation, TMH Physician Partners – Metabolic Health Center and the Florida Diabetes Camp, that is changing. Each year, the Florida Diabetes Camp provides an opportunity for children between the ages of 6 to 11 years old to attend a weeklong camp where they are able to receive education about diabetes and bond with other children who have the same condition. With the small percentage of people with diabetes having type 1, there are usually not any other children with type 1 diabetes in their families, schools or communities that they know. That’s where the Florida Diabetes Camp comes in – they bring in more than 40 campers from all over the North Florida and South Georgia region who are diagnosed with type 1 diabetes to participate in the weeklong camp. With the support of the TMH Foundation through the Gannett Foundation, the Tallahassee Sigmas Educational Foundation and the Proctor Endowment for Children with Diabetes, TMH and the Florida Diabetes Camp have been helping these children create memories and better understand type 1 diabetes. The Metabolic Health Center and pediatric endocrinologists Larry Deeb, MD and Nancy Wright, MD provide clinical staff the medical supervision, counselor training and nutrition management of the camp. They work along side other camp counselors and

student volunteers from Florida State University, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University and University of Florida Health programs to give these kids the best experience they can. Just like any other camp, campers experience an assortment of different activities including swimming, games, archery, arts and crafts, campfires and more. What makes the camp unparalleled to others is that the campers also get the chance to learn more about their shared disease and different ways to manage the challenges that come along with it. They do everything from checking their blood sugars to counting their carbohydrates together, which builds friendships and support systems through the highs and lows of managing this disease. These children are given the chance to create bonds and share stories with kids in their age group, who know first hand exactly what trials they are all going through. “The community has truly come together to support this cause and we couldn’t be more thankful,” said Dawn Springs, Director of TMH Physician Partners - Metabolic Health Center. “Between the support of the TMH Foundation through the Tallahassee Sigmas Educational Foundation and the Proctor Endowment for Children with Diabetes and their long-time support of over 20 years of our camp, we are able to have more children attend this special camp year after year.” For more information or to make a donation in support of juvenile diabetes, please contact Judi Wills at 850-431-5904 or Judi.Wills@TMH.ORG.

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Gift in Action The Tallahassee Memorial Transition Center is an innovative facility that provides follow-up care for certain patients who cannot see a physician as quickly as needed, or for patients who may not have a physician, insurance or the means to access the healthcare they need. With the support of the Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare (TMH) Foundation, the Transition Center was recently able to purchase additional equipment to help facilitate the Telemedicine program – allowing the Transition Center to continue on their path of supporting and helping patients who are on the road to recovery. The items purchased included iPads, an iPad floor stand and a few computers, all of which are crucial to have for the Telemedicine program. “At the Transition Center, we see a lot of high-risk patients who aren’t able to see a primary care doctor or specialist for their follow-up after they’ve been discharged from the hospital,” said Lauren Faison, Administrator of Regional Development, Population Health and Telemedicine at TMH. “Our goal at the Transition Center is for patients to receive the preventative care they need no matter where they are, and to be able to connect with physicians, pharmacists, or whoever they need to get the follow-up care that is crucial to them.” Advertorial

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TMH’s Transition Center and Telemedicine program allows physicians to see patients in remote locations. Because of the limited healthcare resources in many parts of rural North Florida, access to primary care physicians and specialists can be challenging, and often times cause patients to go without those critical healthcare services they are in need of. That’s where Telemedicine comes in – with the funds from the TMH Foundation, the Transition Center was able to purchase additional equipment needed for the Telemedicine program, allowing physicians and patients to connect digitally. “A little bit can go such a long way,” said Lauren. “With the funds from the TMH Foundation, we were able to purchase more equipment for our Telemedicine program which has literally changed the outcome for the better for some of our patients.” For more information on the Tallahassee Memorial Transition Center or to donate, please contact the TMH Foundation at 850-431-5389 or at Foundation@TMH. ORG.

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EVENT INFORMATION TURKEY TROT RACES Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 23 SouthWood State Office Complex 8 a.m. – start 1 mile race 8:30 a.m. – start 5K (3.1 miles), 10K (6.2 miles), 15K (9.3 miles) 10:30 a.m. – All complete

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RUN LATER, FEAST MORE. With Thanksgiving in mind, grateful runners prep for Turkey Trot If you’re a live turkey at Thanksgiving, you better run. If you plan to eat a lot of turkey at Thanksgiving, you had better run, too, lest the calories gain on you and overtake you upon the scales. That’s one of the big motivations — and there are many — for running in the Tallahassee Turkey Trot, a Thanksgiving Day morning ritual hosted by Gulf Winds Track Club for which thousands of area runners are grateful. “One of the reasons people run in the Turkey Trot is to burn those calories so they can enjoy a Thanksgiving feast without guilt,” said David Yon, longtime race organizer, Tallahassee attorney and running enthusiast. The course, at SouthWood State Office Complex, comes in four varieties, from 1 mile to 9.3 miles — so you can run just enough to offset turkey and dressing, or you can trot until you’ve made enough caloric room for pumpkin pie topped with whipped cream and after-dinner drinks. For Yon, that’s the practical reason to be a Trotter, but it’s not his favorite reason. “It’s just so fun to see the community come together,” he said, reflecting on more than 20 years of co-directing the Turkey Trot with his wife, Mary Jean Yon. “People enjoy participating. Whole families run together. People are glad to see each other. It’s a neat experience. You wish all of life could be that way.”

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The gravy on top is that the Trot’s registration fees and donations from runners benefit local charities, including Boys & Girls Clubs of the Big Bend, Refuge House, the Kearney Center and Second Harvest. Close to 7,000 people registered for the Turkey Trot last year. The mix of runners is typically part avid, part amateur, part beginner, including many children, and a few fleet elite. More than 6,200 finished their course, including some who simply walked the whole way. All had their time precisely recorded from the instant they crossed the starting line to the instant they finished. The top runners clocked in at 52:41 (15k, top male), 57.41 (15k, top female), 35:01 (10k, top male), 38.40 (10k, top female), 14:53 (5k, top male) and 18:33 (5k, top female). Truly, they burned a bonfire of calories — enough to help themselves to seconds on that pumpkin pie. Some aspired simply to enjoy the gathering and complete their goal by mid-morning. Yon invites novices to start training for the race by walking or running at least four times a week — which is good health advice, Trot or not. Register online to plug in to news and tips on training, to participate in organized

training sessions, and to “It’s just so join informal groups that fun to see the welcome newcomers to get community out and run with them. Mark your November come together calendars for the Turkey ... You wish all Trot Festival on Nov. 19 and of life could be the Festival Kickoff Nov. 5. “We’re trying to turn it that way.” into a whole-month-of– David Yon, November thing,” said Yon, Turkey Trot co-director for whom running is a restof-his-life thing. The Festival Kickoff features an easy, breezy “Magic Mile” run named in memory of Gulf Winds Track Club Hall of Famer Rex Cleveland. The magic mile, mostly downhill, starts in Myers Park, proceeds through Cascades Park and across the pedestrian bridge, finishing on FAMU Way at Railroad Square, followed by a social hour for all ages. The festival proper on Sunday prior to Thanksgiving is an elaborate packet pick-up event featuring live music in the Capital City Amphitheater by two local bands that donated their talent and a bevy of health and fitness events, screenings and information booths. Volunteer opportunities before and on race day are many, including handing out water to passing runners and cheering them on. Says Yon, “Thanksgiving is the best holiday, the one not requiring gift exchanges and intensive decorating, and the ideal one for the Turkey Trot, when people can run together, enjoy the outdoors, anticipate the feast and be grateful.” TALL AHASSEEMAGA ZINE.COM

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BLUEBIRD RUN SEPT. 4 “Run and walk for Brookie B.,” and raise awareness of suicide prevention on this upcoming Labor Day. Register now to run or walk a 1-mile race or a 5K. JR Alford Greenway, 2500 Pedrick Rd. 1-mile run: 8 am; 5K run: 8:30 am bluebirdrun.com

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Join HOLA Tallahassee at Cascades Park for their 2nd annual festival — a familyfriendly, cultural event that will showcase Hispanic and Latin music, dances, food and more! FREE. Cascades Park, 1001 S. Gadsden St. 4 pm–10 pm

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benefit Big Bend Hospice’s unfunded programs. Golden Eagle Golf & Country Club, 3700 Golden Eagle Dr. 8 am–6 pm. Call Connie Palmer for more information. (850) 878-5310

NIGHT AT THE OSCARS SEPT. 15 Join the Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra for a night at the movies. Sit back and relax as they play themes from classic film favorites, such as “Harry Potter,” “Star Wars” and “Raiders of the Lost Ark.” It’s a night you won’t want to miss! $29–$53. Ruby Diamond Concert Hall, 222 S. Copeland St. 8 pm tallahasseesymphony.org

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Imagine That and Urban Excursion will host the “ultimate spa event” and open house! Enjoy hors d’oeuvres and wine as you sample organic bath products. Can’t find what you’re looking for? Place an order at the event, and they’ll have it sent. Those who register before September 1 will receive a free gift. FREE. Imagine That, 3370 Capital Circle NE, 1–3 pm

In honor of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, Tallahassee will host a 5K to help raise money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. There will be activities and live entertainment, and participants will have the opportunity to receive official St. Jude gear as they fundraise throughout the event. $10 for walkers, $20 for runners. SouthWood Town Center, 3196 Merchants Row Blvd. 8:30–10:30 am

Achievement Award. $25 for adults, $5 for students, FREE for kids 12 and under. Opperman Music Hall, 114 N. Copeland St. theartistseries.org

CONSTELLATIONS SEPT. 28–OCT. 15 Written by Nick Payne, this play is the boymeets-girl love story of Roland and Marianne. Through the application of string theory, relativity and quantum mechanics, the couple explores the infinite possibilities of their relationship and tries to question the difference between choice and fate. Theatre Tallahassee, 1861 Thomasville Rd. 8 pm. (850) 224-8474 theatretallahassee.com

FLORIDA TAP INVITATIONAL SEPT. 29–30 Join Proof Brewing Company and For the Table

for their 5th annual Florida Tap Invitational. The event will begin on Friday evening with a beer carnival hosted by Madison Social and Township, where you can enjoy food and beer pairings as created by the bars. On Saturday, Proof will host a beer tasting of over 100 different beers from over 40 different Florida Breweries. Ticketholders will enjoy unlimited samples. $55 general admission, $100 VIP. Proof Brewing Company, 644 McDonnell Dr.

program. The party will be a tailgate theme, and tickets will cover food. There will also be a cash bar. $25. Saltwater Seafood Company, 1926 Capital Circle NE, 5 pm.

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OCT. 6 Enjoy German food, beer, and a silent auction at Tallahassee’s 19th Annual Oktoberfest. This event benefits Elder Care Services, and auction items help generate money for in-home compassionate care and programs such as Meals on Wheels. Fee TBD. The Pavilion at the Centre of Tallahassee, 2415 N. Monroe St. eldercarebigbend.org/oktoberfest

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SEPT. 24 Gather your loved ones and come to Opperman Music Hall to enjoy an evening with the Juilliard String Quartet! This classical string quartet was founded in 1946 at the Juilliard School in New York and has gone on to win numerous awards, including the Grammy Lifetime

SUWANNEE ROOTS REVIVAL OCT. 12–15 Enjoy four days in a camper or RV with family or friends and revel in the spirit of Suwannee. This festival features live bluegrass and folk music and hosts music workshops, dancing, crafting and food. Kids 12 and under are FREE. 4-day passes $135–$195. Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park, 3076 Life Oak Dr., Live Oak. suwanneerootsrevival.org

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Enjoy your day off at Fuzzy Pineapple’s 3rd annual Art and Craft Festival. This festival will feature over 100 different artists, both local and from abroad, and will have live entertainment, games and food. The event is family friendly, so children and pets are welcome. FREE. 1209 Paul Russell Rd. 11 am–8 pm. (850) 566-5661

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Sporting clay shooters of all experience levels are invited to participate in this 9th annual tournament. Benefiting the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, this event will include a live auction and an awards luncheon following the tournament. Price TBD. Southwinds Clays & Quail, Quitman, Georgia. (950) 733-3560

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OCT. 20 Eat, drink, and enjoy a night of “Jazz Under the Oaks” at this year’s Wish Upon a Star Gala. Your attendance will benefit the Children’s Home Society, so come indulge with Southern food, cocktails and much more. Price TBD. Goodwood Museum, 1600 Miccosukee Rd. 6–10 pm.

OCT. 21 Come together with family and friends to walk for ALS. The Walk to Defeat ALS is the ALS Association’s largest annual event, and the funds that are raised go to ALS research, care service programs and nationwide advocacy campaigns. Cascades Park, 1001 S. Gadsden St. 8 am– 12 pm. walktodefeatals.org

FRIENDS OF RIKKI OCT. 26 Hearth & Soul hosts a free event with appetizers and drinks to celebrate the Tallahassee Memorial Animal Therapy

COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL program, providing therapy animals to help humans under duress. The program has facilitated nearly 35,000 such interactions in hospitals, schools and courtrooms. Designated candles will be sold to benefit the program’s Friends of Rikki Endowment. Rikki was a golden retriever who was rescued after Hurricane Katrina, became a therapy dog and then became the face of the program. 1410 Market St., 6-8 pm. For details, contact Ida Thompson at Ida. Thompson@TMH.org tmh.org/giving

GHOST TOURS OCT. 27–29 Get into the spirit of Halloween and embark on a 50-minute ghost tour around Tallahassee’s haunted sites. Meet figures from the past and listen as they tell their stories of woe. Tours begin at 6:30 pm at Andrews Capital Grill & Bar and will end at the Old City Cemetery. $17 per person, $5 for children 5 and under. There must be one adult per two children. Reservations are recommended. (850) 212-2063 toursintallahassee.com

BREWFEST OCT. 28 Join Tallahassee Rotary Club for their 11th Annual Brewfest featuring, food, music and, of course, beer! Rain or shine, enjoy unlimited tastings of over 200 different beers from around 30 different breweries. Proceeds go to various charities, such as Toys for Tots, Hope for Haiti, PeaceJam Southeast and more! Fee TBD. Tallahassee Auto Museum. 6800 Mahan Dr. 5–8 pm.

NORTH FLORIDA FAIR NOV. 2–12 This annual event is the area’s largest agricultural fair. With giant rides, entertainment and funnel cakes, it’s hard not to have fun! Regular admission is $8 for adults, 5$ for youth and FREE for children 5 and under. Guests can either pay per ride or buy VIP passes that allow for unlimited access to all rides. VIP passes vary between $15–$25. North Florida Fairgrounds, 441 Paul Russell Rd. (850) 878-3247 northfloridafair.com

ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD NOV. 3–12 The Florida State School of Theatre invites you to join them in exploring Shakespeare’s beloved “Hamlet” through the eyes of his friends, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Neither character seems to have the slightest clue about what is going on, making plenty of room for comedy and mayhem. $10–$22. The Lab Theatre at FSU, 502 S. Copeland St. (850) 644-6500

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Come celebrate the 30th birthday of Quincy Main Street. More than 20 musical acts will perform on porches throughout the district, and there will be lots of arts and crafts, children’s activities and a worldwide sketchcrawl. FREE. Historic Downtown Quincy Florida. 11 a.m.–6 p.m.

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SOCIAL STUDIES Midtown Barre Crawl

JUN. 6 The Tallahassee Ballet choreographed a series of smooth moves through Midtown in its “Toast For Tutus” 2017 Barre Crawl. Craft beers, wine, specialty cocktails and other goodies were served by Midtown’s arts-supporting vendors along the way. Proceeds benefit the Tallahassee Ballet in support of local arts.

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Willie Jewell’s BBQ Grand Opening

JUL. 20 Tallahassee gave a warm welcome to Willie Jewell’s BBQ at the regional chain’s grand opening. The fast-casual restaurant, known for barbecue smoked low and slow on site, is at 5442 Thomasville Road, near Kerry Forest Parkway.

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1 Dennis and Stephanie Mason with Cayden, Corbin and Millie Mason 2 Joe Adeeb, Steve Evans and Paul Sullivan 3 Linda and Amanda Evans with Elle and Mary Scott Evans 4 Boys Town North Florida

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SOCIAL STUDIES Tallahassee Magazine Pup-up Party JUL. 14 Tails were wagging and doglovers mingled with cocktails in hand at Tallahassee Wagazine’s Pup-up Party at ALOFT Hotel, celebrating the July/August issue of Tallahassee Magazine. The issue featured photos from our “Pets and Their People” event sponsored by Proctor Subaru and benefiting the Leon County Humane Society.

PHOTOS BY LAWRENCE DAVIDSON

1 Mandy Chapman and Cecily Armengol 2 Amber and James Bertrand 3 Andrea Velarde, Mason (dog) and Javier Pacheco 4 Bill Blanchard, Ashley Bush, Chester (dog) and Walter Gordon 5 Brianne and Michael Chacon with Amanda and William Fiorito 6 Will Fernandez, Sarah Scott, Phil Quaschnick, Max (dog), Ann Howard, Bria Blossom, Lori Magee Yeaton and Anthony Lopez

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Transformative Facility New M.T. Mustian Center at TMH anticipates the future of health care by JASON DEHART

t’s not everyday you get to design and build a hospital from scratch. At Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare, that’s exactly what it’s like for local health-care leaders as the M.T. Mustian Center takes shape at the corner of Miccosukee Road and Medical Drive. Named for the late M.T. Mustian, the hospital’s first CEO, the center is a five-story, 340,000-square-foot addition, due to open in 2019, that represents a $260 million investment in construction and equipment for TMH. It also is the first major development of its kind in the hospital’s 50-year history. The existing building has been tweaked and adapted as far as its layout will allow, and the new “tower” has been designed to accommodate the region’s health-care needs for the next 50 years. In fact, the current CEO hails it as a “transformative facility.”

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Serving Tallahassee and Beyond As to basic services, TMH covers a 17-county area that spans the Red Hills region up through southern Georgia. But it’s not uncommon for patients to come from throughout the Southeast for various acute or specialized treatments. “TMH is becoming, really, a referral base for southern Georgia, the Panhandle and we’re starting to get referrals in from Alabama as well. So as we continue to expand the scope of what we do, we have to be dynamic and let our facility grow with that demand and volume,” Derosier said. “If you look at the way we’ve expanded our orthopedic, neurosurgery, cardiology and reconstructive offerings here over just the past four years, it’s been pretty extraordinary how we’ve been able to expand our scope of practice here across multiple specialties.” O’Bryant said that as you look at TMH becoming more of a quaternary, or highly specialized center, it’s not just growth that’s tied to an expansion of population. Rather, it’s also tied to an expanding market as the hospital gets into higher acuity services. “It’s not just an expansion to accommodate the growth in population and an aging population, it’s also to accommodate a growth of services and bigger markets. So that being said, we realized that we needed a new platform,” he said. Hutchinson said the Mustian Center will become a “huge addition” to TMH, the community and the region. “Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare is really a regional trauma center and medical center, and I don’t think a lot of people realize the area from which people come to Tallahassee for medical care,” he said. “I get patients who come to TMH from Dothan, Valdosta, Pensacola and Panama City for care. It will allow TMH to have the best and most modern operating rooms in the entire region, which will ultimately lead to a higher level of care for all of our patients, both trauma and elective surgery.” The TMH campus is larger than people realize for a seemingly land-locked facility. There is room for expansion, and one future land-use map shows a new 770-space parking lot to be built between Centerville Road and Physicians Drive.

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O’Bryant said that at this point, it’s not known how many new surgeons TMH will hire to help staff the Mustian Center. “I can tell you, though, as far as staff is concerned, it’s not just doctors,” he said. TMH will need more specialists, nurses and support staff, especially nurses. “There’s a nursing shortage anyway. When we look at what our demands are now, and including what we see coming out with the Mustian Center, we recognize that we’re going to have to recruit upward of 500 nurses from what we have now,” O’Bryant said. “So, we are very active on that front. It is a huge number. But we are working with FSU and FAMU — and very closely with TCC. They expanded their nursing program to include a four-year degree, their first baccalaureate program at TCC, to help us with the development of a source of nurses for here, but we also recently “It will on a allow TMH brought nurse sourcto have ing specialist, which is a new the best kind of conand most cept.” modern Pulmonolooperating rooms in gist Campo said that his the entire region.” practice is look— Dr. Hank Hutchinson, ing to expand orthopedic trauma surgeon its roster of physicians. “Right now, we have four full-time physicians dedicated to the hospital at our practice. When we go to this new ICU tower, we’ll probably need six,” he said. “So our practice is growing and recruiting more critical care doctors to come in and help us out. Along with doctors and nurses, you need more CNAs, monitor techs, all sorts of other positions that are going to be needed to provide care to all these patients.” O’Bryant said TMH prefers turning to the local medical colleges and technical schools for help filling all these needs. “Clearly, as we engage in expanding our role and services, we look for quality physicians to come in and provide clinical leadership because, at the end of the day, hospitals only provide a platform for care,” he said. “We’re finding it easier to get people who already have an orientation to Tallahassee through the medical school to come back to Tallahassee after their residency and fellowship programs. But we’re also expanding residency programs. And as we build our own bench, we think about the old farm-team approach to baseball. If we can grow our own, it’s easier to keep them, and we can also pick the best. We know who the best are.” TM

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What is important to you and your family? If you say good health, you’re not alone. In this special section, Tallahassee Magazine fills you in on dedicated health professionals, their practices and their plans for keeping you healthy. Here they discuss their specialized skills, backgrounds and how they can help you with your important health care decisions.

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TALLAHASSEE NEUROLOGICAL CLINIC

Left to right: Adam Oliver, M.D.; Matthew Lawson, M.D.

hen surgery is the best course of treatment for your condition, you can be assured that whenever possible, our neurosurgeons will offer surgical procedures that are minimally invasive, resulting in smaller openings and scarring, shorter recovery times, less operative pain, and shorter hospital stays—with most patients going home the same day. Our neurosurgeons are advanced specialty-care physicians who have completed lengthy training programs focused on surgery of the back, neck and brain. Among all medical specialties, the field of neurosurgery provides the most comprehensive education and experience in spine care. Although most people think of neurosurgeons as “brain surgeons,” you might be surprised to know a majority of the operations our surgeons perform are spine surgeries. We are committed to being leaders in new cutting-edge

technologies and use the most advanced spine surgery techniques, including minimally invasive procedures. In addition, each neurosurgeon participates as an investigator in multi-center, national and international clinical trials in an effort to continue to advance the practice of neurosurgery and offer new and innovative therapies that are not offered elsewhere in the area. Patient satisfaction is paramount to our practice. We aim to educate our patients and families about your condition and course of treatment. Our clinic staff will welcome your questions and concerns, and every effort will be made to ensure your confidence in your neurosurgeon. It is our goal to meet or exceed your expectations. Our outcomes data and patient satisfaction surveys are available on our website. Our surgeons offer care 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.

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DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSURGERY OUR NEUROSURGEONS Our surgeons are highly trained, completing complex neurosurgery residency programs averaging seven years after medical school — typically the longest of any surgical residency. In addition to being highly skilled, our surgeons are caring and compasionnate, willing to go over all of your options and treat you as a person, not just a patient. Currently, the TNC neurosurgical team is composed of five neurosurgeons: Dr. Narlin Beaty, Dr. Christopher Rumana, Dr. Albert Lee, Dr. Matthew Lawson and Dr. Adam Oliver. All are board certified or board eligible in neurosurgery. SURGICAL PROCEDURES ▪ Comprehensive Spinal Surgery ▪ Minimally Invasive Surgery ▪ Laminectomy ▪ Discectomy ▪ Spinal Fusion & Reconstruction ▪ Spinal Cord Tumors & Other Lesions ▪ Vascular Malformations ▪ Kyphoplasty ▪ Vertebroplasty

Left to right: Narlin Beaty, M.D.; Christopher Rumana, M.D.; Albert Lee, M.D.; Adam Oliver, M.D.; Matthew Lawson, M.D.

In addition to being highly “skilled, our surgeons are caring

and compasionnate, willing to go over all of your options and treat you as a person, not just a patient.”

BRAIN SURGERY ▪ Stereotactic Surgery ▪ Brain Tumor Removal ▪ Aneurysm Treatment ▪ Hemorrhage Removal ▪ CSF Shunting Procedures ▪ Vagus Nerve Stimulator ▪ Stealth Technology PERIPHERAL NERVE SURGERY ▪ Carpal Tunnel Syndrome ▪ Ulnar Nerve Surgery STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY ▪ Brain Tumor Stereotactic Radiosurgery ▪ Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Vascular Malformations ▪ Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Trigeminal Neuralgia ENDOVASCULAR & CEREBROVASCULAR SURGERY ▪ Diagnostic Cerebral Angiography ▪ Diagnostic Spinal Angiography ▪ Aneurysm Treatment including Coiling & Clipping ▪ AVM Treatment including Embolization & Surgical Resection ▪ Carotid Artery Disease including Carotid Stent Placement & Carotid Endarterectomy ▪ Stroke Intervention & Intracranial Stenosis ▪ Venous Sinus Stenting for IIH

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TALLAHASSEE NEUROLOGICAL CLINIC PAIN MANAGEMENT

PAIN MANAGEMENT Chronic pain can be debilitating and we understand how it can impact your daily life. Our Board Certified Pain Management physicians strive to improve and maintain your health with an understanding of any and all conditions you have. We aim to serve you, the patient, in the best possible way. The providers are concerned with a patient’s ability to function and quality of life. Because Drs. Fuhrmeister and Lynch work diligently to find and treat the cause of their patient’s pain, they have established themselves as compassionate, knowledgeable physicians who exceeds the standard of care for their patients. As such, they have built a team of reliable and dedicated health care professionals to assist in all aspects of patient care. SURGICAL PROCEDURES ▪ Epidural steroid injections ▪ Facet joint injections ▪ Laminectomy ▪ Medial branch blocks ▪ Radiofrequency ablations ▪ Spinal cord stimulation trial ▪ Peripheral nerve block ▪ Myofascial trigger point injection ▪ Occipital nerve block ▪ Joint injections

Left to right: Joshua Fuhrmeister, M.D.; Wyndrick Lynch, M.D.

Our Board Certified Pain “Management physicians strive

to improve and maintain your health with an understanding of any and all conditions you have.”

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TALLAHASSEE ORTHOPEDIC CLINIC

or more than 40 years, the physicians and staff of Tallahassee Orthopedic Clinic (TOC) have been dedicated to helping patients live healthy lives through exceptional orthopedic service and compassionate care. TOC is the leader in orthopedic care for the residents of North Florida and South Georgia. With a team of 22 physicians, TOC offers patients a fully integrated experience by providing evaluation, treatment, prevention and education for conditions that effect the body’s muscles, joints and bones. At Tallahassee Orthopedic Clinic, patients can take advantage of complete orthopedic medical diagnosis, treatment and/or surgery, rehabilitation and assistance with orthotics care all in one place.

Tallahassee Orthopedic Clinic’s highly acclaimed practice offers patients access to an unparalleled institution of knowledge with physicians experienced in the treatment of general orthopedics, sports medicine, hand and wrist, foot and ankle, shoulder and elbow, joint reconstruction, spine, neck and back, and orthopedic trauma.

Front Row (L-R): William Thompson, M.D.; Tony Bryant, M.D.; Floyd Jaggears, M.D.; Garrison Rolle, M.D.; Matthew Lee, M.D.; Andrew Wong, M.D.; Andrew Borom, M.D.; Aaron Guyer, M.D.; Gilbert Chandler, M.D.; David Bellamy, M.D.; Tom Haney, M.D.; Chris Berg, M.D. Back Row (L-R): David Oberste, M.D.; Robert Thornberry, M.D.; Todd Hewitt, M.D.; Brad Stephens, M.D.; Gregg Alexander, M.D.; Mark Fahey, M.D.; Kris Stowers, M.D.; Hector Mejia, M.D.; Tom Park, M.D.; Hank Hutchinson, M.D.

TALLAHASSEE ORTHOPEDIC CLINIC SPINE CENTER Specializing in spine, neck and back conditions

Tallahassee Orthopedic Clinic Spine Center offers a comprehensive approach to spine conditions. The physicians at Tallahassee Orthopedic Clinic work closely to provide complete care for patients suffering from spinal disorders, offering complete evaluation, treatment and rehabilitation of the spine all in one location. Tallahassee Orthopedic Clinic Spine Center is dedicated to improving each patient’s function and quality of life by setting elevated standards for innovated approaches to spine treatment.

GREGG ALEXANDER, M.D. GILBERT CHANDLER, M.D. MUSCULOSKELETAL MEDICINE

MINIMALLY INVASIVE SPINE & PAIN MANAGEMENT

TODD HEWITT, M.D.

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MATTHEW LEE, M.D. SPINE SURGEON

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RUSSELL B. RAINEY, D.M.D. 1

WHAT SERVICES DO YOU PROVIDE? We provide general dental care, including cosmetic dentistry, full mouth reconstruction, implant restorations, dental cleanings, non-surgical periodontal therapy and Invisalign® — the clear alternative to braces. OUR AREAS OF FOCUS INCLUDE: ▪ General and Restorative Dentistry ▪ Sedation Dentistry ▪ TMJ Pain Relief ▪ Sleep Apnea Solutions ▪ Neuromuscular Dentures ▪ Invisalign®

DESCRIBE YOUR BUSINESS PRACTICE: We have been in business 31 years, and our practice is very patient-centered. Everything we do is based upon making our patients feel both welcome and comfortable. We strive to anticipate needs and exceed any other dental experience.

WHAT IS THE “SECRET” TO YOUR SUCCESS? We take the time to listen to our patients — that’s our motto, and we live by it. Understanding our patient’s requirements helps us establish a genuine relationship with them beginning any treatment. The loyalty from our patients is a direct result of engaging them in the process, discovering their individual needs and crafting the care we provide to those needs.

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HAS YOUR BUSINESS EXPANDED? Our practice has seen a trend of patients who experience pain and discomfort from TMJ symptoms. We also saw an increase in health issues resulting from sleep apnea and/or snoring disorders. Both of these conditions have dental solutions. We have participated in numerous courses to receive further education on the treatment of TMJ and sleep apnea and work directly with specialty labs to custom fit oral devices to relieve the symptoms for our patients. We have also seen the trend of increased awareness among our patients of how dental health affects overall health.

HOW DO YOU MEASURE SUCCESS? We are very fortunate to work in a field where our care has a positive impact on our patients’ overall health and quality of life. We measure our success by how they feel about their experience while in our care and how they value the results of the treatment we provide.

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DR. WILLIAM T. BALDOCK CAPITAL PERIODONTAL ASSOCIATES, PA

WHAT SERVICES DO YOU OFFER? Our practice offers periodontal and dental implant treatment dedicated to restoring and promoting excellent oral health using the highest standard of care. We provide dental implant surgery, laser surgery, scaling and root planning, gingivitis and periodontitis treatment, gingival flap surgery, oral cancer screenings, cosmetic contouring procedures and more. Treatment for our patients also includes conscious sedation, anxiety management techniques, spa amenities and relaxation therapies.

WHAT SETS YOUR PRACTICE APART? From our first patient communication to our last, our staff is dedicated to making our patients feel welcomed, valued and comfortable in a trusted and calm environment. To ensure the highest quality care, Capital Periodontal has a team of exceptional professionals including a registered surgical nurse, dental hygienists, dental assistants and patient care coordinators who place patient care as their utmost priority. We love what we do and enjoy the lifelong relationships that we have established with our patients, the dental community and others in the health care industry.

WHAT DO YOU SEE FOR THE FUTURE OF YOUR PRACTICE? As Capital Periodontal Associates nears its 10 year anniversary, our team is extremely excited to continue to provide unparalleled periodontal treatment in our expanding health care community. We continue to partner with other dental and medical professionals to provide a comprehensive and systemic approach to periodontal care. William, my son, will also be joining the practice after he completes his three year residency in periodontology. Through this growth, we will maintain our founding principles, that all patients will receive compassionate, expert and individualized care through the most advanced technology and treatment methods.

HOW DO YOU ENSURE YOUR PATIENTS RECEIVE THE HIGHEST QUALITY OF CARE? Capital Periodontal Associates is a patient-centered practice. We develop specific periodontal treatment plans that meet the needs of our patients. We take the time to listen to our patients’ concerns and provide patient education throughout every step of the treatment process. Capital Periodontal also partners with our patient’s restorative dentist to ensure their excellent oral health.

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WALTER E. COLÓN II, DMD, MS PERIODONTAL ASSOCIATES OF NORTH FLORIDA

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE: ▪ Periodontal Associates of North Florida 2000–2017 ▪ American Academy of Periodontology Board Certification 2005 ▪ Periodontics and MS, University of Kentucky 1997–2000 ▪ Faculty Vanderbilt University GPR Program Director 1996–1997 ▪ Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Internship, Vanderbilt University 1993–1994 ▪ General Practice Residency, Vanderbilt University 1992–1993 ▪ General Practice Residency, University of Kentucky 1991–1992 ▪ DMD, University of Kentucky 1987–1991 ▪ BS, University of Dayton 1982–1986

WHAT IS A PERIODONTIST? It is a dental specialist that evaluates and treats the oral tissues surrounding the teeth. It’s an individual trained in oral health and its relation to our body, including systemic conditions. We are the team member in charge of the foundation and how the supporting structures are cared for in disease. Sometimes hopeless teeth must be removed and replaced with dental implants. This study of the entire mouth is important for individuals’ health.

WHAT IS YOUR VISION? It is very important to me to have an outstanding team that shares our mission. Together, we desire to serve the public of Tallahassee and surrounding areas with the best periodontal care possible. My goal is to enhance the quality of people’s lives by improving oral health, preventing loss of teeth when possible and replacing lost teeth when necessary. We focus on advancing dental knowledge through compassionate care and close collaboration with our colleagues.

WHAT IS THE FUTURE OF PERIODONTAL ASSOCIATES? We are an evolving practice. We are presently upgrading our facility, including the space needed to add important tests and advanced technological equipment for improved diagnosis and treatment of periodontal problems and their solutions. We are including in our new location tools to ease collaboration with our colleagues and communication with our patients.

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TALLAHASSEE PEDIATRIC DENTISTRY Dr. Shawn

WHAT IS THE SECRET TO YOUR SUCCESS? Working with children takes a special skill set. Building trust with them takes a deliberate set of actions and being mindful of their experience from when they walk in the doors until they leave. Not only did we hand-pick the friendliest staff, but we spent nearly a year touring other pediatric offices around the state and bringing all of the best features to Tallahassee.

WHAT DO YOU SEE FOR THE FUTURE OF YOUR PRACTICE? We have already made plans to meet the demands of our patients and our expanding city. We purchased a conveniently located building that we can grow into. In time, we will recruit another pediatric dentist and hire additional staff as our practice grows to ensure we provide the highest level of care and options to our patients.

HOW DOES YOUR PRACTICE IMPACT THE COMMUNITY? We collaborate with local pediatricians, schools and nonprofit organizations. You’ll often see us set up with educational materials and giveaways at functions because we believe we can improve the health and well-being of children when we equip them and their caregivers with knowledge of great dental hygiene practices.

WHAT IS UNIQUE ABOUT A “KIDS DENTIST”? We start seeing kids at age 1, as recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics and Pediatric Dentistry. This may come to some as a surprise, but our emphasis on prevention, education and reducing anxiety begins early. In the long run, preventive dentistry saves money. Our office offers the most comprehensive strategies in Tallahassee to help them cope with dental treatment, such as distraction (our TVs are on the ceiling), positive reinforcement (tokens and prizes) and advanced behavior management techniques (nitrous, conscious sedation and IV deep sedation with a pediatric anesthesiologist) to ensure a smooth appointment for the entire family.

WHAT IS YOUR PRACTICE PHILOSOPHY? Our mission is to be known in our community as a secure dental home by providing continuous, comprehensive dental care to infants, children and adolescents in a clean, calm and welcoming environment. Hence, our sailboat logo — we want each visit to be smooth sailing. Every team member considers how we would want our own child to be treated. We offer parents all treatment options and go forward with the most compassionate approach for their child.

Every team member considers “how we would want our own child to be treated. ”

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M. DARRH BRYANT, D.M.D. Tracy M. Eckles, D.D.S.

WHAT SERVICES DO YOU OFFER? We currently offer preventative care, fillings, crowns, dentures, partial dentures, emergency care, cosmetic treatment, extractions including impacted wisdom tooth removal, bone grafting and surgical canine exposures. Intravenous conscious sedation, or “anxiety-free dentistry,” can be used to supplement any of these procedures as needed.

HOW HAS YOUR PRACTICE GROWN? WHAT NEW TREATMENTS ARE YOU EXCITED TO BE OFFERING? We evolve with needs we see arise in our best efforts to increase patients’ confidence in their smiles and themselves. IV Sedation, initially added for surgical procedures, has become a relaxing, calming benefit for anxious patients seeking general dental care. These patients have often postponed dental exams for years and are nervous about taking the steps (figurative and literal!) to seek out routine care. Dr. Eckles aims to restore the majority of needs within a couple of sedation visits, allowing the patient to return for routine exams and cleanings with the peace of mind that their most extensive needs have already been met. Often patients come to Dr. Bryant with multiple missing teeth or old ill-fitting dentures, and they desire prostheses (teeth) that are permanently fixed in the mouth. These teeth, unlike dentures, are not removed at night, stay in place while eating, are beautiful, and function like the natural dentition. Dr. Bryant spent countless continuing education hours learning the process of restoring All-on-4 Implants systems, also called Fixed Hybrid Dentures. This treatment eliminates the inconveniences of traditional dentures and has proven to build self-esteem, allowing patients to eat, talk and smile more confidently than they have in years.

HOW DOES YOUR PRACTICE IMPACT THE COMMUNITY? The Tallahassee community is very special to us! Dr. Bryant was born and raised here and attended FSU. Dr. Eckles came from California to attend FSU and returned to Tallahassee after dental school and residency. Whether serving FSU athletes as team dentists, taking care of our friends and neighbors or meeting new patients, we always aim to restore and enhance oral health and healthy smiles. Our team strives to provide a place where patients are comfortable and confident taking steps toward their dental goals. We appreciate the trust our patients express to us, and we feel especially honored when they refer their friends and family members.

“Whether serving FSU athletes as team

dentists, taking care of our friends and neighbors or meeting new patients, we always aim to restore and enhance oral health and healthy smiles.”

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THOMAS E. OPPENHEIM, D.M.D. OPPENHEIM SIGNATURE SMILES

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hen I joined the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry in 1994, it had become clear to me that the best interests of my patients demanded the expansion of my education far beyond the skills and knowledge that were taught in dental school,” says Thomas E. Oppenheim, DMD, as he reflects on his professional journey over the years. Today, Dr. Oppenheim is recognized for his exceptional artistic ability to create that perfect “signature smile” for each client. He is one of only 63 dentists in the world to have achieved Accredited Fellow status in the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry (AACD). “Delivering cosmetic and restorative excellence required that I master and maintain proficiency in an entirely new set of artistic and technical skills. That is why I continue to fully engage in every learning challenge the AACD offers, and it is also why I voluntarily tested my skills against the AACD’s most demanding standards. By passing the rigorous testing required to become an AACD Accredited Fellow, I am demonstrating that I can, and will, consistently deliver no-compromise, beautiful results every time,” he states. Dr. Oppenheim’s smile designs are known for their strikingly natural appearance and lasting beauty. His work has not only graced the cover of the prestigious Journal of Cosmetic Dentistry an unprecedented eight times, but has also won him Top Honors in AACD International Smile Gallery competitions for 10 consecutive years (including Best of Show in Honolulu). A writer and frequent lecturer on advanced smile design techniques, Dr. Oppenheim has served on the Accreditation Board of Examiners for the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry (AACD) and mentored other dentists pursuing accreditation in the AACD. Dr. Oppenheim is an alumnus of the Medical College of Georgia School of Dentistry as well as the Comprehensive Esthetics Restorative Continuums at the College of Dentistry at Baylor University and Louisiana State University. He is also an honorary fellow of the International Academy of Dental-Facial Esthetics. “With each new patient, I remind myself that I am only as good as the last smile I created. Our patients choose us because they want the best, and in return for their trust, we promise to do what it takes to provide just that — every time.”

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FLORIDA CANCER SPECIALISTS Scott Tetreault, M.D.; Viralkumar Bhanderi, M.D.; Paresh Patel, M.D.

WHAT SERVICES DO YOU OFFER? We offer full medical oncology treatment services for all cancers: chemotherapy, immunotherapy, vaccine therapy, gene therapy, targeted molecular therapy and clinical trials.

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WHAT IS THE SECRET TO YOUR SUCCESS? We are “high-tech,” but also “high-touch.”

WHAT SETS YOUR PRACTICE APART? We offer every FDA approved cancer treatment option in both of our Tallahassee cancer centers every day along with cutting-edge clinical trials medicine.

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WHAT IS YOUR BUSINESS PHILOSOPHY? Every patient is treated like a family member.

HOW HAS YOUR PRACTICE GROWN? Florida Cancer Specialists is the largest medical oncology practice in the United States with over 100 cancer centers in Florida.

WHAT AWARDS AND RECOGNITION HAS YOUR PRACTICE RECIEVED? We received the American Society of Clinical Oncology Clinical Trials Award for our enrollment of Florida patients in clinical trials of novel cancer therapies. Over half of all new FDA approved cancer drugs were tested in our cancer centers.

WHAT DO YOU SEE FOR THE FUTURE OF YOUR PRACTICE? We will continue to grow to serve the cancer patients of Tallahassee so they can receive the best care in the world right near their homes and loved ones.

Scott Tetreault, M.D.; Viralkumar Bhanderi, M.D.; Paresh Patel, M.D.

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physicians can easily consult with them to provide a timely, expert patient diagnosis.”

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DERMATOLOGY SPECIALISTS OF FLORIDA HARMONY CHURCH, CERTIFIED PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT AND NATIONAL GALDERMA TRAINER

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Taking care of your skin during all life stages is so important. It impacts and affects your health, well-being and emotions.

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our skin is important because it protects you; in turn, you should protect it. The professionals at Dermatology Specialists of Florida realize that for their patients to look and feel their best at any age, they must have healthy skin. They provide comprehensive medical, surgical and cosmetic dermatology using the most advanced treatments available. Their services include skin cancer examinations; treatment of psoriasis, eczema and dermatitis; mole evaluation; acne treatment; wart therapy; and other conditions of the skin, hair and nails. A special emphasis is placed on the diagnosis and treatment of skin cancer and on its preventive education. If diagnosed early and treated by a skilled dermatologist, skin cancer is highly curable. For this reason, Dermatology Specialists of Florida recommend annual skin examinations. For cosmetic services, the Aqua Medical Spa provides a variety of procedures that rejuvenate and assist patients in achieving their aesthetic goals. These services include injectables, laser skin resurfacing, light-based phototherapy, laser hair removal, facials, microdermabrasion, body contouring and cellulite reduction. Recently, Dermatology Specialists has begun offering virtual visits, allowing patients to “see” the dermatologist online and on their own time. The appointments take place entirely online and are designed to closely mirror an in-office appointment. Online visits make receiving answers to patients’ questions and concerns simple, timely and more convenient. Harmony Church is one of the many experienced certified physician assistants at Dermatology Specialists who continually provides quality care and expert knowledge to patients. She received a bachelor’s degree in physician assistant studies from Union College in Lincoln, Nebraska. Since 2004, she has been caring for North Florida patients in plastic surgery, dermatology, delivery of cosmetic injecatables, lasers, phototherapy and skin surgery. Skin is, in fact, more than just skin deep. It impacts and affects your health, well-being and emotions. Ensuring patients’ dermatology needs are met is the Dermatology Specialists of Florida’s priority and passion.

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TMH PHYSICIAN PARTNERS — RADIATION ONCOLOGY SPECIALISTS Raj Bendre, MD, Medical Director; Philip Sharp, MD; Ovidiu Marina, MD WHAT IS YOUR PRACTICE PHILOSOPHY? Our mission is to meet the full cancer care needs of our community by providing comprehensive, state-of-the-art care close to home. Through the Tallahassee Memorial Cancer Center, we have a diverse, multi-disciplinary team that includes nurses, social workers, patient navigators, registered dietitians and a certified genetic counselor. We have this entire team in one location for patient convenience. WHAT DO YOU SEE FOR THE FUTURE OF YOUR PRACTICE? The future of the practice is exciting. We offer a full complement of radiation treatment options to include Sterotactic Radiosurgery, Stereotactic Body RadioTherapy, along with brachytherapy and therapeutic radiopharmaceuticals.

L-R: Philip Sharp, MD; Ovidiu Marina, MD; Raj Bendre, MD, Medical Director

HOW DO YOU MEASURE SUCCESS? We measure success with every positive patient and family experience.

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TMH PHYSICIAN PARTNERS — BRADFORDVILLE Rebecca Easterling, MD A. Lane Janney, MD

WHAT SERVICES DO YOU OFFER? We provide comprehensive family medicine care for the entire family including infants, children, adults and seniors — in a warm and friendly environment. WHAT SETS YOUR PRACTICE APART? As the population of Tallahassee has grown, we are excited to provide care on the Northeast side of town. We feel it is important to provide a convenient and accessible option to this area of our community. L-R: Rebecca Easterling MD; A. Lane Janney, MD

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TMH PHYSICIAN PARTNERS — VASCULAR SURGERY SPECIALISTS Lincoln Roland, MD, RPV

WHAT SERVICES DO YOU OFFER? Our team provides the latest treatment options for complex vascular conditions, including traditional surgery, combined/hybrid procedures and minimally invasive, also known as endovascular, treatments. WHAT IS THE SECRET TO YOUR SUCCESS? We believe in treating the patient, or the whole person, not just their symptoms and condition. In caring for patients with vascular conditions, it is important to understand a person is more than their symptoms or medical images. Our patients are involved in each step of the diagnostic and treatment process so we can have an open discussion about their care. WHAT SETS YOUR PRACTICE APART? Dr. Roland joined TMH Physician Partners from the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio — home to one of the top heart and vascular programs in the country. He carries with him a commitment of compassionate patient care and expertise in the latest vascular treatment options.

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TMH PHYSICIAN PARTNERS — CANCER & HEMATOLOGY SPECIALISTS WHAT SERVICES DO YOU OFFER? Our practice focuses on the care of patients with cancer and blood diseases. We offer everything from chemotherapy to support services including dietary and genetic counseling, patient navigators and support groups. WHAT IS YOUR MISSION? Our mission is to provide comprehensive, compassionate, state-of-the-art care while emphasizing clear communication, patient education and clinical research. L-R: Karen B. Russell, MD, FACP; Jayan Nair, MD; Amit Jain, MD, MPH; Tim A. Broeseker, MD; Janice Lawson, MD; Jeannine M. Silberman, MD; Iman Imanirad, MD

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TMH PHYSICIAN PARTNERS — SOUTHWOOD Matthew Standridge, MD

WHAT SERVICES DO YOU PROVIDE? Primary care for all ages including infants, children, adults and seniors. We provide comprehensive care for illnesses in addition to physical exams, sports physicals, immunizations, minor surgical procedures, comprehensive diagnostic X-ray services, routine screenings, disease management and patient education. HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR PRACTICE PHILOSOPHY? We approach healthcare not simply as the treatment of a particular illness, but with a focus on prevention, health education and the well-being of the family as a whole.

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GYNECOLOGIC ONCOLOGY SPECIALISTS Arvind Bakhru, MD, MPH; Margarett Conklin Ellison, MD

HOW DOES YOUR PRACTICE IMPACT THE COMMUNITY? Our practice is the only gynecologic oncology practice in the Big Bend region. With the program based here in Tallahassee, women no longer need to drive hundreds of miles for gynecologic oncology care. WHAT SERVICES DO YOU OFFER? We specialize in complex pelvic surgery, minimally invasive surgery, radiation and chemotherapy for women with gynecologic cancers and pre-cancers including: ovarian, endometrial, cervical, vaginal, vulvar and uterine sarcoma.

L-R: Arvind Bakhru, MD; Margarett Conklin Ellison, MD

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SURGICAL ONCOLOGY SPECIALISTS Wade Douglas, MD, FACS

WHAT SERVICES DO YOU PROVIDE? We provide advanced surgical treatment of malignancies including colorectal, skin, stomach, liver, pancreatic, soft tissue, head and neck. WHAT ARE YOUR AREAS OF SPECIALTY? Our areas of specialty include general surgery, surgical oncology, head and neck surgical oncology. HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR PRACTICE PHILOSOPHY OR STRATEGY? We prepare for new opportunities and enjoy the journey along the way.

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TMH PHYSICIAN PARTNERS — METABOLIC HEALTH CENTER WHAT SERVICES DO YOU PROVIDE? TMH Physician Partners - Metabolic Health Center provides individualized, team-based care for people with chronic conditions under one roof. This team is made up of a unique partnership between medical specialists, registered dietitians, diabetes educators and behaviorists. Our services include medical management of obesity, lipid disorders, endocrine disorders, diabetes education, nutrition counseling and research. WHAT ARE YOUR AREAS OF SPECIALTY? Metabolic disorders including, but not limited to, diabetes, thyroid and other endocrine disorders, obesity and lipid disorders. Physicians seeing patients with these diagnoses are board–certified and/or diplomats of their associated specialty. Diabetes education is provided by the certified diabetes educators of our American Diabetes Association – recognized program. Ongoing research trials are currently focused around diabetes and endocrine disorders.

Back row L-R: Greg Laffitte, MPA-C; Larry Deeb, MD; Terry Sherraden, MD,FACE Front row L-R: Sudha Ravilla, MD; Omodele Hogan, MD; Orson Smith, MD, FACC; Kathleen Wilson, PhD, ARNP-C, FAANP; Kenyon McCune, ARNP

HOW DOES YOUR PRACTICE IMPACT THE COMMUNITY? TMH Physician Partners - Metabolic Health Center fosters a team approach to care. Our quality services assist patients, and their families, with achieving and maintaining normal, healthy lifestyles. The Metabolic Health Center also provides leadership to other individuals and organizations in our community who seek to provide care for persons with chronic diseases.

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TMH PHYSICIAN PARTNERS — CENTER FOR MATERNAL-FETAL MEDICINE Roderick F. Hume, MD; William Dobak, DO, MBA, FACOG WHO ARE YOUR PATIENTS? Expectant mothers whose pregnancies are considered high-risk due to pre-existing conditions, maternal age, multiples or any other complication identified by the patient’s obstetrician. WHAT IS YOUR AREA OF SPECIALTY? Maternal-fetal medicine is a sub-specialty of obstetrics and gynecology. We work with high-risk pregnancies to minimize complications and manage the health of moms and their babies.

L-R: Roderick F. Hume, MD; William Dobak, DO, MBA, FACOG

WHAT IS YOUR PRACTICE PHILOSOPHY? Working closely with our patients allows us to help prepare them and their managing obstetrician for delivery, involve the appropriate specialists, prevent complications and provide the highest

level of care for mothers and newborns who need special attention and support. HAS YOUR PRACTICE EXPANDED RECENTLY? The field of genetics and prenatal diagnosis is rapidly expanding with new and better tests to identify genetic abnormalities. New technology is now available through our office that allows prenatal diagnosis of some genetic abnormalities in the developing baby using a simple blood sample from the mother. WHAT BRIEF STATEMENT WOULD DESCRIBE YOUR VIEW OF YOUR PROFESSION? We try to lift the mystery (the unknown risks) from pregnancy, provide personalized prenatal risk assessment and treat the fetus as our patient; not just the mother.

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TALLAHASSEE MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FAMILY MEDICINE RESIDENCY PROGRAM

Back row L-R: Michael Allison, MD; Ed Forster, MD; D. Paul Robinson, MD; Lisa Jernigan, MD; B. David Robinson, MD; Rick Levy, PhD; Dwight Hooper, MD. Front row L-R: Klive Forde, MD; Tanya Evers, MD; Gina Hope, MD; Joe Mazziotta, MD; Russell Cole, MD; Phillip Treadwell, PharmD. Not Pictured: Julia Weeks, MD; Donald Zorn, MD; A.D. Brickler, MD; Ronald Machado, MD; Cherie Rowland, LCSW

WHAT SERVICES DO YOU PROVIDE? The Family Medicine Residency Program offers primary medical care for the entire family with specialty services including maternity care/delivery, gynecological procedures, skin surgery, cardiac stress testing, anticoagulation as well as behavioral and nutritional interventions. The program also provides medical training for physicians who have chosen the specialty of family medicine. HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN IN PRACTICE IN TALLAHASSEE? We have been providing primary care services in the Big Bend for over 40 years.

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WHAT MAKES YOUR PRACTICE STRATEGY UNIQUE? Being a training site offers many valuable benefits for our patients. Our physicians are accustomed to providing medical care that spans from OB and pediatrics to adult and geriatric medicine. We also treat a large spectrum of care from health maintenance to treating chronic disease. We have extended hours for both weekdays and weekends. We provide inpatient and outpatient care. If you are admitted to the hospital, you will see our physicians instead of an assigned hospitalist. Because our physicians are training new physicians, we are up-todate on the latest medical advances and able to provide a full spectrum of care.

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Shelby Blank, MD, MS; Tim F. Ruark, Jr., MD, FACS; Eliot B. Sieloff, MD, FACS

WHAT SERVICES DO YOU PROVIDE? We perform a wide range of surgical procedures, most of which are minimally invasive. We commonly perform gastrointestinal procedures such as cholecystectomies, appendectomies,

hernias and colon resections. We also perform breast surgery for both benign and malignant disease. As part of the trauma service, we also care for patients who have significant injuries due to accidental or traumatic causes.

WHAT IS THE SECRET TO YOUR SUCCESS? It is our goal to provide a successful, safe operation with a positive outcome for every patient.

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TMH PHYSICIAN PARTNERS — NEUROLOGY SPECIALISTS Jason Chen, MD; Bayard Miller, MD; Siddharth Sehgal, MD; Muhammad Siddiqi, MD WHAT SERVICES DO YOU OFFER? We provide comprehensive neurological services to treat conditions including stroke, traumatic brain injury, headaches/migraines, epilepsy/seizures, memory disorders/ dementias, Parkinson’s disease and multiple sclerosis. Our practice also provides a collaborative approach to treatment that offers neuropsychological evaluations and provides counseling and support groups for patients and their families.

HOW DO YOU ENSURE YOUR PATIENTS RECEIVE THE HIGHEST QUALITY OF CARE? TMH Physician Partners - Neurology Specialists boasts four board-certified general neurologists and three neuropsychologists who offer an unparalleled level of medical care. Each neurologist features a special focus area that allows us to provide a vast array of specialty care to patients with any neurological condition.

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TMH PHYSICIAN PARTNERS — CLINICAL GENETICS CENTER Laura S. Martin, MD, FAAP, FACMG

WHAT SERVICES DO YOU PROVIDE? We provide both clinical genetics and clinical biochemical genetic services, in addition to our cancer genetics service. ▪ Clinical genetic consultations typically consist of a medical evaluation, genetic risk assessment, genetic counseling and education, that together, allow for shared decision making between the clinical geneticist and the patient/family. ▪ Clinical biochemical geneticists provide comprehensive diagnosis, life-long management, and genetic counseling services for patients with inborn errors of metabolism, including genetic disorders of intermediary metabolism, lysosomal storage diseases, disorders of energy metabolism and related disorders. ▪ Geneticists, along with a dedicated genetic counselor who specializes in

cancer genetics, provide evaluation of personal and family histories for possible hereditary cancer syndromes, including BRCA 1/2, Lynch syndrome as well as other disorders. With services connected to the Tallahassee Memorial Cancer Center, genetic patients have access to an array of services and powerful treatment options all under one roof. WHAT IS YOUR AREA OF SPECIALTY? I am board certified in clinical genetics, clinical biochemical/molecular genetics and pediatrics. WHAT IS YOUR PRACTICE PHILOSOPHY? At TMH Physician Partners – Clinical Genetics Center, our practice philosophy is to provide access to genetic services with state-of-the-art and compassionate care to all.

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TMH PHYSICIAN PARTNERS — SURGICAL SPECIALISTS Services by Surgical Associates of Tallahassee

WHAT SERVICES DO YOU OFFER? A broad range of surgical options for patients of all ages. We provide minimally invasive and laparoscopic surgery for treatment of gastrointestinal disorders, malignancies (cancer), breast surgery, trauma, hernia, reflux, weight loss, endocrine surgery (thyroid and parathyroid). WHAT IS THE SECRET TO YOUR SUCCESS? Providing exceptional care 24 hours a day as well as providing advanced, quality surgical care.

Jeffrey W. Crooms, MD, FACS

Brett Howard, MD

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THE FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE INTERNAL MEDICINE RESIDENCY PROGRAM at Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare

WHAT DO YOU DO? We provide both hospital-based and ambulatory care for adult patients. Our area of specialty is internal medicine. HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR PRACTICE PHILOSOPHY? Our main goal is to provide excellent care to patients — both in the hospital and in the clinic. WHAT IS THE “SECRET” OF YOUR PROFESSIONAL SUCCESS? The secret to our success is we focus on each patient as an individual and customize their care. L-R: Jonathan Appelbaum, MD; Ingrid Jones-Ince, MD; Gregory Todd, MD; Raymond Shashaty Jr., MD; Brittany Clark, MD Not pictured: Phillip Denoux, MD

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TMH PHYSICIAN PARTNERS — CARDIAC SPECIALISTS Services Provided by Southern Medical Group, PA

WHAT IS YOUR AREA OF SPECIALTY? Cardiovascular diseases - specifically treating and preventing diseases of the heart, blood vessels and vascular system through medical management, interventional procedures and surgery. HAVE YOU INCORPORATED ANY NEW TECHNOLOGIES OR TREATMENTS IN YOUR PRACTICE? We have brought new procedures including TAVR, MitraClip, WATCHMAN, PFO closure and most recently, the world’s smallest pacemaker. Our clinics also expanded recently to include a new heart failure clinic, a comprehensive circulation clinic and cardiothoracic surgery.

Back row L-R: John Katopodis, PCI, MD, FACC; Gian Carlo Giove, MD; Venkata Bavikati, MD, MPH; Gadi Silberman, MD; David Saint, MD; Julian Hurt, MD; J. Galt Allee, MD, FACC; Gregory Hartlage, MD; C. Patrick Murrah, MD; Wayne Batchelor, PCI, MD, MHS, FACC; Farhat Khairallah, MD, FACC, FHRS Front row L-R: Ernesto Umana, MD, FACC; Marilyn Cox, MD, FACC; David Smith, MD, FACC; David Tedrick, MD, FACC; Frank Gredler, MD, FACC; William Dixon, IV, PCI, MD, FACC; Thomas Noel, PCI, MD, FACC Not Pictured: Akash Ghai, MD

WHO ARE YOUR PATIENTS? We treat patients who have hypertension, blocked arteries, irregular heart rhythms, fainting, high-cholesterol, congestive heart failure, heart defects and diseases of the arteries and veins. WHAT IS YOUR PRACTICE PHILOSOPHY? Our team of physicians and surgeons are dedicated to providing comprehensive care for cardiac conditions focused on communication with our patients. We believe in building a strong relationship with each of our patients so we can develop an individual care plan tailored to their specific needs.

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TMH PHYSICIAN PARTNERS — SURGICAL SPECIALISTS Robert Snyder, MD, FACS; Alexander Ramirez, MD, FACS; Richard Zorn, MD, FACS; Luke Watkins, MD

WHAT IS YOUR AREA OF SPECIALTY? General, laparoscopic, minimally invasive and bariatric surgery. HOW DO YOU MEASURE SUCCESS IN YOUR PROFESSION? When we have positive outcomes that allow our patients to live healthier lives and have improved quality of life, we know we have been successful. WHAT IS YOUR SECRET TO YOUR SUCCESS? We are dedicated to the health and well-being of our patients. It is our goal to establish mutual respect with our patients through communication and education for the best possible surgical outcomes. We believe this is why we have treated generations of families in our region.

L-R: Robert Snyder, MD, FACS; Alexander Ramirez, MD, FACS; Richard Zorn, MD, FACS Not pictured: Luke Watkins, MD

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INTERNAL AND FAMILY MEDICINE SPEICIALISTS Services Provided by Southern Medical Group, PA

WHAT SERVICES DO YOU PROVIDE? We provide primary care for adult patients with special emphasis on diagnosis, evaluation and management of both chronic and acute complex conditions of the heart, lungs, intestinal tract, kidneys and endocrine system. HOW DO YOU ENSURE YOUR PATIENTS RECEIVE THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF QUALITY CARE? Our physicians are board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine as well as the American Board of Family Medicine. We offer highly skilled, compassionate care and state-of-the-art diagnostic services. We are committed to quality patient care by seeking educational opportunities to stay current on the latest drug therapies and diagnostic tools.

L-R : Ileana Popa, MD; Satish Mital, MD; Camille Blake, DO, PhD; Donald Loucks, MD; Judith Lewis, MD; Robert Rowland, MD; Jesse Judelle, MD; Michael Forsthoefel, MD; Marlisha Edwards, MD; Eric Bouchard, MD; Farah Soliman, MD Not pictured: Narayanan Krishnamoorthy, MD; Basim Tadros, MD

WHAT IS YOUR BUSINESS PHILOSOPHY? We believe in fostering a positive, open relationship with our patients as well as their caregivers to provide optimal care, to instill confidence and to ensure patient satisfaction. We work to maintain a strong network of specialists should our patients need to be referred for further evaluation and believe that communication with the consulting physician and the patient is imperative to seamless, quality care.

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EYE ASSOCIATES OF TALLAHASSEE Deanna Louie, M.D.

e are excited to announce our newest ophthalmologist, Dr. Deanna Louie, who joins us from the West Coast. She graduated from the University of California with a degree in Molecular and Cell Biology with an Immunology Emphasis and Computer Science. She then completed her medical education at the University of Michigan. Dr. Louie is board certified by the American Board of Ophthalmology. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, as well as a member of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery and the American Medical Association. Dr. Louie has a broad range of expertise, which helps her give each patient the best care possible. She has a special interest in small incision cataract surgery, as well as the medical treatment of various retinal diseases such as diabetic retinopathy and age-related macular degeneration. She is also experienced in oculoplastic procedures such as blepharoplasty, which is the treatment of drooping eyelids due to excess skin and fat. She also specializes in laser vision correction and is the only provider in the area of “blade-free” iLASIK. Great news! We now are seeing patients in Perry, Florida, at Doctor’s Memorial Hospital! 2020 FLEISCHMANN ROAD | 850-878-6161 | EYEASSOCIATESOFTALLAHASSEE.COM

CENTRE POINTE HEALTH & REHABILITATION CENTER WHAT SERVICES DO YOU OFFER? Centre Pointe offers comprehensive inpatient and outpatient services following surgery, an injury or an illness. We provide a wide range of specialty rehabilitation programs such as orthopedic and stroke recovery, all while utilizing state-of-the-art equipment to address individual therapeutic needs. WHAT AWARDS HAS YOUR PRACTICE RECEIVED? Centre Pointe is a current recipient of the Governor’s Gold Seal Award that recognizes excellence in quality of care, has maintained the highest rating of Five Stars by the Centers for Medicare/Medicaid, and achieved a deficiency free health survey from the Agency for Health Care Administration in 2017.

Left to Right: Ron Reid, Administrator; Dr. Satish Mital, Medical Director; Rebecca Galloway, Director of Nurses; Hank Walsh, Rehab Director

WHAT DO YOU SEE FOR THE FUTURE OF YOUR PRACTICE? You spoke and we listened! We are currently remodeling and expanding our rehabilitation campus in the direction of a private room model. We are committed to adapting and expanding our therapeutic programs by meeting the unique rehabilitation needs of our community. We will soon be opening our aquatic rehabilitation pool as well as adding many patient comfort amenities, including an in-house movie theater that patients can enjoy during their stay.

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Southeastern Plastic Surgery in Tallahassee Where Experience Matters EvEryonE talks about pErsonalizEd carE, but at southEastErn plastic surgEry in tallahassEE, it is exactly the patient experience that makes all the difference. From the moment a patient enters the door, they will encounter a sense of caring that continues throughout their visit. the importance of individualized, personal treatment is at the heart of every patient experience. as tallahassee’s preferred patient’s choice for cosmetic and reconstructive surgery, southeastern plastic surgery includes board-certified plastic surgeons, skin care specialists and others dedicated to provide outstanding care and service. “patients are my number one priority,” said dr. ben kirbo, board-certified plastic surgeon. “they influence the quality of staff and technology, the design of our office and the time we spend to educate our patients about the procedures and services they are considering.” dr. kirbo has been practicing in the north Florida and south georgia area for more than 17 years. he is dedicated to providing unparalleled quality to every patient. l-r: Dr. rosenberg, Dr. Kirbo, Dr. Derosier

a native of bainbridge, georgia, ben J. kirbo, M.d. received his undergraduate degree from the university of georgia and completed his medical degree at the university of Miami. dr. kirbo completed his general surgery residency at the university of kentucky and his plastic surgery residency at vanderbilt university where he trained under several internationally recognized plastic surgeons. he has a particular interest in facial cosmetic surgery, breast surgery and body contouring. additionally, he has interest and experience in postbariatric weight loss surgery. he has extensive training in melanoma/skin cancer treatment and Mohs repairs. dr. kirbo is known by his colleagues for his expertise in correcting undesirable plastic surgery results. along with southeastern plastic surgery, he was selected as the only local surgical practice to participate in the Florida Melanoma study. dr. laurence rosenberg, a board-certified plastic surgeon said, “at southeastern plastic surgery, we strive to deliver excellent patient care, in a warm, compassionate setting.” dr. rosenberg grew up in albany, new york. he attended Emory university in atlanta, georgia for both college and medical school, where he earned many awards and distinctions. dr. rosenberg completed both general surgery and plastic surgery residency. he trained at the university of alabama under pioneering plastic surgeon, dr. luis vasconez. he is board-certified by both the american board of surgery and the american board of plastic surgery. dr. rosenberg has a variety of interests and areas of specialization within cosmetic and reconstructive surgery. his areas of focus include facelifts, eyelid surgery, breast reconstruction, breast augmentation and reduction, abdominoplasty, hand surgery, laser treatments of skin disorders and body contouring with particular interest in massive weight loss patients.

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dr. rosenberg is the only board certified physician in north Florida and south georgia to perform a unique hair restoration procedure of surgically transplanting individual hair follicular units. dr. chris derosier is board-certified by the american board of surgery, american board of plastic surgery and the american board of surgery. he is a graduate of the university of alabama (uab) school of Medicine. he completed both his general and plastic surgery residencies at uab prior to starting his practice at the university. dr. derosier performs both reconstructive and cosmetic surgery. he is also trained in microsurgery and is excited about offering free tissue breast reconstruction (Free traM and diEp flaps) to the tallahassee area. For more information about southeastern plastic surgery, visit them online at se-plasticsurgery.com or find them on Facebook. ~

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the dialect of their individual ethnic group. “It’s called their ‘mother tongue,’ or ‘home language,’” Wawire said. “They are not written dialects, but each is a whole and complete language. In some homes, you have two or three dialects going on at the same time. In a large community or a refugee camp, you have many 2030 Thomasville Road, Ste. 2 | (850) 681-6245 dialects. Kids will pick up other dialects in associating with other people in their community, but Swahili is Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC, its affiliates and Morgan Stanley Financial Advisors do not provide the common language.” tax or legal advice. Clients should consult their tax advisor for matters involving taxation and tax The Syrian Refugees who come to Tallahassee speak planning and their attorney for matters involving trust and estate planning and other legal matters. Arabic, but there are different dialects of that language, © 2013 Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC. Member SIPC. CRC588469 (12/12) CS 7338805 MAR013A 03/13 too, even within Syria. Omar Erchid, a 25-year-old aspiring humanitarian and third-year law student at FSU, provides homework help for refugees at Tallahassee’s mosque. Erchid is of Syrian descent, and he speaks Arabic. He also teaches adult ESOL classes. “The refugees that come from the more urban areas — especially the college-aged ones — tend to have a basic English vocabulary, but the ones from the rural parts know almost no English when they arrive,” he said. “As for those who do have some English skills, they usually studied it in high school or college, or picked up it over the years NATIONAL PHILANTHROPY through watching American films with Arabic subtitles.” DAY AWARDS LUNCHEON Regardless of what languages they speak, all of Thursday, November 9 | 11:30 a.m.–1 p.m. Tallahassee’s refugees are now immersed in English. It’s DoubleTree by Hilton, 101 S. Adams St. everywhere, and it’s overwhelming. And they need help. On any given day, Tallahassee’s refugee schools play The Big Bend Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals invites you host to volunteer tutors of all levels of expertise, from PRESENTED BY to honor local philanthropists whose moms who taught their own children their numbers and outstanding generosity and vision have colors through the game of Uno, to FSU students in the helped shape our community. International Affairs program who speak Arabic. There are those who have taught English in foreign countries, and there are those who have never set foot outside of Keynote speaker: Gary Yordon, The Zachary Group the U.S. Some are serious by nature; others look for the A lifetime achievement award will be presented to Marjorie Turnbull. humor in situations. In short, they vary in skills and To serve as an event table sponsor email AFPbigBend@yahoo.com personalities, just like their refugee students. ›› Tickets at afpbigbend.afpnet.org

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Ways to Get Involved Provide tutoring at Leon County schools

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The work that these volunteers do is both difficult and rewarding — and it’s not enough. They can’t be in every refugee school all day — and they know that. That’s why they’re so determined to help their pupils learn English. Because it’s these children to whom the school district’s teachers will turn for help in explaining a concept to a brand new classmate who speaks only Swahili or Arabic. It’s these children who will show their overwhelmed peers how to move through the lunch line in the cafeteria. It’s these children who will show off the marvelous drinking fountain and assure each other when the fire alarms sound. Successfully resettled refugees are the greatest hope that newly resettled refugees have, and volunteer tutors are essential to this cycle of learning and teaching. Molly Conrad, who graduated from FSU in August with a degree in international affairs and Middle Eastern studies, and who plans to study human rights and national security law, works with Syrian students at Astoria Park. After eight months of volunteer tutoring, her pupil told her that she wanted to be like her one day — a teacher. “That’s such a great thing to hear,” Conrad said. “For so long, they haven’t had any hope, and now they do. They’re making plans for their future. “Sometimes, when we are teaching them, we look at them as normal, pain-in-thebutt, lovable kids. Then they say something that hits you in the gut and reminds you that they’ve gone through – Molly Conrad the unimaginable and are somehow supposed to be ‘normal’ and ‘OK’ now. It kind of shakes you and reminds you that for every refugee child learning and growing in America, there are many who didn’t make it.” It’s a sobering thought, particularly for those who are intimately acquainted with refugees, including Tallahassee’s volunteer tutors. But it’s hopeful, too; because more and more children are “learning and growing in America,” thanks, in part, to volunteers. “Volunteering to help refugees doesn’t have to be the most important thing to everyone,” Conrad said. “But if it’s the most important thing to someone, that’s a start.” TM

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agenda ▪ GloFX, with an office in Tallahassee, recently received the 2017 Sterling Manufacturing Business Excellence Award at the Governor’s Sterling Awards Banquet in Orlando. Florida is home to over 20,000 manufacturing companies, 120 of which were nominated, and only 28 made it to the final round of judging. GloFX was one of only seven award winners. ▪ Danfoss Turbocor Compressors in Tallahassee recently received two awards — including an Edison Award — for technological developments. The company builds oil-free, magnetic bearing, variablespeed centrifugal compressors for highefficiency air-conditioning chillers. ▪ Thomas Howell Ferguson’s Brian Walgamott has been accepted into Leadership Tallahassee Class 35. The firm also noted that Amy Campbell has earned the designation of Society for Human Resources Management Certified Professional. Leigh Jenkins has earned the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Not-For-Profit Certificate I. Additionally, John Spence is now a QuickBooks ProAdvisor. The firm recently welcomed Tim Icardi and Lauren Sackreiter to the Tallahassee office. Sackreiter is a staff accountant in the assurance services department and

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APPOINTMENTS ▪ Mark Robinson, president and CEO of Capital Regional Medical Center, has been appointed to the United Way of the Big Bend board of directors for 20172018. Robinson has more than 18 years of health care administration experience.

▪ Holger Ciupalo, policy chief for the Finance and Economic Analysis unit of the Office of Policy and Budget in the Executive Office of the Governor, has been appointed by Gov. Rick Scott to the State Retirement Commission. ▪ Dr. Jerry Parrish of the Florida Chamber Foundation has been appointed to the FloridaMakes board of Parrish directors. Parrish is the chief economist and the director of research for the Florida Chamber Foundation. ▪ Jonathan Costello, a governmental consultant with Rutledge Ecenia P.A. and an adjunct professor at Florida State University, has been reappointed by the governor to the governing board of the Northwest Florida Water Management District. ▪ Keith Lawson, president of Keith Lawson Company, Inc., was reappointed by the governor to the Construction Industry Licensing Board. ▪ Tom Napier, a former special projects manager for the Clerk of Circuit Court of Leon County, has been reappointed by the governor to the State Retirement Commission. — COMPILED BY JASON DEHART

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CALLING ALL READERS!

Get me a word — an encompassing word — that means not young by MARINA BROWN

The wizened Mrs. X makes dinner every night. The two Methusalas like to go dancing on Fridays. The geriatric couple hiked on Mt. Ranier. The fossilized Mr. X is CEO of his own company. Other words were no more helpful: decrepit, senile, dotage, antiqued, doddering, obsolete.

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There were the intellectual words: superannuated, indicating out of date or disqualified by age; and Nochian, meaning of the same general age as Noah! A few were clever idioms. I tried them out — in a sentence: Mrs. X was long in the tooth, but finished her 5K. Though having one foot in the grave, Mr. X plays tennis seven days a week. In the end, the worst choice might have been the simply put and excruciatingly final, kaput: For their anniversary skydive, though admittedly kaput, the couple jumped from the plane together. Why is it that English has so few respectful words that identify the fact that one is no longer young or even middle-aged? And why is it that when terms for this time of life are coined, they are so often derogatory or demeaning? Many other cultures have the opposite mind-sets about aging. In Greece, elderly abbots and nuns are graced with the name, Geronda and Gerondissa, which though it means “old one,” is associated with great wisdom, godliness, and one who has earned respect. In the East, age is revered as a measure of wisdom and knowledge. China has passed laws specifying how elderly parents should be treated and attended to. In Korea, there are celebrations: the Hwan-gap, when a person turns 60; and an even

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bigger party, the KohChi, when, at 70, the person is designated, “old and rare.” Even indigenous Americans turn to the elders of the tribe for their experience and sage advice, expecting the young to sit quietly while such wisdom is passed down from the old to the possibly clueless youth. Some have hypothesized that because America is a “can-do” nation that equates value with work, the diminished labor output of an older citizen devalues him or her as a person. Others simply point to a fetish with youth, sexuality, superficial cultural icons and the interruption of familial connections which would, in another time, have put young people in close proximity to grandparents and other older role models. Whatever the reasons, I’m still looking for a few cogent terms that will describe an American over 60 or 70. Venerable is still too

“Supreme Court-sounding” for me. Seasoned sounds like a description of a T-bone steak. And old, is of course, off the table. But then, maybe that’s a good place to leave it. Why mention age at all? Maybe doing a triathlon at 75 is no big deal in 2017. Maybe Botox and fillers will make age-lines a distant memory. Aging could simply stop at about 40, and we’ll refer to everyone as “youngish.” What is more likely is that with our electronic device in hand, we won’t look up to see the person with the cane, won’t hear the long-ago family stories, won’t hear advice from one who’s been there before. Old age will simply become an erasure mark. So why worry? Maybe I won’t have to bother thinking of a synonym for old or elderly at all. And we won’t notice that the wisdom of the ages will have disappeared along with the aged. TM

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o, here’s my conundrum… and a request for help from readers. I recently published an article in which I referred to a husband and wife who were in their mid- to late-80s — an amazing couple, engaged in a variety of very physical activities — by a term that sent several readers into a linguistic temper tantrum: It was the word “elderly.” In the piece, I had naturally identified the couple by name, and then throughout the article referred to them as “Mr. and Mrs. ‘X.’” But I needed to vary the terms. I used up “the senior couple” immediately, then turned to, “the seasoned pair;” but after that, and the aforementioned, “elderly,” the terms I found describing people living into their eighth decade or beyond turned harsh, if not genuinely insulting. Flipping through three thesauri and online collections of synonyms, I could only find words that would have made an 80-year-old weep and likely gotten me fired. Here are some examples … dropped into my text:

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