Tallahassee Magazine March - April 2020

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Shade Tobacco

The people and labor behind Gadsden County’s once-golden crop

Moore Books

Founder of The Moore Agency preserves centuries of stories

Tasty Empire

Tallahassee-based Mexican restaurant relies on family, friends to flourish

MAR–APR 2020 DIGGING APALACHICOLA

Really digging history Retired plastic surgeon’s passion for archaeology inspires him to uncover Apalachicola’s past

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Contents

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↖ Shade tobacco farms featured numerous jobs, including rack toters.

PHOTOS COURTESY STATE ARCHIVES OF FLORIDA, FLORIDA MEMORY

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UNCOVERING APALACHICOLA

Lou Hill credits his former plastic surgeon practice as a means to fund his archaeology passion.

REMEMBERING SHADE TOBACCO

A look at Havana’s golden days and an industry built largely on the backs of African Americans.

BETHEL MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH

by DANIELLE J. BROWN

by ROSANNE DUNKELBERGER

by PETER T. REINWALD

Rev. Dr. R.B. Holmes, Jr. discusses the “proud” and “very sobering” history of this house of worship.

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25 CHAMPIONS

Ryan David Reines finds a colorful perch in Jefferson County.

32 RECREATION First-

timer takes a spin around a local disc golf course.

and friends make this Tallahassee-based restaurant chain flourish.

64 DINING IN Want to

learn to bake bread?

Rise to the challenge.

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96 BOOKS Karen Moore

preserves centuries of stories in her impressive collection.

Zen gardens bring calm and peacefulness to your backyard.

Shade Tobacco

The people and labor behind Gadsden County’s once-golden crop

Moore Books

Founder of The Moore Agency preserves centuries of stories

Tasty Empire

Tallahassee-based Mexican restaurant relies on family, friends to flourish

Really digging history Retired plastic surgeon’s passion for archaeology inspires him to uncover Apalachicola’s past

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64 The fruits of a pancake bread recipe

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55 DINING OUT Family

Tips on restoring order to those cluttered closets.

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you covered for the rainy days of spring.

107 INTERIORS

MOORE BOOKS

43 FASHION We’ve got

at what’s on tap for Word of South and Tallahassee Film Festival.

PUBLISHER’S LETTER EDITOR’S LETTER SOCIAL STUDIES DINING GUIDE POSTSCRIPT

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PANACHE

A BODES

GASTRO & GUSTO

36 PETS The Tally Top Pet contest is down to its Final Fur.

EXPRESSION

91 FESTIVALS A look

beauty and surprises in Budapest, Vienna and Prague.

IN EVERY ISSUE

50 WHAT’S IN STORE

A roundup of fun, fitting and fragrant things to consider in retail.

129 GETAWAYS Finding

ON THE COVER:

Retired plastic surgeon Lou Hill sits in his home amid bones and artifacts that are central to his avocation.

Photo by Alex Workman

PHOTOS BY SAIGE ROBERTS (25, 64), ALEX WORKMAN (96) AND TOMASSEREDA / ISTOCK / GETTY IMAGES PLUS (129)

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Read about smart ways to beat the bugs.

DESTINATIONS

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HONORING OUR DONORS

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C L A U D E

I think Sharon would be proud.

W A L K E R

Walker Breast Center Claude, along with family, friends and supporters, has raised $530,000 to support the Walker Breast Center at Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare (TMH). He and his mother, Maye, are the honorary chairs of Golden Gala XXXVII. Proceeds from the Gala, on April 22, 2020, will support the Walker Breast Center.

How did the Walker Breast Center become a reality?

Breast Cancer has been in our family a long time. My mother was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 39 and had a mastectomy.

She’s now 85 and volunteers as the master gardener in the Tallahassee Memorial Cancer Center’s Healing Garden. My sister, Claire, was first diagnosed with breast cancer at age 42 and had a recurrence at age 51. My late wife, Sharon, was diagnosed with breast cancer when she was just 33 and died in 2005 at the young age of 42. We wanted to do something to honor her, so we started a fund at the TMH Foundation. We’ve carried it on all these years because we know the need is great.

How have you seen cancer treatment at TMH improve over the years?

When Sharon was diagnosed with Stage IV Breast Cancer, TMH did not have a dedicated cancer treatment center. We had two young boys, and it was exhausting driving back and forth to Tampa for treatment. Now, people in our region have a place to receive treatment in Tallahassee. We have a phenomenal radiation/oncology team with the best equipment available right here in a dedicated cancer center.

What has it been like to work through the TMH Foundation?

They’ve really given me a voice in the process. I’ve met a lot of people who are of the same mind as I am and want to raise money to help move the hospital forward.

What advice do you have for others who want to make a difference?

You’ve got to find out what motivates you. What has had an impact in your life? Is it heart disease? Is it diabetes? Is it pediatrics? Figure out what your passion is and then find a way to help.

Your gift to the TMH Foundation will help other families receive the best cancer treatment right here in Tallahassee.

Give today at TMH.ORG/Foundation or call 850-431-5931.

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SPECIAL SECTIONS AND PROMOTIONS

104 → MUSICALLY MOTIVATED

Zlatina Staykova teaches, performs and promotes stringed instruments in the community. Learn about her creative process, favorite music and more.

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In a city that loves its trees, Esposito Lawn & Garden Center is well-versed on the shade-loving plants that provide liveliness and pops of color.

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DEAL ESTATE There’s a Southern charmer for sale, complete with a beautiful brick facade, stately columns, six bedrooms and lovely interior aspects.

Or take a look at this spectacular private estate on Lake Hall that just sold.

It’s the city’s beloved 52nd annual Springtime Tallahassee festival and parade.

Meet the Krewes, view the schedule of events and check out the lineup of performances and activities.

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← SPRING BLING

Warmer weather calls for a wardrobe change featuring sterling silver, yellow gold, aquamarine, amethyst, topaz and, of course, diamonds. The Gem Collection knows springtime style.

SUN PROTECTION

Tallahassee Plastic Surgery Clinic provides the skinny on sunscreens that prevent skin damage and decrease cancer risks.

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CREATIVE CATERING

Catering Capers loves creating customized menus for a variety of celebratory occasions.

Quality, service and presentation motivate this local business.

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↑STRINGS ATTACHED

Florida State University’s Opening Nights series presents a “strummingly” stimulating performance by George Hinchliffe’s Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain.

← FORGOTTEN COAST MAP

Our illustrated map orients you to a historic and picturesque region of the Gulf Coast that shies from the spotlight.

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LUXURY LANDSCAPING

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EXPLORE THE SHORE

Fielder & Associates sets the standard for quality services that promote curb appeal and the desire to spend quality time in your own backyard.

Florida’s Forgotten Coast blooms in the spring with a bouquet of activities to attract lovers of art, music and food.

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CALENDAR Spring sweeps the city with some of Tallahassee’s favorite events — from the Tennis Challenger and Word of South to The Golden Gala and more.

NEXT ISSUE Spring Gift Guide ◆ ‘Best of’Ballot ◆ Professional Profiles PROMOTION

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PHOTOS BY DAVE BARFIELD / VISIT TALLAHASSEE (141) AND COURTESY OF THE GEM COLLECTION (52), OPENING NIGHTS (102) AND COUNCIL ON CUTLRUE AND ARTS (104)

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TALLAHASSEE MAGAZINE VOL. 43, NO. 2

MARCH-APRIL 2020

PRESIDENT/PUBLISHER BRIAN E. ROWLAND

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from the publisher

Collectors fascinate me. I’m intrigued by what they collect and the knowledge they accumulate.

They also fascinate me because I’m a collector, though on a purely personal and inspirational level. Before I elaborate, I’d like to discuss a few serious collectors about whom our editorial staff has been writing.

In a recent issue, we profiled Tallahassee dermatologist Dr. Armand Cognetta, whose extensive and unique collection of Florida maps dates to the 16th century and underscores his love of the Sunshine State, particularly Northwest Florida.

In this issue, we profile two more Tallahassee collectors — Lou Hill and Karen Moore, whose extraordinary hobbies, like Cognetta’s, include their passion to preserve history, inspiring compilations of wow.

Hill, a retired plastic surgeon, and his wife, Tallahassee realtor Calynne, have amassed a spectacular collection of historic artwork, artifacts and animal skulls and bones, which they’ve beautifully displayed in their home.

Their collection includes artifacts that Hill has uncovered as part of his longtime archaeology passion, including work that tells us fascinating things about Apalachicola’s history. That’s what he aims to highlight, he says.

Moore, an author, public relations expert and founder of The Moore Agency, has built a magnificent antique collection — more than 600 strong — of the Book of Common Prayer and the Holy Bible. She tells us that she considers each one “unique and precious,” with a story to share and preserve.

My collection is far less extensive than theirs, but I can assure you that I also have built it with passion. Cherie and I have spent more than 30 years traveling around the world and gaining an understanding of various cultures. In our home, I keep a large glass bowl that holds small objects — rocks, sand, wood chips and more — from the places we’ve visited on six continents.

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My bowl includes grains, pieces of things, coins and paper currency from visits to the Berlin Wall, the Great Wall of China, Tiananmen Square, Potala Palace, the Acropolis of Athens, Delphi, Angkor Wat, the Taj Mahal, the Hermitage, Machu Picchu, Santorini, Pompei, the Coliseum, St. Peter’s Square, the Canary Islands, the Serengeti, Patagonia National Park, Ireland, Iceland, Dracula’s Castle, the Great Pyramids of Giza, the Galapagos Islands, Ha Long Bay, Milford Sound and Sydney Opera House. It also includes sand from the finish line of Churchill Downs.

I literally take home a piece of such places, creating a memorable mixture of our travels. The bowl gives me an opportunity to reflect every morning on our vast world and the opportunities we’ve had to explore it.

Of course, I mostly travel right here in Tallahassee, where I find daily rewards in the weather, the environment and the people, whom I’ve come to know as good neighbors and corporate citizens. Chris Rasner, area director at Sonny’s BBQ, reaffirmed that recently when he took care of a problem that involved my pride and joy — my car.

I’ll always appreciate Chris and Sonny’s for doing the right thing.

How many good corporate citizens do you know?

Maybe we know enough to start a collection.

BRIAN ROWLAND browland@rowlandpublishing.com

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editor’s letter

I had another letter ready to go, but I tore it up.

I considered it personal and inspirational. I thought it would resonate with you, and I thought it worked.

But I wasn’t sure, so I did what I often do when I write something that gives me pause: I shared it with my wife, a journalist who never pauses when it comes to honesty and frankness.

It didn’t work, she told me.

Her opinion stung, as so-called negative feedback always does. But I needed to hear it and feel it, for the sting would have lasted for at least two months had you read my original editor’s letter. As my wife said, I needed time to rethink it and rewrite it, perhaps for another edition.

I thank Diane Rado, who inspired a letter to you about feedback.

I appreciate feedback, even when it hurts. I suppose that’s because it usually aims to help.

During the final production process for this edition of Tallahassee Magazine, Managing Editor Jeff Price spotted an awkward, confusing and boring headline that I wrote for a story that we expected would garner particularly strong attention.

In written remarks on the magazine’s manuscript, Jeff suggested a better headline. Chief proofreader Melinda Lanigan, who plays many roles at Rowland Publishing and sings many songs as frontwoman of The Allie Cats, made note on the manuscript of a problem sentence that I edited into another story. She pointed out

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that my word choice prompted a need for context, which she urged me to provide. Creative Director Jennifer Ekrut, the diligent heart and artistic soul of Tallahassee Magazine, made sure that I saw their comments, and she discussed them with me.

Melinda, Jennifer and Jeff saved me again, in a spirit of constructive criticism, because they care about the magazine, their work, their colleagues and you. They’re among about a dozen Rowland Publishing employees from all departments who pore over the pre-published magazine, page by page and sometimes sentence by sentence, in an effort to make sure it’s complete, accurate and devoid of mistakes that would make you think we’re sloppy and lackadaisical.

We sometimes miss those errors, but I assure you that we do our best to catch them. I thank all my colleagues for their efforts and feedback, even when it hurts.

I also appreciate your criticism, especially when you make it tactful and constructive. Last fall, one reader wrote an especially harsh email that sent an ouch through me.

But I thanked the reader for writing and agreed that we must improve.

I consider myself an obsessive factchecker and, like my colleagues, doggedly committed to accuracy, quality and readability. That letter inspired me to work even harder.

Of course, I also embrace comments and letters in which you share praise and appreciation. One of you wrote in

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HERE’S TO THE POWER OF FEEDBACK, EVEN WHEN IT HURTS

May: “I have enjoyed your publication for a number of years. The current issue is absolutely packed with articles catching and holding my attention.”

That woman’s letter sent a yay through me, and it also inspired me to work even harder.

Please keep writing. If you like an article or edition, please write and tell us why. If you don’t like an article or edition, please write and tell us why. And while you’re at it, please share story ideas and what you think we can do to make your magazine better and better.

Here’s to spring, even if it stings.

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Thank you to those who helped make the Capital Medical Society Foundation 2019 Holiday Auction a success!

Over $100,000 was raised in support of the CMSF mission “to support the charitable efforts of physicians and others, increase access to healthcare, promote education, and serve the community’s health needs through innovative projects that are exemplary, affordable and dignified.” That includes over $12,000 specifically donated for the CMSF Scholarship Fund to be awarded to FSU College of Medicine students and over $7,000 donated for the We Care Network program to coordinate donated specialty medical and dental care to low-income, uninsured adults in the community.

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Presenting Sponsors

Supporting Sponsors American Health Imaging Anonymous in honor of the Tallahassee Sette of Odd Volumes Carroll and Company, CPAs Community Foundation of North Florida - Sally and Fred McCord Family Fund (Recommended by Flecia Braswell) Dermatology Associates of Tallahassee

Grossman, Furlow & Bayó, LLC Gynecology & Obstetrics Associates of Tallahassee Henry Buchanan, P.A. Hopping Green & Sams, P.A. KWB Pathology Associates MagMutual Insurance Company Radiology Associates of Tallahassee

Southern Medical Group SunTrust Private Wealth Management SYNOVUS Tallahassee Neurology Specialists-Neurosurgery, Neurology & Pain Management

TMH Federal Credit Union TMH Physician Partners - Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Specialists

Tallahassee Orthopedic Clinic

WestScott Construction, Inc.

Tallahassee Primary Care Associates

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Tapestry Senior Living at Walden

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Event Sponsors Acentria Advanced Urology Institute, LLC Baker Donelson Bean Team Big Bend Hospice CAMPUS USA Credit Union Capital City Bank Capital Medical Society Alliance Capital Periodontal Associates, P.A. Capital Regional Medical Center Capital Regional Surgical Associates

Childers Construction Dennis, Jackson, Martin & Fontela, P.A. Desloge Home Oxygen & Medical Equipment/Hopewell In-Home Senior Care Digestive Disease Clinic Dr. and Mrs. H. Avon Doll Elder Care Services, Inc. Electronet Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Tallahassee Envision Physician Services (Anesthesiology Associates of Tallahassee)

Eye Associates of Tallahassee Florida Medical Association FMI Printing & Distribution Hancock Whitney Rohan Joseph and Elizabeth Medley Barbara B. Leadbeater, D.M.D., PL Nancy Loeffler, M.D. and Duane Pickel Medical AR Revenue Solutions, LLC NAI TALCOR North Florida Women’s Care Northwestern Mutual-The Gantt Financial Group

Right at Home Tallahassee Riley Palmer Construction Co., Inc. Jennifer Rupert, Wealth Management Advisor, Rupert & Associates, Merrill Lynch Smith Bruer Advisors Southern Vitreoretinal Associates Tallahassee Neurological Clinic The Doctors Company Thomas Howell Ferguson, P.A., CPAs Laurie West, Realtor Westminster Oaks Active Living Community

In-Kind Sponsors Betsy Barfield Photography

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Individual Sponsors Jonathan Appelbaum, M.D. and William Morowski Dr. Efren and Mrs. Emerlinda Baltazar Dr. Andrew and Mrs. Ashlee Borom Jerry L. Harris, M.D. Dr. Suzanne Harrison and Mr. Scott Harrison Aaron Hayson, M.D. and Mary Jane Tucker, M.D.

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“That was the first bird I had personally that I free-flew, so I would fly her around outside,” he said, referring to the art of training a bird to perform its natural flight patterns without a tether.

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human is to have a bird voluntarily fly with you.”

Reines’ bird nerd interests grew into a small collection, which then grew into a volunteer-run 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization focused on the conservation of endangered birds.

With the help of Saarah Yob, a friend who worked with him at a zoological facility in Delaware, the Avian Biodiversity Center took flight in Tallahassee.

Tallahassee residents could call to schedule a tour and learn about the

brilliant and vibrant exotic birds residing at the center.

Reines said he always saw himself working with birds, but he never thought this project would get as big as it did. It outgrew its own name.

“The AV-I-AN BI-O-DI-VER-SI-TY CEN-TER,” Reines counted out. “That’s 12 syllables — and most people have no idea what the word ‘avian’ means.”

In September, the Avian Biodiversity Center reopened as the Wildlife Conservation Center and relocated to a spacious plot in the Jefferson County community of Lamont. Reines acts as executive director.

The center is open to anyone, especially those who wish to learn more about the exotic species on display and how human interaction can help or hurt the environment.

“At the very least, we try to inspire people to care about the environment more,” Reines said.

Under its new name, the organization also gives refuge to animals other than birds. Lemurs, fruit bats and mudskippers now call the Wildlife Conservation Center home.

Yob, the organization’s collections manager, expressed excitement about the facility’s increased conservation efforts. photography by SAIGE ROBERTS

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“Obviously it’s great to be able to go in and interact with the lemurs every day and enrich them, but the success that we have had — just Ryan and I from the ground up — that is the most exciting thing to see,” she said.

The new organization opened on 10 acres in the Jefferson County location, and Reines has big plans for the facility. Or maybe tall plans.

“We have some eagles and hornbills coming still,” Reines said.

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Ryan David Reines credits one serendipitous moment that jump-started his project’s transition — a visit from National Geographic.

As founder of the magazine’s Photo Ark project, Joel Sartore travels around the globe and captures portraits of animal species in zoos and conservation areas to emphasize the interconnectedness of the earth’s wildlife. Many of his photos feature species at the Gulf Specimen Marine lab in Panacea.

It was here where the renowned photographer ran into Cassie Dupree-Sood, a biology graduate of Florida State University, who during the summer happened to be interning for both Reines’ organization and the Gulf Specimen Marine lab.

“I was messaging Ryan in a group chat and saying ‘Hey, Joel Sartore is here. How cool is that?’” Dupree-Sood said.

She mentioned to Sartore some of the exotic birds housed at the center. With Dupree-Sood’s assistance, Sartore and Reines arranged a photo shoot of some of Reines’ residents — a California red-shouldered hawk (middle) and two blackcasqued wattled hornbills. Sartore’s assistant supplied the photos seen here.

“We were able to see the whole process from start to finish,” Dupree-Sood said. “From bringing the animals into the set-up, seeing the shoot go on and seeing how the photos turn out.”

Reines referred to this moment as a turning point in his conservation efforts. With an addition of non-avian species such as lemurs, he noted that his project seemed to be moving past his initial vision.

“It very quickly outgrew my personal interests and really stopped being about me,” Reines said.

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GIVING IT A SPIN A first-timer experiences the fun and, yes, the frustration, of disc golf

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ike Paulette had game. He stepped onto the concrete platform, coiled his body so that his back turned slightly to his target, and let it zip. His disc breezed gradually upward in a straight line, as though it had a pilot inside, and floated gently to the ground about 275 feet away.

I wanted to be like Mike. I stepped onto the concrete platform, cocked my wrist, and let it blip. My disc started left, shifted dramatically right, as though it had a nutty pilot inside, and slammed to the ground about 75 feet away.

“By the time you play a few holes,” Paulette promised after my first tee shot, “you’ll be better.”

I’d heard about disc golf in the ’90s. A colleague told me how it cool it was, especially if I liked golf or stunk at golf. I told him I stunk at golf. He thought that was cool, too, but we never got around to playing.

Disc golf supposedly has been around in some form, usually in the shape of a disc, since before Scotch tape. Some accounts trace its birth to 1926 when students at a Canadian elementary school threw tin plates at whatever they felt made good targets.

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Clubs and associations would form, and so would a professional league, the Professional Disc Golf Association.

The Tallahassee Disc Golf Association’s website boasts about 100 members, including professional players such as Paulette, who claims the course record — 19-under par — at Tom Brown Park.

Paulette, 55, a resident of Crawfordville, met me at Tom Brown Park to give me an introduction to disc golf.

I spotted two things that distinguish a disc golf course: concrete tee platforms, at least at Tom Brown Park, and not flags on holes but holes on poles. The poles support baskets that catch your final shot.

Some holes reminded me of a regular golf course, with hilly, tree-lined fairways that eventually wind their way to a pin. Other holes reminded me of a hazardous hike.

Consider Tom Brown Park’s fourth hole, which looks like the Apalachicola National Forest. I hadn’t had much luck tossing a disc the traditional way — a backhanded snap — so I had switched to my forehand. I felt I was getting better, and I felt confident about my tee.

The Professional Disc Golf Association lists four Tallahassee course sites: Tom Brown Park (an especially popular course), Jack McLean Park (an especially challenging course), Florida A&M University and the Florida State University Reservation. At the FSU Reservation, non-FSU students pay a nominal fee.

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I hit a tree. My disc scooted to the right and landed about 15 feet from my toes.

“You’re hooking your fingers,” Paulette said. “That’s why you keep snapping it left.”

My second shot hit a tree and went about 50 feet.

“There you go,” Paulette said. “You made some progress.”

I eventually made it to the hole, but my disc rolled down a steep drop-off, a frustration that I recalled from golf and a frustration that inspired you — admit it — to once snap a golf club over an innocent oak. My next shot fell short of the hole and rolled back down the hill.

On that par 3, 190-foot hole, I scored an 8.

Disc golf courses measure holes in feet instead of yards, perhaps because it wouldn’t sound very interesting to say you birdied a 63-yard hole. It also wouldn’t be encouraging to know you quadruple-bogeyed a 63-yard hole.

But disc golf accentuates fun. Just as in golf, the rules say you must take your next shot from where you lie. Your angle and trouble dictate your type of throw, including forehand, backhand, overhead, hyzer and anhyzer.

Some tournaments feature funky rules that require a shot to go between specified trees or underneath an exposed root, for example.

“Just for the fun of it,” Paulette said.

Paulette says he started playing disc golf in 2006 when he took his kids to a park and saw those distinctive baskets. He thought he’d give it a shot, and he kept playing.

“I like competition,” he said. “I’d played every sport except for football, but this … I just love it.”

He became a professional player and says he topped $1,000 in two recent tournaments. The Professional Disc Golf Association credits him, as of early February, with 43 career victories and $33,901.42 in earnings.

Paulette says he prefers playing with his daughter on road trips or with folks who want to have fun and not take it too seriously.

“I play with my own age group,” he said. “We’re not worried about ‘foot faults’ or anything like that. We just play the game. In a tournament, we’ll play by the rules. But it’s just a game. It’s fun.”

Paulette carries in his disc bag more than 20 discs of different colors, sizes and rim thickness. Each offers options depending on whether he’s looking for distance, control or another advantage. A “putter” won’t fly far but will tend to travel straight, for example.

“You can conceivably play with one disc,” he said.

You can get a set of three for less than $20.

“Actually, a lot of golfers are switching to disc golf,” Paulette said. “This is a pretty cheap game. We get a lot of kids doing this.”

They also get a lot of older men trying it for the first time.

On the platform for my final hole, Paulette gave me a pep talk and a lesson on my backhanded tee shot.

“Hold the disc flat,” he said. “Turn your back toward the target a little bit. Go straight back” with the disc. “Pull it right by your chest, straight through.”

My tee shot went perhaps 125 feet, well short of the 400 feet that Paulette manages but my best toss of the day.

“The thing about beginners, they throw like you did — bam, bam,” Paulette said, making the sound of a disc hitting a tree.

“Now you’re throwing twice as far.” TM

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FOUR FACE OFF FOR FURRY FAME Tally Top Pet finalists vie for a coveted spot in Tallahassee Magazine

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The Final Fur of our Tally Top Pet contest features a Boykin spaniel named Duncan, a Pixiebob cat named Loic, a mixedbreed dog named Luna and a bulldog mix named Roxie.

They stand as Tallahassee’s fourlegged elite. They’re survivors — two of them from particularly harsh experiences — and they outlasted hundreds of dogs and

cats in a contest that celebrates pet ownership and adoption.

To establish a tournament field of 16, online voters late last year paid $1 per vote for their favorite pet, based on online photo submissions. All proceeds benefited Be the Solution, which provides vouchers for free spaying and neutering in an effort to decrease homeless pet populations and animal suffering. North Florida Animal Hospital serves as the contest sponsor and Be the Solution’s top partner in providing spaying and neutering services.

Online voting continued in

January, when the contest no longer required a $1 donation. We built an NCAA-style bracket in which we pitted one pet against another until we got down to fur — make that four.

Voting for the next round ends March 3, when we’ll be left with two pets. Voting on March 4-11 will crown the Tally Top Pet, who will grace the cover of Tallahassee Magazine’s May/June issue.

Take a look at our Final Fur. You’ll find no Kentucky Wildcats or dogs named Duke. But their owners insist you’ll find champions.

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Duncan To his forever family, he’s a “brown warrior.”

That’s one translation of Duncan’s name, derived from Gaelic.

“He spent his first two years in a pen,” Gina Smith said.

Smith and her fiancé, Craig Graham, said they adopted Duncan through Operation Little Brown Dog, a national nonprofit organization that rescues Boykin spaniels. The organization had rescued Duncan from a breeder who had kept him caged, they said.

Smith said Duncan was skittish and scared of strangers when she picked him up from a Jacksonville volunteer about a year ago.

“Duncan seemed to know immediately he was going to his forever home,” she wrote in a Tally Top Pet questionnaire. “On the entire drive to our house, he kept sticking his little

face into the front seat to lick my face to let me know he was so grateful to be going to his new home.”

His new owners call him smart, spunky, affectionate and energetic, with vertical jumps of up to six feet.

“Sometimes I think he’s on a pogo stick,” Smith said.

He likes to cuddle, to go on long hikes on wooded trails and to play with squeaky toys, his owners said.

He also likes bacon and a Tallahassee treat that many of us would find hard to swallow.

“He likes dry pine needles for some reason,” Graham said.

Smith and Graham said Duncan, their third rescue pup, has conquered his fears and “has given us back all the love and affection we have showered on him.”

He has done so “10 times over,” they said.

As the only non-canine in our Final Fur, Loic looks into the camera as if to say, “I’m a cat. Deal with it.”

But he’s hardly your typical household feline.

Loic loves to play fetch, and he places his favorite toy in front of you, just as a trained dog would. He follows his family all over the house and lets 8-year-old Saylor hold and carry him like a doll, says his owner, Bryan Honhart.

And that’s not all.

“He’ll walk you to the pantry door,” Honhart said. “He does this little dance move where he bumps his butt up against the door and kicks his hind legs up and down and meows until you give him a treat.”

Like other Pixie-bobs, Loic resembles a bobcat, especially

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because of his stub tail and muscular build. He’s bigger than the average house kitty.

“We have other cats as well,” Honhart said. “I think that due to his size, he kind of runs the place. He’s kind of commanding. He leads you to where he wants to be.”

About two years ago, Honhart said, he and his wife, Kelly, spotted Loic at an animal shelter. He’d been left there a half hour earlier, Bryan said.

“We fell in love with him and just had to have him,” the family wrote in a Tally Top Pet questionnaire.

Bryan and Kelly made the cover of Tallahassee Magazine’s January/ February 2015 issue, which trumpeted Valentine’s Day. Bryan said they’d love to see their cat follow them there.

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Luna To go with a scarf, Luna often dons a dinosaur sweatshirt. It suits her well, as she’s part golden retriever, part Brittany spaniel and part Tyrannopawrus rex.

“She loves to find anything she can possibly chew on,” said Emily Clark, Luna’s owner. “She has torn up part of my couch. She chewed up part of my mother’s living room table.”

During an interview in which she was too busy exploring to answer any questions, Luna even tried to eat our ear buds.

That’s not the ferociousness of a predator. It’s the friskiness of a puppy.

Luna, age 8 months, digs holes all over the backyard and runs the perimeter of the fence until everybody else is tired — of smiling.

It’s as if she knows we’re watching

her, with her big, soft ears, black and white paws and little white spots on her sides.

“She just wants to make everybody happy,” Clark said. “I think that is the only goal in her life.”

Luna is the product of an unexpected litter, Clark said. The owner of the mother dog expressed eagerness to part with the pups, and Clark took Luna home at age five weeks.

“She was an itty-bitty thing who could just sit in my hands,” she said.

She remains a handful, even at bedtime. At 9 p.m., Luna gets sent to her crate. If her owner doesn’t go to bed at the same time … uh oh.

“She just gets annoyed or howls the whole time,” Clark said.

Night or day, she said, Luna “can make you smile.”

Roxie She has an underbite, ears that don’t agree with each other and a story that sets her apart.

When online voters established the contest’s top 16 pets in early December, Roxie had spent more than 120 days in the Wakulla County Animal Shelter. She arrived there — for a second time — in July and remained there as of early February.

“This is rock star Roxie,” Ivanhoe Carroll, Wakulla County’s director of animal services, said as she introduced Roxie to Tally Top Pet’s panel of interviewers.

In late 2018, Carroll said, a family found Roxie in the Apalachicola National Forest. They took her to a vet, who treated her for heartworms and vaccinated her, at the family’s expense.

They then took her to the shelter.

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After about four months, Carroll said, a woman adopted Roxie and kept her for several months before her son — displaced by Hurricane Michael — had to move in with her. The son’s dog didn’t get along with Roxie, who in late July got returned to the shelter.

Roxie, a 3- or 4-year-old bulldog mix, sports scars on her face and ears, signs of a painful life and perhaps violence from other canines.

“It could have been that she lived with dogs who beat her up,” Carroll said.

Carroll described a funny thing that Roxie does at the shelter. When it’s time to go for a walk, she hops like a kangaroo — about three feet high.

She added about Roxie: “She’s not a leash puller, she’s not a barker, she’s not a digger. She’d be a great companion for anybody.”

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We all know Florida’s spring and summer are unpredictable. Blue, sunny skies one minute, clouds and a steady downpour the next. Not being properly prepared and outfitted can literally and figuratively put a damper on the day.

“The weather in Florida changes quickly without much notice,” said Lanny Lewis, managing member of

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We know what you’re thinking: Rainwear is bulky, uncomfortable and not stylish. You’re picturing it now, swishing around in a plastic coat and lugging heavy rain boots through puddles.

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Also, thin materials allow the jacket to pack into its own pocket, becoming small enough to fit in a purse or glove compartment.

“The ideal rain jacket is lightweight and easy to pack up or store in your car or backpack,” Lewis said. “When evaluating rain jackets, consider one that has extra protection around the seams and zippers.”

Rebecca Hopkins, a buyer with Kevin’s Fine Outdoor Gear and Apparel, cites three key factors you should seek in rain gear: lightweight, breathable and packable. She recommends brands that achieve this, including Patagonia, The North Face, Frogg Toggs, Columbia and Banded.

Breathable fabrics keep the rain out while letting air in so you don’t sweat in the jacket. An adjustable hood is also ideal if you want to keep the rain off your head while making sure the hood stays on and out of your field of vision.

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he sunscreen aisle at the big box store presents dozens of options.

You may find yourself attracted to the bright, blue-and-orange Banana Boat bottles. Or you may favor the pastel Neutrogena packaging. Perhaps you are a lifelong Coppertone user or stubbornly insist on a No-Ad variety.

But, in terms of preventing damage to your skin, what are the real and meaningful differences among the options?

Kansas Gowan, a licensed aesthetician at Tallahassee Plastic Surgery, advises people to select a sunscreen of at least 30 SPF (sun protection factor) and to make it part of a daily regimen.

“And choose a broad-spectrum sunscreen that is water-resistant,” she said. “You want a product that protects against both UVA and UVB radiation.”

UVA rays, Gowan explained, deeply penetrate the skin and cause long-term damage. UVB rays are those that produce sunburns.

“Even if it’s cloudy, apply your sunscreen,” she said. “They may not be as intense, but you are still going to get some of

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Gowan stressed that sun damage accumulates over time and may result in premature aging of the skin, fine lines and wrinkles and even skin cancer.

“There are so many benefits to using sunscreen,” Gowan said, citing a study that shows it can help reverse common signs of aging, including wrinkles or hyperpigmentation.

Tallahassee Plastic Surgery sells several varieties of sunscreen produced by SkinCeuticals.

Personally, Gowan favors one called Physical Fusion, which is tinted. Among untinted varieties, she mentioned Sheer Physical UV Defense. Both products offer broad-spectrum SPF 50 protection.

“A lot of people apply sunscreen once and think they are good for the day,” Gowan said. “They may even sense that they are burning, but still they tell themselves, ‘I’ve got my sunscreen on.’

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← Chicken, fajitas and margaritas stand

among favorites on El Jalisco’s menu, which the company recently updated to include healthier options that put less emphasis on oil and butter. ↑ The company counts on family members and friends to staff its restaurants.

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hen they get a moment to reflect on the zesty empire that their father cooked up, the nine children of Jose Jesus Carranza don’t ponder long.

“We just say, ‘Thank you, God,’” said a daughter, Maria Carranza.

Then they get back to work.

There’s an El Jalisco Mexican Restaurant, and then some, for each of them.

↑ Maria Carranza says she counts her family’s business as “a blessing.”

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In the 21 years since its founding, El Jalisco has exploded to locations throughout Northwest Florida. You can’t drive far in Tallahassee without running into one. And if you head toward the beach, you might run into one or two El Jaliscos on the way.

The company has grown so quickly that the retired founder’s eldest child must think about it when asked about the number of locations her family owns.

“We have … oh, wow,” Maria said. “There’s four in town. Then there’s Eastpoint, Blountstown and Crawfordville, so that’s seven ...”

She kept counting until she got to 11.

That includes one restaurant in Destin, one in Lynn Haven, one in Panama City and even one in Montgomery, Alabama — all run by brothers and sisters, other relatives or close associates.

The Carranza children suggest that they’re hardly hoarding and counting, except for what they call their blessings.

“The first two years were hard for us,” Maria said. “After that, I say, a blessing at a time.”

Some 23 years ago, Jose Jesus Carranza and his wife, Rosa Maria Torres, brought their family to the United States from the western Mexico state of Jalisco, which

they would consider a wonderful name for a restaurant. They found their way to Panama City, then moved to Marianna.

Jose was working in the Mexican restaurant business in 1999 when he spotted and leased a vacant former Waffle House in Eastpoint, a fishing community near Apalachicola. Family members painted the building and built booths and tables.

Jose opened it as a Mexican restaurant that, on the advice of the building’s owner, offered American breakfast.

That meant he had to learn about poached eggs, for example, and he got his family involved in everything. He’d cook.

His wife and oldest daughter would wait tables, and other children who were old enough would help in the kitchen.

It proved a challenge for the family, which at first made enough money only to pay the lease, Maria said. They also had problems getting buy-in from the community, which had little experience with Tex-Mex food — the predominant fare of Mexican restaurants in the U.S. — and with the new folks in town who made and served it.

“People were looking at us like, ‘You’re strangers. What are you doing here?’”

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↑ Grandchildren of Jose Jesus Carranza collect fresh eggs on his farm in Greensboro, where he raises plenty of chickens. → Jose Jesus works to ensure that he can continue to drink fresh milk and make his own cheese.

and it was like, ‘I don’t want to pay for that s---.’”

Other examples included a 25-cent tip from a table of seven and a woman who chastised her for not speaking English, she said. “They’d tell us, ‘Go back to your town. You’re illegal.’”

Family members said they’d respond to the cruelness with warmth, asking hostile customers what they could do to make them happy. In one such case, a woman who begrudgingly had come in regularly with her husband asked for an egg sandwich on wheat toast, an item not on the menu.

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SIBLINGS WITH SPICE

Managers of El Jalisco’s locations ➸ Capital Circle

Northeast: Jesus Carranza, son of the founder

➸ Kerry Forest Parkway:

Jose Carranza, son of the founder; Cristian Cano, family friend/associate

➸ North Monroe Street:

Carlos Bautista, Salvador Madrigal, Francisca Chinchilla, all family friends/associates; Maria Carranza, daughter of the founder

➸ SouthWood: Oscar

Gonzalez, Jonnathan Lozano and Reginey Mendez, all family friends/associates

➸ Crawfordville:

Eric Carranza, son of the founder; Juan Ramon Torres, family friend/associate ➸ Blountstown:

Consuelo Carranza, daughter of the founder; Antonio Barragan, her husband ➸ Eastpoint:

Gerardo Torres, brotherin-law of the founder ➸ Lynn Haven:

Esteban Solorzano, family friend/associate ➸ Panama City:

Angelica Carranza, daughter of the founder; Antonio Gallegos, her husband ➸ Destin: Ronnie Lopez

and Miguel Obregon, family friends/associates

➸ Montgomery, Alabama:

Monica Carranza, daughter of the founder

➸ General manager: Victor

Carranza, son of the founder

↑ Multiple generations appear in celebration mode at the Greensboro farm of Jose Jesus Carranza, the founder of El Jalisco Mexican Restaurant. ↖ Jose Jesus gets a kiss from daughter Consuelo at a recent family gathering.

The woman changed her attitude and demeanor when the restaurant delivered and kept delivering on her request, Maria said. Before long, she said, the woman would refer to servers and cooks as “my Jalisco family.”

“We had to let people know that we’re not bad people,” Maria said.

“We’re good people, and the reason we’re here is for work. I think people love us now because they see what kind of people we are — hardworking people.”

The 13-table location stayed full, prompting Jose Jesus Carranza to open locations in Blountstown and Crawfordville. In 2008, he opened his first Tallahassee location, on North Monroe Street, and later added locations on Capital Circle Northeast, in SouthWood and on Kerry Forest Parkway.

El Jalisco’s colorful new photoheavy menu features Tex-Mex favorites such as fajitas, burritos, quesadillas and more, plus a drink menu that trumpets the margarita.

Family members said the company has emphasized healthier eating,

with char-broiled options and less emphasis on oil and butter.

Recent restaurant improvements include a bigger, company-owned location in Eastpoint, a brand-new building in Crawfordville and about $300,000 in upgrades at North Monroe, they said. They aim to build more restaurants, perhaps in other parts of Florida, when the time is right.

“Everybody knows El Jalisco now,” said Victor Carranza, 32, a younger brother of Maria Carmen, 44. “It takes time to let people know that we’ve got good food.”

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Victor serves as general manager. He oversees operations, including menus of all 11 restaurants. He also owns two rivals: Cancun’s Sports Bar and Grill, on West Tennessee Street, and Sabor Fresh Mexican Food, on West Call Street.

To underscore El Jalisco’s unconventional, familyfocused corporate structure, the founder’s eldest child said she doesn’t carry a title.

“I work anywhere they put me to work,” Maria said with a laugh.

She largely divides her time among the North Monroe Street, SouthWood and Kerry Forest Parkway restaurants, serving as hostess, helping in the kitchen, washing dishes or waiting tables. When pressed, she acknowledges that she helps manage the North Monroe Street location.

“If we don’t have people to do the job,” she said, “we do the job.”

She said she and her siblings must be prepared to work on weekends or without notice if an employee doesn’t show up for work. That also goes for a younger sister, Alma Totten, who stays home with her kids but helps when she’s needed.

As their father did, the siblings also get help from their children.

Their mom does the bookkeeping, and their dad — though retired — can’t stay away. He frequently shows up at his restaurants to watch what’s going on.

Non-family employees say they’re happy to have earned the family’s trust. When the family has a cookout or celebrates a birthday party, all employees get an invitation, said Francisca Chinchilla, who helps run the North Monroe Street location.

“They treat you like family, and that makes a difference,” she said.

On Sundays, family members meet in the Gadsden County town of Greensboro, where the patriarch and founder of their growing empire raises cows, goats and chickens, drinks fresh milk daily and makes his own cheese.

“He waits for us,” Maria said, referring to the Sunday routine. “The first person who comes to the house has to cook the food.” TM

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DINING IN

A SLICE OF REALITY Bread baking is complicated, but here’s reason for hope

by JANECIA BRITT

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love “The Great British Bake Off.” My favorite pastime involves cozying up with blankets and watching it on my couch.

Maybe it’s the juxtaposition of wholesome friendships between contestants and very critical judges, or maybe it’s the fact that I just love baked goods and I love to bake.

Yet despite my obsession with the reality TV show, I never attempted to make any of the delicious goods that I’d seen on screen until I decided I wanted to learn to bake bread.

Though bread baking is not easy, plenty of recipies claim that it is. I ventured to make a “quick, no-knead loaf” that promised a professional light and airy taste.

So on a Sunday morning, I got to work. I followed the recipe with the hope of parading a delicious loaf around my office the next day.

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I didn’t have a stand mixer or a dutch oven, but I had determination. That was all I needed, right?

Wrong. I let the ingredients begin to foam so that little bubbles cracked and popped in the bottom of my mixing bowl.

I created the delicious sound of yeast activation, but then I failed miserably.

The dough didn’t rise. When I took the so-called bread out the oven, it was dense, heavy and burned at the bottom. It looked nothing like what saw in the photos.

Like the bread, I was crushed.

Unlike on “Bake Off,” I had no host to cheer me up with a witty retort or a fellow contestant to give me a hug and offer some tea.

I stared at my sad excuse for a loaf and decided that bread wasn’t my thing.

I’ll just stick to cookies and cake, I thought.

That is until a few weeks later when I

spotted Pancake Bread at Trader Joe’s — a self-described “buttery and delicious maple-flavored loaf that resembles a banana bread with a sugary crumb on the top.”

That was bread enough for me, and I resolved to make it.

I found a copycat recipe online from the Table For Two blog and got started on my comeback.

I followed each step to the letter and whispered kind words to the batter.

And when I pulled it out of the oven, it was perfect — a golden-brown loaf that was close-textured but still light and fluffy.

The smell of maple filled the air, and the notes of cinnamon intoxicated me.

I had made bread.

And when I brought the loaf to the office, praise filled the room. I felt like a Star Baker. TM photography by SAIGE ROBERTS

Trader Joe’s Pancake Bread Copycat Recipe

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INGREDIENTS FOR THE CRUMB TOPPING:

➸ ⅓ cup granulated sugar ➸ ⅓ cup dark brown sugar, packed ➸ ¾ teaspoon ground cinnamon ➸ 8 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted ➸ 1 ¼ cup all-purpose flour ➸ Pinch of salt FOR THE BREAD BATTER:

➸ 2 cups all-purpose flour ➸½ teaspoon baking soda ➸ ¼ teaspoon baking powder ➸¼ cup malted milk powder ➸ ¼ teaspoon salt ➸ 8 tablespoons unsalted butter, room temperature ➸ ½ cup granulated sugar ➸ 2 eggs, room temperature ➸ ½ cup buttermilk ➸ ½ cup maple syrup ➸ 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Recipe from Table For Two Blog tablefortwoblog.com

1 Preheat the oven to 325 degrees and line a 9x5-inch loaf pan with parchment paper overhanging on both sides. Lightly spray with cooking spray.

Set aside.

2 In a medium bowl,

mix together all the ingredients for the topping. It will resemble coarse crumbs that are peashaped with various sizes (some will be powdery and some will form into balls).

If you take some into your hand and firmly

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grasp it and it holds it shape, it is all good.

Set aside.

3 In a large bowl,

whisk together flour, baking soda, baking powder, malt powder and salt.

4 In the bowl of a

stand mixer with the paddle attachment, or a regular bowl with a hand mixer, beat together butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add the eggs, one at a time, and mix after each addition.

Add the buttermilk,

maple syrup and vanilla extract and mix.

5 Pour half the dry mixture into the wet ingredient bowl and mix until no flour remains. Pour the remaining dry mixture into the bowl and mix until just incorporated.

6 Pour batter into the

prepared loaf pan.

7 Top with the crumb topping in an even, THICK layer. Don’t press/push it down into the batter. Just let it sit on top.

8 Place the loaf pan on top of a large baking sheet in case the crumb mixture spills over during baking. Bake for 90100 minutes, or until a wooden toothpick stuck in the center comes out clean.

9 Let cool for 15 minutes. Run a knife around the edges, then carefully lift out the loaf by the two sides of parchment paper and place on a wire rack to cool completely. Slice, serve and enjoy!

Ovens vary in temperature, so keep an eye on it. If you notice the edges are getting very brown, tent the pan with foil for the remainder of baking. The exterior of the bread will be slightly darker in color than normal because of the sugar and butter content.

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SHEDDING LIGHT ON 19TH CENTURY APALACHICOLA story by

DANIELLE J. BROWN

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At right, Lou Hill holds a medicinal bottle from his excavation of an Apalachicola apothecary shop, or drugstore, from the early to middle 1800s, before weather and fire devastated the bustling seaport. The drugstore site was among about a dozen that Hill says he excavated, with landowners’ permission, professional archaeological consultation and help from his friend, the late Lee Willis. This bottle and other artifacts came from “when the building burned and fell, and it was left on the floor” before more than a century of debris covered it, he said. To his left is an old chamber pot, or potty, from Apalachicola.

“Everybody had one of those under their bed,” he said.

At left, Hill shares a goody unrelated to his Apalachicola project — from his collection of military buttons. It probably dates to the 1820s or 1830s, he said.

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used to display the skull of an extinct cave bear upon the table at the threshold of his home, expecting to startle visitors.

As the maw of the cave bear skull greeted guests at the door, Hill observed how many of them passed by the mouthful of carnivorous teeth without even noticing the skull.

“It’s amazing what people don’t see and what they do see,” he said.

These days, Hill mostly sees Apalachicola because that’s where his interest in archaeology has taken him.

His keen eye for hidden treasures began in high school, scouring river bottoms for arrowheads.

Dr. Lou Hill, a familiar Tallahassee name, is more known for his career as a plastic surgeon. Now retired, he credits his surgical work as a means to fund his lifelong archaeology passion.

Hill and his wife, realtor Calynne Hill, now fill their home with an extensive collection of art, artifacts and oddities. In one corner, a trove of Catholic artwork lines the walls. An assortment of traditional African masks gathers in another.

A menagerie of skulls and teeth from extinct and extant animal species litter the shelves. The cave bear skull, and former doorman of the Hill home, currently rests on a display stand with his fellow critters.

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A visitor might find these artifacts, bones and other pieces from far reaching lands and distant times awe-inspiring, yet Hill highly values the pieces he finds closer to home.

During a 10-year excavation of Apalachicola plots that began in 1996, he found anthropologic value in shop relics and drugstore ruins from the 19th century.

With consultation of professional archaeologists and his friend Lee Willis, who passed away in 2009, the crew uncovered heaps of artifacts in the Apalachicola area.

In the 1830s, Apalachicola served as the thirdlargest cotton port on the Gulf of Mexico, Hill said, noting that the Civil War and railroads that bypassed the port sparked its downfall.

Former antebellum shops and businesses would hold great archaeological and historical insight to his question: “What happened to the pre-Civil War buildings on the city’s oncebusting waterfront?”

His answer: hurricanes, particularly one in 1851, and fires from 1844 and 1846 — long before Apalachicola’s (continued to page 157)

PHOTO COURTESY STATE ARCHIVES OF FLORIDA, FLORIDA MEMORY (APALACHICOLA SPONGE EXCHANGE BUILDING)

The photo above, which Hill suspects dates to around the late 19th century, shows the back of the Ruge building, which no longer exists, and, at right, part of the still-present Apalachicola Sponge Exchange building. It was between those lots where Hill says he found, among other things, the skull at left. It is that of a domestic cat, probably from the late 1800s, he said.

At left, Hill holds an Indian bowl that he said he found intact “but predates the occupation by white people” — 900 AD to 1,600 AD. “We call them the Fort Walton Culture or the Mississippian Culture.

They were the Indians around here when the Spanish came.”

Hill holds a reconstructed piece of transfer ware from his work in Apalachicola.

It’s probably from the 1820s, he said.

Note the small darker section above his right thumb. That’s where a piece was missing, and Hill restored it with plaster and paint. At top left is a Greek vase, with print artwork from around 1850 in Apalachicola. At bottom left, Hill holds a commemorative flask from his work in Apalachicola. “You can date it by what’s on it,” he said. “This one has an eagle on one side and probably dates to the late 1820s, mid-1830s.”

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Remembering

Shade Tobacco in Havana Stories of the crop that led to the rise and fall of a rural community

BY ROSANNE DUNKELBERGER

Today, day-tripping Tallahassee residents might drive 30 minutes north on U.S. 27 and visit the small Gadsden County town of Havana to enjoy shopping or a meal in one of its charming, historic brick buildings.

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But the youngsters who grew up there — now senior citizens — recall a time when those buildings were filled with grocery and hardware stores, doctor and dentist offices, car dealerships, packing houses and sweet shops.

All were courtesy of the area’s lucrative, labor-intensive and only industry — shade tobacco, built largely on the backs of African Americans, from slavery through Jim Crow segregation and the civil rights era.

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Over a short time beginning in the late 1960s, the shade tobacco boom would go bust, with one last small crop harvested in 1977. All that’s left today are a few plants growing in pots on the front porch of Havana’s Shade Tobacco Museum, relics of a time gone by.

Almost immediately, the downtown emptied. The young people who hadn’t already been lured away by city living moved. Some found jobs in Tallahassee and commuted to work. Some of the poorest moved on to farm work in other places, but others stayed at the only place they had ever lived.

A renaissance of Havana’s downtown began in the early 1990s, when Keith Henderson bought a block of derelict buildings, opened his own store and rented others as antique and other small shops. But the Great Recession brought whatever progress had been made to a halt, and, once again, the town struggled to regain its footing.

For about 65 years in the early to middle 20th century, pretty much everybody in Havana and the surrounding hamlets

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worked in the thriving business of growing, curing, packing and shipping shade tobacco. A local fast-pitch softball team was called the “Wrappers” — a nod to the fact that the crop was used as a cigar’s outer covering — and the county’s belle was crowned Tobacco Queen.

“This was known as the shade tobacco capital of the world,” said Bill Piotrowski, a longtime resident of Havana and cochair of the Havana History & Heritage Society. “That claim is based on the fact that in 1900 at the Paris World’s Fair, the tobacco from this area was rated as the best tobacco in the world.”

And in its heyday in the mid-1960s, more than 6,000 acres in the 40-mile-wide region were “under shade,” with just over 2,200 tobacco barns used for drying out the crop, Piotrowski said.

Although the broad-leafed plant itself grows tall — between 6 and 9 feet — the “shade” in its name refers to how it is grown.

In the early days, wooden slats were installed above the plants to filter the sunlight, then farmers switched to cheesecloth, then to a

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Bill Piotrowski, Nell Cunningham, Bobby Ray Durden and Nick Bert stand recently in front of the Havana Shade Tobacco Museum. Undated photo at right shows a worker pulling a part of a new crop.

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together,” recalled Bobby Ray Durden, who grew up on his father’s tobacco farm.

Primers were usually teenagers and men who would stand at the plants and hand a stack of leaves to the luggers (some farms called them “toters”) to run up the row of plants to the barge.

“Us luggers kind of graduated up,” said Nick Bert, whose family owned the Bert Brothers tobacco farm in Scotland, a town south of Havana where county roads 270 and 159 meet. “Primers would stack ’em up until they got a pretty good stack, and if the lugger was dilly-dallying around, they’d start hollering at you.”

Mules or tractors dragged the barges to the tobacco barns where they would be unloaded by “table waiters,” who would transfer the leaves to “stringers.” These women would thread about 30 tobacco leaves onto a string and attach them to a stick brought in bundles in stacks of 50 by “stick boys” and then hang them on a rack.

Ultimately, the sticks would be collected by “rack toters.”

“They’d take it from there and carry it to the guy that was handing it up to people in the barn because they started at the top,” Durden said. Barns would be filled, top to bottom, with leaves on sticks to dry out and cure.

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↖ Tobacco hangs in a curing barn. In the top photo, a woman takes stick tobacco off a stringing machine. Above, a woman stacks picked tobacco leaves. During those segregated times, African American students were let out of school early so that youngsters could help with the tobacco planting and growing.

“When you started at the top, you were way up there, and you probably had four or five guys on tiers spaced all the way down so the bottom guy on the ground — they called it “punching” — he’d hand the stick to the first guy and pass ’em up to each other,” Bert continued.

Havana-born Nell Cunningham recalls transferring tobacco from the wagon to the stringing tables when she was in high school. Now 92, she’s active in the historical society and reminisces with other members, most of whom worked in tobacco, too.

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fine plastic mesh. Grown in the shade, the leaves would be thinner, more pliable and have a better flavor.

In the 1950s, he said, regular tobacco would fetch 80 cents per pound. During that time, a farmer could sell quality shade tobacco for 10 times that price.

“As an agricultural investment, it was very, very profitable. Now, the challenging side is it’s a very complex industry where there’s as much art and craftsmanship involved in the growing of shade tobacco and the development of a seed,” Piotrowski continued. “And the most complicated is the curing and the aging process. …

There’s quite a bit of craftsmanship to it.”

But the locals who grew up working with shade tobacco weren’t aware of the craftsmanship; they just had to make sure they didn’t poke a hole in the leaves when they were working. That would render them useless for the cigar.

The industry had its own vocabulary and hierarchy, and at the bottom were the “luggers,” youngsters who grabbed the freshly picked green leaves from the “primers” and ran them to the “barge,” a wagon that would take them to the tobacco barns for drying.

“A ‘lugger’ was a kid, say 10 to 12. Girls and boys, black and white. All worked

HAVANA’S EFFORT TO REBUILD

Long after its tobacco boom, town faces familiar Main Street issues

AS A NEWCOMER MORE THAN 25 YEARS AGO TO HAVANA’S DOWNTOWN, Tony Lombardo went into business with his globetrotting daughter hoping to keep her in one place for a while.

At that time, the historic old brick buildings that lined the streets were experiencing a bit of a renaissance. They had been derelict for decades after the town’s economic decline, but many were purchased and renovated by Keith Henderson, the late founder of H&H Furniture.

Lombardo and his daughter, Terri Paul, would open Wanderings — “a little bitty store” selling international crafts — in 1993 and move the retail business two years later into a refurbished old warehouse, where it remains.

“Terri and I traveled together and brought back things from all over the world,” Lombardo said.

The business grew exponentially from 1993 through the mid-2000s, he said. “The whole town was growing during that period.”

Then came the Great Recession, which “killed our business as well as many others,” he said.

Wanderings revamped its inventory in order to stay afloat, moving into selling

furniture and home accessories and jewelry and recently adding a coffee shop.

But, Lombardo said, other storefronts emptied, and other factors, including internet sales, conspired to hamper the town’s business recovery. But he’s banking on a nationwide effort called Main Street America, which encourages preservationbased economic revitalization of historic downtowns.

Lombardo, a retired Bell South executive, volunteered to become executive director of Havana’s Main Street group and has worked long weeks for three or four years to shepherd the effort. After applying for and getting a grant, Havana approved a comprehensive master plan for its downtown.

Amid meetings with community members, politicians, government agencies and business owners, Lombardo says he sees everso-slow progress relating to “Main Street.”

Unfortunately for Havana, that main street is U.S. Highway 27, a four-lane route that bisects the town, with only 36-inch sidewalks between the street and buildings. Much of Lombardo’s Main Street efforts have been focused on addressing the problem.

“People will not cross the

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Tony Lombardo and his daughter, Terri Paul, inside their store Wanderings

street when trucks come racing through,” Paul said.

A possible solution was to narrow the highway to two lanes as it passes through downtown, allowing for wider sidewalks and streetscaping. But U.S. 27 serves as an evacuation route, and the Florida Department of Transportation says it isn’t planning a reduction of lanes there, Lombardo said.

Yet DOT planned by next year “to try to do some things to slow traffic,” he said.

In the meantime, Havana Main Street supports events that get people downtown.

Among them is a series of four concerts, including one that was scheduled for late February as part of the Havana Hills Spring Classic bicycle ride. “We’re trying to make Havana a bicycle destination,” Lombardo said.

Havana’s Music on Main Street Festival, featuring Tobacco Rd Band, is scheduled April 25.

As part of its downtown revitalization effort, Lombardo said, Havana Main Street

purchased the old Havana State Bank building, with plans to restore it through a communitybased capital campaign. “We really don’t want to lose another historic building,” he said.

The Main Street process urges involvement from the entire community. For Havana, that created a different sort of dilemma.

“The community basically wants a service town,” Lombardo said. “In other words, they want it to be what it was when it was the shade tobacco industry. They want their barbershops and their theaters and their grocery stores and their ice cream parlors.

“But this town can’t exist with just that kind of service.

We’ve got to be able to attract visitors. … We’ve got to have things that are going to attract people who will spend money and at the same time try to meet some of the needs that the community gives us as well.

It’s an interesting contrast, and it’s a hard thing to fix.”

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Author Lewis Thigpen, from the Gadsden County community of Sawdust, stands in front of a barn used decades ago for the processing of shade tobacco.

“I made a dollar and a quarter a week, and they paid you on Friday in one of those little brown envelopes,” she said.

When she explained this to folks 30 years younger who once worked in the industry, she said, “They all laughed. They are a lot younger than I am, so they made five dollars a week, but I can remember, a dollar and a quarter.”

‘It Was Not A Party’ Shade tobacco in Gadsden County dates to before the Civil War when plantation owners used slave labor to cultivate the crop.

After emancipation, sharecropping emerged as a widespread agricultural system in the South, and written accounts say it remained part of the local shade

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tobacco industry until at least the middle of the 20th century.

Debt peonage, a practice that kept workers in servitude, continued in the industry “certainly up until World War II,” Robert T. Pando wrote in a 2003 master’s thesis available online from Florida State University Libraries.

Titus Brown, a professor of history at Florida A&M University, said debt peonage persisted in northern Florida and southern Georgia agriculture up to the civil rights movement. Asked if that included Gadsden County’s shade tobacco industry, Brown said: “It was all over. I don’t know how that would have escaped it.”

Pando’s 2003 thesis told of one former

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farm worker who recalled that she, her siblings and other workers were not allowed to speak while on the job. “We were indentured servants,” she recalled in the paper. Another woman described the work as ‘oppressive, exploitive … but with beauty.’ ” Piotrowski, the co-chair of the Havana History & Heritage Society, acknowledged problems in what he called isolated shade tobacco communities. “While the communities are very connected,” he said, “they’re very isolated. A farm here, a farm there.”

Nora Brown James said she worked on a Gadsden County shade tobacco farm beginning at age 6 in the early 1940s.

She recalled multiple families living in

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farmhouses and that “everybody was just sort of like a big family on the farm.”

Her mother and grandmother would string tobacco onto sticks, and she’d pick up any leaves that fell, she said.

“The work was tough, but the workers were treated fairly, I would say,” James said in her Havana home. “Nobody was abused or anything of that sort.”

But African Americans had to take special care not to do anything to upset farm owners or any other whites. In a new book, Born and Raised in Sawdust: My Journey Around the World in Eighty Years, African American author Lewis Thigpen, from the Gadsden County community “The work of Sawdust, shares a was tough, but story from the late 1940s when his father the workers sharecropped with were treated a white Gadsden fairly, I would County farmer. say. Nobody Thigpen writes was abused that his father scolded him for getting into or anything of a confrontation in a that sort.” tobacco barn with the — Nora Brown James eldest of the farmer’s sons. Thigpen says he was 9 at the time.

“In retrospect,” Thigpen writes, “I understood that my father was only trying to protect me, because it didn’t matter that the white boy was older or in the wrong.

If that white family chose to punish me — or my family for that matter — the law was not going to protect us. Raising black children in the Jim Crow South, our parents walked a thin line. They wanted us to grow up strong and proud, yet they feared for our safety and our very lives if we challenged white people in any way or spoke up against racism and mistreatment.”

Thigpen adds that the two families got along well and that his family maintained a close relationship through the years with the farmer’s eldest son.

Asked to share his overarching memory of his experience in shade tobacco, Thigpen told Tallahassee Magazine in a phone interview: “One of the things I would say is child abuse. We had those kids working on the field 5 years old and up. I would call

worked to support his mother, he said, that child abuse now. Everybody I think and he had siblings who would choose the would call that child abuse now.” tobacco fields over school. Children in He added: “I’m an old man now, but other African American families would do I don’t know how I survived this long, the same, he said. because during the early times when we During those segregated times, African were working on those farms, they were American students who decided not to quit dusting the poison. We got poison all over school were let out of school early so that us working in those fields.” they could help with the tobacco planting Dr. Thigpen, 81, made his comments and growing. in Gadsden County, where he was “Black people were conditioned to make visiting during the holidays. He lives in the best out of whatever situation we were Alexandria, Virginia, where he landed in,” Myrick said, “and that’s how we got to amid a notable career in research and where we are today, through making good teaching as a mechanical engineer. out of bad times.”

In “Voices of Havana,” a video White folks emphasize their contributions production of the Havana History & as well.

Thelma Todd Conner, shop manager Heritage Society, Nora Brown James of the Havana History & Heritage Society’s says: “I tell everybody we were rich in Shade Tobacco Museum, recalled working that we had love for each other, not only in a shade tobacco barn “from dawn to dark.” our families but our neighbors.

When you’re in an environment where everybody is concerned about everybody, that makes for a wonderful environment.”

Lorenzo Myrick, who worked in shade tobacco as a child and graduated from Quincy’s Shanks High School in 1978, said he and other African Americans had “a way of taking lemons and making lemonade in life.”

“So, surely, you’re going to remember ‘good’ times because you’re going to make your bad times good, to make life worth living,” he told Tallahassee Magazine. “It was a way of life.

You want to make some money.

You go out there and work hard.

But it was not a party out there.”

Myrick said he worked as a tobacco lugger, or “toter,” in the late 1960s when he was 8 or 9.

He recalled having to work with “whatever nature presented,” including snakes.

He said he made about 75 cents an hour.

“No, life wasn’t fair,” he said.

“But it was what we had to do to live, to survive. We weren’t thinking about the fairness of it.

Havana resident Nora Brown James recalled a time It was presented to us, and we from the early 1940s when multiple families lived in made life work.” farmhouses and “everybody was just sort of like a big family on the farm.”

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“I grew up here, and I grew up poor,” she told Tallahassee Magazine. “But I didn’t know I was poor.”

Piotrowski, of the Havana History & Heritage Society, emphasized “the economics and reality of the time.”

“The people who lived here, they didn’t have the capability to move somewhere else, and they had to work and make the most of what they did, and the farmers tried to accommodate that,” he said.

That “made the industry viable, because it couldn’t happen without a workforce, including the farmers themselves, with blacks and whites together. That was the reality that was here.”

The school year was scheduled around the harvest season, which started in late May and lasted about five or six weeks. “A lot of times you’d be done by the Fourth of July, sometimes you wouldn’t,” said Durden, who grew up on his father’s tobacco farm.

The work was only done on weekdays.

Saturdays and Sundays, everybody was off.

Those who worked as children recall two things: heat and dirt.

“It was hard, dirty, stinky, hot sometimes, wet if it rained,” said Donna Warlick, who started working in the barns when she was 7. While some historical photos show barefoot children, Warlick was sure she wore shoes.

“Some of the workers dipped snuff, and if you stepped in that, it was not pleasant,” she said. “I learned to dip snuff from one of the ladies.” The men chewed tobacco.

Around January, plants sprouted from tiny seeds and then were replanted until they grew 6 to 8 inches tall.

Once plants were in the ground, workers would “bud poison,” a process explained by Jim Campbell in the book Something Gold, a collection of interviews about Gadsden County’s shade tobacco era.

“Each of them had a little bag around their waist with arsenic of lead,” Campbell told author Kay Davis Lay. “They’d mix arsenic of lead with cornmeal and then open the bud with two fingers of one hand and take a little poison put in there with the other hand. They’d just wipe their hands and eat lunch.” It was banned as an insecticide in 1988.

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A woman strings tobacco in this undated photo. “Stringers” would thread about 30 tobacco leaves onto a string and attach them to a stick. “Rack toters” would then collect and transport stacks of sticks.

Wires or wood slats held up the shading material over the plants. A piece of string was attached to the wires, and the tobacco was wound around the string as it grew to help keep it straight.

At harvest time, the first leaves primed were the “sand leaves,” so called because rain would cause sand and dirt to be kicked up onto the leaves. “Oooh, that was a dirty job,” Bert said.

The best-quality leaves were the “middles,” named for where they grew on the plant, while the lowest-grade were the “tops,” thicker and less pliable because they were more exposed to the sunlight.

The tobacco would spend about a month in the barns curing, and farmers took care to make sure their leaves were not too wet or dry. In the early days, charcoal fires were burned on the ground inside the barn, which later led to oil-fired burners.

Fire was always a threat, and you could count on one or two barns burning every year.

“If a tobacco barn caught on fire, you didn’t try to put it out,” Durden said. “You just tried to prevent it from spreading.”

Once dried, the tobacco was taken down from the rafters and removed from the stick, and the stems were wrapped with the string to make a “hand” of tobacco.

The hands were layered and trucked to packing houses, many of them in Havana.

The tobacco would be weighed, which was

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how the farmer would be paid, but not until the tobacco had been processed and shipped to the buyer.

Year-round work was available for “strippers,” women who removed the thick center stem and placed each side in a stack. Left sides and right sides were not mixed and were rolled differently. Those leaves were baled and stored until a buyer wanted them shipped. Well preserved, they could stay in the warehouse for years.

Farmers had one payday a year, usually around November. In some cases, manufacturers such as Hav-A-Tampa would advance money, which the farmer could draw upon to buy supplies, pay workers and pay household expenses.

“We always hoped you settled up (with the buyers) before Christmas, if you had anything coming,” said Durden, whose family farmed about 15 acres. “And you were already starting another crop before you knew what you got for your last crop, really more or less.”

Rolling to an End By the late ’60s, Havana’s shade tobacco business was beginning to decline, and the economic underpinning of the town would be pretty much gone in less than 10 years.

“Probably five or six years you could see the decline coming,” Bert said. “But people hung on as long as they could.” (continued to page 159)

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A rack toter carries tobacco from a stringer’s table to the tobacco barn. Once dried, workers took the tobacco down from the barn’s rafters and removed it from the stick. The stems were wrapped with the string to make a “hand” of tobacco.

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A FOUNDATION OF FAITH, COMMUNITY, ACTION BETHEL MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH POINTS TO A ‘PROUD,’ ‘SOBERING’ HISTORY AS IT CELEBRATES 150 YEARS Sixth in a series on Tallahassee’s historic churches

hey had no framework, at least in terms of a physical structure, but they had faith. So, in the early 1830s, enslaved blacks began worshipping on the Leon County plantation of John Parkhill.

Those worshippers eventually would start meeting regularly inside an old building on the property, where a man named James Page — a slave who served as Parkhill’s favored and personal servant — would lead the services.

Page’s followers and influence would grow. Plantation owners saw him as a man they could trust to preach a theology that would keep their slaves in line, according to a 1997 paper by Leslie L. Ashford, a Florida A&M University student at the time.

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He would push far beyond that.

In 1870, around the time he became a Leon County commissioner, Page started his second church: Bethel Baptist in Tallahassee. To meet the needs of the black community, Rev. Page → Rev. Dr. R.B. would use his position as pastor Holmes, who has to raise funds through concerts, been Bethel’s pastor festivals and other events, said since 1986, says the church aims Ashford’s paper, which appeared to transform “the in what’s now called “The Journal lives of people for of African American History.” the glory of God and for the good of the “… he wanted to do more to free community.” blacks in Leon County of their deprived condition.”

Bethel Missionary Baptist Church this year celebrates its 150th anniversary in the spirit of Rev. Page. It aims to transform “the lives of people for the glory of God and for the good of the community,” said Rev. Dr. R.B. Holmes, Jr., the church’s pastor since 1986.

Its sanctuary on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, which in 1976 replaced the building that Rev. Page opened more than 100 years earlier, stands as the epicenter of the church’s community-based projects and initiatives. The church launched Bethel Christian Academy for schoolage children, the Family Counseling and Outreach Center for individuals and American mayor, James Ford; Florida’s first families, and Bethel Towers for senior citizens, for example.

African American state Supreme Court Perhaps Bethel’s most prominent chief justice, Leander J. Shaw, Jr.; and Leon moments date to the civil rights movement County’s first woman and African American under Rev. C.K. Steele, who organized the to serve as its tax collector, Doris Maloy.

1956 Tallahassee bus boycott, marched with Of the church, Rev. Holmes said, “It has Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and served a proud history, a very sobering history. So, as a founding member of the Southern we’re very thankful to our foreparents who Christian Leadership Conference. left this place in good shape.”

The Tallahassee bus boycott, a protest Rev. Holmes sat down with Tallahassee of segregated seating on city buses, started Magazine recently to discuss the church’s shortly after the Montgomery bus boycott, history, membership, community engagea long mass protest that ended with a ment and more. We edited for length and U.S. Supreme Court ruling that declared context. segregation on public buses unconstitutional.

“The civil rights movement was not ON THE CHURCH’S HISTORY … figuratively but literally birthed at the “Bethel just celebrated her 149th church church,” Rev. Holmes said.

Bethel’s membership boasts a litany of anniversary. Since 1870 to the present, firsts, including Tallahassee’s first African the church has been around historically,

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politically, socially and spiritually … and this church has always been in the forefront of major events. As you know, the civil rights movement was not figuratively but literally birthed at the church and the leadership of the saintly Rev. C.K. Steele.

So, Bethel always had that kind of mission, a church that like was ordained to be in the forefront of lifting oppressed people — the least, the last, the lonely.

“From a historical economic development perspective, the church always encouraged folk to become entrepreneurs, to understand enterprise, to leave something behind for the next generation. From a spiritual perspective, it is where I’m most thankful. We’ve seen thousands and thousands of people in these 149 years literally change their lives by believing in our lord and savior, Jesus Christ.”

ON THE CONGREGATION …

“We’ve got a good, strong group of baby boomers, a thriving group of millennials, a good children’s church, a good youth church. We’re a well-educated church and a very stable church financially, with a very familyfriendly culture.”

ON THE CHURCH’S IDEAS, TENETS AND BELIEFS …

“We’re very cut from the cloth of what somebody may call traditional.

We believe in the Christian faith.

We believe that people do better, perhaps physically, emotionally, spiritually, economically, when they have a relationship with our lord and savior, Jesus Christ. We believe a person does better when they have a sense of faith — not denomination — but faith. At the same time, we … I preach Jesus — death, burial and resurrection.

Also, we love our neighbors. They may be gay, straight, transgender.

God loves everybody. So, we embrace people. We’re not judgmental. When you’re an African American church, you know the pain of discrimination. So why would you discriminate against a person’s age or sex or gender or race or even religion?

“We embrace immigrants. I know (televangelist) Paula White doesn’t agree with this, but Jesus was an immigrant. And the Bible talks a whole lot about strangers and the poor. So, I’m not too sure that I preach hell and brimstone, but I don’t preach prosperity gospel. There’s nothing wrong with wealth and health, but Jesus did not come to make us millionaires or billionaires or poor. He came to bless us with resources to bless others.”

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ON INTERNAL EVENTS THAT HAVE PROVEN A CHALLENGE …

“I think the greatest challenge here was during the civil rights movement: Should the church be engaged in civil rights protests, or should we wait for Jesus to come to solve it? Some felt that the church ought not be involved in that.

But we felt that you are not living up to the Christian creed if you don’t speak … truth to power, to tell the folk what is right and what is wrong.”

ON THE CHURCH’S WORK TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN SOCIETY …

“Our theme is transforming the lives of people for the glory of God and for the good of the community. Matthew 5:16 — ‘Let your light so shine before men and women that they may see your good works and glorify your Father who is in heaven.’

So, our message and ministry and mission is to be light in a dark world and to be hope in time of despair. Our mission is not to become so stain-glass-centered just on Sunday morning and do nothing about folks’ lives Monday through Saturday. So that has been the history of Bethel. We believe in transforming the community, and once we transform, we don’t give the glory to the pastor or folk. We give the glory to God.”

ON MEETING WITH OTHER CHURCHES IN TOWN TO DISCUSS THE BIGGER PICTURE …

“We have great relationships with the white clergy and the Jewish clergy. And during Lenten season, the Christians will get together and exchange pulpits. That has been very, very hopeful, very helpful and very wholesome. We have a great relationship with the ministers. It’s very ecumenical. And I think we need to do more

of that. When the situation happened in the Pittsburgh synagogue, we immediately reached out to talk to my rabbi at Temple Israel, and we had a service at Bethel and a service at the temple. So, this church is very much engaged in the life of the faith community.”

ON THE CHURCH HAVING TO ADJUST TO CHANGES IN SOCIETY …

“There’s a scripture in the Old Testament that says there was a tribe called Issachar.

That tribe knew what time it was but also knew how to work within the times, knew what to do in the times. We may change. But Christ is changeless. He still helps you to use your gifts, to be able to maximize the times you’re living in, and they ought not change you.”

ON THE TOP ISSUES THAT PEOPLE ARE STRUGGLING WITH …

“There’s a lot of anger and division and meanness in America. That’s probably one of the reasons, among many other reasons, why folk elected Donald Trump. Folk felt they’d been left behind and thought maybe they needed somebody who was not a politician to be president. I think that came because a lot of dissension, division, anger. And I think: How do we get beyond the anger, the resentment, the hostility toward immigrants, blacks, Jews, other minorities? As you know, there’s a real uptick in antisemitism and bigotry in this country, like never before. So, as a pastor, there’s some tension there. We thought we were in a post-racial time, but these days feel that the racism is real and very systemic. It’s institutional racism.

And how does a black church where 99.9 percent of your congregation is African American, how do we help my members to turn anger or hostility or despair into hope, into love, into action?” TM

Rev. James Page, Florida’s first ordained black minister, died in March 1883 at age 75. He is buried at Tallahassee’s Old City Cemetery, at 400 W. Park Ave. The cemetery “represents a cross section of people during the 19th century,” according to the City of Tallahassee. “Slaves and planters, governors and store clerks, veterans of wars and victims of yellow fever are all buried here.”

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The festival, which launched in 2015, trumpets itself as “a unique blend of writers and musicians and an exploration of the relationship between the two disciplines.”

Headliners include country music artist Jamey Johnson, plus singer-songwriters Valerie June and Allison Moorer.

Moorer will perform and will discuss her memoir, “Blood,” released in October. The book description on Amazon.com calls it a “story of an unthinkable act of violence and ultimate healing through art.”

Other scheduled guests include NPR music critic Ann Powers, young-reader novelist Jason Reynolds, bestselling author Kristen Arnett, Tallahassee music artist Royce Lovett, author/political strategist Rick Wilson and singersongwriter Hayes Carll.

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Poet Michael Rothenberg, center, appears with the Ecosound Ensemble at last year’s Word of South, a festival of literature and music.

As always, a “story fort” will include hands-on activities, storytelling and music performances for children and families, said Sara Marchessault, Word of South’s director.

The festival again plans to pair authors and musicians in performances. In a new twist, Marchessault said, two of those events will include food writers. Ivy Odom of Southern Living is scheduled to appear with The Currys musical group from Port St. Joe, and author Ronni Lundy is scheduled to appear with the Kenny Hill Band, a bluegrass group from Tallahassee.

“I think we can expect to hear stories and music back and forth,” Marchessault said.

Marchessault said organizers aim to match last year’s turnout of 12,000 to 15,000 over three days. For schedules and updates, she points to the Word of South mobile app.

“We work very hard to keep the festival free and open to the public,” she said. “And we want this to be a quality cultural experience, for individuals and families to have some exposure to the literary scene and even the music scene without having to invest a lot of money or go out of town.”

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An all-access pass offers non-priority admission to all festival films and events. A VIP pass includes priority admission to all films and events, plus various extras. Check the website for prices.

Steve Dollar, the festival’s artistic director, emphasized at press time that organizers were continuing to work on the lineup. Accepted films included: “Thumbs Up for Mother Universe: The Lonnie Holley Story”: Directed by George King, this Earth-loving film tells the story of one person’s journey of survival against seemingly insurmountable odds.

“Once Upon a River”: This adaption of Bonnie Jo Campbell’s novel marks the debut of writer-director Haroula Rose, who offers a coming-of-age story about a Native American girl who leaves home in search of her mother.

“Narrowsburg”: Martha Shane directed what IMBd calls a “stranger-than-fiction documentary” that features a French film director and a con artist who bedazzle a small town with visions of Sundance.

“Red, White & Wasted”: Monster trucks run amok in this documentary and revelation of Central Florida mud-hole culture. Andrei Bowden Schwartz and Sam Jones directed.

“Pahokee”: One of Florida’s poorest towns marks the setting for this film. Directors ↑ Last year’s Ivete Lucas and Patrick Tallahassee Film Bresnan explore the final year Festival included a of high school for a group of pre-festival event that featured author predominantly African-American Mallory O’Meara. students, some of whom now She read from her attend Florida A&M and book, The Lady From the Black Lagoon: Florida State universities.

Hollywood Monsters Dollar, the artistic director, and the Lost Legacy emphasized that volunteers run of Milicent Patrick. the festival on a tiny budget.

Venues typically include surroundings that feature bars, cafes and restaurants where festivalgoers can talk movies, sometimes with directors.

“The real value of the festival is the sense of community that comes out of it,” Dollar said. TM

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he adoringly calls them her children.

In her office they stand tightly together, their spines bound and their stories boundless.

They’re Karen Moore’s antique collection of the Book of Common Prayer, plus the Holy Bible and many that combine those books.

Some also include hymnals or texts such as the Apocrypha.

They’re more than 600 strong, with more than five centuries of prayer and song. Some you’ll need two sure hands to handle. Others you can close in one palm.

Moore says she thinks they represent among the most extensive such private collections in the world.

“I call them my children, because I think each one is unique and precious,” Moore said. “Each one has a story. Each one, I think on its own, is valuable.”

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The Book of Common Prayer dates to the mid-16th century and remains a cornerstone of churches that trace their lineage to Henry VIII’s Church of England, including the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church in North America.

The Episcopal Church, for example, says the book contains “our liturgies, our prayers, our theological documents” and calls it “a treasure chest full of devotional and teaching resources for individuals and congregations.”

Moore and her husband, Richard, belong to St. Peter’s Anglican Cathedral on North Thomasville Road.

She said she keeps some of her books at home, some in a safe deposit box and some at her office at The Moore Agency, a branding, marketing and public relations firm where she’s founder and CEO and her husband is CFO and general counsel. She’s also an author, public speaker and avid traveler who aims to book a trip to the South Pole.

She shares her books with clients who ask about them, and she gives talks on them to church groups and others. One day, she said, she’ll give them all away, perhaps to a church, a museum or an academic institution.

She noted that her son, Jarrod, is “like every other millennial — he doesn’t want stuff, so he’s not going to want to inherit this collection.”

Her books come in about 40 languages, including Japanese, Mohawk and an Eskimo-Aleut tongue. One in an Indonesian language includes a section of “Konfesion.”

“When the missionaries went in,” Moore said, “they probably had to teach them that word.”

She tracks her book’s stories. When she gives them away as gifts, she might let the recipient know something about the book’s birth, its previous owners and perhaps even its improbable survival — owing to a humanistic rather than religious motivation for her collection.

“Sometimes when I have friends that are sick or friends that I think need a little special sense of how much they’re valued,

I take one of the books and I research who had it before me,” Moore said. “You know, ‘This was a book that was given in 1782 by Aunt so-and-so to her niece for whatever the special occasion.’ Then I write a little note about how much this book probably meant to that person.”

A person who signed “Dumbe” had owned her 1634 book. With a chuckle, Moore showed a visitor where “Dumbe”

had done a calculation in the margin, apparently to determine the book’s age when that person or family owned it.

She said one of her books made it through the Great London Fire of 1666.

Another survived the Hiroshima bomb, she said. “Some people are afraid to touch it. They think it might be radioactive or something, but it’s not.”

Yet another served with a World War II

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Moore’s collection come in various colors, designs, shapes, sizes and languages.

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↑ Karen Moore keeps her “little ones” in a glass-covered table in her office at The Moore Agency. Some are less than two inches wide and, remarkably, include just as much text as many of her larger books. You might manage to read some of them without a magnifying glass.

↑ Though it focuses on the Book of Common Prayer, Karen Moore’s collection includes antique copies of the Holy Bible. Many of her Common Prayer books include the Old Testament and New Testament.

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soldier. She found that one on eBay, for about $2 including postage, she said.

“I did the research, and this book was at the Battle of the Bulge,” Moore said.

“A member of our greatest generation had this book.”

She said her oldest, a prayer book, dates to 1492. “The year that Columbus sailed the ocean blue — that’s the only way I can remember that,” she said.

Her books come in various covers, colors and costs, including at least one that she said you might have wanted to put in a garage sale.

“But when I opened it up, it said, ‘I landed in America today’ and then it said ‘Ellis Island,’” Moore said. “So, to me, this was probably a person that had

all their belongings maybe in one bag.

And this book was one of the treasures that they decided was so important to bring with them.”

Moore’s office includes a glass-covered table in which she keeps her “little ones” — a few dozen mini books. They date to the 19th and early 20th centuries and range in size from about 1 by 5 inches to about 1 ½ inches by 2 ½ inches.

Remarkably, some contain what many of her larger books contain — the Book of Common Prayer, plus the Old Testament and New Testament.

Some you might manage to read. Others, good luck. Back in the day, you think, people either carried super magnifying glasses or consumed a lot of carrots.

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↑ The Book of Common Prayer remains a cornerstone of churches that trace their lineage to the Church of England. The book includes prayers, liturgies, instructions and other devotional resources. Quoting Archbishop Robert Duncan, the Anglican Church in North America says the book is “the Bible arranged for worship.” The church adds that its 2019 edition (not seen here) “takes what was good from the modern liturgical renewal movement and also recovers what had been lost from the tradition.”

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Moore picked one up.

“This book would have been given as a Baptism gift,” she said. “Or, during the Boer Wars in South Africa, the officers had a little pocket over their heart, and that book would fit in there.”

She said she started her collection less than a decade ago. In an antique store, she spotted a box that included tiny books, including the Book of Common Prayer. She found them unique and, later, worth collecting.

As her appreciation grew, so did her books’ dimensions. Booksellers continue to contact her about books that might interest her, and she remains active on eBay — always with an eye on the story behind the book.

“I think that as long as I’m preserving these books, then I’m preserving a little bit of that family, too,” Moore said. “I’m preserving — Karen Moore the Aunt Millie who gave the book to her niece for her fifth birthday. I don’t know who Millie is. I don’t know who the daughter is, but it was an important moment in time, and it should be treasured.”

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For George Hinchliffe’s Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain, life’s adventures go strummingly

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eorge Hinchliffe’s father, a self-employed trucker who owned his own rig, was owed money by a customer whose business was struggling.

The customer, as a way of trying to settle up, “suggested that my dad visit his warehouse and load his truck with anything of value he might find there,” Hinchliffe said. “He did and he came home with sheets of stainless steel, a model steam engine and a ukulele without strings.”

Father and son would visit a music store where the instrument was made playable, and the shop owner gave Hinchliffe a brief lesson.

The year was 1960. Hinchliffe has been playing the ukulele ever since.

In 1985, Hinchliffe, soon joined by Dave Suich and Richie Williams, who remain with the band to this day, established what he pretentiously named the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain.

In so doing, Hinchliffe was mindful of a story, “The King of Montana,” that he had read in a Tales of Wells Fargo comic book. An eccentric gentleman and a boy travel about the Old West and succeed in foiling robbers, leaving the child in a self-congratulatory mood.

“That was a good thing we did,” he says to his guardian. “Who cares if you call yourself the King of Montana? Nobody else wants to.”

Today, Hinchliffe is ukulele royalty. His success has spawned the formation of ukulele orchestras in cities throughout the world.

On March 22, George Hinchliffe’s Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain will perform at the Ruby Diamond Concert Hall in Tallahassee as part of the FSU Opening Nights series.

The orchestra will start the audience off with some “toe-tapping music” and then move on to genres that may include country, jazz, classical, folk, pop, rock, even grunge.

“We are not ukulele evangelists,” Hinchliffe said.

“We’re about music and entertainment and having a good time.”

He recalled a “notoriously miserable old man who attended one of our shows with his family and was seen to smile and chortle during the performance.”

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Zlatina Staykova grew up in a family of folklore music educators in her native Bulgaria and began playing the cello in her parents’ ensemble.

After earning a bachelor’s degree from the National Academy of Music in Sofia, Bulgaria, and completing her master’s and doctorate in cello performance at the Florida State University College of Music, Zlatina is now a faculty member at the Bach Parley String Academy and teaches introductory strings to students at seven area elementary schools. In addition to her teaching schedule, Zlatina performs regularly with the Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra and the Mobile Symphony Orchestra.

Zlatina and her husband, cellist Boyan Bonev, have two children, and they all enjoy playing music together as everyone in the family plays an instrument. Zlatina also loves to sing and is a member of the choir at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Tallahassee.

WHAT IS NECESSARY FOR YOUR CREATIVE PROCESS?

Zero stress and people. Stress simply freezes any creative thought that comes my way, but people, on the other side, seem to have a great impact on the way I think and act.

People can inspire me greatly or provoke my views about life, and for me, this is an important part of the creative process.

WHAT FICTIONAL CHARACTER WOULD YOU LIKE TO MEET AND BRING TO LIFE? I am not

sure about a fictional character, but I have always dreamed about listening to J. S. Bach live. I’d love to see him play or just talk, and be around his kids for a day.

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WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNED FROM FAILURE? There is no

bigger obstacle than yourself.

WHAT DO YOU HOPE YOU WILL BE REMEMBERED FOR? I

never thought about that, but maybe a good teacher and a good mom.

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Consider purging at least once or twice a year, says Stephani Lipford, owner of A Peaceful Home.

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nce we have shed our layers from the cold of winter, we might find time to shed some of those same layers from our closets.

To delay is to pull the wool over our eyes.

Speaking of which, why do we still have that mustard-yellow sweater?

So let’s get started.

What goes and what stays?

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Kathleen “KB” Bieke, owner of Organized by KB, suggests ➸C lothing distasteful in color, pattern stylizing a so-called capsule or fabric. wardrobe.

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Landscape Design 101 Shade-Loving Plants That Add Life and Color to Your Yard

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That prompts them to come to me and say, “I love my azaleas — I love everybody’s azaleas — but I’m looking to branch out with different plants and colors. I’ve got so much shade, though.

What do I do?”

I tell them what I’ll tell you: You have many colorful and compelling options.

You might find yourself surprised to learn that you can design a gorgeous landscape based on plants that thrive in the shade. Anywhere in your yard, you can boast a bed that features plants that vary in height, width, shape, color and texture — and you can keep your trees, too.

Here’s another bonus: You can do it with little maintenance.

My first installment of Landscape Design 101 offers a list of nine beautiful shade-loving plants that offer variety

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and durability. Once these plants are established, you won’t have to worry about watering at midnight or on every third day, for example. You’ll certainly need to water them, of course, and we’ll let you know how to and when. But you’ll mostly want to make sure that the leaf litter in your bed isn’t getting too thick and that your plants are planted correctly and occasionally fertilized.

We’ll also let you know other important details such as spacing and staggering.

As long as you put your shortest plants in the front of your bed and the tallest in the back, you can’t mess up. My list of nine shade-loving plants includes a note on whether they’d best fit the front, middle or back.

The rest depends on your taste and imagination. When a customer asks me to design a landscape, I visit that person’s yard with no preconceived ideas about what might work. I want to match your landscaping to your home. For example, if your home is a colonial, I won’t use palm trees, and if it’s an Italian-style villa, I won’t use manicured boxwood. I take into account my clients’ personal style goals

as well as the design of their home, and I strive to select plants that will complement the structure, color and mood of their home. This helps to create a cohesive look that enhances, rather than contrasts, your home’s appearance.

A landscape design is a concept. When installing a landscape, we typically bring a few more of each plant variety than is shown on the plan. In doing this, we have the flexibility to add a few, subtract a few, or perhaps eliminate some entirely.

You really can’t tell until the layout is right in front of you.

If you’re putting in your own bed or planning your own landscaping, I suggest that you do the same. If you think you’ll need seven plants, get 10. That will give you flexibility. The important thing to remember is that you can bring back any plants that you don’t use.

One more tip: When it comes to fertilizer, I’m now sold on Espoma Organic. Remarkably, with this brand, you can seldom over-fertilize. Espoma won’t burn your plants — so as is the case with enjoying these shade-loving plants, you can’t mess up.

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Here’s another dwarf evergreen shrub that provides a nice color accent. When in bloom, it provides hundreds of tiny white cascading flowers. It prefers moist loams and requires good drainage.

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It’s not really a fern, but it works well with ferns and many other plants, preferably in loamy soil that’s well drained. It’s evergreen throughout the South.

3. SHISHI GASHIRA CAMELLIA HEIGHT: 4-5 FEET | SPREAD: 6-8 FEET BED PLACEMENT: BACK

This evergreen shrub offers abundant dark pink blooms from fall to winter. It prefers a medium layer of mulch and rich, well-drained soil.

4. BLACK MONDO GRASS HEIGHT: 5-6 INCHES | SPREAD: 5-6 INCHES BED PLACEMENT: FRONT

This dark, grassy foliage is a unique accent. Use it to contrast the red of the Japanese maple, or the pink of the ShiShi camellia. It’s an impressive accent plant that prefers moist, well-drained soil.

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This very slow-growing dwarf tree matures into a low-branching dome that holds its color throughout the summer before giving way to bare branches that provide a nice winter appearance. It prefers well-drained soil.

6. HOLLY FERN HEIGHT: 18 INCHES TO 2 FEET | SPREAD: 2-3 FEET BED PLACEMENT: FRONT

This attractive fern offers great border edging or groundcover. It prefers moist, well-drained soil and, to ensure a strong root system, regular watering in the first growing season.

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or ages, humans have sought solace in the great outdoors. When the weather is beautiful and the birds are singing, it’s easy to feel a sense of connection with the world. Yet you don’t have to journey far or wide; you can experience this sensation in your own backyard.

Many homeowners have taken to creating places of peace with a few thoughtfully selected outdoor furnishings. Cozy chairs with waterproof cushions gathered around a fire pit create warm vibes. A hammock near a babbling water feature is sure to send you into a Saturday afternoon snooze. A

dining set overlooking a blooming garden encourages eating al fresco.

“We’re seeing an increase in customer demand for outdoor living spaces,” said Joshua Olive, marketing director of Tallahassee Nurseries. “This comes in many forms, such as adding large tropical containers around a pool, planting trees for added shade, larger fountain installations or smaller garden accessories like bird baths and garden art.”

Zen gardens reduce stress, improve well-being and increase focus. Zen gardens are also known as Japanese rock gardens, which Buddhist monks created to aid in meditation.

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These gardens consist of sand and gravel raked into circular or spiral patterns and outlined by rocks. They typically have moss, short bushes and pruned trees. Small bridges, lanterns and water features are also common additions.

Few sounds are more soothing than moving water. You have many ways to include water features in your backyard, including koi ponds, waterfalls, reflection pools, water fountains and wishing wells.

Where sound is important, lighting helps to set the mood. Olive said lighting adds dimension to your yard and also helps you to enjoy your outdoor living space into the evening.

Like any outdoor project, it’s best to consider your own preferences and personal styles in order to optimize your curb appeal and time spent outdoors.

“Zen might mean something different to each individual, so it’s all about choosing the plants and features that speak to you on a personal level,” said Shannon Ruark, landscaping specialist at Esposito Garden Center. “It’s key to create a design that stimulates all of the senses, creates an immersive experience and a peaceful, relaxing ambiance.”

Even planting seasonal flowers or an herb garden can boost your mood. A sunflower can brighten your day, and the scent of lavender can inspire calm. Experience that with a soothing sprig of homegrown mint in your tea.

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SOME PEOPLE PERFORM BETTER WHEN PAIRED WITH THE RIGHT TEAMMATE. Plants are the same way. Native Americans knew certain vegetables were complementary: Corn grows tall, providing support for climbing beans, which provide nitrogen to the soil, which benefits winter squash, which covers the soil with its large, prickly leaves to suppress weeds and discourage pests. Work smarter, not harder in the garden with strategic companion planting.

landscape trees and shrubs when you see new growth, signaling the end of the dormant period. Prune azaleas as soon as they have finished blooming.

➸ Check your irrigation

system to make sure all spray heads are functioning properly and none is broken or misaligned.

➸ Give your citrus trees

a light dose of fertilizer if you didn’t fertilize in February.

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Controlling pests.

Plant dill and basil among tomatoes to discourage tomato hornworms. Sage, hyssop, rosemary and catnip repel cabbage moths, which feast on many edible crops. Marigolds repel nematodes, which cause root rot. Radishes will lure leafminers away from spinach. The damage to radish leaves doesn’t affect the radish bulb’s growth.

Zinnias attract ladybugs, so plant them near cauliflower so the ladybugs will be there to eat cabbage flies.

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Regulating shade.

Most plants can use a little afternoon shade in our intense Florida sun, so place tall plants to the west of smaller ones.

Corn and okra can shade eggplants, peppers and tomatoes. Provide support for those taller plants, if necessary. For ornamentals, porterweed (Stachytarpheta jamaicensis), tall varieties of Joe Pye weed (Eupatorium) and gladioli can shade shorter flowers.

Improving soil health and suppressing weeds.

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Plants with the same needs planted too closely together can quickly deplete the soil of nutrients. Don’t plant broccoli and asparagus together, as both are heavy calcium feeders.

Nasturtiums and beets are good companions instead.

Planting sweet alyssum alongside potatoes attracts insects that eat pests; it also can form a living groundcover under broccoli to suppress weeds.

4 Incompatibles.

Some plants don’t do well in the presence of certain others. Garlic and onions are great companions for many garden plants, with their strong odors repelling pests, but they stunt the growth of beans and peas if planted nearby. Cabbage and cauliflower are both brassicas, but they’re cousins that don’t get along. And fennel doesn’t get along with any other vegetables, but it attracts a variety of beneficial insects. Plant it in its own bed, over yonder.

flowering bulbs such as dahlias and canna and gloriosa lilies.

APRIL

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herbs such as basil, oregano, Mexican tarragon and rosemary.

➸ Divide clumps of bulbs,

ornamental grasses or perennials.

➸ Apply fertilizer to

lawns after new growth has begun. ➸ Add organic mulch

to your planting beds to reduce weeds, conserve moisture and improve the texture of your soil as it breaks down.

PESKY PESTS

Critter: Centipedes and millipedes

These multi-legged wormlike critters are more closely related to lobsters and crayfish than they are to insects.

Centipedes have a pair of legs on each body segment and are nicknamed “hundred-leg worms.” Millipedes have two pairs of legs on each segment and are nicknamed “thousand-leg worms.”

They prefer moist habitats and high humidity. Neither carries diseases CENTIPEDES that affect humans, animals or plants. Millipedes are scavengers and AND MILLIPEDES eat decaying vegetation but sometimes feed on the stems and leaves of seedlings. Centipedes eat insects, capturing their prey in their powerful jaws and injecting a poisonous venom. To most people, a centipede bite feels similar to a bee sting. Those with allergies can have serious reactions.

The best control is to remove rock and debris piles near the outside of your home, so they don’t have a place to hide. They’ll move on.

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sat on an outdoor terrace of a restaurant in Old Town Square in Prague. Sipping on a cider and enjoying pork knuckle, a traditional Czech dish, I listened to the chatter of tourists as they snapped photos of the baroque architecture, to the click-clack of horse hooves as they pulled carriages on the cobblestone streets, and to the chime of the Astronomical Clock Tower as it signaled a new hour.

Visits to Budapest, Vienna and Prague hadn’t been at the top of my bucket list. We picked this trip based on affordability, yet we found ourselves blown away by the rich culture, complex history and lively architecture of these European cities.

I’d love to show you around.

Here goes:

Day 1 My sister Brooke and I hopped off the plane from our overnight flight and met Bogdan, our tour director with tour operator EF Ultimate Break. Bogdan organized our group of 30 into our initial accomodations and gave us a brief walking tour around the city. Then he hosted a welcome mixer to encourage travelers to get acquainted with one another.

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→ Gellert Bath is among numerous baths and hot springs in Budapest.

The springs at the site date to the 15th century and were larger and hotter than area baths of that time, according to the Gellert Bath’s website. → The gardens of Schönbrunn Palace.

→ FUN FACT: The Parliament building in Budapest includes 365 towers, one for each day of the year.

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Day 2 In the morning, we took a tour around Buda and Pest — distinct cities on opposite banks of the Danube River that make up Budapest. From the Liberty Bridge to Matthias Church and the view from Fisherman’s Bastion, we got an in-depth look at the Pearl of the Danube.

During our free time, we visited the Széchenyi baths before visiting the famous ruin bars with the rest of the group. → FUN FACT: Budapest is home to nine medicinal baths and 123 hot springs.

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Day 3 We marveled at the mountainous European landscape as we made our way through the countryside to visit Bratislava, Slovakia, for a few hours before arriving in Vienna. We studied the architecture of the Old Town and found a small cafe to enjoy some lunch. Our first evening in Vienna, I tried Kasekreiner, which is cheese-stuffed sausage.

We toured the square of the Winter Palace and listened to the masterpieces of Strauss and Mozart at a historical venue in the heart of the city.

We studied the architecture of Old Town, a fascinating section of Vienna that features restaurants, palaces and art history galore, and found a small cafe to enjoy some lunch. → FACT: From the balcony of the Winter Palace, Adolf Hitler in 1938 announced Germany’s annexation of Austria.

Day 4 We were treated like Austrian royalty while touring

↑ Kate Pierson says she got the royal treatment during her tour of Schönbrunn Palace.

Schönbrunn Palace, the summer residence of the Habsburg rulers. The palace builders used gold to outline the interior trim. We saw original furnishings where historians and family members purportedly recorded them. In the evening, we continued the royal treatment with rooftop views at a popular downtown cocktail bar. → FUN FACT: The grand ballroom in the summer palace used over 1,000 candles before Thomas Edison installed electricity in 1901.

Day 5 After experiencing the vibrant city life, we headed to the Austrian countryside, stopping in Krems, a quaint town known for its wine. On the top of the hill overlooking the town and the vineyards, we spotted an old church with 14th century carvings of Christ and his apostles. → FACT: The region currently is a large producer of white wine, but local winemakers express concerned that in 10 years, they will produce only red. That’s because of climate change, which affects the grapes and the wine.

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destinations Day 6 In the evening prior, we arrived in UNESCO World Heritage site Cesky Krumlov and witnessed breathtaking views from the castle before having a traditional Czech meal by the river. → FUN FACT: This region of Europe is known for apricots and aperol. You can find an aperol spritz at almost any bar or restaurant.

Day 7 We left the fairytale town of Cesky Krumlov for a more morbid view, of Kunta Hora, the home of the famous bone church, before arriving in Prague. Legend says that Jindřich, the abbot of Sedlec monastery, left the region to travel to the Holy Land and returned with holy soil that he sprinkled across the hill in Kunta Hora. Naturally, everyone wanted to be buried there. The town then decided to build a chapel on the top of the hill to mark the sacred space, and the architect they hired wanted to use the bones of those who had been buried there to build the church.

← This tower rises above the fairytale town of Český Krumlov, in the southern Czech Republic. ↑ In these parts, you can get an aperol spritz just about anywhere.

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← The Charles Bridge crosses the Vltava River in Prague. ↙ St. Vitus Cathedral serves as the city’s spiritual heart. ↓ The astronomical clock on Prague’s Old Town Hall dates to 1410. At each hour, windows above the clock reveal models of the Twelve Apostles, set into motion.

Saving the best city for last, we spent the majority of our first day in Prague exploring Prague castle and St. Vitus Cathedral, the spiritual heart of the city. We walked through vineyards along the castle grounds and saw cruise boats pass underneath the Charles Bridge. Later, we toured the underground cities and climbed the astronomical clock tower for a stunning view. It’s safe to say we saw Prague from top to bottom. → FUN FACT: Prague castle features an interesting tool: an aparatus that tricks you, though apparently not on purpose.

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the architecture, from gothic to neo-classical to baroque style. We ended our day at a farewell dinner with our group to share stories of our travels before departing. But for all of us, it wasn’t “goodbye.”

It was “see you later.” The only question was where. TM

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Events Calendar Annual St. George Island Chili Charity Cookoff March 5–7 Downtown St. George Island 15th Annual Forgotten Coast Plein Air Invitational March 20–29 Throughout Forgotten Coast locations Apalachicola Artwalk April 4, 11 a.m.–6 p.m.

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Forgotten Coast Plein Air Invitational, March 20-29. Painters will set up their easels and pull out their brushes to document the landscape and culture of authentic “Old Florida.”

Apalachicola Hosts Art & Wine Walk

Looking for a reason to visit the Forgotten Coast? Popular art, music and food events will lure you back to the coast this spring.

Annual St. George Island Chili Charity Cookoff St. George Island will host its annual Charity Chili Cookoff and Auction March 5–7. Activities include a golf tournament, 5K Red Pepper Run, Chili Cook-off, Auction and the naming of Miss Chili Pepper and Mr. Hot Sauce.

All proceeds benefit the St. George Island Volunteer Fire Department and First Responder Unit.

Camp Gordon Johnston Reunion Days The Camp Gordon Johnston Association and the WWII Museum celebrate the 25th annual Camp Gordon Johnston Reunion Days the weekend of March 13–15 in Carrabelle. All veterans and their family, friends and supporters are invited to Carrabelle for the threeday celebration which will include a parade, dinner dance, dice run and a low country boil for veterans.

Eastpoint Rib Cookoff The Eastpoint Volunteer Fire Department will host its annual rib

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Dixie Theatre Presents The Currys The Dixie Theatre will host the Gulf Coast kick-off for The Currys' newest CD release “This Side of The Glass.”

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St. George Light Full Moon Climb Watch the sun set and full moon rise from the top of the Cape St. George Lighthouse on Monday, March 9, and Tuesday, April 7, from 7:30–9 p.m. Light refreshments are served. The Crooked River Lighthouse at Carrabelle Beach will also feature full moon climbs on or near the same day.

Plein Air Paint Out More than 20 nationally acclaimed artists will gather on Florida’s Forgotten Coast in late March to participate in the 15th annual Florida

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St. George Island Brewfest

Join us for the 5th Annual St. George Island Brewfest on Saturday, April 18, from 1–4 p.m. at Paddy’s Raw Bar. The SGI Brewfest is a one-day beer tasting festival to promote the appreciation craft beer. All proceeds benefit the Franklin County Humane Society.

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Carrabelle will host its 30th annual Carrabelle Riverfront Festival on Saturday, April 25. The festival will be held on Marine Street along the riverfront with arts and crafts, seafood, a pet parade, live music, maritime exhibits, a fishy fashion show, food booths, a childrens’ zone and even a classic car show.

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YOUR GUIDE TO THE 52ND ANNUAL

Springtime

2020

TALLAHASSEE

FESTIVAL AND PARADE

WELCOME

INSIDE YOUR GUIDE Springtime Tallahassee Sponsors.....................4 Schedule of Events.................................................6 Grand Marshal ��������������������������������������������������������� 9 Board of Directors.................................................10 Andrew Jackson ����������������������������������������������������12 Krewe Chiefs............................................................13

MARCIA DEEB THORNBERRY, PRESIDENT, AND CINDY MARTIN, GENERAL CHAIRMAN

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PRESIDENT AND GENERAL CHAIRMAN’S WELCOME

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elcome to the 52nd annual Springtime Tallahassee Festival! Our Springtime Tallahassee family is excited to present the festival weekend, starting March 27 with the 6th annual Music Fest on Kleman Plaza. Bring your friends and family for a free music concert showcasing a nationally acclaimed entertainer, food vendors and a beer garden. On Saturday, March 28, join us for the Grand Parade and Jubilee in the Park. The parade begins at 10:30 a.m., but the Jubilee goes on throughout the day.

Visit our many craft vendors, community stages, food court and Children’s Park and enjoy a day with your family and friends. We are planning the 2020 Jubilee in the Park to be “Rain or Shine,” so if the weather prevents us from having the Jubilee outside, we have made provisions to move the Jubilee to the North Florida Fairgrounds.

The Springtime Tallahassee Festival events would not be possible without the support and assistance of many people in our community. Thank you to our many sponsors in the business community, organizations and the media. Please support the businesses featured in this publication. And, thank you to the members of Springtime Tallahassee. Your tireless efforts bring this event to life and make Springtime Tallahassee the great organization that it is.

If you would like to learn more about Springtime Tallahassee and how to become a member of this great organization, please visit our website at SpringtimeTallahassee.com.

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Tricia Wilham, Springtime Tallahassee Member Springtime Tallahassee would like to thank Tallahassee Magazine for their time and effort while putting together this year’s Festival Guide. Thank you for your hard work!

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2020 SPONSORS FESTIVAL PARTNERS

PREMIER MUSICFEST SPONSORS

PREMIER JUBILEE SPONSORS

CHAMPION SPONSORS

SIGNATURE SPONSOR

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JUBILLE STAGE SPONSORS

CHILDREN’S PARK SPONSORS

SUPPORTING SPONSORS

ADDITIONAL SPONSORS ALLSTATE/THE ALLSTATE FOUNDATION

BANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

JOHN WAMPLER, ALLSTATE FINANCIAL

BRADY SQUIRES, CFP MERRILL LYNCH

HAMPTON INN AND SUITES CAPITOL-UNIVERSITY

BOWSTERN MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS

SAINT LEO UNIVERSITY

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In 2019...

The total economic impact of people attending Springtime Tallahassee who live outside Leon County

$5,965,300 The number of individuals from outside Leon County who attended Springtime Tallahassee

The number of nights non-Leon County residents stayed in local hotels while attending Springtime Tallahassee

19,400

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2020 SCHEDULE OF SPRINGTIME FESTIVAL EVENTS

MARCH 11 BREAKFAST IN THE PARK

6:30–10 a.m.

Downtown Tallahassee, Lewis Park Join us for a delicious old-fashioned breakfast downtown while mingling with old friends. Tickets are $10 and can be purchased in advance or at the event.

MARCH 27 MUSIC FESTIVAL ON KLEMAN PLAZA

6–10:30 p.m.

Kleman Plaza Featuring national entertainment! Unwind at the Beer Garden as we ROCK the plaza for this free festival event!

Beer, wine, Pepsi products and food will be available for purchase. Make sure to arrive early to enjoy the opening acts as this event will get packed quickly.

MARCH 28 THE 45TH ANNUAL SPRINGTIME 10K

The 10K/5K races will be held on USATF certified courses, beginning on Monroe Street in downtown Tallahassee in front of the Leon County Courthouse and covering rolling hills through the beautiful Myers Park neighborhood. The 1 mile race will begin at 7:45 a.m., followed by the 10K and 5K races starting at 8:10 a.m. For more information, please visit Springtime10k.com.

JUBILEE IN THE PARK MUSICAL GUESTS

MARCH 28 GRAND PARADE

9:30 a.m.–10:30 a.m.

Tallahassee Community College’s Capital City Band

10:30 a.m.–Noon Monroe Street Being one of the largest parades in the Southeast, the Springtime Tallahassee Grand Parade needs no introduction. Come see over 100 colorful units and floats, marching bands, dance groups, Springtime Krewe floats and much more!

MARCH 28 JUBILEE IN THE PARK

9 a.m.–5 p.m.

Downtown Tallahassee With more than 125 arts, craft and food vendors from around the country, this event is represented by some of the best. You can expect artists displaying original, handmade masterpieces, and find cuisine with international flavors to ignite anyone’s taste buds!

MARCH 28 CHILDREN’S PARK

9 a.m.–5 p.m.

Downtown Tallahassee This fantastic day of fun-filled activities includes face painting, clowns, sirens and a host of other magical experiences that provide culture, education and recreation for the whole family! This magical area will be sure to unleash the imagination of all ages. Springtime Tallahassee and Tobacco Free Florida are working together to reduce your child’s exposure to secondhand smoke. The Children’s Park is designated a TOBACCO-FREE ZONE. 6 Springtime Tallahassee 2020

MARCH 28

PRE-PARADE ENTERTAINMENT (PONCE DE LEON PARK)

COMMUNITY STAGE (MCCARTY PARK) Noon–5 p.m.

• Noon–12:25 p.m.

• 12:35–1:05 p.m.

• 1:15–1:45 p.m.

• 1:55–2:15 p.m.

• 2:25–2:40 p.m.

• 2:50–3:00 p.m.

• 3:10–3:40 p.m.

• 3:50–4:15p.m.

• 4:25–4:35 p.m.

• 4:45–5:00 p.m.

Seminole Tap Troupe Young Actors Theatre Tallahassee Supersquads Dance Electric Dance Academy RockStar Ravens Community Cheer Squad Excellence Dance Studio, Inc. Killearn Kids Dance Troupe Chiles High School Wolverettes The Tallahassee Ballet Simply Panama

ROCK, JAZZ & BLUES STAGE JEFFERSON STREET & ADAMS STREET Noon–5 p.m.

• Noon–1 p.m.

• 1:20–2:35 p.m.

• 2:55–3:55 p.m.

• 4:15–5:00 p.m.

Joe Noto Keith Taylor Band LCP & The GangBusters SMITH

::: PM OPENING ACTS ::: PM BEER GARDEN OPENS Beer, wine, Pepsi products and food will be available for purchasee

Six #1 Hits!

“Take A Back Road”, “It’s America”, “Cleaning This Gun (Come On In Boy)”, “These Are My People”, “Watching You”, and “If You’re Going Through Hell (Before the Devil Even Knows)”

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OPENING ACTS 6:00 pm From Panama City, Chandler is in her 4th year at Florida State University and is the Captain of the All-Girl FSU Cheerleading Team. Discovered

by Nashville Producer, Stokes Nielson, Chandler released her breakout single “Cowboy Hat (Explain That!)” this year.

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2020 PARADE GRAND MARSHAL

MIKE MARTIN

M

ike Martin Sr. is the former head baseball coach of the Florida State Seminoles baseball team. Martin is the all-time winningest coach in NCAA Division I college baseball. In his career, Martin compiled a record of 2,029 wins, 736 losses and four ties over 40 seasons of collegiate coaching. On May 5, 2018, Martin reached 1,976 career wins, surpassing legendary coach Augie Garrido.

Martin, whose uniform number “11” is synomous with his name among FSU faithful, is a member of the Florida Sports Hall of Fame (2005), the American Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame (2007) and his home state North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame (2018). After his retirement in 2019, he was inducted into the Florida State Athletics Hall of Fame.

Martin transferred to FSU from Wingate Junior College in 1965 to

play centerfield. It began a love affair that has never ended. His love for the game of baseball is matched only by the success he has had teaching it to aspiring players. His involvement through the years with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes has provided another avenue for reaching out to others.

He was presented the Bernard F. Sliger Award for Service, named after Florida State’s 11th president, the highest honor accorded by the Alumni Association. In January of 2015, the Martin family, longtime supporters of Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare’s Children’s Center and Newborn ICU, was honored as the children’s playroom at TMH was named the “Mike Martin Family Playroom.” He and wife Carol have three children: Mary Beth, Melanie and Mike, Jr., who was named Florida State’s ninth head coach in June 2019 after 22 seasons as an assistant under his father.

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2020 BOARD OF DIRECTORS

SPRINGTIME TALLAHASSEE

BOARD OF DIRECTORS • • • • • • • • •

President, Marcia Deeb Thornberry General Chairman, Cindy Martin President-Elect, Joel Jarrett Secretary, Debbie Mabry Treasurer, Trey Faulkner Andrew Jackson, Gary Fitzpatrick Immediate Past President, Michael Melder Immediate Past General Chair, Samantha Fulton Immediate Past Andrew Jackson, Phil Bacon

• • • • •

Spanish, Sherrie Kishbaugh American Territorial, Lee Hudson Antebellum Statehood, Sharon Bragg War & Reconstruction, John Snakenberg 20th Century, Ana Janssens

Board Representatives: • • • • •

Spanish, Whitney Marston American Territorial, Sally Musgrove Antebellum Statehood, Fred Varn War & Reconstruction, Ken Martin 20th Century, Brian Flynn

Board Representatives:

• Executive Director, Jennifer Shafer • Membership/Events Director, Marvetta Castle

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Krewe Chiefs:

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2020 ANDREW AND RACHEL JACKSON

ANDREW JACKSON HISTORY

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To promote the rich history of our community, Springtime Tallahassee annually selects two members to portray Andrew Jackson and his wife, Rachel. They serve, together with the President and the General Chairman, as representatives of the organization.

Andrew Jackson was chosen as a representative of Springtime Tallahassee because of his service to Florida as the first provisional governor in 1821. He later became the seventh President of the United States.

The Andrew Jackson Staff is composed of members of the five Krewes, having been selected by each Krewe for a five-year active term. The Staff is a marching unit and participates not only in the Springtime Parade, but also in a number of festivals throughout Florida and other states.

ANDREW JACKSON’S STAFF

RACHEL’S STAFF

2020 KREWE CHIEFS

MEET THE

AMERICAN TERRITORIAL KREWE

ANTEBELLUM STATEHOOD KREWE

KREWE CHIEFS

KREWE CHIEF LEE HUDSON AND WIFE SUZANNE

KREWE CHIEF SHARON BRAGG AND HUSBAND CECIL

SPANISH KREWE

WAR & RECONSTRUCTION KREWE

KREWE CHIEF SHERRIE KISHBAUGH

KREWE CHIEF JOHN SNAKENBERG AND WIFE PAMELA

20TH CENTURY KREWE KREWE CHIEF ANA JANSSENS

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BELLES AND GENTS

MR. & MISS SPRINGTIME

TALLAHASSEE MR. SPRINGTIME, PARKER WAKEMAN MISS SPRINGTIME, MCKENNA LAUGHLIN & ANSLEY TOPCHIK

Springtime Tallahassee’s Belles and Gents program is made up of young men and women from grades 9 through 12. Throughout the year, the Belles and Gents, along with the Jr. Belles and Gents, grades 5 through 8, develop poise, proper etiquette and self-confidence while studying the history and traditions of Florida, Springtime Tallahassee and the city of Tallahassee. Along with learning about our history, the Belles and Gents participate in several community projects that give back to our community.

Springtime Tallahassee is very proud of the Belles and Gents and the wonderful way they care about our community.

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(hosted by Springgme’s Belles & Gents) This year we are adding a Children’s Parade to honor our community’s children and families, and what beeer way to celebrate children than on Mother’s Day weekend!

The parade, beginning at 10:00am, will be a half-mile loop around the Green at SouthWood’s Town Centre.

Parrcipaaon in the parade is free and open to ages 12 and under.

The parade will be followed by a fessval for families including face painnng, bounce houses, arts & craas, food and more!

Register online at www.SpringgmeTallahassee.com before April 26, 2020.

For more details, find us at the informaaon booth at Springgme Tallahassee’s Jubilee in the Park.

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devastating fire of 1900. “When you add them all up,” Hill said, “they destroyed all but two buildings that are there now.”

The effects of time covered the shop ruins, and the artifacts inside laid waiting for a plucky archaeology hobbyist to discover them almost two centuries later.

“I call it a ‘poor man’s shipwreck,’” Hill said in an interview with Tallahassee Magazine. “It gives you an isolated window. It was not stuff that was thrown out — it was the stuff that was there.” Retail items imported via the waterways were buried without an inkling of their future as historical artifacts.

Among his collection of patched-up pottery, apothecary jars, shot glasses, cologne bottles and other signifiers of the mundane, Hill trumpets the historic and archaeological importance of these findings.

“This predated electricity,” he said. “It predated, for part of the time, ice. These were sailing ships.

There were no roads down there. This was an isolated backwater port, and yet they were shipping goodies from Boston, New York, Liverpool.”

Shortly after their excavations, Apalachicola saw developments that would cover these sites and cease further archaeological exploration.

“We were very fortunate to have a period of time before that really occurred to get to find some of these sites and excavate before they were destroyed,” Hill said.

It has been about 200 years since the Florida Treaty, which declared it a U.S. territory. Hill saw the bicentennial anniversary as a moment to bring these collections to the public eye.

“The general goal is the analysis of this material and to make it available for the public as well as other professionals,” he said.

Hill aims to establish a historic and archaeological museum for the Apalachicola area to display his collections and other findings.

He works with Florida State University and the University of West Florida to help properly analyze and write on these pieces. One Florida State University graduate student is basing her master’s thesis on one of these Apalachicola sites.

Hill said he looks forward to providing his collections for further education and findings on this period.

“I think it’s a general desire of people to know about the past,” he said. TM

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Shade Tobacco in Havana Stories of the crop that led to the rise and fall of a rural community

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Today, day-tripping Tallahassee residents might drive 30-minutes north on U.S. 27 and visit the small Gadsden County town of Havana to enjoy shopping or a meal in one of its charming, historic brick buildings.

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But the youngsters who grew up there — now senior citizens — recall a time when those buildings were filled with grocery and hardware stores, doctor and dentist offices, car dealerships, packing houses and sweet shops.

All were courtesy of the area’s lucrative, labor-intensive and only industry — shade tobacco, built largely on the backs of African Americans, from slavery through Jim Crow segregation and the civil rights era.

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Why the decline? New wage and labor laws here meant that the crop could be cultivated more cheaply in Central America and South America. Durden cited other reasons.

“One, cigar consumption went down,” he said.

“Another one, they developed what they called a homogenized wrapper, which you could take any kind of tobacco … run it through a process and it would come out like a sheet of paper and put it on particularly the cheaper cigars.”

“Of course, it devastated the economy,” Bert said of the decline of shade tobacco. “There was nothing going on agriculturally, and it just killed the merchants in the whole county, not just Havana. The farmers, they didn’t know what to diversify to.”

While some Gadsden County farmers turned to tomato farming after a while, some had relatively small farms, which wouldn’t be profitable to plant field crops such as cotton or peanuts. They could hardly foresee the Gadsden County agriculture industry of today, as it pins much hope on returning to the business of growing and processing leaves — hemp this time around.

After integration, many workers, black and white, moved elsewhere to find work and schooling for their children. Others were able to afford higher education — and they moved away too. Still others didn’t have the means to move and have stayed.

After finishing high school, Lorenzo Myrick worked as an electrician and later studied massage therapy.

He said he had trouble making money as a massage therapist and chose to return to school.

“And now,” said Myrick, 61, “I am a senior at Florida A&M University.”

Nell Cunningham and her husband, Sam, moved to Chattahoochee in the ’50s. She taught school and raised their two children. Sam, a psychologist, worked at Florida State Hospital.

After retirement, they returned to her old hometown in 1987. They now live “up near the country club.”

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Chris Botti | Opening Nights

Grammy Award-winning master trumpeter and composer Chris Botti returns to Tallahassee.

Whether he’s performing with illustrious symphonies or at renowned venues around the globe, his unparalleled crystalline and poetic sound transcends musical boundaries. His mesmerizing performances with a stunning array of legends — such as Sting, Barbra Streisand, Tony Bennett, Yo-Yo Ma, Frank Sinatra, Paul Simon and Andrea Bocelli — have cemented his place as one of the most brilliant and inspiring forces of the contemporary music scene.

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TALLAHASSEE TENNIS CHALLENGER

→ The Tallahassee Tennis Challenger presented by

Visit Tallahassee will feature exciting professional tennis in your own backyard, including ATP tour players ranked in the top 200 in the world. See the stars of tomorrow today.

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MAY 2020

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→ Art Month South Walton is an initiative of the Cultural Arts Alliance of Walton County with the purpose of bringing communities, organizations and businesses together to present quality arts and entertainment to the community. Spanning the month of May, Art Month will feature visual, performing and literary arts programming in diverse formats and in various venues throughout South Walton.

Tickets and additional information available at OpeningNights.fsu.edu/ events/chris-botti.

Additional information is available at CulturalArtsAlliance.com/ art-month.

APRIL 2–4

Sunshine State Sportsability

→ SportsAbility enhances the lives of people with disabilities by promoting active living and providing first-hand access to resources and activities designed to encourage participation, regardless of age or ability level. People are able to try everything from sit water-skiing to rock wall climbing, martial arts and much more. Participants of all abilities learn about the value of recreation and active leisure for everyone — especially people with disabilities.

For more information, head over to FDOA.org/Tallahassee.

APRIL 17

BOYS TOWN NORTH FLORIDA | SPIRIT OF YOUTH GALA → Boys Town North Florida invites you to the 2020 Spirit of Youth Gala at the FSU Turnbull Conference

Center. Enjoy an evening of creative cocktails, culinary delights and dancing to Creativity, an Atlantabased band whose energy will have you on your feet all night long. Together, we will celebrate and honor more than 35 years of Growing Stronger Together with a community of friends who support the families and children served by Boys Town North Florida.

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Chain of Parks Art Festival → Expect to have a first-class, fun-filled, outdoor cultural experience at the Chain of Parks Art Festival. View amazing, original and one-of-akind works of art in a delightful outdoor setting.

Nationally ranked in the Top 5 Fine Art Festivals by “Sunshine Artist Magazine” for five years running, this annual two-day festival draws tens of thousands of people from the Big Bend and Southeast to see over 170 artists who have traveled from all over the country to display their fine art.

APRIL 22

GOLDEN GALA XXXVII

For more information, visit ChainOfParks.com.

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WORD OF [SOUTH] → Join us for the event of the season — Word of [South], a festival of Literature & Music, April 3-5, 2020, at Cascades Park. From sunset concerts to family-friendly performances, the weekend’s unique ability to mash up literary words and moving sounds on the same stage is a one-ofa-kind experience. The 2020 lineup includes a Friday night concert by award-winning country music artist, Jamey Johnson, and FREE performances Saturday and Sunday by an array of musicians and authors.

and the TMH Foundation proudly announce Golden Gala XXXVII — starring OneRepublic. Golden Gala XXXVII will take place on April 22, 2020, at the Donald L. Tucker Civic Center. Now in its 37th year, Golden Gala continues to hold its place as the region’s premier charitable and social event. Golden Gala XXXVII will benefit the Sharon Ewing Walker Breast Health Center.

For more information and to purchase a table, visit TMH.ORG/GoldenGala.

For more information, check out WordOfSouthFestival.com.

APRIL 23–26

South Walton Beaches Wine & Food Festival

→ A dazzling roster of dozens of celebrity

winemakers, distillers, chefs, brewmasters and entertainers converge in South Walton to wine, dine, educate and entertain guests as part of this four-day celebration of wine. Throughout the Town Center of Grand Boulevard, attendees can enjoy Spirits Row, Rosé All Day Garden, Savor South Walton Culinary Village, Nosh Pavilions, the Craft Beer & Spirits Jam, live entertainment, tasting seminars and more than 600 wines poured by knowledgeable wine industry insiders.

Visit SoWalWine.com for tickets and information.

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LEON COUNTY GOLDEN EAGLE DINNER → Join us as we honor Steve Evans

and Leon County Sheriff Walt McNeil at the annual Suwannee River Area Council, Boy Scouts of America Golden Eagle Dinner. This year’s event is presented by Mainline Information Systems and will be held at the University Center Club.

For more information, contact Terry Whitaker at (850) 576-4146 or terry.whitaker@scouting.org.

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Known as America’s Favorite Cowboys, Riders in the Sky have been entertaining audiences since the ’70s. This Western music and comedy quartet has revived and revitalized the genre of Gene Autry and Roy Rogers.

This concert opens with Rodrigo’s haunting guitar concerto and ends with Shostakovich’s breathtaking and triumphant musical response to Stalinist oppression.

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SIR JAMES GALWAY MARCH 5 Globally renowned as the supreme interpreter of the classical flute repertoire, Sir James Galway is a consummate performer whose appeal transcends all musical boundaries. He will perform in collaboration with the Florida State University College of Music. openingnights.fsu.edu/events

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MARCH 20–21 Sweet South Cottage French Country Flea Market presents its Spring Show.

Shop the many vendors and appreciate the one-of-a-kind treasures that range from antique furniture and handmade jewelry to architectural salvaged accessories for home and garden. frenchcountryfleamarket.com

REENACTMENT OF THE BATTLE OF NATURAL BRIDGE

GEORGE HINCHLIFFE’S UKELELE ORCHESTRA OF GREAT BRITIAN

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The 43rd reenactment of the second largest Civil War battle in Florida is recreated, lasting three days and taking place at Natural Bridge Battlefield Historic State Park.

Visitors experience medical, military and living history demonstrations as well as educational presentations.

This original musical ensemble features only ukuleles of various sizes and registers, accompanied by the natural voices of the performers.

Best known for playing versions of famous rock songs and film themes, the Orchestra often changes these songs to subvert the expectations of the audience.

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RYAN HAMILTON MARCH 7 Ryan Hamilton’s recently released first stand-up special, the one-hour Netflix original, “Happy Face,” follows a wealth of television appearances and a non-stop headlining tour. openingnights.fsu.edu/events

JEWISH FOOD & CULTURAL FESTIVAL MARCH 8 From matzo ball soup to pastrami sandwiches, nosh your way through a lineup of traditional Jewish foods. Temple Israel Tallahassee’s Jewish Community Center invites the whole family to dine, dance to traditional Jewish music and experience cultural activities. templeisraeltlh.org

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‘BECKY’S NEW CAR’ MARCH 26–APRIL 5 Becky Foster is caught in middle age, middle management and in a middling marriage — with no prospects for change on the horizon.

Then one night, a socially inept and grief-struck millionaire stumbles into the car dealership where Becky works. Becky is offered nothing short of a new life, and the audience gets a chance to ride shotgun in a way that most plays wouldn’t dare. theatretallahassee.org/2019-2020-season

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Classically trained pianist Aaron Diehl brings his lively jazz trio to Thomasville Entertainment Foundation’s 82nd performance season. tallahasseearts.org/event/tef-presents-aaron-diehl-trio

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Celebrate spring with over 100 floats, marching bands, dance groups and the lively Springtime Krewes. The event kicks off Friday night with main stage entertainment in Kleman Plaza. Saturday’s festivities include the Grand Parade, the Kids’ Park and Jubilee in the Park — all under the oak trees in the gorgeous Downtown Chain of Parks.

TEF PRESENTS AARON DIEHL TRIO

Don’t miss the festival of the season! National, regional, and local artists come together to bring literature and music to the same stage.

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‘MATILDA: THE MUSICAL’ MACRH 27–APRIL 5 Don’t miss the Tallahassee premiere of Roald Dahl’s “Matilda the Musical.”

If you loved the book and remember the movie, you’ll be transfixed by this “mind-blowing” production. tallahasseearts.org/event/matilda-the-musical

THE SECOND CITY APRIL 1

REAL MORNINGS with GREG TISH and BOBBY MAC

The Second City is here to break all the comedy rules it made famous in this all-new, all-hilarious revue that will leave you laughing. The Second City has grown to become the world’s premier comedy club. openingnights.fsu.edu/events

‘MARIE ANTOINETTE’ APRIL 3–11

WEEKDAYS 6AM–9AM LIVE and LOCAL

Eighteenth-century extravagance meets contemporary culture in this hilarious reimagining that might cost someone their head. “Marie Antoinette” brings her wigs and extravagant wardrobe to the Lab Theatre at FSU. tallahasseearts.org/event/marie-antoinette

CHAIN OF PARKS EVENT – ARTIST MICHAEL ROSATO APRIL 16 Michael Rosato specializes in designing and painting large-scale murals for public and private spaces. Mr. Rosato describes his style as representational realism, and he enjoys telling vivid and often emotional stories through his work. openingnights.fsu.edu/events

NFCI 30TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION CRAFTMANSHIP TO CREATE A GREAT REFLECTION OF YOU

APRIL 17 Graduates and alumni from the North Florida Cosmetology Institute will gather to share their experiences and success stories during the Institute’s 30th Alumni Anniversary Party.

Contact (850) 878-5269 or NFCIALUMNI@gmail.com to RSVP

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APRIL 22 Join the TCC Jazz Band for an evening of big band music and talent that the whole family can enjoy. tallahasseearts.org/event/tcc-jazz-band-springconcert

THOMASVILLE ROSE SHOW + FESTIVAL APRIL 23–25 Held in historic Downtown Thomasville, the Rose Show and Festival has been a southwest Georgia tradition since the 1920s. Featuring flower shows, parades, community events, concerts and more, the Rose Show and Festival is fun for the whole family. Visit Farmer’s Daughter Vineyard + Tasting Room for festive cocktails and more. thomasvillega.com/attractions/festivals/ thomasville-rose-show-and-festival

‘A GENTLEMEN’S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER’ APRIL 23–MAY 10 “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder” is a murderous romp filled with unforgettable music, non-stop laughs and eight doomed heirs who meet their ends in the most creative and side-splitting ways. theatretallahassee.org/2019-2020-season

TALLAHASSEECON APRIL 25 TallahasseeCon is a collectors’ mecca convention located in the beautiful Capital City. It strives to be Florida’s best and truest comic convention featuring fandoms of multiple genres. tallahasseecon.com

HAVANA REGGAE FESTIVAL APRIL 25 Enjoy the Caribbean Vibes through food, live reggae artists and fun at 5F Farm Event Center. Havana Reggae Festival is a family-friendly affair that endeavors to share the rich mix of cultures in the Caribbean with the community through music, dance, poetry, arts and crafts. tallahasseearts.org/event/havana-reggaefestival-2020/

APRIL 18

DALA

Thomasville Entertainment Foundation presents Southern Shakespeare Company’s outdoor production of “A Mini Midsummer Night’s Dream,” a one-hour abridgment of one of William Shakespeare’s most enduring and beloved plays in Thomasville’s historic Paradise Park.

A darling of the Canadian music scene, Dala is bringing a fresh brand of acoustic pop music to the world.

Drawing upon influences like The Beatles, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young and Bob Dylan, Dala writes songs that are both catchy and insightful.

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Pet Adoptions K9 Demonstrations Give-A-Ways All Proceeds Benefit Leon County Humane Society

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Sheryl Rosen won her ninth 15K, this time in 57:33.

Austin Whitelaw won the 15K in 49:24.

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THE BEST LITTLE STEAKHOUSE IN TALLAHASSEE 2018

dining guide AMERICAN ANDREW’S DOWNTOWN

After 40 years, Andrew’s is still an energetic, casual, see-and-be-seen spot. House favorites include a popular lunch buffet, hamburgers, salads and pasta dishes. Downtown delivery.

(850) 222-3444/Fax, (850) 222-2433. $$ B L D

BACKWOODS CROSSING ★

Sit down for fresh gourmet food at Tallahassee’s farm-to-table, destination concept restaurant featuring locally caught and produced soft-shell crabs, sausage, duck and blueberries. 6725 Mahan Dr. (850) 765-3753. $$ L D

BUMPA’S LOCAL #349

Featuring burgers, sandwiches, pastas, fried ribs, tacos and wings, this new neighborhood bar and grill has something for everyone. 2738 Capital Circle NE. (850) 599-8652. $ L D

DOG ET AL ★

Join us for lunch and dinner at our beautiful location on Apalachee Parkway.

Our steaks are not only the best in Tallahassee, but USDA choice Midwestern corn-fed beef, specially selected, aged to our specifications and cut daily. We also serve fresh jumbo shrimp and fish — grilled, blackened or fried.

So please join us for lunch and dinner or just meet up for drinks at our fully stocked bar.

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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. 921 Thomasville Rd. (850) 224-2466. $$ L D

LIAM’S RESTAURANT

Part restaurant, part cheese shoppe, part lounge — Liam’s features locally grown and harvested foods, expertly made cocktails, craft beer, artisan wines and cheeses and friendly service. 113 E. Jackson St., Thomasville, Ga. (229) 226-9944. $$/$$$ L D

LOFTY PURSUITS ★

This old-fashioned soda fountain serves ice cream, milkshakes and candy — plus brunch dishes and a selection of vegan, vegetarian and gluten-free options.

1355 Market St., A11. (850) 521-0091. $ B

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FOOD GLORIOUS FOOD ★

Two experiences under one roof, OverUnder features specialty cocktails plus curated food and drink pairings.

1240 Thomasville Rd. (850) 597-7552. $$

This relaxed fine dining establishment is equipped with a beer garden, wine cellar, casual café, open-air alternatives and a gorgeous view that has become a Tallahassee favorite. 470 Suwannee St. (850) 684-2117. $$/$$$ 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 2017–19. 1950 Thomasville Road. (850) 224-9974. $$ L D

HOPKINS’ EATERY ★

A Best of 2019 winner, Hopkins’ provides favorites such as the Ultimate Turkey, the Linda Special and a variety of salads to keep customers coming back. Multiple locations. Hours vary. $ Get baked! Tally’s Best Wings for 2019 won’t serve you up greasy, fried wings; instead Island Wing bakes them fresh.

1370 Market St. (850) 692-3116. $ L

MARIE LIVINGSTON’S STEAK HOUSE

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.

316 W. Tennessee St. (850) 422-0071. $B L D

Foot-long and veggie entrees alike grace this award-winning menu. Also ask about their incredibly valued family packs.

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SAGE RESTAURANT ★

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 relaxing evening. 3534 Maclay Blvd. (850) 270-9396. $$$ B L D

SAVOUR

Downtown fine dining with a vision for seasonally inspired, regionally sourced and creatively prepared cuisine, such as bourbon-brined pork chops, Gulf Coast bouillabaisse or miso marinated grouper.

115 E. Park Ave. (850) 765-6966. $$$ D

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This “Southern porch, table and bar” is cozied up among oak trees on one of Tallahassee’s favorite street corners. Lucky Goat coffee-rubbed ribeye and Schermer pecan-crusted chicken are among the regional offerings. 1215 Thomasville Rd, (850) 329-2261. $$$ L D

UPTOWN CAFÉ

Specialties at the bustling, family-run café include apricot-glazed smoked salmon, one-of-a-kind omelets, banana bread French toast and flavorful sandwiches.

1325 Miccosukee Rd, (850) 219-9800. $B L

VERTIGO BURGERS AND FRIES ★

Home to some of the funkiest burgers in town. Favorites include the Vertigo Burger — a beef patty served with a fried egg, applewood bacon, grilled jalapeños, sharp cheddar and Vertigo sauce. 1395 E. Lafayette St. (850) 878‑2020. $$ L D

BREAKFAST/ BRUNCH/BAKERY CANOPY ROAD CAFÉ ★

Traditional breakfasts, fluffy omelets, skillets, French toast and sweet potato pancakes keep customers coming back.

Canopy also goes all out on lunch favorites.

Multiple locations. (850) 668-6600. $ B L

THE EGG CAFÉ & EATERY

When you’re looking for breakfast favorites, even if it’s lunchtime, The Egg is the place to be. Second location now open in Kleman Plaza. Multiple Locations.

(850) 907-3447. $$ B L

TASTY PASTRY BAKERY ★

Tallahassee’s original cakery features fresh breads, bagels, pies, cakes and catering.

Mon–Sat 6:45 am–6 pm. 1355 Market St., No. A-5. (850) 893-3752. $ B L D

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ASIAN AZU LUCY HO’S ★

Enjoy an extensive array of classic dishes with a modern flare, including gyoza dumplings, crab rangoon, General Tso’s chicken and szechuan beef, all in a relaxed setting. 3220 Apalachee Parkway, Suite 13.

(850) 893-4112. L D

BORU BORU

A fast casual eatery inspired by Japanese cuisine, featuring sushi bowls, poke bowls and sushi burritos. 1861 W. Tennessee St., #290. (850) 270-9253. $$

KIKU JAPANESE FUSION ★

From tempura to teriyaki and sushi to sashimi, Kiku Japanese Fusion, voted Best Sushi in 2019, fuses vibrant flavors with fresh ingredients. 800 Ocala Rd. (850) 575-5458, 3491 Thomasville Rd. (850) 222-5458. $$ L D

MASA

A previous Best of Tallahassee winner, Masa’s menu offers a creative blend of Eastern and Western cuisines.

1650 N. Monroe St. (850) 727-4183. $/$$

NAGOYA STEAKHOUSE & SUSHI

Dine in or takeout, Nagoya offers a wide variety of authentic Japanese cuisine, including hibachi, salads, sushi and sashimi.

1925 N. Monroe St. $/$$ L D

OSAKA JAPANESE STEAKHOUSE AND SUSHI BAR ★

Rated Best Hibachi for 2019, Osaka provides dinner and a show, with the chefs seasoning and preparing your meal right in front of you. 1489 McClay Commerce Dr. (850) 900-5149. $$$ D

BBQ WILLIE JEWELL’S OLD SCHOOL BBQ ★

Platters, sandwiches or by the pound, Willie Jewell’s offers smoked brisket, pork, turkey, sausage, chicken and ribs with a bevy of Southern sides. 5442 Thomasville Rd. (850) 629-4299. $ L D

Greeting sunrise with Tallahassee residents for over 10 years, find your favorite breakfast, brunch and lunch specials any time of day. 2500-B Apalachee Pkwy.

(850) 562-2326.$ B L

TREVA’S PASTRIES AND FINE FOODS

Specializing in sweet treats, cakes, pastries and croissants, this bistro-style pastry shop and fine foods store also uses 100% natural ingredients to make savory sandwiches, salads and soups. 2766 Capital Circle NE. (850) 765-0811. $$ L

Specializing in locally sourced seafood and USDA prime steaks Full bar and lounge | Locally owned and operated Private dining | Banquet rooms available Celebrating over 50 years serving Tallahassee 2971 Apalachee Parkway | (850) 877-3211 georgiostallahassee@gmail.com | georgiostallahassee.com

CAJUN COOSH’S BAYOU ROUGE ★

This Best Cajun Restaurant winner for 2019 brings a menu jam-packed with Louisianastyle dishes, including favorites like jambalaya, crawfish etouffee, po’boys and seafood gumbo.

Multiple locations. (850) 894‑4110. $$ B L D

CATERING BLACK FIG ★

Whether you’re planning an event for five or 500, Black Fig offers a bevy of dining options, including catering-to-go. 1400 Village Square Blvd., #7. (850) 727-0016.

CUBAN GORDOS

Tallahassee’s top Cuban spot for over 30 years, Gordos features favorites such as croquetas, papas rellenas, empanadas and pressed sandwiches like their classic Cubano.

1460 Market St. Suite #3-4. $ L D

GREEK LITTLE ATHENS GYRO ★

Across from FSU’s campus, find your fix for Greek, Mediterranean and Middle Eastern cuisine. 666 W. Tennessee St., #5.

(850) 222-2231. $ L D

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Serving great food since 2000, Sahara serves everything from gyros and falafel wraps to lamb kebabs and homemade hummus. 1135 Apalachee Pkwy. (850) 656-1800. $$ L D

INDIAN MAYURI INDIAN CUISINE

Featuring Indian classics such as tikka masala, naan and curry, Mayuri also offers an assortment of vegetarian and vegan options.

1324 Simpson Ave. (850) 402-9993. $ L D

ITALIAN/PIZZA BELLA BELLA

Voted Best Italian in 2015, 2017 and 2018, this locally owned and operated restaurant has a cozy atmosphere and serves all the classics to satisfy your pasta cravings. 123 E. 5th Ave. (850) 412-1114. $$ L D

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This family-owned, upscale restaurant serves local organic and sustainable meats, seafood, poultry and produce. Craft beers, fine wines and specialty drinks complement any dish. 123 N. Broad St., Thomasville, Ga. (229) 236-2467. $$ D

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HARRY’S SEAFOOD BAR & GRILL

With delicious Italian cuisine in a fine dining atmosphere, Z. Bardhi’s has been familyowned and operated for over 20 years.

3596 Kinhega Dr. (850) 894-9919. $$ L D

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Bonefish is devoted to serving great seafood including shrimp, oysters, snapper and swordfish in a vibrant setting, along with top-shelf cocktails and housemade infusions crafted by expert mixologists.

3491 Thomasville Rd., Ste. 7.

(850) 297-0460. $$ L D

MOMO’S ★

A Tallahassee tradition since 1999, Riccardo’s features savory Italian classics, from pasta and pizza to homemade subs and calzones — plus a wide-ranging selection of wines and craft brews. 1950 Thomasville Rd. (850) 386-3988. $$ L D

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BONEFISH GRILL ★

George Koikos has over 50 years of experience in Tallahassee restaurants, and his hands-on commitment has made this upscale restaurant a local favorite featuring local seafood, prime steaks and banquet rooms for private parties. 2971 Apalachee Pkwy. (850) 877-3211. $$$ D

After devouring a slice “as big as your head” at this 2019 Best Pizza winner, chain pizza simply is not gonna cut it. Multiple locations. (850) 224‑9808. $ L D

served blackened, broiled, or crispy

along with fine wines and a martini bar.

A private dining room for up to 20 guests is available. 3431 Bannerman Rd., #2 (850) 999-1696. $$$ L D

EL JALISCO ★

In the mood for sizzling enchiladas and frozen margaritas? Make your way to the 2019 Best Mexican/Latin American Restaurant, El Jalisco, where they do Mexican cuisine to perfection.

Multiple locations. $ L D

EL PATRON MEXICAN GRILL & CANTINA

Find all your authentic Mexican classics such as tacos, quesadillas, fajitas and burritos, or take a sip of a yardstick margarita. 1170 Apalachee Pkwy.

(850) 656-7264. $$ L D

SEAFOOD/STEAK THE BLU HALO ★

Blu Halo is a high-end culinary experience featuring dry-aged steaks and fresh seafood

Serving Southern, Cajun and Creole flavors in classic and modern dishes since 1987. Full bar is available at each location.

301 S. Bronough St., in Kleman Plaza.

(850) 222-3976. $$ L D

MARIE LIVINGSTON’S STEAKHOUSE ★

Not just a restaurant that serves up savory cuts of prime rib or marbled steaks, this 2019 Best Steakhouse winner is a Tallahassee tradition. 2705 Apalachee Pkwy. (850) 562-2525. $$ L D

SHULA’S 347

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 suggested.

415 N. Monroe St. (850) 224-6005. $$$ L D

SOUTHERN SEAFOOD ★

Whether you’re looking for fish, shrimp, oysters, scallops, crab or lobster, the 2019 Best Seafood Market winner brings the ocean’s freshest choices to Tallahassee.

1415 Timberlane Road. (850) 668‑2203.

WHARF CASUAL SEAFOOD

A Tallahassee institution, the Wharf will fill your need for the coast with fresh seafood, salads, seafood tacos and po’boys.

Also available for catering. 3439 Bannerman Rd. and 4036 Lagniappe Way. (850) 765-1077 and (850) 668-1966. $$ L D

WAHOO SEAFOOD GRILL ★

Bringing the coast to Tallahassee, fresh seafood options mix with steak and classic Cajun dishes. 2714 Graves Rd. (850) 629-4059. $$ L D

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WELLNESS ON WATER Float therapy proves therapeutic in a world that spins too fast

by LINDSEY MASTERSON

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n an age of anxiety, I succumb to my own stresses. I am a YES gal. While saying YES allows my freelance work to flourish, my free time and sanity slowly shrivel up.

Much of my stress is self-made, and the physical manifestations are back pain and stress eating. But over the past year, the stress began to affect my mental stamina.

Early last year, I started a new job … and on Day 2, my 1-year-old kitty died in my arms. His diagnosis: a bad heart.

This broke mine.

There were other mental stressors.

My grandmother moved to assisted living. I had been her caregiver for two years, and this was difficult to witness.

The uncertain state of our planet causes me concern. Political bickering is everywhere. Vivid nightmares became the norm. I needed a positive change.

I tracked my nightmares in a dream journal, but alas, my killer clown and apocalyptic dreams revealed no hidden meaning.

I practiced yoga, but I couldn’t stop my mind from racing, even in “corpse pose.” I thought corpses weren’t supposed to stress!

I downloaded an app that guilted me with low-key couch-potato accusations; it also urged me to run more — all fine until my knees felt in dire need of some WD-40.

Frustrated and failing at self-care, I wanted to try something different.

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Float therapy.

Just a few days after my birthday, standing in my birthday suit, I faced a luminous pod with what felt like 20 pounds of stress on my shoulders.

I stepped into the pod while my mind raced with the possibility that this piece of machinery may actually be a sentient computer called Hal who would later refuse to open the pod bay doors.

My irrational thoughts and stresses subsided as I slipped into the pod. The water was body temperature and slightly salty. I found it difficult to stop rubbing my arms — they felt slippery and surprisingly smooth.

In the pod, I had the option of keeping the glowing light or switching to complete darkness. I chose darkness.

Soft instrumental music filled the space not occupied by water. I focused on the music and my heartbeat. Time, like the water, was fluid, and after what I can only imagine was 10 minutes, all noise receded from my consciousness. I was completely relaxed. I had no back pain. I felt like I could breathe fully and deeply for the first time in months.

Anxiety … what anxiety?!

Every thought and worry that tried to re-enter my mind was immediately muted. I felt as if my body were floating in space. The minutes began to blur. I had no thoughts, no desires, no pressures.

After my hour, the music helped bring me back from my trance-like state.

I wiggled my toes, stretched my arms and felt no tension in my back. I was relieved when I was able to open the door with ease — no sci-fi, human-torobot struggle to open the pod bay.

Once I rinsed off, I re-entered this world and presented my credit card. The owner informed me that my best friends had called ahead and paid for my session.

My heart filled with gratitude and my eyes flooded with happy tears.

I stepped out into the sun, inspired and energized. Maybe I would float again next week. Or, maybe I would sign up for kickboxing or pottery class!

I wasn’t sure what life would throw at me next. I just knew that I could accept whatever came my way, and I would keep floating on. TM Lindsey Masterson is a publication designer for Rowland Publishing, owner of Tallahassee Magazine. illustration by LINDSEY MASTERSON

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