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family The new governor and first lady discuss life with their kids in the Governor’s Mansion

HISTORICAL CHURCHES

We begin with St. John’s Episcopal as we explore two centuries of Capital City faith

TOP SENIORS

These 13 students reach high as they aim to make a difference locally and globally

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MAY/JUN 2019

FEATURES

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Gov. Ron DeSantis and first lady Casey DeSantis discuss a day in the life at the Governor’s Mansion, which includes raising two young children.

by PETE REINWALD

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HISTORIC CHURCHES Tallahassee Magazine embarks on an exploration of the Capital City’s oldest houses of worship.

by SARAH BURGESS, JORDAN ANDERSON AND PETE REINWALD

100 TOP SENIORS

Get to know 13 graduating high school seniors recognized for their achievements, attitudes and more.

by JANECIA BRITT AND

PETE REINWALD

photography by DAVE BARFIELD

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23 PERSONALITY Chucha Barber aims to make films that make a difference.

28 CHAMPIONS

Photographer Randy Traynor captures natural wonders in Alaska.

32 EDITOR’S CHOICE

The FSU Resilience Project helps students manage stress.

36 EDUCATION The

rewards of learning a new language at any age.

46 HEALTH AND FITNESS

50 PETS More dogs

How one young woman tries to cope with Tourette’s syndrome.

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Shamika George aims to help women everywhere feel beautiful.

56 FOR HER Ideas from experts on knowing and loving the skin you’re in.

pampering at The Henderson beach resort in Destin.

Products for giving your skin the treatment it deserves.

63 DINING OUT Il Lusso

that one visitor would just as soon have to himself.

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71 MUSIC George Clinton

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109 INTERIORS Decorate

74 TRADITIONS The

ancient art of storytelling is alive and well in Tallahassee.

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

your home with artisan fixtures, pieces of nature.

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116 GARDENING Give

76 BOOKS Michael Bakan looks into ways in which music affects those on the autism spectrum.

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40 GREAT OUTDOORS

Canada Geese leave many residents feeling pooped.

D ESTINATIONS 143 GETAWAY Personalized

PANACHE

For residents, Levy Park offers a “comfortable feeling.”

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HISTORICAL CHURCHES

We begin with St. John’s Episcopal as we explore two centuries of Capital City faith

TOP SENIORS

These 13 students reach high as they aim to make a difference locally and globally

outdoor kitchen can turn your backyard into a party center.

bats a break — they pollinate, and they eat pests.

Florida’s

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GARDEN CHORES: Mix up your daylilies

Shakespeare Festival turns on the star power for “Macbeth.”

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Gov. Ron DeSantis with first lady Casey, daughter Madison and son Mason at the Governor’s Mansion.

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HONORING OUR DONORS

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Music Therapy Endowment Les and Ruth generously created an endowment to support music therapy at Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare (TMH).

Their gift will help hire an additional music therapist to work in the Tallahassee Memorial Neuro Rehabilitation Clinic. Married for 44 years, they have lived in Tallahassee since 1992. Les is the dealer principal at Legacy Toyota and a longtime TMH Foundation Board member. Ruth is a pianist and music educator.

How have you seen music therapy improve lives?

RUTH: My Aunt Ruth was ill the last year of her life and spent part of that time in a hospice. When the music therapist visited her, I could tell that it was very peaceful and soothing for her, and they had such sweet voices. It was calming for me too.

How is this gift meaningful to you?

RUTH: It really combines both of our loves with Les being on the TMH Foundation Board and I being a musician and knowing what music therapy can do. Music has such power to heal and to express the emotions we can’t express

for ourselves. It has a way of reaching parts of our spirit that nothing else does. Research shows that even people in catatonic states or people who are in the last stages of Alzheimer’s can be reached through music.

How has TMH cared for your family?

LES: I’ve had numerous surgeries over the years, at least seven or eight here at TMH. I know firsthand the quality of care and the excellent doctors and staff. I wouldn’t go anywhere else.

What motivates your giving?

LES: I drew that from my father. He would give to people who were down and out without any fanfare or expecting anything in return. That made an impression on me. … I also remember a quote from Marguerite Neel Williams of the Maybelline family in Thomasville, Georgia. She said, “Money is like manure. If you horde it and stack it up, it stinks to high heaven, but if you spread it around, it does a lot of good.” I’ve always taken that to heart.

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from the publisher

You might have seen the special 40th anniversary edition of CBS Sunday Morning earlier this year.

I found the show an impressive stroll through the past 40 years, a flip through the pages of a televised periodical. It got me thinking about all that we have in common, given that this is also the 40th year of Tallahassee Magazine.

Fashion designer Ralph Lauren was once quoted as saying, “Magazines are a window to American culture.” Where CBS fulfills that role internationally, Tallahassee Magazine does it locally. We write about people, places, culture, history and the arts in our effort to uplift, entertain and inform our community.

Consider this edition, in which we aim to uplift and inform with our first in a series on Tallahassee’s historical churches. Editor Pete Reinwald joined me in the fall for a chat with Rev. Dave Killeen, rector of St. John’s Episcopal Church, which this year celebrates a big anniversary of its own — its 190th.

We found our conversation with Father Dave so interesting and enlightening that we decided to interview leaders of Tallahassee’s other historical churches, including the Capital City’s first — Trinity United Methodist Church.

We’ll continue to share those conversations with you in the months ahead. We think you’ll find them uplifting and informative.

Of course, we sometimes take a light-hearted approach as we inform, as you’ll see in our report on Tallahassee’s geese population. We didn’t find it surprising that many residents have had it up to here with the birds.

“There’s nothing worse than being in the outfield of a softball field and diving for a ball and landing in a pile of you-know-what,” says Ashley Edwards of Tallahassee’s Parks, Recreation and Neighborhood Affairs department.

My favorite stories are those found by chance, the ones that likely never would have seen exposure if not for the power of listening. Some of the best come from conversations in a grocery store or gas station, from just talking in line about something remarkable seen or heard.

We’ve seen, heard and written about a lot of remarkable people, places and things over the past four decades, and we plan to celebrate them in a special 40th anniversary issue this year.

As we plan our 40th anniversary issue, I invite you to call with your ideas on 40 events that shaped or defined Tallahassee. Some you might consider obvious: the founding of Florida Agricultural and Mechanical and Florida State universities, the opening of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory — and, indeed, the establishment of those first churches.

We welcome you to point out key historical events that you feel might not be so obvious to us.

Many of you have been receiving Tallahassee Magazine for four memorable decades, and I hope you continue to enjoy the compelling community and cultural stories dropped in your mailbox every two months.

I look forward to seeing our community help build our 40th anniversary issue. Keep an eye out for it this year.

In the meantime, let’s go warmly together into the summer.

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editor’s letter

IN DUE COURSE: My wife tells me that I’m in denial.

When it comes to new hobbies, she says, I tend to obsess.

Take my foray into the French language in the 1990s. I find myself thinking about it because of our story on language learners in this edition of Tallahassee Magazine.

Back then, I promised my wife that as we prepared for an anniversary trip to Paris, I would build on my high school and college course work and relearn a few phrases en français.

I had three months to get it done, and it’s a good thing we didn’t travel by boat, because, mon dieu, I went overboard. At least, that’s what my wife claimed.

Yearning to correctly say the French words for, among other things, “look,” “crepes” and “please,” I loaded up on books, tapes and CDs: French Made Easy.

French in 7 days.

501 French Verbs.

“You’re really taking it seriously,” my wife told me.

I attended a Frenchspeaking group and met two conversational speakers who agreed to meet for weekly chats over café crème.

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I learned enough over those three months to struggle through halting pleasantries with our Parisian cab driver.

I failed in all later attempts to converse in French, largely because all the tourist areas we visited featured Englishspeaking service folks. They clearly didn’t want to spend their time on some short American dude’s bonjour babble.

But my experience with the cab driver — that I said something in another language and got a response in that language — excited me enough to stay with it when we returned aux États-Unis.

I continued meeting with our French-speaking group of three and developed lasting friendships.

I also moved into movies and subtitles: “Au Revoir Les Enfants” “Cyrano de Bergerac” “Le Comte de Monte Cristo” My wife would ask, “Would you say you’re obsessed?”

Then music: Patricia Kass John-Jacques Goldman Céline Dion (en français, bien sûr!)

“You’re obsessed.”

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A FRENCH-SPEAKING GUITAR PLAYER The mere sight or suggestion of anything French triggered my hunger for my hobby: French fries.

French toast.

French vanilla.

“Oh my god.”

Of course, she meant, ‘Oh mon dieu.’”

In her story on page 36, writer Marina Brown tells us that we’ll find learning a new language “a thrilling, occasionally daunting and rewarding pursuit.”

I agree. For me, the rewards included another trip to France, where I spent a week with a family of four as part of a language-immersion course. I left the city of Tours, southwest of Paris, surprised that I could learn so much in one week, merely through the repetition of daily expressions.

The thrills came in the daily progress — the gratification of noticeable improvement in reading, speaking and listening from yesterday to today and the potential to get even better tomorrow.

But the wow soon waned. I became convinced

that without prolonged immersion in the language that I’d come to love, I’d never get beyond communicative. I’d reached what I considered a ceiling in French, so I dropped it, cold dinde.

This was before YouTube, where countless free videos offer ceiling-breaking potential in any language. So maybe I’ll catch French fever again.

In the meantime, I’ll stick with guitar, which I’ve been learning for about three years. I suppose that I practice about an hour a day during the week and three to four hours a day on weekends.

Nothing major.

“You’re obsessed,” my wife says.

Want to hear a few bars of La Vie en Rose? À bientôt,

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HONORING OUR DONORS

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CESC Health Services Rick is an entrepreneur and philanthropist who has been fighting poverty for decades. He provided start-up funding for The Kearney Center, Tallahassee’s homeless shelter, and for The Dwellings and Westgate transitional housing programs. His generosity, in partnership with Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare (TMH) Foundation, brings comprehensive medical care to people who are homeless.

How does CESC Health Services work?

Many homeless shelter clients need long-term healthcare but don’t access it for a variety of reasons. We decided to bring the doctors to them. Clients receive a health assessment from a nurse practitioner who works in collaboration with a doctor via TMH’s telemedicine program. We cover primary care, lab work, prescriptions and care by specialists. We also work with our partners to address mental health and substance abuse. Everything is handled promptly and efficiently under the TMH umbrella.

What results have you seen since the program started in January 2019?

blood pressure is off the charts. They will wait until their condition is unbearable before they seek treatment, usually at the emergency room. We will be able to show through data how this program improves the health of our clients and how it saves money by minimizing use of the emergency room.

What makes this gift meaningful to you?

We all know someone who falls into the category of underserved medical patient. They will have access to much better and more immediate healthcare as a result of this program. We can be the birthplace of a model that can be replicated nationwide.

What motivates your philanthropy?

There are short-term feelings of accomplishment that come in business when you beat the competition or land a big real estate deal. Those are great, but they’re like sugar.

The high comes, and it goes really fast. When you support the community, you see the smiles and hear the thankyous from people in the trenches. That sense of pride and accomplishment lasts much longer.

People often come to the homeless shelter with horrible, chronic conditions. They have untreated wounds, or their

“ I f I can leave a legacy that exceeds my lifetime, then I will feel like I’ve accomplished something. “

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Award-winning film producer found peace in Tallahassee and thinks she’s about to tell her best story yet

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Randy Traynor

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veryone has a defining moment. A tipping point, where what comes next looks — or at least feels — nothing like what came before.

For Emmy Award-winning producer Chucha Barber, that moment came the fifth time her family’s Miami home was burglarized in the two years following Hurricane Andrew.

“The last time that the home was burglarized,” Barber said, “I had gone to work and left my youngest son waiting for the school bus. When I got the call from my neighbor that my home had been broken into again and that there was blood all over the stoop of my home, I didn’t know the source. And I didn’t know if the bad people, as I call them, had come before my youngest son had gotten on the school bus.”

Her son was fine. But the incident left her three dogs badly beaten. The blood, she would learn, was theirs.

“It was very traumatic,” Barber said. “It was profound. A profound enough experience where we were willing and ready to just go. Nothing else mattered.”

At that point, the life and career she had spent 45 years building, creating celebrated television programming for Miami’s most vibrant and recognizable companies (including the Miami Herald, Miami Motor Sports, Inc., and the Miami Museum of Science) would become a distant memory.

Together with her family, Barber drove north, stopping in Tallahassee long enough to see the springtime jasmine flowers bloom.

“When we arrived in 1998,” said Barber, “we came from an environment where there were constant news stories about crime and corruption, and there was none of that, from what I can recall, in Tallahassee then. It was serene and peaceful.”

Tallahassee quickly became home to the Barbers and their two sons, Russ and Ryan. But while the peace was healing for her soul, working alongside many of Miami’s top movers-and-shakers for so long had rubbed off on her.

Her mind needed more excitement.

“Then and now, my perspective is that life in Tallahassee is what you make it,” Barber said. “It could be the greatest place you’ve ever lived.”

It didn’t take long before she found herself in the middle of downtown Tallahassee. Shortly after arriving, she snagged one of the most coveted jobs in town, and she served as director of institutional advancement and CEO for the Mary Brogan Museum of Arts and Science for the next 14 years.

Fundraising for an institution that size would have been more than a full-time position for most of us.

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Film producer Chucha Barber directs as Beckley Watson sings in a video production for Lauren’s Kids, a nonprofit organization that educates adults and children about sexual abuse prevention.

But not for Barber. Her fire burns a little brighter than most.

“All of the positions I’ve held required an element of an entrepreneurial spirit,” Barber said. “My professional roles all required the ability to envision something and to be able to communicate that vision.”

In 2003, in addition to her full-time position, she founded Chucha Barber Productions, which creates television programs, documentaries, commercials and web videos for an array of companies.

Her most meaningful project yet? A television program she’s been conceptualizing for nine years that, fingers crossed, will soon be illuminating a screen near you.

Still in preproduction, Barber and others are weaving together a storyline centered on her late

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Now, at this quadrant of my life, it’s more about seeking opportunities to create projects that are meaningful.” TM

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Trip of an Extended Lifetime Photographer advocates for Alaskan wilderness story by STEVE BORNHOFT // photography by RANDY TRAYNOR

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or 16 days, he was a latter-day John Muir, operating with equipment that his famous predecessor as a documenter of the Alaskan wilderness would have found inconceivable.

In March 2018, Randy Traynor of Tallahassee applied, not for the first time, to the U.S. Forest Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, hoping to be selected for duty as an artist-inresidence in the agencies’ Voices of the Wilderness program. He was among some 2,500 applicants who competed for just 10 slots in Alaska.

Each of the chosen few would be called upon to provide depictions — in words, artworks or photographs — of scenery and wildlife to be used in a U.S. Forest Service campaign aimed at fostering appreciation for the importance of stewardship of public lands. Applicants were required to

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submit a portfolio of their work and write an essay about how their residency would advance campaign goals.

“It was like applying to graduate school or writing a thesis,” Traynor said. But, in that regard, he was in good shape. He had engaged in environmental advocacy photography before — in the Everglades for

the Defenders of Wildlife — and could speak to that experience in his essay. He was optimistic.

Traynor’s application was pending when he developed a pain in his leg severe enough to cause him to schedule an appointment with a doctor. The doctor referred him for an MRI. That test would reveal something potentially far more serious than the inflammation in Traynor’s leg. There was a mass on one of his kidneys.

Accompanied by his wife, Traynor was back at the doctor’s office for biopsy results.

“I got the diagnosis you never want to hear,” Traynor said. “And when we were headed toward the car, I said to my wife, ‘Just wait, this will be the year I get picked for Alaska.’”

Surgery to remove the malignancy

← As an artist-in-residence for the U.S. government’s Voices of the Wilderness program, Randy Traynor captured this view of Alaska’s Portage Glacier, which has retreated substantially over recent decades. ↓ The photo below shows ice breaking off a glacier. The process is known as glacier calving.

already had been scheduled when Traynor received a phone call from Barbara Lydon, a manager with the Forest Service in the Prince William Sound region of Alaska.

Traynor had been chosen. The surgery was going to have to wait a while.

Muir — the philosopher, naturalist and early environmentalist — described in his writings glaciers that were growing. It would be Traynor’s job to document what has been lost in Lydon’s territory and what we stand to lose if climate change goes unchecked.

Today, lakes exist where none existed 30 years ago.

Areas that had been accessible only by trains have been opened to motorists and the attendant pollution produced by automobiles.

Emissions from cruise liners are

killing the lichens that moose and other creatures depend on.

Rising temperatures are robbing streams of oxygen and effectively frying salmon fry.

Natural rhythms and timeless calendars have been disrupted. Berries now ripen at the same time migrating salmon head upstream, messing up the eating habits of bears.

Permafrost is no longer permanent.

Diminished snowfall has lessened stream flows.

The acidification of seas is killing the tiny krill that sustain massive whales.

Waves of dandelions, an invasive plant species, are overtaking newly dry lands.

Alaska is more complex than it was in Muir’s day. Now, it is a place both beautiful and sad.

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Said Traynor, “I was taking pictures of glaciers that may not exist in 20 or 30 years.”

Still, Alaska is a source of awe. Traynor and the rangers who were his companions during his residency visited places where they made their own trails, where moose and bears ignored human intruders and just went about their grazing and berry consumption.

In 1980, Congress designated roughly 2.1 million acres along western Prince William Sound as the Nellie Juan-College Fiord Wilderness Study Area, or WSA, believing that research might establish whether the area should be made a national park or otherwise protected.

Located in south-central Alaska in the Chugach National Forest, the wilderness features the densest concentration of tidewater glaciers in the world, some extending more than 10 miles from ice-capped peaks to cliffs towering above the sea.

Reports Traynor: “The history of glaciation is evident everywhere you look, from newly deglaciated barren hillsides, to ancient moraines that are just below the water’s surface.”

Nearly 40 years after it began, the study continues. No designation aimed at preserving the wilderness’s special character has been made.

Often, the government moves at a glacial pace.

Traynor calls his Alaska residency the trip of a lifetime, a life that has been extended indefinitely by the early — in Traynor’s case, accidental — detection of a renal mass and successful cancer surgery.

He entered Alaska cognizant that countless photos of glaciers and mountaintops and moose and black bears and sea lions had been taken before.

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He worked, then, to take photos from angles not usually considered.

“I tend to shoot low,” Traynor said. “I may be prone on the ground. I like to take pictures of animals, even birds, at eye level. I want you to feel like you have walked into the photo. I am less likely to take a shot from the water’s edge than from the middle of the stream.”

Traynor’s self-taught education as a photographer began when his father bought him his first camera, a Kodak 110. Now, at age 50, the Florida boy looks forward to seeing his photos displayed at galleries in Anchorage and at the U.S. Ranger Glacier District visitor’s center in the tiny town of Girdwood, Alaska. TM See more of Randy Traynor’s photography at randytraynorphotography.com photography by RANDY TRAYNOR

← Randy Traynor overlooks the Nellie Juan Glacier in southern Alaska.

He also captured an Alaskan brown bear, invasive dandelions and a moose with her calf. “I tend to shoot low,” he says. “I may be prone on the ground. I like to take pictures of animals, even birds, at eye level.”

TIPS FOR WILDERNESS VISITORS  Clean equipment and gear before going to avoid the potential spread of seeds from non-native plants.  Travel and camp on durable surfaces.  Pack out all trash — leave no trace.  Keep campfires small. Build a fire below mean high tide, or when in a forested area, build a mound fire or use a fire pan to avoid damaging vegetation.  Respect wildlife.

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TACKLING TRAUMA HEAD ON

FSU ‘Resilience’ platform helps students manage stress and open up about mental health

by JORDAN ANDERSON

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↗ Florida State University Student Ambassadors

Richard Brito, left, Rima Patel and Sydney Pinto talk on campus with fellow students about the Student Resilience Project. → Bianka Pierre holds up a #ResilientNole T-shirt.

Clark met with Sally McRorie, FSU’s provost and executive vice president for academic affairs, to talk about his vision for a project that could help students cope. Rather than shy away from issues such as alcoholism and drug abuse, Clark and Oehme wanted to confront them.

When the provost gave the green light, the Student Resilience Project got the go.

Students received their “first dose” of resilience with a soft launch in July 2018.

FSU welcomed over 6,000 freshmen in the fall and required all of them to participate in the full project.

Since then, Oehme says he has received calls from universities all over the country asking, “How can we do this?”

“People want us to talk about this project because they find it different and edgy,” Oehme said.

The response prompted her to

ILLUSTRATION COURTESY OF THE STUDENT RESILIENCE PROJECT

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lorida State University researchers Karen Oehme and Jim Clark didn’t set out to be trailblazers.

They wanted to help young people struggling with their mental health.

The pair dug to the root of the issues, back to childhood and adolescence, and found a groundbreaking approach to trauma and resilience. Oehme, director of the Institute for Family Violence Studies, had the creativity and knowhow to design effective online education programs. Clark, dean of the College of Social Work, had the research.

Together, they created the Student Resilience Project.

The project is a web-based, evidenceinformed toolkit designed to strengthen students’ academic and emotional coping skills, regardless of whether they had experienced trauma. Supplementing existing educational and counseling interventions, the program acts like an online support system where students can learn to manage stress in healthy ways and connect to campus resources through interactive videos and exercises.

It started in fall 2017, when FSU was grappling with the death of fraternity pledge Andrew Coffey from a hazing incident.

A cartoon figure at strong.fsu. edu helps show students the merits of FSU’s web-based toolkit. photography by JOHN HARRINGTON

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↑ Jim Clark, dean of FSU’s College of Social Work, and Karen

Oehme, director of the Institute for Family Violence Studies, created the Student Resilience Project out of a desire to help young people struggling with their mental health. ↗ The project’s branding includes illustrated versions of them.

host an informational webinar, which attracted 90 representatives from 48 universities who wanted to replicate the toolkit.

At FSU, the project’s most avid supporters have been librarians, Oehme said. Librarians see students at their worst, when they’re stressed from exams, breakups or roommate problems.

They don’t always know how to help. Now, they can direct students to this resource, which the university continues to turn to in times of trauma.

When Hurricane Michael slammed the Panhandle in October, the project team created for the site specific trauma-informed approaches to dealing with disaster.

Clark then shared the toolkit with students returning to FSU’s Panama City campus after a three-week closure.

In November, FSU lost professor Nancy Van Vessem and student Maura Binkley to the Hot Yoga Tallahassee shooting. McRorie, the provost, asked Clark if the resilience project could be of service. The next day, the site included a module dedicated to gun violence and violence against women.

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“Of course, we didn’t predict a hurricane and we didn’t predict this mass shooting, but both Karen and I have been around a while and know that bad things happen to good people all the time,” Clark said. “More and more pressures have been on young people than there ever have been before, in my opinion.”

The project also aims to break down the stigma surrounding mental health issues so that people will confront them head on. FSU student Richard Brito said he had been hesitant to “… Karen and share his emotions before he got I have been involved in the project.

Brito, president of FSU’s Student around a while Ambassadors, said he has been and know that dedicated to spreading the project’s bad things message ever since, whether through visiting classrooms or engaging with happen to good students during university events. people all the “I feel like mental health is time. More and something that a lot of people are scared to talk about, but the fact more pressures that this project has been brought have been on to FSU, it’s really made people open young people up more,” he said. “It’s made me feel like I’m not alone.” than there ever Oehme says students are drawn to have been before, people in their age group who share in my opinion.” their stories and problems.

– Jim Clark, dean of FSU’s This feedback has been especially College of Social Work rewarding for Student Ambassador Rose Antoine, who as a member of the design team poured over details such as the site’s color scheme. The final product brought her to tears.

“I got really emotional with the project, and that’s why I fight for it so much,” Antoine said. “The feedback we’ve gotten about the Resilience Project makes it worth all the work we put in.”

The project has spread across campus as more student organizations incorporate it into their meetings and more teachers incorporate it to their assignments.

Antoine said underserved populations, including first-generation students, the LGBT+ community and members of the Hispanic/Latino Student Union, have expressed appreciation that the university has taken this measure to address their specific needs and vulnerabilities.

Brito said he looks forward to seeing the Student Resilience Project extend beyond FSU’s campus because it can show students everywhere that it’s OK to talk about their emotions and ask for help.

Most of all, he said, it shows students that “there’s hope.” TM photography by JOHN HARRINGTON

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PARLEZ-VOUS FRANCAIS? SPRECHEN SIE DEUTSCH?

Capital City residents find that language learning widens their world

by MARINA BROWN

You’re just darned hungry. The hasenpfeffer is calling you. But you don’t know what to call it. If only you’d learned a little German before your trip.

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aybe, on a trip abroad, you’d like to order your meals in the native tongue of your server. Maybe you’d like to know how to ask for directions. Or maybe you’d merely enjoy learning a second or third language.

Regardless of the motivation, you’ll find it a thrilling, occasionally daunting and rewarding pursuit.

Just ask students at the Tallahassee Senior Center, where Consuelo Rushing teaches Spanish to one of the small groups that meets for weekly conversation.

Students there say their pasts propel them as they aim for positive linguistic futures.

Take Jim Nelson, 71, who says Spanish was essential to him in Miami, where he worked as an attorney.

“Now I want to get better for traveling,” he said.

Sitting beside him, Royal Logan, 83, says he’s thinking of moving to South Florida.

Having spent three years in Puerto Rico, he said, “I was never really fluent, but I enjoy the studying just the same.”

Youngest of the group at age 60, Anne Giles studies flamenco.

“Because so many of my dance instructors are from Spain, I want to understand the nuances of what they’re saying and to better interpret the lyrics of the songs and their emotional qualities,” she said.

These seniors find it perturbing when someone suggests that learning a language

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Instructor Ray Hattaway converses in German with students at the German School at Cornerstone Learning Community.

is more difficult when you’re older. Though each of them had studied language in the past, they say they do it with more “purpose” now. With specific goals to work for, study is no longer drudgery.

Crystal Curvey, 24, a student at German School Tallahassee, which meets

at Cornerstone Learning Community, says she began classes eight years ago when she was heading to Germany for a year as an exchange student.

German is not an “angry language,” she says with a laugh, referencing certain guttural-sounding words. Curvey says photography by BRUCE PALMER

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she continued speaking her now-fluent second language and has been back three times to Oldenburg, where speaking German has permitted friendships to grow.

Michelle Frank, who studies with Alliance Francaise, the international body promoting French culture and language, says many years ago she had been inspired to read The Three Musketeers in French. It remains a goal.

“At my new job, I found many bilingual speakers and they inspired me to take up my studies again,” she said. “It was intriguing to see worlds open up when the language barrier was lifted.”

In the Black Dog Café’s cozy clapboard structure facing Lake Ella, several people speak and laugh in French. They belong to one of Alliance Francaise’s conversational breakout groups. From a native French speaker from Algeria to several who last said “ooh la la” in college, they are jabbering away with elan.

A woman in her 70s says her high school French has all come back in the company of others. “When I crawl into bed at night, I try to conjugate a few verbs,” she says. “It’s relaxing, and I’m usually asleep before I get to ‘we’ and ‘they.’ ” Most of the adult students supplement their classroom and book study with online sources or CDs. Tallahassee resident Michelle Frank, 45, says she listens during her 45-minute commute to work to Duolingo, an online learning platform, and Radio Lingua, which offers free podcasts.

“But sometimes I just narrate my activities in my head in French,” she said.

Chinese, Russian, French, Arabic and Italian are taught at Florida State University, where non-degree seekers often can audit classes. Italian professor Silvia Valisa says her students include international affairs majors, music majors who want to sing opera and trilingual speakers who are just passionate about language.

“There are really so many reasons to know a language different from the one you learned at home,” she said.

Science tells us that a foreign language is just plain good for you. Some studies say that speaking a second language can sharpen focus, improve decision-making and even delay dementia.

And if that’s not worth some conjugating, then that trip to Paris certainly is! TM

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geese explores Chapman Pond Park, where the birds surely left their mark.

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ou’re taking a walk around Lake Ella when you hear honk-honking. Looking upward, you behold a flock of geese flying in a majestic, aerodynamic “V” formation.

You smile.

And then you step in a pile of their poop.

Although there are snowbirds that still migrate between the north, where they make babies and live half the year, and the south — where they hang out in the relative warmth and get fat for the return trip — there is another crew who

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never, ever leave. With water, minimal predators and tasty grass along with food handouts, they’re happy to make Tallahassee their home year-round.

They’re Canada geese, and sometimes, they’re not the best of neighbors.

Aside from that whole poop thing, in April 2016, a state worker was sent to the hospital after a goose attacked her in the parking lot of her SouthWood office, causing her to fall backward and hit her head. A year later,

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» Canada geese mate for life. Mama geese lay an average of five eggs, and the incubation period is 24-28 days. A baby goose is called a gosling. The parents molt around the same time as babies are born and cannot fly.

» A group of geese is called a flock. When they’re on the ground, it’s a gaggle. When flying, they’re a skein. » A goose in the wild can live upward of 24 years. » Studies vary, but it is estimated that one goose creates one to three pounds of poop a day. Fifty geese can create two-and-a-half tons of poop in a year. » Canada geese can be found in all of the contiguous U.S. states and all Canadian provinces.

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several geese trying to cross Interstate 10 caused a three-car accident.

As director of Tallahassee’s Parks, Recreation and Neighborhood Affairs department, Ashley Edwards fields a lot of complaints about nuisance geese, especially around Lake Ella, where they leave droppings, block traffic as they sashay across the street and occasionally attack the unwary.

“They poop a lot and they poop everywhere,” she said.

“They can be aggressive, especially during mating season … and they really do have no fear. A car is not their enemy; a car is somebody else’s problem. They’re going to walk right across. It’s problematic.”

Geese particularly love a body of water next to a wellmanicured lawn — which sounds an awful lot like the golf courses and ballfields Edwards’ department is responsible for.

“It’s bad enough at a golf course where your ball can roll through (droppings), but there’s nothing worse than being in the outfield of a softball field and diving for a ball and landing in a pile of you-know-what,” she continued. “It’s why we don’t want dogs on our ballfields, but they’re a lot easier to deal with than geese.”

Geese in the wild are naturally wary of humans, said Peter Kleinhenz, president of the Apalachee Audubon Society. “They don’t want themselves, and especially their young, to be around humans,” he said. “It’s only in the urban setting where they have been fed, have they truly lost their fear of humans.”

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Kleinhenz has his own goose encounter tale to tell about, from when he was a 9-year-old in the Midwest: “When I first moved into my house … we had a pond in the backyard,” he began. “I was going around looking for frogs, and out of nowhere … a dad goose took its wing and hit me straight in the forehead. It knocked me out.

It’s like being hit by an aluminum baseball bat. I know how bad it can hurt, and I know how much of a nuisance they can be ….

This was up in Ohio where their “Geese in the population is even higher than it is wild are naturally in Tallahassee. It’s what Tallahassee could become.” wary of humans.

Kleinhenz does give his goose They don’t want nemesis a pass, saying that the bird themselves, and was probably protecting its young.

“If you have babies around and especially their someone’s walking by your babies, I young, to be don’t care what animal you are, you’re around humans.” going to defend them,” he said.

— Peter Kleinhenz, The first sign a goose is aggravated president of the Apalachee is a head bob, with its neck curving Audubon Society into an “S” shape. Then, it will hiss.

“If you hear the hissing, get away … give it some space,” he continued.

Canada geese are considered native to Tallahassee, migrating here in the wintertime for hundreds of thousands of years. But they were hunted almost to extinction 120 years ago, according to Kleinhenz, and are now one of the great comeback stories of conservation along with other species such as bald eagles and alligators.

The geese were protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918, but in recent years restrictions have been loosened so that with proper federal and state permits, you can haze them, relocate them or destroy their nests and eggs. There also are Florida goose hunting seasons for about three-and-a-half months in the late fall and winter.

Edwards, of the City of Tallahassee, takes a more liveand-let-live approach to the feathered residents who don’t take well to certain visuals and noises.

“I have seen companies that sell strobe lights, that (geese) don’t like, I have heard people that have … played music in areas. We’ve not really done any of that,” Edwards said.

“You can try to shoo them. The more activity, especially if they’re not being fed, in an area that goes on, they tend to leave. But when they get comfortable, they’re harder to get to move on. It’s a challenge.”

Techniques that have worked well for Leon County’s Parks and Recreation Department don’t harm the geese but capitalize on their natural fear of predators.

When residents started to complain about geese in the county’s Martha Wellman Park, workers installed plastic coyote decoys, according to county Parks and Recreation director Leigh Davis. “Believe it or not that seems to help,” she said.

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Another method is to leave about a 10-foot buffer of unmowed grass and native plants around the perimeter of the ponds, which has been successful at Pedrick Pond Park. “The geese can’t see over the grass or through the grass and they get nervous Canada geese are the and worried,” explained stars of the 2017–18 Leon County water resource scientist Johnny Richardson.

Federal Migratory Richardson said he Bird Hunting and saw the effectiveness of Conservation Stamp, the buffer recently after aka the Duck Stamp. workers mistakenly mowed Minnesota artist James a 20-foot-long swath down Hautman, a five-time to the waterline. “The geese showed up, but they hung winner of the Federal out at that part of the lake.

Duck Stamp Art Contest, They weren’t using the whole created a detailed lake,” he said. “I was walking portrait of three geese around — they could see me in flight, with their black and then they couldn’t — and head and necks and a they were pretty nervous.”

Naturalist Budd Titlow, distinctive “chinstrap” of author of Bird Brains: Inside white feathers. the Strange Minds of Our Fine Feathered Friends, says he used to love geese. But now, not so much.

“I’m 72 years old, so when I was growing up, it was really fun and heartening to hear the geese flying in the fall and in the spring because you knew the seasons were changing,” he said. “They’ve become a nuisance bird — that’s the only way I can put it.”

Everyone interviewed for this article said they copped to feeding bread to geese and other birds as youngsters and hate the thought of denying the pleasure to the next generation of children.

“I fed ducks and geese when I was a kid,” Titlow said.

“Children love to feed … ducks and geese, (but) it’s a terrible thing to do.”

Audubon’s Kleinhenz says feeding them makes them dependent on humans and that a steady diet of processed food is harmful to the herbivores and could ultimately kill them.

“I would argue despite the joy that feeding an animal brings, you can get the same level of joy by sitting with your child or children and just quietly watch them going about their lives,” he said. “If you go to a place like St. Marks, you’re not seeing human-dependent ducks, you’re seeing natural animals. And you can watch them go about their lives, stock up on food, fend off potential predators. All the things animals do. I think that’s just as inspiring and joyous as feeding them.” TM

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Coping with a brutal condition and with people who don’t understand it

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hen I was 13, I noticed something different about myself. I started having a dry cough, producing a sound that a small child might make.

I didn’t find it terribly disturbing, but I knew it wasn’t right. Diagnoses included asthma, anxiety and epilepsy, yet my relentless cough continued.

I also began to develop tics, involuntary movements that still include a backward jump when I’m standing and a jump in my chair when I’m sitting — like a frog plopping itself onto a log.

I found it exhausting, physically and mentally, and the exhaustion helped me to recognize that I had health problems other than the ones doctors were treating.

Three years ago, at the age of 18, doctors told me I had Tourette’s syndrome.

Tourette’s is a neurodevelopmental disorder categorized by the tics that I was experiencing.

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led by Olivia Rose did experiments in 2017 and asked me to participate, which I did without hesitation. The experiments led the researchers to suspect that the disorder affects electrical patterns in the brain known as mu waves, which run from ear to ear.

My mu waves “light up” unprompted; they should be active only when the brain is trying to signal a movement to another area of the body. This involuntary action is what causes my compulsory responses, the researchers believe.

To get diagnosed with Tourette’s, a patient must have displayed at least two or more motor, or physical, tics and at least one vocal tic.

I have developed a variety of them over time, from the cough to a leap and a skip in the middle of a stride. Some days, I find my tics bearable and under control, and other days, they feel so ferocious that I miss school or work due to their severity.

One morning last year, I woke up and couldn’t catch my

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breath, and I knew my day was In medical terms, I am a going to be a challenge. During rarity. Some .3 percent of chilmy morning routine, which dren age 6–17 in the U.S. reinvolves breathing exercises ceive a diagnosis of Tourette’s including yoga, I tried my syndrome, according to the hardest to fight through the U.S. Centers for Disease tics. But I couldn’t manage to Control and Prevention. Releave my house. searchers have found no cure, I felt so embarrassed — and doctors aim to control the ashamed, even. I didn’t feel like tics and to help patients get on fighting anymore with our activities and didn’t want to and lives.

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My condition Tourette’s. made my time The intensity varies, but I continue to exat Florida State I’ll have perience this brutalia chalthese tics University ty about once a week. lenge from the start. for the rest As a junior in the fall My diagnosis came rather late, as most of my life. of 2017, I took a few off as I people are diagnosed What am I semesters sought ways to cope at age 8–12. And it going to do? — doctors willing came as I was just to help and medicabeginning my college career. The news shouldn’t tions for my tics. have come as a shock, as my I have tried plenty of dad for months had suspected medications and recently found a concoction that helps Tourette’s. Yet the diagnosis fairly well. came as one of those devastating Still, many people stare. moments that made time stop: They shake their heads. They I have Tourette’s. I’ll have these even laugh. Sometimes, they’re tics for the rest of my life. What am downright rude.

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For my 18th birthday, I was having dinner with friends at a local restaurant, and a woman next to us kept asking the waiter to move us to a different booth because I was “disturbing” their family meal. All the while, she judged my condition without asking about it, saying “What’s wrong with you?” and, “Why do you do that?”

What’s wrong with you?

That one threw me for a loop, and I wasn’t prepared to answer.

After speaking with me about my so-called disruptions, the server denied the woman’s requests. But the situation remained awkward and uncomfortable as the woman continued to stare at me from across the booth; I felt anger and pain boil inside.

The problem lies within the problem of Tourette’s syndrome; it’s not well researched and therefore not well known or understood.

I’ve been slowly learning how to navigate it. Tourette’s can hold me back from doing and enjoying a multitude of things in life, like pouring hot coffee and driving my car.

These things take extra caution and care when I’m not in control of what movements my body may make unwillingly.

Should your child become diagnosed with a condition such as mine, please know that you’ll have people, including me, standing with you and your daughter or son in solidarity and love.

It won’t be easy for your child, but it can get better.

It will get better. It gets better for me when I remember this: I am not my disability; I am much more than that.

I am passionate. I am confident. I am a strong woman, and I am without a doubt better than this diagnosis that continues to try and drag me down.

And for the first time in a long time, I know I’m not going to let it. I will defeat the beast that lies within my mind. TM

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The store’s owner, Tracy Lamoreaux, says customers think of their pets as family members.

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f you asked Tracy Lamoreaux, owner of PAWS Pet Boutique, how customers would describe their animals, the word pet wouldn’t come to mind.

“I don’t know people who think of their dogs as just pets — not in this store,” Lamoreaux said. “They’re family members.”

Customers will put off their own doctor appointments and haircuts to pay for their pet’s services. If it comes down to the owner or the dog, it’ll be the latter — and that mindset goes for anything from pampering to food.

A 2017–18 survey from the American Pet Products Association, or APPA, which represents pet product manufacturers and suppliers, indicates that millennials have replaced baby boomers as the largest group of dog owners. In terms of care and spending, they’re taking the humanization of their pets to new levels, the survey suggests.

The result: a demand for goods and services once reserved for humans, such as interactive toys, day care, behavioral counseling and health insurance.

The number of insured pets reached more than 2 million in the U.S. and Canada last year, according to the APPA. Insurance companies offer plans that include service for exams, alternative therapies and wellness plans.

Jordan Holliday, senior marketing communications specialist at Embrace Pet Insurance, says she thinks millennials have shifted the mindset of pet ownership: They want to protect their pets in the same way they would protect themselves.

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They’re doing what they can to keep them occupied and entertained as well.

Basil Cousins, co-owner of The Naturally Healthy Pet, said dog puzzles have been especially popular in his Tallahassee store.

Some pet services might have left an earlier generation puzzled. The Animal Hospital and Pet Resort at SouthWood tells online visitors: “Our day care service allows your pet to stay for the day in one of our luxury resort suites.”

SouthWood’s site describes the suites as a “home away from home,” but its accommodations aren’t unlike the ones hotels offer.

Each suite includes private beds, spacious flooring, windows and televisions — some include their own DVD players. A truly pampered pet can enjoy optional amenities such as massages, “pet-a-cures” or pupsicles.

The facility faced an uncertain reception when it launched in 2007, said co-owner and veterinary physician Julie Moodoyan.

But, she said, “We had a good reception right off the bat — better than we were expecting.

“I think a lot of people, especially professionals with really busy schedules, feel sad that they can’t be there to exercise their dogs during the day,” Moodoyan said.

Moodoyan said she has seen a higher demand for behavioral counseling, especially for separation anxiety, aggression and common phobias such as loud noise and thunderstorms.

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for their pets, owners are straying away from traditional pain medications and turning to alternative treatments such as cold laser therapy, acupuncture and chiropractics.

Also, Moodoyan said, people are starting to recognize the importance of dental health in animals. She emphasizes daily teeth brushing — and the right food.

Store owners such as Cousins, of The Naturally Healthy Pet, say customers admit they feed their pets better than themselves.

They look for more organic food options, vitamin supplements and treats.

Whether it’s raw-coated or freeze-dried, pet owners want to know what kind of food will help their companion live a long and healthy life, no matter the price.

Yet Moodoyan emphasized caution on grain-free diets, which she thinks mirror the trend toward gluten-free diets in people.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said last summer that it was investigating “the potential association between” reports of canine heart disease and “certain pet foods the animals consumed, containing peas, lentils, other legume seeds or potatoes as main ingredients.”

“I have pet owners come in every day who think they are feeding their dogs the best possible diet by offering grain-free, and that’s probably not what’s actually best,” Moodoyan said. “That’s something all pet owners should know.”

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t takes a particularly strong person to leave behind everything she knows. But Shamika George, 34, wasn’t following any trends when she decided to depart her native island of St. Thomas in pursuit of her “best life.”

The single mother and environmentalist-turnedsocial-media-fashionguru was chasing a dream she had for her family.

“My son Kemal is on the autism spectrum,” said George, who moved to Tallahassee with her then 8-year-old son in 2016. “I wanted a better setup for him so he could have an educational plan that suited his needs. After we had decided to relocate and I was looking for jobs, a huge factor in that search was the schools in the area. I went from having a very rough time with him in the school system, to it being like a dream in Tallahassee.”

George’s story would have been inspiring enough if she had stopped there: moving to a new place, and a new job, in order to give her son a better life.

But she didn’t.

As the founder of FroPlusFashion.com, George has taken to the streets of Florida’s Capital City and the corridors of social media to champion causes she believes in, including helping women everywhere feel beautiful in their skin. A quick gander at her online life and any Tallahassean will instantly recognize many of her backdrops as their favorite downtown spots.

“I wanted to be the change I needed to see,” said George, who consistently celebrates her curves and curls in style via her various platforms. “That’s really what compelled me to start sharing myself and serving as representation for the things that I wanted to see more of on social media.”

Through her digital persona, George connects with her audience as not only an authority on beauty, but also a gal pal they can go to for advice. Comment exchanges in her latest post read like quick text messages, laughingly fired off between old friends.

Her appeal couldn’t be more genuine either.

George is practicing what she preaches, and the confidence she’s found shines through. Her videos are true to her followers, taking them with her wherever she goes — from her natural hair morning beauty rituals and in-depth tutorials, to the dressing room as she works with brands such as Target and Lane Bryant that share a similar vision for accessible fashion. photography by ALICIA OSBORNE

About 7,000 YouTube users have connected and subscribed to George’s messaging.

“I don’t need to rely on others to see myself as beautiful,” said George. “And neither do they. I think as a society we’ve made a lot of progress, but there’s obviously still a lot of work to be done on both fronts pertaining to the natural hair community as well as the plus size.

“I feel in each community there’s a pinnacle for the ideal image of what someone from that community should look like. In the natural hair community, I feel like looser curls are more accepted verses someone with a kinkier texture, like the hair that I have. In the plus-size world, it’s still the classic hourglass shape. But those aren’t the only ways people can be beautiful.”

Beautiful and busy — and maybe brilliant — are the only labels George is allowing attached to her brand. In addition to sharing her message daily with the masses, she somehow still manages to excel at her 9-to-5 as an environmental specialist with Florida Department of Agriculture. And as Super Mom. After nearly three years in Tallahassee, George is still exploring all that the region has to offer, along with her two favorite gentlemen (she’s blessed with an “Instagram Boyfriend” who dutifully takes photos for her on the fly) at her side.

“I’m loving it,” added George. “We have so many trees here, which reminds me of home. It’s very quiet, not too much hustle and bustle like in bigger cities. It’s a slow-going, relaxed, family-friendly place to be.” TM

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“And neither do they,” she says.

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ur skin, quite frankly, is highly impressive. Skin is the organ that protects and shields all of our other organs. Skin regenerates itself approximately every 21 to 28 days. It produces lipids that moisturize and melanin that provides beautiful skin in all shades. With all that skin provides us, we should reward it by treating it with care.

With new products and treatments always available, deciding what is right for your skin can be overwhelming. The most efficient and effective way to determine a skincare routine is to enlist the help of a professional.

Missy Whiddon, owner of Advanced Dermal Solutions, advises meeting with a licensed skin professional or dermatologist who can assess your skin using the Fitzpatrick scale, which is a 1–5 scale based on genetics and your reaction to sun and chemicals.

No matter your results, Whiddon advises that each person should use this regimen for ideal skin: a cleanser, scrub, moisturizer and sunscreen.

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Eighty percent of your skin’s appearance is based on what you do at home to protect it, according to the physicians of Southeastern Plastic Surgery in Tallahassee.

Alongside medical-grade products, Southeastern Plastic Surgery encourages peels and facials. The company’s newest peel line from IS Clinical is called Prodigy Peel, which addresses skin concerns such as acne, sun damage and fine lines.

For severely sun-damaged skin, coarse wrinkles, scars and even precancerous growths, physician-performed chemical peels are the most aggressive types.

Rejuvenating treatments for the summer months are Oxygen facials, which quench skin with anti-aging serums of vitamins, antioxidants and peptides infused with oxygen to hydrate skin and reduce fine lines and wrinkles, leading to a more youthful complexion.

“An effective skincare regimen must contain three fundamental elements: prevention, protection and correction,” said Sue Anne Pearce, LC, LA, of Tallahassee Plastic Surgery Clinic. “These are designed to prevent further damage, protect healthy skin and correct previous damage.”

Tallahassee Plastic Surgery promotes the SkinCeuticals brand, for prevention, protection and correction.

Through nonsurgical therapies, clinics aim to repair your skin where products may fall short. Collagen induction therapy, a minimally invasive procedure for the treatment of fine lines, wrinkles, acne scars and overall appearance, has proven popular. For Florida skin, many are favoring CryoCorrect, a non-invasive dark-spot corrector and skin tag removal that gently freezes age spots and sunspots from the face, hands and body.

Amber Caplan, owner of BumbleBee Waxing & More, insists on cleansing skin twice daily, a moisturizing SPF and mineral makeup, which is light and packed with vitamins and antioxidants.

She advises treating yourself to a summer peel series, which happens once a week for six weeks, leaving you glowing, hydrated and refreshed. She calls it “30 minutes of pure bliss.”

Like any aspect of your mind, body and soul, you should strive to take care of your skin. Beautiful skin is the best fashion statement you can make. TM

A loss of too much water and oil results in dry skin, according to University of Florida Health. The medical term is xerosis, and it can affect anyone at any age, UF Health says. It offers these tips on how to prevent it: Choose skin cleansers free from dyes and perfumes; don’t expose your skin to water more often than needed; use lukewarm bath water; and instead of rubbing, pat your skin dry with a towel.

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MAIN COURSE: A prime New York strip is among the menu options at Il Lusso, a new Italian steakhouse in downtown Tallahassee.

Il Lusso brings ‘metropolitan feel’ to downtown

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ave a seat, order a drink and gaze with your dining mate out the massive windows. You might get a sense of Atlanta, Chicago or — dare we say? — New York.

Yet you haven’t left home.

Il Lusso is a new Italian restaurant that has brought big-city dining to the Capital City. Its central-downtown location offers another option for lawmakers, lobbyists and others who seek a high-end option within walking distance of the Capitol.

“We really wanted to bring a metropolitan feel to downtown Tallahassee,” said chef and co-owner Terry White.

Il Lusso is the product of White and business partner Craig Richardson. They’re the owners of Sage, a popular Tallahassee restaurant that opened in 2006 on the northeastern side of the city.

Seeing all the changes and construction going on in downtown Tallahassee, they wanted a bite of it. They hired architect Lewis + Whitlock and went to work on the first floor of the building at 201 E. Park Ave., where Park meets Monroe Street.

The duo ended up with a restaurant that Richardson said offers a “classic kind of steakhouse with a mid-century feel, which is coming back — pretty clean and timeless.”

At Il Lusso, giant windows meet high ceilings, with medium lighting. In the bar, wood floor meets marble, with hip sofas.

Those components provide a look and feel that trumpets urban chic.

One online reviewer wrote that Il Lusso “has the ambiance of a NYC” high-end restaurant.

Diners look out at buildings, cars and pedestrians, plus tall oaks that hug the downtown Chain of Parks.

“We love our building, the view of the park,” White said. “And at nighttime, it’s pretty stunning.”

Il Lusso opened in December and joined a growing number of higher-end restaurants in or near downtown, including Cypress Restaurant, Shula’s 347 Grill, Andrew’s, and Savour, which joins Il Lusso as a newcomer.

The restaurant also brings new activity near the

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↖ A view from outside of Il Lusso ↑ Some tables offer a tasty view of the kitchen → Craig Richardson (left) shares a light moment with his business partner, chef Terry White (right).

Capitol, which sees construction of the Washington Square development and the Cascades Project, both of which aim to include upscale hotels and will change the look and feel of downtown.

“Terry and I wanted to take on a project that would benefit the city that we live in and care a lot about,” Richardson said. “We wanted to be the beachhead, if you will, of the new downtown.”

Richardson joined White at Sage Restaurant, which touts freshly made

food in a casual environment, after a 2011 fire closed the business. They reopened it in 2012.

Sage still carries the French influence of its predecessor, Mon Pere et Moi Café, for which White worked as executive chef before he purchased the restaurant in 2006 and changed its name.

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“I find there’s not a lot of places in town that are doing hand-made, hand-filled pastas homemade from scratch,” White said. “We really try to raise the bar with the Italian cooking that we’re doing here.”

Diners can see it happen through another large window that reveals “where all the magic comes from,” White said.

“We thought it would be a different experience for the guests to actually see what we’re doing, to see the beautiful kitchen that we’ve created and bring them in to be a part of it,” White said.

The owners promote their restaurant as high end but not exclusive. Its spring dinner menu offered veal chop Parmesan for $46 and a 24-ounce dry-aged cowboy ribeye for $75.

It also featured seared scallops or crispy skin salmon for $30 and Seminole squash triangoli for $18.

“We don’t scare people off and make people think you have to come in here and spend $300, because you don’t have to,” Richardson said.

But he said he hopes that diners leave with a feeling that he and White came up with “kind of a cool place to put a restaurant.” TM

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gastro & gusto Just like beer flights common at Tallahassee’s finer hop-and-barley joints, The Lounge lets discerning sippers sample three or four whiskeys, rums, tequilas and such.

Our spirit guides can conjure up ← a flight of anything you desire, Bartender Adam Hanley fancies a flight that features but fair warning: If you the latest Midwinter Nights request flavored schnapps Dram; Michter’s American or the like, you may endure Whiskey, unblended; and Elijah Craig Kentucky some gentle mockery. straight bourbon.

So in the spirit of things, we turned ourselves over to Adam’s imagination. We gazed into sparkles of varicolored bottles, glitters of light flung like spangled coins across glass geometries that would have puzzled Euclid. People down the bar goggled a televised sporting contest. To each their own.

It is a cozy joint, with four high-top tables for four and room for a dozen people at the polished wooden bar. Notable in the ambiance: the absence of canned music dialed to stun volume. Just the murmur of conversation and the occasional tinkle of ice against glass, chamber music of the gods.

Our reverie broke when Hanley delivered a LIBATIONS wooden rack of three amber-filled glasses, their bottles of origin lined up neatly behind.

“From your left: Elijah Craig Kentucky straight bourbon; Michter’s American Whiskey, unblended; and the latest Midwinter Nights Dram, a hard-tofind rye whisky blend aged in port wine casks.”

Stanwyck and I set to sipping. A little of this, some water to cleanse, a little of that. A wide range of aroma and flavor seemed to shape-shift as

by ROB RUSHIN different spirits danced on our tongues. We came to agreement: The Midwinter Dram is just the thing he Libations Research and the bar, Hanley learned his craft at to cozy by a fire, but Elijah Craig won the day with Recovery Team takes pride in Waterworks before he settled into his a classic Kentucky style. sharing our favorite places for slot at The Lounge. “But the main focus “That is not the standard Craig,” Hanley said. innovative cocktails. Alas, our here is on individual spirits. We have “Every so often, a group of us visits distilleries. We reporting leads to throngs of curiosity things that are pretty hard to find.” sample from a bunch of different barrels, and when seekers, forcing us to seek less-popular Such as? we hit the one we like best, they bottle the whole places to slake our thirst.

“We have a Pappy van Winkle cask just for our store.”

As Yogi Berra once quipped: “Nobody 12-year-old that is pretty rare,” Hanley A notation on the bottle confirms: goes there anymore. It’s too crowded.” said. “And the Jefferson Presidential is MSL Barrel Team Hand Selected 2018 Pick That said, we urge you to stop reading almost impossible to find.”

This is not your daddy’s Elijah Craig. Unless he “We get to touch all the bottles,” said now so you never learn about one of shops here. bartender Dana DeToro, who recently Tallahassee’s most precious libational A flight is roughly equivalent to two standard joined The Lounge after creating the sugems: The Lounge at Market Square. drinks, so pace perb craft cocktail program at Liberty Bar. “We can handle all the standard and discretion are The Libations team usually searches recipes, but we love to do variations,” paramount. Sip, savor THE LOUNGE AT for mixological concoctions beyond our bartender Adam Hanley tells us. “We and contemplate. But MARKET SQUARE imagination. Our heroes at The Lounge really enjoy making something unique, please. Do not tell Monday–Saturday are more than up to that challenge, something special for one person based anybody else about Opens at 4 p.m. but their unique offering is a carefully on their tastes and interests.”

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KEEPING TABS ON ALL THAT MUSES INSPIRE

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ONE MORE ROUND OF GLOBAL FUNK Legendary George Clinton to park his ‘mothership’ late this year

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n spring of 2018, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame member and Tallahassee resident George Clinton set the internet ablaze with a double whammy. The lead punch: the surprise release of the first Parliament Funkadelic album in 38 years. That one set Funk Nation dancing. But the second punch was a haymaker: Dr. Funkenstein — Grandfather of Funk and arguably one of the progenitors of Afro-Futurism — would retire after one more tour of the planet.

The announced curtain call was May. But buck up, funkateers. The P-Funk machine is extending its campaign for global funk domination until November.

Reached by phone just after a stint on the Soul Train Cruise, Clinton insisted that November was the original plan, that people just got confused.

So no endless retirement tours a la Sinatra?

“No baby. November and I’m out. But first we’re gonna go back to Japan and Australia, probably Europe again, who knows where the funk will take ya?”

Whether this was the original call or an audibled play, who could blame Clinton for wanting to keep the party going?

Parliament’s tear-the-roof-off-the-sucka performances in sold-out houses all over the world — and at sea — and latest album, (aka Long-Haired Sucker), Uncle Jam, Mr. “Medicaid Fraud Dogg,” are converting a Wiggles, Rumpofsteelskin, The Flashlight new generation to the essential ethos of the and the Bop Gun. Not to mention the funk: “Free your mind, and your ass will legendary Mothership, which follow.”

George proudly points out is “Man, the audiences have “in the Smithsonian. That’s been great. Just as many some respect.” young kids as older folks,” Clinton was also looking Clinton said. “It really makes forward to a double-bill me happy for the future funk.” tour of Australia with the One testimony to Red Hot Chili Peppers, who Clinton’s influence on several first called on Clinton to generations of funk is the produce their 1985 “Freaky level of talent he is drawing Styley” album. in support of his last tour.

MEDICAID “Those guys know how to Established booty bouncers FRAUD DOGG give it back, you know. I can like Galactic, Fishbone The latest album call and ask Flea and them to and Dumpstaphunk have of George Clinton’s do anything,” Clinton says. been lining up to tour with Parliament focuses “All those guys, we’ve been the creator of Sir Nose, on addiction. playing with them for years.”

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Early this year, the Recording Academy honored George and his P Funk army with a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.

Back in the day, the Academy would not be caught dead with these bad boys. Now, George is an elder statesman. Respected.

And still bringing the fashion funk.

Sellout tours are nothing new for Clinton. But what’s it like touring the world as an eminence grise?

“Actually, the best thing is just seeing the world for the last year through clean eyes. All these places I’ve been before, most of the time I was high as hell,” he told Tallahassee Magazine. “I never really paid attention to the places I’ve been. Lately, I’ve had that chance to see it through happy eyes, you know … clear. It’s actually fun to figure out, all these places I’ve been, I’d never seen them before.” photography by MARK WALLHEISER

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INSURANCE NEEDS ↑ Rock & Roll Hall of Fame member George Clinton relaxes outside his Tallahassee home. He plans to retire in November after one more tour of the planet as head of Parliament Funkadelic. “Man, the audiences have been great,” he says. “Just as many young kids as older folks. It really makes me happy for the future funk.”

Addiction, something Clinton knows something about, is the theme of “Medicaid Fraud Dogg.”

“It looks like the whole society is on drugs of some kind,” he said. “Legally. It’s the same look I had doing them illegally.

They’ve got everybody strung out, the pharmaceutical companies, all of it getting at our addictive nature. They are making big money off it.”

Clinton sees things through happy eyes these days, and while there is satisfaction in looking back, right now he is focused on building a future for the next generation of P Funk, one that extends long after he settles down with his paint brushes and fishing poles. This is a man geared up for one last whirl around the planet.

“Get two booties ’cause you’re gonna need them. We’re gonna wear both of them out this year.” TM

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TRADITIONS

Tale of a New ‘Circle’ Ancient art of storytelling lives on in Capital City

by MARINA BROWN

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hen you were little, telling “tall tales” may have earned you time in the naughty chair. But those long, winding, perhaps self-serving fables probably had a point. They were a way of explaining emotionally to someone (in this case, Mom) a greater truth — for example, why the cookie’s destiny was to be in your stomach.

That youthful deployment of fiction and fact, however, is part of a tradition that is the foundation of cultural transfer, perhaps the essence of being human. Storytelling is the desire to make sense of the world in ways we and others can understand.

Stories were necessary to explain the natural world before science took up the task. And today, as always, they are used to reveal great truths, to teach morality, to inspire, to shame, to uplift, to market, to manipulate and to entertain us. Stories have and likely will be with humans from the beginning to the end of that designation.

Here today — and perhaps with Aesop, Homer, Mark Twain and Scheherazade as role models — Tallahassee has developed its own storytelling bards. Professional storytellers Saundra Kelley and Linda Schuyler Ford have taken up the ancient mantle, creating the Big Bend Storytellers’ Circle, where members share and develop the oral tradition into a kind of art.

“I like to call it ‘spoken word performance,’ ”

Kelley said. “The stories we tell are never read nor memorized verbatim as you would in a play. Rather, we listen to our audience, change the pace, adjust our inflections … no one telling is like another.”

They structure their stores with careful beginnings, middles and ends, she says.

“Just as with a piece of music or a good novel, there is an arc that builds the tension, then provides relief.”

And the stories may be about anything.

“My new earrings, the day the dog got loose,” Kelley said. Or maybe: a parable or the story of a man flying too near the sun.

Kelley holds a master’s degree in applied storytelling from East Tennessee State University. Some of her peers there were attorneys, pastors, teachers and politicians, all of whom needed the ability to communicate in relatable ways with an audience.

Ford says she has been a storyteller and story listener from the beginning. Stories connected her to her German ancestors and to her birthplace, Sleepy Hollow, New York, she says.

“I think storytelling was in the air there,” she said with a laugh. “Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman were pretty real to me.”

Ford has gone on to develop programs

FLORIDA STORYTELLING FESTIVAL

The Florida Storytelling Association touts its festival, scheduled for Jan. 23-26 in Mount Dora, as “known nationally for its unique combination of workshops, concerts, youthful voices and sense of community.”

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↑ Storyteller Linda Schuyler Ford performs for

a lunch crowd at the Tallahassee Senior Center.

Storytellers Saundra Gerrell Kelley, left, and Teri White watch and listen in the background.

at Tallahassee’s Senior Center, to present showcases and story slams at the Blue Tavern, a Midtown venue, and to become active in the Florida Storytelling Association, which holds workshops and festivals each January in Mount Dora.

Ford also leads tours at the Monticello Opera House.

“In that Monticello has a reputation for its ‘haunted’ sites, it becomes the perfect venue for ghost stories,” she said. A show devoted to the genre is planned for 2019.

Teri White, a newer member of the Storytellers’ Circle, whose favorite tales include not only narratives of the “other side” but also Indian legends and historical tales, remembers sitting at her grandmother’s side listening to stories from the West Virginia mountains. “There are pockets of good storytelling,” White said.

“The tradition of self-entertaining is strong in parts of rural America in particular.”

But these women don’t believe in keeping a good yarn to themselves or confined to back porches or a generic bedtime tale. At “home concerts” and at service clubs such as Kiwanis and Rotary, they are available to make you laugh, make you think, bring history to life and make you see yourself in the experience of others — but most of all, that want you to simply delight in hearing a good story well told. TM photography by PHIL SEARS

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ichael Bakan is late.

It’s raining, and the jazz group is already warming up. But Longineu Parsons, Darryl Steele and Brian Hall are patiently waiting for the beat, the pulse, the ← rhythmic tattoos that FSU professor Michael Bakan and will support whatever his book, Speaking magic will happen for Ourselves: tonight. And it doesn’t Conversations on Life, Music, and Autism take long.

Within minutes of arriving, his head thrown back, his body dancing, his hands like armed anemones beating patterns against drum heads and congas, Michael Bakan seems to have left us. Behind his closed eyes, one can guess at panoramas, starbursts, an empty universe filled with joy. Or so it seems when the music begins and Bakan surrenders.

The next day, the respected Florida State University professor of ethnomusicology, back from that ethereal place the music takes him, is eager to tell about how he happened to become a jazz drummer and a leading expert on Balinese gamelan music and about another of his passions, the relationship of music to the autistic spectrum.

He also discussed his newest book on the subject, Speaking for Ourselves: Conversations on Life, Music, and Autism, in which diagnosed individuals speak candidly about their own relationship to music.

In his book, Bakan draws his autism-spectrum interviewees into discussions about their musical experiences — of being human while being unique, “getting their voices out to a world that rarely hears their internal music.”

CONNECTING THROUGH THE BEAT In a recent book, an FSU professor and musician gives voice to those on the autism spectrum

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Bakan, 55, was born into an academic family where music often filled the house.

“I played a little drum kit at 3,” he said. By age 9, he’d picked up Beatles’ rhythms from records, and he added violin when he found an unused instrument lying around the house. By age 13, he said, he was playing in jazz clubs around Vancouver, where his family lived.

He credits a teacher who was a “brilliant percussionist and mathematician” for introducing him to the West African rhythms that he would come to love.

By 1988, with a Master’s degree in ethnomusicology in his pocket, Bakan planned for a performing career — already playing in reggae bands and Indonesian ensembles and fascinated by the polyvocality of ethnic musical styles — when a disabling fibromyalgia seemed to bring his performance dreams to a halt.

He shifted his focus to academia, and following a semimystical period of Siddharthalike reinvention in Bali, Bakan returned with a plan for a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology with an emphasis on Balinese gamelan music, which is played on metallic instruments and drums.

With a new direction, his academic career quickly grew with professorships at Bowling Green State University and, beginning in 1994, at Florida State.

He would go on to create FSU’s World Music Ensembles program, the Omnimusica intercultural ensemble and a professional gamelan group in Tallahassee, all while producing books and dozens of articles on ethnomusicology. photography by JOHN HARRINGTON

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animated on the drums. Photography tricks also can set him in motion, as our photographer shows.

He also would perform and collaborate with artists and organizations including George Clinton and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.

About 15 years ago, Bakan says he was with a relative’s child who was diagnosed on the autism spectrum with Asperger’s syndrome. The child was unable to be near others in social settings and happier alone in his room. He spoke only in his own made-up language and avoided eye contact and interpersonal interactions.

Yet on one revelatory night, as Bakan and the child’s father played drums together in the house, the child emerged from his room, picked up a drum and began to rhythmically play it. Then he began to sing. Even after the musical moment, the child continued to speak in a thoroughly communicative and animated way, using English instead of his bespoke tongue.

Thus began Bakan’s journey to research and understand the way that music affects those neurodiverse individuals on the autism spectrum. And his percussive instruments would be the beginning mechanism toward that understanding, using simple tools and hands and shifting musical rhythms.

His federally funded Artism Music Project features autistic children and world-class practitioners playing music together, and his most recent book presents 10 diagnosed autism-spectrum individuals who discuss what experiencing music is like for someone who, as he says, is “wired differently.”

It has been noted that many autistic people identify strongly with music, Bakan says. Many have exceptional musical abilities, pitch recognition and rote memory.

Bakan is interested in understanding how such individuals employ music to confront life’s challenges and to allow for creative expression. TM

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What is the last book you read that had What is the last book you read that had an impact on you? Structures: Or Why Things an impact on you? Structures: Or Why Things Don’t Fall Down by J. E. Gordon. Kind of a Don’t Fall Down by J. E. Gordon. Kind of a summary/overview of design and structure summary/overview of design and structure with some materials science mixed in. We with some materials science mixed in. We use these concepts every day in the building use these concepts every day in the building process; the book gave me a hundred ideas process; the book gave me a hundred ideas on how to build better. on how to build better.

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I teach, so I have this power. Transferring I teach, so I have this power. Transferring ideas, information and images into ideas, information and images into another person’s mind is something so another person’s mind is something so fundamentally “human” that we often forget fundamentally “human” that we often forget how magical it really is. how magical it really is.

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MAGIC OF ‘MACBETH’ Southern Shakespeare Company brings star power to Capital City

by JORDAN ANDERSON

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acbeth, one of Shakespeare’s best-known and most evocative tragedies, featured the line, “Something wicked this way comes.”

But there’s nothing troublesome about the coming production at the 2019 Free Shakespeare in the Park Festival.

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That’s certainly the case for actor Laura W. Johnson, executive director of the Southern Shakespeare Company. She’ll play the role of Lady Macbeth opposite longtime Hollywood actor Marc Singer, who’ll play the lead role, when the four-day event returns May 9–12 to Cascades Park.

“It’s just a dream come true,” Johnson said.

Shakespeare’s chilling tale of an ill-fated king and queen’s descent into political madness serves as the highlight of an event that organizers say could attract 10,000 visitors from throughout the Southeast.

A Renaissance festival will offer armored combat, live madrigals, medieval fare and more. The event, in its fifth year, also will include pre-show performances from the Southern Shakespeare Company’s junior acting troupe, The Bardlings.

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Veteran stage director James Alexander Bond, who boasts more than 200 productions, joins Singer in providing a dash of star power to this year’s festival.

Singer is best known for his roles in the “Beastmaster” and “V.” You might also recognize him from recurring roles on “Dallas” and “The Young and the Restless” or for guest appearances on “Criminal Minds” and “Highlander,” among other TV shows.

Johnson said she’s especially eager about for this year’s production because her executive director position, which she has held since 2014, has kept her more behind the scenes. Now she gets to play Elizabethan femme fatale Lady Macbeth.

“It’s an interesting dichotomy,” said Johnson, who has performed at local venues including Theatre Tallahassee. “I’m so passionate

ACTOR AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR LAURA W. JOHNSON

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Dusk sets in as actors stage “Romeo and Juliet” during last year’s Shakespeare in the Park Festival at Cascades Park.

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at Cascades Park. This year’s festival will include pre-show performances from the Southern Shakespeare Company’s junior acting troupe, The Bardlings.

about what I do as executive director, but I don’t often have the luxury of being able to perform.�

She couldn’t help herself when auditions rolled around. From various interpretations of Lady Macbeth throughout her life, Johnson said she has developed “very strong ideas� for what she could bring to the part. “It’s always difficult when you take on an iconic role like that,� she said. “You really have to make it your own.

There’s no way you can look at Judi Dench’s performance and try to emulate that or any other “I think as an actor, myriad of women who’ve taken on this role.� you can feel driven What makes Macbeth so by your love of timeless? Johnson shared some performing, then insight. “It’s so easy to see yourself in you begin to see all these characters,� she said. “At what it means not its most basic level, it’s about the just to you and humanity of all his characters, and I think that’s what touches your own selfall of us.� fulfillment but how Her involvement in Southern it affects others.�

Shakespeare’s theater education — Actor Laura W. Johnson, programs and outreach makes executive director of the her acting work especially Southern Shakespeare meaningful, she said.

Company “I think as an actor, you can feel driven by your love of performing, then you begin to see what it means not just to you and your own selffulfillment but how it affects others,� she said.

The Southern Shakespeare Company’s mission includes making Shakespeare accessible for everyone, and this year’s festival will feature a performance interpreted in American Sign Language. “It’s been an exciting journey with the company,�

Johnson said. “It all culminates in that festival.� TM

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A Visit with the

First Family Governor, first lady discuss their children and transition into the ‘People’s House’ story by PETE REINWALD // photography by ALEX WORKMAN hair and makeup by SOMKIT THOMPSON, HAUTE HEADZ SALON

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n the sunroom of Florida’s First House, 2-year-old Madison DeSantis liked what she saw on a bookshelf and went to grab it.

About 15 feet away, from Florida’s First Sofa, her mom sounded a Sunshine State alarm.

“There goes Florida’s irreplaceable history,” Casey DeSantis said, prompting laughter in the room.

Florida’s new first lady joined her husband, Gov. Ron DeSantis, in a recent Governor’s Mansion chat with Tallahassee Magazine.

The governor and first lady discussed their first impressions of the Capital City, their transition into the Governor’s Mansion, their new life with security detail, their typical day as Florida’s First Family and their efforts to protect their new home — the so-called People’s House — from the innocent but exhausting adventures of toddlers Madison and Mason.

“We’re just going to make sure that they don’t destroy any of Florida’s irreplaceable history, because there are so many wonderful, neat artifacts around,” Casey DeSantis said minutes before her daughter had set out to explore the sunroom, known as the Florida Room. “You go into the dining room, you see stuff from the USS Florida. You see the late 19th-century wallpaper, and I don’t think that orange crayon would look good on that.”

The DeSantis family moved into the Governor’s Mansion in January after a November election that saw DeSantis edge former Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum to become, at age 40, Florida’s youngest governor in more than a century.

His victory also marked the first time in 50 years that toddlers would occupy the Governor’s Mansion. Madison DeSantis turned 2 in November, and her brother Mason turned 1 in March.

“We tried to baby-proof this place, but there are so many nooks and crannies, and they find all the nooks and crannies,” said the governor, who then referred to himself and the first lady: “So we run around. She runs around all the time and really does a phenomenal job because she’s out on the road, too.”

In an interview that lasted about 20 minutes, Ron and Casey DeSantis portrayed themselves as a somewhat ordinary couple — him a former Navy lawyer and U.S. congressman, her a former Jacksonville TV news anchor and host — who would begin to raise two children in an extraordinary place.

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The communications teams of the governor and first lady requested and received questions and topics in advance of the interview. Yet the First Couple — pleasant and conversational, with flashes of fun from the first lady — didn’t hesitate to answer questions that veered from those themes, including about how they met, how their lives have changed and how they plan to raise their kids.

“They’re being raised now in an environment that’s very atypical,” the governor said. “You have this house, you have staff, you have a mansion chef and all this stuff, and that’s not how I, or Casey, grew up, and so I think we’re going to be cognizant to make sure that the kids are grounded and that they don’t have any type of sense of entitlement.”

Madison and Mason DeSantis get their hands on what they can in their dad’s office at their home, the Governor’s Mansion. At right, Madison continues the hunt. “We’re just going to make sure that they don’t destroy any of Florida’s irreplaceable history,” said their mom, first lady Casey DeSantis.

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Life in the Governor’s Mansion hardly yields a typical day, especially given all the travel for the First Couple, often to multiple Florida cities in the same day. The governor said they always aim to return by dinnertime so that they can be with their children.

“We’re grateful and appreciative for everything that we have,” the first lady added. “I think they need to have a good sense of that.”

The family moved into the Governor’s Mansion from what the governor described as a modest home south of Jacksonville.

They also said they sold both of their cars after it became obvious that they no longer would need them.

A security team has been with them since the night of the election, guarding the family even during the transition period while they still lived in Ponte Vedra Beach.

“There’d be all these SUVs, and we had like a three-bedroom, 1,800-square-foot house,” the governor said. “I mean, you have all of these SUVs flanked out there. It was a little interesting and definitely out of kilter for the neighborhood. I think that’s taken some time just to get used to.”

Life in the Governor’s Mansion hardly yields a typical day, especially given all the travel for the First Couple, often to multiple Florida cities in

the same day. The governor said they always aim to return by dinnertime so that they can be with their children.

Gov. DeSantis said he didn’t have that ability as a member of Congress, which kept him in Washington, D.C., for much of the time. He became a U.S. representative for Florida’s 6th Congressional District, which covers an area of northeastern Florida, in 2013 and stepped down in late 2018 to concentrate on his run for governor.

“Once we had kids, it was like, ‘I’m leaving the kids for half the year up there, sleeping in my office, then coming back,’ ” Gov. DeSantis said. “So as governor, I can do three or four stops around the state and still end up back at home at night here. So this has been much more family friendly. I’ve seen my kids way more since I’ve been governor.”

They explore Tallahassee when they can — with security, of course — and they established a favorite spot from the start: Lafayette Park. The first lady mentioned a visit in which the kids played on the swings. After an hour there, she said, Madison didn’t want to leave.

“It was a little tough getting her back into the car,” the first lady said.

As a matter of fact, she said: “Madison had a little bit of a fit.”

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Gov. Ron DeSantis enjoys a moment with his son, Mason, who turned 1 in March. (Right) The first mom and Mason watch as the first dad flips through a book with Madison on the patio of the Governor’s Mansion. Madison keeps one hand on a Florida symbol.

That tells you something about the First Family’s kids.

They’re kids. Now that their daughter has begun to understand “please” and “thank you,” the First Couple will emphasize those words and “build from there,” the first lady said.

After the interview and after Madison’s encounter with “Florida’s irreplaceable history,” the First Family gathered for photos on the patio, where Madison spotted an orange and began to peel it.

“That is a true native Floridian right there,” the first lady said of her daughter.

Mason — “Baby” to his sister — also found the orange appealing.

“Madison, Baby’s taking your orange,” the governor said in the soft tone of a father talking to his 2-year-old daughter.

“No, Baby,” Madison said prompting smiles from staff members, photographers and others.

The scene served as a reminder that a young dad hadn’t occupied the governor’s office since 1970 when Claude Kirk was the father of young Claudia and Erik. That means it has been decades since the Governor’s Mansion has seen this much cooing.

The first lady looked at Mason, who was about 11 months old when the interview took place, as he sat on his father’s lap.

“You know what’s neat?” the first lady said. “He’s not walking yet, so his first steps will be in the Governor’s Mansion.”

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“We’re grateful and appreciative for everything that we have.

I think (the children) need to have a good sense of that.”

— first lady Casey DeSantis

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Gov. Ron DeSantis says he spends more time with his kids as governor than he did as a U.S. congressman who lived in Washington. “So this has been much more family friendly,” he said of his new job.

Here are other topics that the governor and first lady discussed during Tallahassee Magazine’s February visit to the Governor’s Mansion. The responses are edited for length and clarity.

The first lady on the First Family’s new security detail: A: “A neat story when we were in Jacksonville: It was my daughter’s second birthday, so they had the FDLE out there, and it happened to fall on Thanksgiving. We had some leftover cake, so Madison, along with Ron and myself, decided to bring some out, and I think we had about five or six agents who were graciously spending their Thanksgiving with us. And we greatly appreciated it, and they all sang Happy Birthday to her, on the front lawn, on Thanksgiving, which was very special.”

The first lady on the adventures of the First Couple’s eldest toddler: A: “Madison is testing everything. She was going through (the Governor’s Mansion) and she was pulling through drawers the other day, and she happened to open one drawer and inside the drawer was … you remember VHS tapes? We all know VHS tapes. But she found the little labels that were on there, and she was playing with those stickers, and I’m thinking, that was back, what, the 1980s or early ’90s? It was neat that she uncovered that, that nobody even probably knew was it there and was probably sitting dormant for 30 years.” The governor added that his daughter’s playful discovery was from circa “the Bob Martinez administration.”

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The first lady on decorating plans for the Governor’s Mansion: A: “Oh, decorate. Our goal right now is to make sure we don’t destroy all the wonderful things that the former First Families have done right. This beautiful room (the sunroom known as the Florida Room) was created by the Grahams.

Each first family puts their mark on the mansion in some way, shape or form. Jeb Bush and his wife put together the library and did a great job. So we’re just trying to make sure that everything that every family has done to make this place beautiful, that we preserve that, and we’re getting there.” The first lady and governor mentioned Ann Scott, wife of former Gov. Rick Scott.

“I think it’s a house that the people of Florida can be proud of, and I think her touch was a big reason why,” Gov. DeSantis said.

The first lady on Governor’s Mansion initiatives: A: “First and foremost, Ron and I have a sense that we want to serve the people of Florida. We understand that this is not our house. This is the People’s House, and we want to be very open and welcoming to as many people as we can that they get the experience, whether it’s school groups or inviting people in to be able to experience it, just as we’ve had the good fortune to be able to do. As far as initiatives, I’m still listening. When I approach this role, I approach it really with a lot of humility and grace, to say that I don’t know everything in the beginning. And I really want to listen to see what people say would be in the best interest of the first lady to be able to help serve the people of Florida. I always find myself and my heart going back to children in some capacity, (in addition to) initiatives with the environment. I’m passionate about our water quality.”

The governor on charitable initiatives: A: “I’m going to try to find something to help kids probably in the local area, maybe with some scholarships. I figure that unless you’re Rick Scott and become governor of Florida, you’ve got to raise a lot of money. I’m pretty good at that now, so we might as well put that to good use and do that, and another charitable thing we’re going to do is borrowed from when I was in Washington: We would always do a congressional golf Ryder Cup to raise money for The First Tee program. That’s (continued on page 170)

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TWO CENTURIES OF FAITH OUR EXPLORATION OF THE CITY’S HISTORICAL CHURCHES STARTS WITH ST. JOHN’S EPISCOPAL

before it had

its colleges and companies, Tallahassee had its churches.

Houses of worship here preceded the first capitol building — and among European settlers, perhaps even the first real commotion.

“It was wilderness,” said the Rev. Dave Killeen, rector of St. John’s Episcopal Church.

It was 1824.

On Sept. 26 of that year, five months after “the first wagonload of seven settlers arrived,” 10 people met to organize Tallahassee’s first Methodist society, according to the book Trinity United Methodist Church: Tallahassee’s First Church, 1824-1999. That was more than 20 years before Florida became a state.

Other churches soon followed. Before the Civil War began and the Seminole Wars ended, Tallahassee had four established churches.

The first congregations included slave owners. They also included slaves, who were forced to sit separately from whites.

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↓ St. John’s Episcopal Church received its dedication in 1888, after a fire destroyed the previous building in 1879. The current building boasts a spot on the U.S. National Register of HIstoric Places.

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Those churches have seen the Agricultural Revolution, the Industrial Revolution and now the Information Revolution.

They’ve endured two world wars, the Vietnam War, the Cold War and wars virtually ever since.

The churches also survived yellow fever, the Great Depression, various recessions and nearly 200 years of social and cultural change and upheaval.

Through all of this, they’re still standing — and they say strongly.

Today we know them as Trinity United Methodist Church, First Presbyterian Church, St. John’s Episcopal Church and First Baptist Church, which continue to thrive blocks from each other in downtown Tallahassee.

Though they’re the oldest, they hardly stand alone as historical churches that have helped shape the Capital City.

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dates its birth to 1865, when it says 116 members walked out of Trinity United Methodist, which like others was segregated at the time but like others today trumpets its diversity and work for social causes.

Bethel Missionary Baptist Church, led since 1986 by Rev. Dr. R.B. Holmes Jr., points to completion of its first building in 1870. It traces its beginnings to the 1830s when enslaved blacks would, as it says, “worship without the convenience of a physical structure.”

North of Tallahassee, the Pisgah United Methodist Church says its current building, on the National Register of Historic Places, dates to 1858.

Though they now inhabit a city and a country that their founders would hardly recognize, many of these historic churches say their missions remain the same: to share their faith and to serve their community.

Of course, dozens of other denominations, religions and traditions here do likewise.

The Islamic Center of Tallahassee, for example, says it’s dedicated to worshipping and to “the education of the general public and the spiritual growth and enhancement of its community.”

I In this issue

of Tallahassee Magazine, we embark on an exploration of the city’s historical churches, one at a time. In this issue and future ones, we’ll talk with a senior clergy member of at least one historical church about the church’s history, congregation, challenges, changes, outreach and more.

We start with St. John’s Episcopal, which ↖ Rev. Dave Killeen, this fall celebrates its 190th anniversary. rector at St. John’s Episcopal, says he The founding of St. John’s dates to considers church “a Oct. 30, 1829, when Florida’s Legislative place to get back in Council passed an act to incorporate communication with community and where St. John’s Parish, according to God Willing: people can connect A History of St. John’s Episcopal Church. meaningfully.”

The incorporators included men whose names mark our streets: Richard K. Call, David B. Macomb, John P. DuVal, Cary Bronough and Turbutt R. Betton, the book says. Four incorporators owned slaves.

St. John’s today boasts about 1,500 members and continues to occupy a prominent place at the corner of Call Street and Monroe Street. It endures despite an 1879 fire that prompted the church to start from scratch and a 2005 breakaway that cut its congregation in about half.

The split, which sparked the creation of St. Peter’s Anglican Cathedral, happened shortly after Gene Robinson became the first gay bishop in the Episcopal Church.

“We’ve moved on by really looking forward in hope, in a spirit of reconciliation,” said Killeen, who has been at St. John’s for about nine years. “Really what I have focused on here is, “What is God calling us to do now?’ ” Here are some highlights from our fall conversation with Rev. Killeen. We edited it for length and clarity.

ON THE CHURCH’S HISTORY “One of the interesting parts of the story is that St. John’s was one of the very few successful mission plants, so to speak, of the national Episcopal Church.

At that time, what the church would do was pool resources nationally and say they were going to try to start these new congregations throughout the country.

And at that time, Florida was still a territory. It was wilderness. If you want to see what it used to look like, First Presbyterian — that’s what St. John’s used to look like, before the fire. And in those days, people would literally purchase a pre-fabricated kit for your church, and they were solid. Good materials. But it was essentially a prefab. The community would assemble it.

First Presbyterian is the last of those original historic structures, very kind of classical, Greek-looking, like a Greek temple. And the thing that we laugh about now, and I’m sure this was not funny when it happened, was when the church burned, it was Reconstruction, really difficult economic times in Tallahassee, and the church board — it’s called a vestry — decided they could not renew the insurance policy. And (shortly afterward) the church burned down. So imagine that next meeting.”

ON THE CONGREGATION “What we’ve seen over the last 10 years or so is strong, steady growth each year in our membership. And it’s all ages. It’s literally folks from little children to seniors, folks in their 70s and 80s who are joining. We are so blessed to have lots of students here, and the students here are looking for their surrogate parents, grandparents, siblings. For many of our Florida State, TCC and A&M students, this is the place they can come to get out of being surrounded by everyone who’s their age. This is their intergenerational place to connect, to really get to know people.”

ON THE CHURCH’S IDEAS, TENANTS AND BELIEFS “Our mission is to love and serve Christ and our neighbors in Tallahassee. Our core values, we start with worship. Christians, of course, understand the unity of God, our one God, to be expressed through Father, through God’s son, Jesus, and through the power TALL AHASSEEMAGA ZINE.COM

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of the Holy Spirit. So the Trinity, the holy Trinity, you could say that even in God’s own self there is community. And what you see is the fellowship and the love and the warmth of this community correlating with our most deeply held beliefs, with God as Father, Son and Holy Spirit. So worship is our key essential value. We are all about openness. We’re clear about where we stand. Compassion is another one of the values that you’ll see lived out in this space.

Compassion means to suffer with. What we need to do is to truly walk alongside those who are hurting. Then stewardship. Stewardship, if I were to define it, is faith in action. It’s how we live out our faith in this community and the world.”

ON THE CHURCH HAVING TO ADJUST TO CHANGES IN SOCIETY “What is going on in society? What are the potential challenges for a church like St. John’s, a very traditional church, one that goes back 190 years? How is that a gift? How can that be a challenge for us? It won’t surprise you to learn that the fastest-growing group in America right now are the ‘nones.’ No religious affiliation. That’s the fastest-growing group. So what we’re finding is that more and more adults who did not grow up not just in the Episcopal Church but any church are coming to us. I find that exciting, because it’s an opportunity to share my faith, to share Jesus, with people who never really heard the gospel before.”

ON THE TOP ISSUES WITH WHICH PEOPLE ARE STRUGGLING “I think right now, people are upset with the divisiveness in American culture. We’re all feeling that way, aren’t we? There’s hatred. There is a lot of judgment and conflict and division in our country. Where can I find a place where I can find peace and where I can come together in unity around something? What I say is we find our unity in Jesus. The irony of our age is that it’s harder to connect deeply with people, but church is a place where they can do that, so I would say that’s another area where people are hungry right now. There’s a lot of loneliness in our world and in the United States, and I think church is a place to get back in communication with community and where people can connect meaningfully.”

ON THE CHURCH’S WORK TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN SOCIETY “A significant part of our annual budget is set aside to give away to those in need. But, also, the amount of volunteer hours that this parish puts into the local community is amazing, and it’s a beautiful thing to see. There are multiple outreach opportunities that we as a parish have embraced together. You’re looking at the Kearney Center, Habitat for Humanity, Big Bend Hospice, Grace Mission, which is a mile away and serves among the poorest in Tallahassee. These are folks who are in recovery or getting out of jail — the poorest of the poor. St. John’s is not just active in writing checks but actually showing up and being present. And Cuba. I can’t forget our international outreach. St. John’s

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↗ Clockwise from top left: The St. John’s choir, which plans to visit England next year and perform at Westminster Abbey and the Anglican Ely Cathedral, gathers for a photo before a Sunday service; Director of music Betsy Caloun leads the choir in February during the processional hymn for a service that featured Michael Curry, presiding bishop of The Episcopal Church; St. John’s members Doreen Walcott and Sharon Thomas visit the church’s Eve’s Garden courtyard after Sunday services; Church members Andy Ashler, Helen West and David Wheeler help with a program to provide food to impoverished children across the Big Bend.

has had a 15-year relationship with a rural parish in Cuba that started, no joke, as a carport. It literally, like all great churches, started in someone’s house, just like St. John’s did, way back when. Now we’re able to work with the parish to support them. Now they’re able to purchase a stand-alone church in Cuba. It’s beautiful.”

ON WHETHER THE CHURCH SEES OTHER CHURCHES AS COMPETITION “No. I think the issue that I would have with that description is that the church doesn’t operate by the rules of the world in terms of a competitive zero-sum atmosphere. So, no, I don’t look at other churches as competitors. I look at other churches or other faith communities as potential partners, and I could point to you several different places where St. John’s has partnered with another faith

Some Other Paths Here are email responses from a few other religious leaders in Tallahassee to the question: “WHAT MESSAGE(S) DO YOU AIM TO INSTILL IN YOUR MEMBERSHIP/CONGREGATION?”

community. We hope that St. John’s will be welcoming and inclusive to all, but we also very aware that St. John’s may not be the home for every single child of God. And if somebody needs to go elsewhere, we say, ‘You go with our love.’ ”

ON MEETING WITH OTHER CHURCHES AND DENOMINATIONS IN TOWN TO DISCUSS THE BIGGER PICTURE “There is a ministerial association that meets occasionally, and it’s wonderful. Rabbi Jack (Romberg) from Temple Israel and Pastor Brant Copeland from First Presbyterian are the conveners. We meet occasionally for lunch to talk about common events or common issues. A great example: I spoke (in the fall) at the Temple Israel gathering, and that was powerful, powerful. There were probably 20 to 30 clergy up behind Rabbi Jack, and that’s the fruit of those ongoing meetings. Where you have a crisis situation, the clergy gather.” TM

PHOTOS COURTESY OF ST. JOHN’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH (LEFT) AND RESPECTIVE CHURCHES (RIGHT)

“Congregation Shomrei Torah is the Conservative Synagogue in Tallahassee.

As a lay-led congregation having no permanent rabbi, we teach inclusion by treating men and women as equals in determining synagogue politics, leading services, sitting together, serving on our board and by including the Jewish Patriarchs and Matriarchs in our prayers. We have welcomed male and female rabbis to our synagogue during certain holidays and occasions.

We teach tolerance for other religions, for people with differing political or sexual orientation. We welcome those of other religions to our services and festivities so that we can learn from one another. We teach our students about social justice and the need to be charitable both in thought and action.”

— MONTE FINKELSTEIN, PRESIDENT OF CONGREGATION SHOMREI TORAH

“As a parish that stands across the street from FSU, our primary mission is to the energetic students of this state university.

Together, with a permanent core membership, our message is the same. That message is about helping them create a relevancy of their faith with their daily grind

and to connect the dots of their daily experience with the gospel story. Our local hero Bobby Bowden said, ‘Faith is the most important thing in the world to me. It’s the greatest strength I’ve had. It’s helped me get through the hard times.’ Helping our parishioners create this priority of faith is our work.”

— REV. JOHN B. CAYER, COCATHEDRAL OF ST. THOMAS MORE

“We have a mantra that we say every week at Engage: We love moments, but we live for movements.

Moments are great! Whether it’s our graduation, our wedding day or our first job, moments should be celebrated. Many people in scripture had a moment with Jesus. We get to have many great moments today, from the Sunday service to the youth camp, and many others.

However, I believe moments should always fuel movements.

The moments we experience on Sunday and at other events should bring positive change to our marriage, our workplace, our community, our school and so on. At Engage, that’s what we’re all about. Creating a movement that creates a lifelong movement.

I believe this is how believers will make a lasting impact on the world around them.”

— PASTOR ADRIAN CRAWFORD, ENGAGE CHURCH

We’ll talk with leaders of other churches and faiths throughout this series.

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Top Seniors 2019 Meet 13 Tallahassee Magazine scholars of strong minds and hearts story by JANECIA BRITT AND PETE REINWALD // photography by SAIGE ROBERTS

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hey plan to pursue careers in law, linguists, biology, engineering, medicine and more.

They want to solve local, national and global problems — including hunger, poverty, health care access, gun violence, technology addition, resource depletion, environmental degradation and political polarization.

They aim to help create a better world and even open new frontiers in outer space.

They’re Tallahassee Magazine’s Top Seniors for 2019.

They’re 13 members of the We Generation, and if you think they’re impressive now, check back with them in 10 years. LaNiyah Lee of Rickards High School foresees herself “feeling extremely blessed as I work toward becoming Dr. Lee.” Lee and others became our Top Seniors based on nominations from

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13 high schools in Tallahassee and Thomasville, Georgia. We asked a guidance counselor from each of those high schools to send us the name of a graduating senior of good character who was well-rounded in academics and extra-curricular activities — and going places, as we put it.

We then asked each Top Senior to complete a questionnaire that asked general questions including: postgraduation plans; serious questions including a local, national or global problem they’d like to solve; and lighthearted questions, including their favorite local eatery.

You’ll find some of their responses, edited for length and clarity, on the following pages, and you’ll find their full responses at TallahasseeMagazine.com.

If you’re like us, you’ll find yourselves charmed by their sense of humor, warmed by their high school

experiences and wowed about their ambition to give of themselves, on this planet or another, for the greater good.

Take it from Nicolas Timmons, who aspires to a role with NASA. “I would be thrilled to be involved in solving the world’s diminishing resources issue,” wrote Timmons, a Top Senior from Florida State University Schools, who plans to pursue a dual-program degree in aerospace engineering and mechanical engineering.

“Searching and finding alternate sources of energy and other life in space would allow us to expand our footprint, maybe creating another inhabitable place for generations to come.”

A few said they hadn’t yet set a postgraduation course, saying they preferred to take time off and reflect.

Sri Donthineni of Lincoln High said maybe he’ll go to medical school because he wants to “help people suffering or struggling.” Ten years from now, he said, he plans to be “doing what I love — helping others and being happy.”

The Top Seniors answered their questions with thoughtfulness and sometimes frankness, in a couple of cases challenging our question, “Do you see the world as a glass half full or glass half empty?”

“The comparison of the world to a glass is as stagnant as the water within, unfitting for our dynamic world,” wrote Abigail Hansen of SAIL High School.

Wrote Community Christian School’s Jeb Buchner, who says he hopes to pursue an engineering degree: “Of course, engineers are supposed to say, ‘The glass is just twice as big as it needs to be.’ ” Yet optimism reigned from those students and others.

“We have the people and the resources” to improve the world, wrote Nyasia Haynes of Florida A&M University Developmental Research School, “and we most definitely can do it, one step at a time.”

LaNiyah Lee

Rickards High School

Post-graduation plans: To attend the University of Central Florida and major in biomedical sciences.

Dream job: To be a physical therapist who doubles as an orthopedic surgeon.

Favorite high school memory: Either winning Miss Rickards High School or participating in my first Special Olympics championship.

Where she sees herself in 10 years: Feeling extremely blessed as I work toward becoming Dr. Lee. I’d also like to be helping children with intellectual and developmental disabilities play sports.

One problem she’d like to solve: Gun violence, more specifically juvenile gun violence. Over the past four to seven years, my community has had teenage children get injured by guns and has lost many juveniles due to gun violence.

One person, dead or alive, to have dinner with: Michelle Obama.

The last show she binge-watched: “The Good Doctor” and “Manifest,” at the same time … somehow …

Best advice she has received: Be you, because everyone else is taken.

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Nicolas Timmons

Florida State University Schools

Post-graduation plans: (Having earned an associate of arts degree from Tallahassee Community College while attending high school), I plan to attend the University of Florida and pursue a dual-program degree in aerospace engineering and mechanical engineering. I have also been offered a Type 1 scholarship with the U.S. Air Force ROTC program and plan to commission as an officer with the Air Force after my college graduation.

Dream job: To work in the NASA Eagleworks program. The Eagleworks program is trying to develop a “warp engine” of sorts using quantum field theory. This engine would essentially allow a spacecraft to travel faster than the speed of light. We need a more efficient means of travel across the universe if we are ever going to leave this place we call home.

Favorite high school memory: Participating in the Moody’s math challenge. Several of us stayed up most of the night before our “challenge day” playing Fortnite. Starting bright and early Sunday morning, our group spent 12 straight hours writing a paper to find a solution to reduce the world’s wasted food issue.

One person, dead or alive, to have dinner with: Srinivasa Ramanujan.

Sri Donthineni

Lincoln High School

Post-graduation plans: I am still unsure, but I know I want to give back to the community and help others.

Dream job: To be in a position where I can help people suffering or struggling and personally interact with them, which is why I am considering becoming a doctor.

Favorite high school memory: Our Mu Alpha Theta state convention.

I had an amazing time with my friends competing and working together while developing stronger bonds.

Where he sees himself in 10 years: Doing what I love — helping others and being happy. I also plan on raising a Golden Retriever.

One problem he’d like to solve: Health care access and poverty are serious issues in many rural countries. After reading The End of Poverty: How We Can Make It Happen In Our Lifetime, I became very inspired to fight this crisis. It surprised me how Jeffrey Sachs showed how this “unsolvable” problem could end if we started tackling the right issues first.

Best advice he has received: If you give a man a fish, he eats for one day. If you teach a man how to fish, he’ll eat for a lifetime.

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Mary Gravius

North Florida Christian School

Post-graduation plans: To attend a four-year university or college and graduate with a degree in nursing. I am drawn to pediatrics or oncology.

After getting my bachelor’s degree, I will probably seek higher education to become a nurse practitioner.

Dream job: To be a pediatric oncology nurse practitioner in a hospital or cancer center.

Where she sees herself in 10 years: I want the American dream — a career and a family.

One problem she’d like to solve: Communication between people of different backgrounds would greatly improve local government and the overall feel of the Tallahassee community. On a national level, proper and educated communication between states and governmental officials would have a monumental positive impact on how efficiently the government functions.

Best advice she has received: To visualize the scenario with perspective. Changing your perspective allows you to see situations from an entirely new light and often helps you to be more understanding and empathetic.

Bridger Middleton

Brookwood School

Post-graduation plans: I’ve narrowed my college list to the University of Virginia and the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. If I am to go to St. Andrews, I will be studying international relations and social anthropology. As for UVa, I would be entering the College of Arts and Sciences and will choose a major from there.

Dream job: I would like to be in a job that is benefitting society in some way. As long as I’m making the world a better place and having a positive impact on people, I will be happy with that job.

Where he sees himself in 10 years: I hope I will be traveling around the world, bettering people in every place I go. Whether working somewhere like the United Nations or creating a business for myself in which I can help people, I hope it has a worldwide effect and benefits society in a positive way.

Glass half empty or half full? Both. I’d say that I try and view life from a positive perspective and see the good in our world and in everyday life.

However, I also believe that people need to recognize the negatives of life, for without recognition of the woes, there is little room for progress.

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Nyasia Haynes

Maclay School

Florida A&M University Developmental Research School

Post-graduation plans: I will be attending either Southern Methodist University or Boston College, where I plan to study journalism and philosophy.

Dream job: I’d love to be a sports commentator and be able to travel the country and world covering sporting events, particularly football, basketball and tennis. I would also love to have my own sports talk show somewhere down the line.

Where he sees himself in 10 years: Working for a small to mid-sized TV station or media outlet building my portfolio and resume to try and pursue a job with a bigger company down the line.

One problem he’d like to solve: One of the biggest problems in the world is that of hunger and malnutrition. There are enough ways that people die in the world — violence, diseases, etc. — and I don’t think that a lack of food and water should ever be in the same category as those two.

Best advice he has received: Sometimes, it’s better to ask for forgiveness rather than permission.

One person, dead or alive, to have dinner with: Nelson Mandela.

Post-graduation plans: I plan to attend Florida A&M University to major in biology pre-med in hopes of accomplishing my goal of becoming a pediatrician.

Dream job: In pediatric neurology.

Where she sees herself in 10 years: I see myself completing my residency and earning my license to become a certified doctor.

One problem she’d like to solve: The lack of young people voting. We are literally the future, and we have the power to change things, so if we don’t like something about our state or federal government, instead of complaining, I want them to use their free human right.

One person, dead or alive, to have dinner with: Shirley Chisholm. She’s one of my biggest inspirations.

Best advice she has received: Don’t worry about what others have to say about you because their words won’t matter when you’re accomplishing your dreams.

Glass half empty or half full? Half full because, yes, we do need improvement in the world, but we have the people and the resources to make those improvements happen.

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Abigail Hansen

St. John Paul II Catholic High School

SAIL High School

Post-graduation plans: To attend a four-year university with a major in biology, focus on pre-med as well as minor in business and eventually attend medical school.

Dream job: To be an orthopedic surgeon, with the intention of one day starting my own practice.

Where he sees himself in 10 years: In the middle of residency at an orthopedic clinic.

One problem he’d like to solve: Rising health care costs as it relates to the underprivileged community in the United States. Unfortunately, there are many kids in our society who are able to play sports at a competitive level but are not afforded the same opportunity to pursue their athletic dream due to an inability to completely recover from an injury because of a lack of money or insurance.

Best advice he has received: What’s done is done. You can’t change the past no matter how much you might want to. Instead, you have to focus on the future.

Favorite person to follow on social media: Dele Alli on Instagram. He is one of my favorite soccer players and posts soccer game highlights as well as Xbox highlights.

Post-graduation plans: To begin college as an undecided or “exploratory” major.

Dream job: To be frank, I haven’t quite determined that.

I have interest in the realms of physical therapy and speech pathology, personal training, communications and human relations. I aspire to continue with all the pastimes I adore, from writing to weight lifting, and from them, hope to derive my way of making a living while bettering others’ lives, attaining not only economic stability, but personal fulfillment.

Favorite high school memory: Lunch with authentic friends, demanding training sessions with an adroit mentor and validating conversations with superiors.

Where she sees herself in 10 years: In a career that allows me to be both physically active and active in my community, leading a fulfilling life, whatever that may entail.

One problem she’d like to solve: Ignorance. Expanding the sociocultural awareness of all world citizens could lead to the obliteration of classism, religious conflict, racism, environmental destruction, homophobia, preventable medical conditions and numerous other primary issues.

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Rohan Master

Chiles High School

Post-graduation plans: To pursue a degree in biomedical engineering and then to attend medical school.

Dream job: From my experience volunteering at Capital Regional Medical Center and shadowing a doctor, I realized that my dream job was to become a physician. It was a line of work that combined my interests in science and my passion for helping others.

Favorite high school memory: I took AP Physics 1 my sophomore year, and every semester we were required to complete a group project.

For the first semester, we had to build a trebuchet that could launch a ball.

It was a blast building the trebuchet, and when it came time to launch our object, it went nearly 60 feet.

One problem he’d like to solve: Environmental damage and the increase in global warming hold the greatest potential to affect the quality of life for individuals now and in the future. I would like to make a difference in the world by combating the magnitude of damage constantly happening around the world and possibly finding ways to make individuals and communities more environmentally friendly.

Phillip Tchourioukanov

Leon High School

Post-graduation plans: I’ve been accepted to and plan on attending the University of Pennsylvania College of Arts and Sciences in the fall. I want to study linguistics, history and computer science. Afterward, I would like to attend law school and study international law with a specialization in cyber security.

Dream job: I think an ideal position would be U.N. Secretary-General, but anything in international diplomacy excites me.

Favorite high school memory: Dual enrollment at FSU has been the most fun and rewarding part of high school for me. Growing up in Tallahassee, I’ve always been a ’Noles fan, so taking classes at the university since junior year has been incredibly fun.

Where he sees himself in 10 years: I hope to be working in international relations, traveling frequently and having a growing role in foreign policy. I’d also like to be an advocate for cyber security and privacy.

One problem he’d like to solve: I would like to see more free thinking in our country’s politics. The two-party majority we have polarizes topics and presents every issue as having only two solutions.

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Kelsey Morris

Godby High School

Post-graduation plans: I am planning on taking some time off from my academic life. Though I am certain that I want to pursue a postsecondary education, I want to make sure that I am sound in who I am and what I would like to pursue before I go off to chase it.

Dream job: My heart has always been in the arts. Early on I wanted to be a musician followed by a visual artist and then a fashion designer, cosmetologist and so forth. If I had to pick a career now, I would say that I would love to have a job in architecture.

Where she sees herself in 10 years: I hope to be an independent and successful individual with a genuine sense of self. I see myself as someone who can take care of herself and those around her while giving back to the community. I hope to be a positive influence on those around me.

One person, dead or alive, to have dinner with: Immanuel Kant.

Not only are his metaphysical and epistemological positions extremely interesting to me, they influenced almost every philosophical movement after him.

Best advice she has received: To stay true to myself.

Jeb Buchner

Community Christian School Post-graduation plans: I hope to pursue an engineering undergraduate degree and possibly move on to a master’s degree. All engineering interests me, and I hope to pursue various disciplines before settling on one path that interests me the most.

Dream job: Testing materials or new ideas in a lab or similar setting.

A favorite high school memory: (On a trek up a mountain during a school trip his sophomore year), I had been instated as team leader, and my team had reached the summit. We had an extraordinary view for a few minutes, but after enjoying each other and the view, a snowstorm started to blow toward us. We got to see it as it approached, which was awesome.

A couple other teams made their way to the summit. For many of us, it was our first time seeing snow. We wisely decided to start our descent, which we did as a very large group, when we spontaneously broke out into Christmas songs and old hymns, singing our way down the mountain.

One problem he’d like to solve: Technological addiction is one large problem that everyone seems to have some consciousness about, but I think few people actually understand the extent of the addiction or good ways to solve it.

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Relaxing Indoors, Naturally

Bring peace to your home with materials the way Mother Nature made them

by SARAH BURGESS

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designs that emulate the rhythms of nature ensure a relaxing and healthy home environment.

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e’re constantly on the go. Our smartphones buzz nonstop with notifications, as our eyes glaze over computer screens all day.

Our bodies desperately need a break from the consistent hum of the desktop and dinging of our phones. The constant use of technology has infiltrated our workspace, often leaving us high-strung at the end of the day.

Some people strive to unplug their home from the fast pace technology and link it to the slow rhythms of nature.

Experts certainly understand why.

“By our very nature and origins as human beings, people generally react positively toward objects and surfaces that remind us of the natural environment,” says Dr. Jill Pable, professor of interior design at Florida State University. “There’s a name for this.”

It’s called biophilia, which Pable defines as “our natural tendency to interact or associate ourselves with nature.”

Researchers point to biophilia for its crucial role in our mental and emotional health. For many, our homes provide our “safe space,” giving us a sense of stability.

That leads us to another term: biophilic design, which “seeks to connect our inherent need to affiliate with nature in the modern built environment,” Stephen R. Kellert wrote in a 2015 article for Metropolis magazine.

Through the addition of components from the natural world, you can make such a connection in your home.

One strategy: Decorate with more artisan fixtures and fewer synthetic materials.

Dr. Pable says she recommends materials close to their natural state that can reference the beauty of nature, such as cork flooring, wood furnishings and millwork.

She adds: “Frank Lloyd Wright is known for his homes that were constructed from bricks made right on the home’s site using local sand.”

Tallahassee interior designer Ashley Cortese suggests using tree stumps for different types of tables. One stump can function as a side table, a small cluster of stumps as a coffee table.

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“One of my favorite projects included a long farmhouse table and bench made from locally harvested river cypress,” she said.

Indoor plants are a practical and aesthetically pleasing way to create this natural shift in your home. Looking at plants and greenery makes us more relaxed.

Even if you don’t consider yourself the best plant caretaker, many options require little ← Greenery in attention. Succulents and any space is not windowsill gardens are only aesthetically pleasing but trendy for this purpose. helps keep the air “Simply adding live free of toxins. greenery in a decorative vase or using yard clippings can bring life into each room,” Cortese says. Eucalyptus and reindeer moss are low-maintenance options that preserve well, she says.

Additionally, plants keep the air clean. While releasing oxygen and lowering carbon dioxide in the air, they are simultaneously reducing toxins in your space.

Natural light is another possible addition to the home. It improves our vitamin D levels — an essential nutrient that supports bone growth and other important bodily functions. It also can help with seasonal depression, acting as a natural booster of spirits.

So think about the size and location of your windows.

Tallahassee residential designer Elizabeth Wallace suggests adding a transom window over an interior door or using glass-pane French doors in unexpected areas. They can bring in light and add character to any space, she says.

Turn off those fluorescents and open up those curtains to let some sunshine in. Hanging mirrors can reflect sunlight, brighten a room and make the space seem bigger. Even art containing warm colors that emulate natural lighting can produce this effect.

Filling your home with soothing materials designed to mimic nature ensures a sense of relaxation.

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ow that it has warmed up outside, let’s take a look at a trend that remains pretty hot: outdoor kitchens.

Components of an outdoor kitchen include virtually anything you can imagine, including pizza ovens, according to Destry Burch, owner of Burch Plumbing and Construction.

Burch says his customers use their outdoor kitchens far more often than they would have thought, not just for entertaining.

They find themselves frequently cooking outside as their kids watch movies on pulldown screens, he says.

Style, Components and Cost Styles range from formal to rustic depending on the style of the house. Burch says no two outdoor kitchens are alike.

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He says his company shows customers photos of designs and likes to show them in-person examples of the company’s work.

Cabinets should be fully waterproof.

Some are tongue-and-groove pine, and some have locks for year-round liquor storage.

Burch says one homeowner put in French doors that led to a screened porch and then to the outdoor kitchen.

Mike Munroe of Mays-Munroe Inc. says the outdoor kitchen basics are:  A grill. Insist on a lifetime warranty from rust. “You don’t want to replace a rusted-out grill in five years,” Munroe says. He adds if it is under a roof you must have ventilation.  An under-counter refrigerator for storing drinks and marinating meat to put on the grill.  A sink.

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kitchens. The cost can exceed $100,000, though many get by with a few thousand dollars, one industry observer says.

The cookers need to be on something solid. Flooring can be brick, gray travertine or concrete. Tile is considered oldfashioned.

Other components include an icemaker, a wine cooler, a hidden trash can, a fireplace, a water heater and, for entertainment systems, surround sound.

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cost for an outdoor kitchen is $9,600, with a range of a few is $1,000 to over $100,000. In the Tallahassee area, Burch says, a fully outfitted outdoor kitchen with a roof, ceiling fans and lighting can run $50,000 to $80,000.

Where to Place It? For a sense of privacy, you can create some enclosure with an L-shaped stonewall outdoor kitchen.

If you have 10 acres or so, leave it wide open; if you are on, say, an eighth of an acre, you will want a wall or fence.

For daytime use, you need a roof for sun protection.

To prevent setting your home or garage on fire, don’t put the grill right up against your house.

Color Coordination Is Key Choose a color palette that really sings for you — screaming orange or calming sea salt green. Mix cool, neutral (gray stone is a perfect setting) with sparks of hot colors. Botanical prints and plants can pull it together.

Power Up & Storage Use lighting to emphasize what you want to focus on or to hide what you don’t want guests to focus on, perhaps the garage or garbage cans.

Add a refrigerator for marinating steaks and for holding sodas, ketchup, mustard, salads and barbecue sauce.

To reduce running in and out of the house, you need storage. Cabinets near or under the grill hold utensils and plates. Consider an upper cabinet for glassware and a drawer for flatware.

For Entertaining Skip complicated main dishes when you take the party outside. You need handhelds such as hamburgers and hot dogs and bite-size bits on skewers.

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HOW-TO: BATS ARE BENEFICIAL

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TALK ABOUT A BAD RAP! For centuries, the poor bat (Chiroptera) has been trash-talked as a source of rabies and an accomplice in nefarious exploits of the undead. Yet less than 1 percent carry the disease, according to University of Florida Extension.

And while a subspecies of bat commonly known as the vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus) does dine on mammal blood, it doesn’t take enough to harm the cattle and horses it usually feeds on. Also, it is confined to the tropics of Mexico and Central America and South America — far from the Central European haunts of a certain count of English literature. We have good reasons to cut the bat some slack:

of pests, including roaches and mosquitoes. According to Bat Conservation International, a single brown bat can eat more than 1,000 insects in one night.

2 Bats also help pollinate plants in many ecosystems. More than 500 plant species, including mango, banana, cocoa, guava and agave, depend on bats to pollinate their flowers. While bees go for bright, daytime flowers, many of the plants pollinated by bats have large, pale flowers that open at night.

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➸ Divide and replant daylilies. To extend your season of blooms, buy (or swap with friends) to get a mix of early, mid-season and late-blooming varieties. ➸ Fertilize citrus trees. ➸ Replace cool-season annuals (pansies, snapdragons, etc.) with salvia, marigolds, torenia and other annuals that can take the heat.

3 Habitat for bats, as for many

other wild creatures, continues to shrink as humans encroach.

Bat habitats need to be warm (they’re mammals); safe from predators; and to have a water source fairly close, so the mother bat doesn’t have to leave her babies for long.

4 The National Wildlife Federation has detailed instructions on building a bat house on its website at tinyurl. com/yb4qkudp. Show the bats some love, and they’ll return the favor.

➸ Plant sweet

potatoes, melons and lima beans. Sow seeds for okra, Swiss chard and roselle, also known as Jamaican sorrel and Florida cranberry.

➸ Check the trees

on your property to prepare for hurricane season. Consult a trained arborist certified by the International Society of Arboriculture, who can tell you whether your trees pose any danger to you or your home, and what steps need to be taken, such as pruning, limb removal or tree removal.

➸ Prune azaleas, if you

haven’t already done so, through early July. After that, you risk removing flower buds for next spring’s bloom.

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Critter: Slugs and snails Snails and slugs are gastropod mollusks, with snails having PESKY a visible shell. Some slugs have shells, but they PESTS tend to be quite small or even internal. The vast majority of both slugs and snails live in the water.

Our terrestrial garden snails prefer hot, humid and shady environments. Both are nocturnal and will munch on your plants, leaving irregular holes in foliage and flowers. The damage SLUGS AND SNAILS resembles that done by other garden pests, such as beetles, grasshoppers and caterpillars, so it’s important to be sure what’s causing the problem before deciding on a solution. Look for the telltale “slime” trails left by slugs or snail shells to confirm their presence. Commercial concoctions are available, but they are quite toxic and pose a threat to pets and wildlife. Use plant debris and boards to “bait” the invaders, collecting them by hand the next morning and disposing of them in a sealed plastic bag. Deterrents with cinnamon oil as the active ingredient have proven effective. Also, copper hydroxide used to control fungi and bacteria have been effective in reducing snail and slug activity, even though it is not labeled for that specific use.

Personally, I put a small bowl in the garden soil so the lip is at the soil level and fill it halfway with cheap beer. The snails and slugs fall in but can’t get out, so they drown.

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Levy Park offers a ‘comfortable feeling’ and a true sign of spirit

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Behold historic Levy Park.

“I can’t recall what brought me to Levy Park, but whatever it was, I love it … I think it’s the trees,” said Seamus Bruner, the neighborhood association treasurer, who moved to the neighborhood in 2010 as an undergraduate at Florida State University.

Sturdy oaks line many of the streets, and their roots can be traced back decades. Levy Park has been a part of the Capital City since the early 1940s, when the neighborhood association says the land was donated to the city by the widows

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of the Levy brothers — successful owners of mercantile stores all over town.

When established, Levy Park fell outside the city limits, making it one of Tallahassee’s first suburban neighborhoods, said John Turner, president of Levy Park’s Neighborhood Association.

Even then, it was a “modest, working-class neighborhood,” with most early structures about 1,000 square feet, said Turner, a 30year resident of Levy Park. He explained that the lots originally were intended to be double, but after the war, an effort to provide housing for servicemen returning home prompted the combining of many lots.

Bruner pointed out that “the property lines aren’t uniform, so it’s not cookie-cutter houses.”

Levy Park has grown into a neighborhood that fosters a diverse community and a strong support system. You’ll find students, professionals, young professionals, young families and older people who have lived there for more than 30 years. You’ll find musicians, lawyers, small business owners, writers, artists and government employees. You might even spot cats napping on cars or goats and chickens roaming in yards.

Above all, you’ll find that Levy Park is home to families and friends who look out for each other.

“You almost feel like you’re in your own family with that extended family model — the older, younger, middle-age people,” said Meredith Dozier, a seven-year resident of the neighborhood. “You could always call your neighbor and ask them to watch your house for a second. It’s just a really nice comfortable feeling.”

Recent townhouse developments have sparked mixed reactions, but residents seem unanimous in their appreciation for the neighborhood’s historic charm.

“When you’re walking down the street, you can see people sitting on their porches having a glass of wine, or just walking with their dogs or their kids are playing in the yard,” Dozier photography by SAIGE ROBERTS

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once benefitted from a fun and rather daring “guerilla operation” that established it as a landmark.

from nearby schools, Ruediger Elementary and Raa Middle School.

Students with families struggling to cover costs for school supplies can find donated books in “Little Libraries” that add a splash of color and flair to Levy Park’s streets. They’re old newspaper bins scattered throughout the neighborhood where residents can drop off and pick up books.

This was among the initiatives that Bruner took on during his two-year stint as neighborhood association president, helping Levy Park win Council of Neighborhood Affairs honors as a Leon County Neighborhood of the Year in 2017.

His initial focus was restoring Levy Park’s sign, which holds a fun and spirited history.

For years, a brick facade at the neighborhood’s Seventh Avenue entrance lacked a sign telling drivers that they were entering Levy Park. Bruner said that several years ago, a resident and graphic designer, Jerrod Landon Porter, decided to do something about it.

Porter spent a month creating a design for a sign, using plywood as his canvas.

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in the middle of the night, but his roommates had different ideas: They drilled the sign into the brick during rush-hour traffic instead.

“It was very organic,” Porter told Tallahassee Magazine from his new home in Athens, Georgia. “There was no strategy in any of this. We put it up thinking it was going to be taken down eventually. Every day that went by we couldn’t believe the sign was still up there.”

Bruner likened it to a “guerilla operation” that established Levy’s Park’s “most identifiable landmark.”

The sign became vandalized in 2015, prompting Bruner to start, primarily through T-shirt sales, a fundraising drive to restore it in a way that maintained the integrity of Porter’s work. So the sign endures.

Also still standing: a community garden, which helped the neighborhood become a finalist last year for CONA’s Sustainable Neighborhood of the Year. Bruner said people just started gardening in the area until David Newman bought the land and established what would become Liberty Farms. But it’s not only the local residents who enjoy the garden.

Those who have eaten at Liberty Bar and Restaurant might have gotten a taste of Levy Park, as Liberty Farms supplies the eatery with fresh produce.

These things inspire a connection with residents, some of whom say they’ll never leave.

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Lastly, our partnership with the Coldwell Banker national brand gives our brokerage

credibility, which helps attract agents and clients. Coldwell Banker is over 112 years old, and their practices prove tried and true.

WHAT IS THE GOAL OF YOUR COMPANY? For 40 years, our mission has never wavered — to deliver the treasure of home, ethically and honestly.

WHAT IMPACT DO YOU HOPE TO MAKE ON THE COMMUNITY? Working as a real estate agent, your community is your place of work. All of us at CBHN hope to make Tallahassee a better area by giving back to the place we call home. We are proud to participate in an assortment of community events, volunteer programs, organizations and fundraisers all over the Big Bend such as: Adopt-A-Pet.com, the Joanna Francis Living Well Foundation, Second Harvest of the Big Bend, United Way of the Big Bend and many more.

WHAT IS THE BEST PART OF WORKING FOR YOUR COMPANY? We pride ourselves on the family atmosphere. Real estate is a competitive market, but at CBHN we encourage collaboration and teamwork. Seasoned agents are willing to share knowledge with more novice agents, while Chip and our managing broker, Joy Blomeley, continue to offer support through all transactions. When you join CBHN, you become family.

HOW DO YOU MEASURE SUCCESS? According to our broker/owner, Chip Hartung, our success is measured by our reputation. We are proud to be known for our integrity and ethics in the local market and honored to be a part of Realogy, our parent company, who has been named one of the world’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute for the 7th time.

3303 THOMASVILLE ROAD | (850) 386-6160 | COLDWELLBANKERTALLAHASSEE.COM

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CAMPUS USA CREDIT UNION WHAT SETS YOUR BUSINESS APART? At CAMPUS, you’re

not just a member — you own the place. Profits are returned to member-owners in the form of no-and low-fee financial services and best-of-market rates on deposits and loans. Since our members own CAMPUS, we can never be bought, nor can we merge with another institution without our members’ approval.

WHAT IMPACT DO YOU HOPE TO MAKE ON THE COMMUNITY? We want to be

seen as a committed partner in the communities we serve. CAMPUS invests hundreds of thousands of dollars every year — these funds are donated directly to local organizations that impact the community in a positive way.

WHAT DO YOU HOPE CUSTOMERS GAIN FROM INTERACTING WITH YOUR COMPANY? Most members are surprised that when they bank with us, it feels more like being a part of a big family rather than just “banking.” We hope our members always call us first when making big financial decisions — that’s why we’re here.

MOST PEOPLE DON’T KNOW THIS BUT … CAMPUS started like

many small businesses — by a group of people who wanted to make a difference. The Credit Union started with nine members who each bought a $5 share account, which is the same price as a “share” today when a member opens an account.

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From left to right: Alex Gonzalez, Service Specialist (Mahan); Traci Poucher, Regional Manager (Killearn); Kendalyn Gordon, Service Center Manager (Governor’s Crossing)

truly love our members and the “ We communities we serve. It’s great to see a culture of pride in the service we provide our members.

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CAMPUS USA CREDIT UNION is a people helping people type of business.

As a not-for-profit cooperative, they are owned by their members to best serve the interests of their members. With 18 service centers in North Central Florida, they serve over 100,000 member-owners as a full service financial cooperative offering a multitude of consumer and business services — such as checking and saving accounts, auto and home loans, credit cards, investment services and more. Their shared vision is to empower their employees to make a positive difference in the financial lives of their members and in the communities they serve.

BLAIR STONE ROAD | 3122 MAHAN DRIVE | 1511 KILLEARN CENTER BLVD. | FEDERALLY INSURED BY THE NCUA

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HILL SPOONER & ELLIOT, INC. REAL ESTATE

JUST AS YOU INVEST IN YOUR HOME, Hill Spooner & Elliott, Inc. invests in you. Since 2005, Hill Spooner & Elliott, Inc. has worked hard to make their group of experienced professionals among the highest producing brokerage firms in the Tallahassee area.

They are a boutique real estate firm with expertise in every aspect of Tallahassee’s dynamic real estate market. From first-time home buyers to investors and luxury home buyers, they offer a unique perspective on what it takes to obtain desired results.

They don’t tell you what you want to hear, but what you need to know to protect, grow and get the most from your real estate investment. Their goal is to provide customized marketing services and find innovative ways to incorporate targeted strategies. They set the bar high for you.

Results are achieved through investing time in their clients by producing professionally creative and marketed advertising in order to maximize exposure. The well-trained agents at HSE are dedicated to enriching the community through philanthropy and volunteerism in order to make Tallahassee the best place for us to reside!

2001 THOMASVILLE ROAD | (850) 907-2051 | HILLSPOONER.COM | WEBMAIL@HILLSPOONER.COM SPE CIAL ADVE RT I S I N G S E C T I O N

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EDEN & COMPANY WHAT SERVICES DO YOU PROVIDE? Eden & Company is a full-service real estate company specializing in residential sales, commercial sales, leasing, corporate relocation and investment property sales.

WHAT SETS YOUR BUSINESS APART? Our company mantra is REAL ESTATE REDEFINED. This mantra is the core focus of our vision and business implementation.

We strive to not only provide the highest level of services, but a commitment that can be relied upon beyond the transaction. We believe relationships are forever.

WHAT IS THE GOAL OF YOUR COMPANY? We commit to provide a successful transaction in every way through a range of processes to reduce or eliminate the stress that is often associated with buying or selling real estate.

3520 THOMASVILLE ROAD – FIFTH FLOOR, TALLAHASSEE | (850) 222-3075 | EDENANDCOMPANY.COM

SYNOVUS SYNOVUS IS A FINANCIAL SERVICES COMPANY

based in Columbus, Georgia. For 130 years, we’ve stayed true to the concept of banking as a service to our communities and to the people who live here. Our local knowledge combined with the expertise and resources of a large financial services company allow us to help our customers with their banking, lending and investing needs.

With more than $32 billion in assets, Synovus provides commercial and retail banking services in Georgia, Alabama, Florida, South Carolina and Tennessee.

For more information on Synovus products, services and locations, please visit synovus.com.

Banking products are provided by Synovus Bank, Member FDIC.

1 (888) 796-6887 | SYNOVUS.COM

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EYE ASSOCIATES OF TALLAHASSEE DEANNA LOUIE, M.D.

WE ARE EXCITED TO ANNOUNCE OUR NEWEST OPHTHALMOLOGIST, Dr. Deanna Louie, who joins us from the West Coast. She graduated from the University of California with a degree in Molecular and Cell Biology with an Immunology Emphasis and Computer Science. She then completed her medical education at the University of Michigan.

Dr. Louie is board certified by the American Board of Ophthalmology. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, as well as a member of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery and the American Medical Association.

Dr. Louie has a broad range of expertise, which helps her give each patient the best care possible. She has a special interest in small incision cataract surgery, as well as the medical treatment of various retinal diseases such as diabetic retinopathy and age-related macular degeneration. She is also experienced in oculoplastic procedures such as blepharoplasty, which is the treatment of drooping eyelids due to excess skin and fat. She also specializes in laser vision correction and is the only provider in the area of “blade-free” iLASIK. Great news! We now are seeing patients in Perry, Florida, at Doctor’s Memorial Hospital!

2020 FLEISCHMANN ROAD | (850) 878-6161 | EYEASSOCIATESOFTALLAHASSEE.COM

MIDTOWN INSURANCE MIDTOWN INSURANCE IS AN INDEPENDENT INSURANCE agency with a wealth of resources and experience. We specialize in the personal lines of insurance such as homeowners, auto, boat, motorcycle, RV and umbrella policies. We also have some great markets for small businesses. Being an independent agency requires us to truly understand the resources of multiple companies and enables us to develop solutions for our clients that meet their unique situations.

The agency was founded in 2012 by Gaye Johnson with the approach that treating your employees and clients well provides the best foundation for a healthy and long relationship. This approach has led to a dedicated team that works hard to ensure we provide the best service possible.

In 2017 Midtown Insurance relocated, and we are proud of our new home and permanent location on 6th Avenue. The building was originally built in 1935, and after a year of renovations it has been transformed into a beautiful workplace for both its employees and clients to enjoy. We invite you to stop by for a visit.

410 E. 6TH AVE. | (850) 385-8811 | MIDTOWNINS.COM

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ELIZABETH EKK EKK REALTY GROUP

ELIZABETH EKK HAS THREADED her time and talents throughout the Tallahassee community by making meaningful connections. As a realtor and the owner of Ekk Realty Group, she has the capacity to engage uniquely with a variety of people.

“I love that I can give back to my community by connecting with others,” said Ekk. “I have a heart for people that relocate to Tallahassee, and I want to make them feel welcome.” Ekk herself is a transplant, moving from Canada to Tallahassee 15 year ago. In that time, she has fully immersed herself within the community, especially in real estate. The mission in starting her own company was to help other realtors grow

their own business. She has a heart for helping others find flexibility and balance through a career in Real Estate.

“This career has allowed me to live a more integrated and balanced life,” said Ekk. “I’m able to be here emotionally and physically for my kids, to nurture my marriage of 17 years and to connect with others though my career.”

Ekk Realty Group is a Top 1 percent producer, selling homes 53 percent faster than the average. The company sets itself apart with an excellent concierge service available to all clients.

“I always want others to know that we are not their realtors for one transaction — but for life,” said Ekk.

4004 NORTON LANE, STE. 204 | (850) 895-1355 | EKKREALTY.COM

DOUG CROLEY INSURANCE SERVICES

DOUG CROLEY INSURANCE SERVICES has been providing insurance and financial services to the Tallahassee community for nearly 40 years. As a family-owned and operated business, they have almost 70 years of combined experience spanning two generations.

Will Croley joined the family business after serving two combat tours in Iraq as a Marine. As someone who is independently driven, sales-oriented and communityminded, insurance became the ideal fit.

“I live, work, play and raise my kids in this community, therefore I enjoy meeting new clients and watching their families or business grow,” said Will. “I get to

guide them and protect their assets. I enjoy helping them meet their needs and watching them succeed. My idea of success is helping someone so they can be better off.”

As a seventh generation North Floridian, Will is deeply rooted in Tallahassee and its people. Through that meaningful connection, the company strives to excel in customer service and always provides open communication. “The company turns 40 this year, and it’s our goal to continue for another 40 or more years,” said Croley.

“Our future is bright. We are always seeking talent and clients to grow with us over the coming years.”

Will Croley, Insurance Agent

2814 REMINGTON GREEN CIRCLE | (850) 386-1922 | DOUGCROLEYINS.COM

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Business Lending is a Process - Not an Event

Justin Wimberly and Johnny Jones of American Commerce Bank in Tallahassee offer both experience and expertise to commercial and real estate lending.

American Commerce Bank goes out of its way to help you prosper in Tallahassee.

Local banks succeed as their communities succeed. American Commerce Bank (ACB) makes it a priority to champion commercial lending in a manner that suits the needs of its business banking customers.

One city. One bank.

“We pride ourselves in structuring loans that match the parameters of an investment,” says Johnny Jones, Tallahassee Market President.

“For example, ACB offers amortizing structures that span the life of a loan.

Most banks make “balloon loans” which mature at inconvenient times and trigger a full re-underwriting of the deal. By offering rate re-sets rather than balloon structures, ACB provides confidence to the borrower that a project won’t be threatened with a mid-term refinance. It’s an important distinction that separates us from our peers.”

Customized Commercial Lending is Our Strength Commercial and real estate lending requires both experience and expertise. Industryspecific experience is key to understanding the financial requirements of a project, and expertise is required to structure a loan that matches the cash flow and investment needs of a borrower. Term loans, revolvers, lines of credit, draws, interim and perm financing all have their places in commercial finance—just not all in the same place!

“We pride ourselves in structuring loans that match the parameters of an investment” Johnny Jones, Tallahassee Market President, ACB

Customized lending is what we do best.

We are a Community of One American Commerce Bank is redefining “community” banking. We are a local bank (Tallahassee, Atlanta & Bremen, GA) that provides a helpful combination of experienced lenders and sophisticated on-line banking services to meet the needs of both businesses and consumers. Our bankers are second to none in offering advisory financial services.

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People banking with people For more information about American Commerce Bank, stop by the Tallahassee office at 536 North Monroe Street, or visit www.AmericanCommerceBank.com.

America is made up of many communities.

Together we are a Community of One We’re in the business of helping our community to prosper.

Think all banks are the same? Stop by our Tallahassee office and visit Johnny Jones (if you don’t know him already).

Johnny will show you how we deliver big bank services at a community bank level. It’s people banking with people. Together we are A Community Of One.

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DISCOVER TALLAHASSEE’S BEST CHOICE IN SENIOR LIVING

Enjoy a variety of residential and supportive options at Westminster Oaks to meet your changing needs.

Choose from a wide variety of spacious choices in villa homes and garden apartments, all maintenancefree and enriched by access to beautiful campus amenities with services like dining and housekeeping. For those who need a little extra help we offer assisted living, with services including medication management and support with daily living activities. We can also get you back on your feet and doing the things you love with short-term nursing care and rehabilitation.

Learn all there is to smile about at Westminster Oaks

— Call us today at (850) 878-1136 or visit our new website at WestminsterOaksFL.org Westminster Oaks

4449 Meandering Way, Tallahassee

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The Salamander Spa at The Henderson boasts private treatment rooms, couples rooms, a salt room, a steam shower and more.

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Personalized Pampering

At The Henderson, enjoyment of the Emerald Coast comes in waves

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Gabled roofs are a feature of The Henderson, where guests can practice rooftop yoga or relax in the Salamander Spa, a crown jewel of the resort. A full-service salon allows guests to focus on revitalization. Some of the hotel’s senior management hails from establishments such as the Ritz Carlton and The Greenbrier.

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ou know two things. You know you need to get away, somewhere fivestar and in the lap of luxury. You know you don’t want to go very far — strenuous travel does not facilitate the physical, mental and emotional break your mind and body are demanding.

Now you’re really in the know: This oasis can be found right in Destin at The Henderson, a Salamander Beach & Spa Resort.

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hotel, spa and concierge convention center lies adjacent to Henderson State Park.

The Emerald Coast will never be out of view, and with over 50 percent of its elegant rooms facing westward, neither will those fabulous sunsets.

The style of The Henderson is as timeless as our shores, with a sense of iconic Floridian design. Gabled roofs, wooden shingles and fine furnishings are just the accents to all of their state-of-the-art rooms and common areas. Local artists

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with varying flair line their walls, and four floors of hallways create a black and white gallery of the last 100 years in the “World’s Luckiest Fishing Village.”

Of the 170 rooms, eight suites feature all the trappings: a dining room, kitchen, two baths and a master bath fit for royalty with an opulent tub overlooking the Gulf. In the spa rooms, you can deliver yourself to leisure in just a few steps thanks to a private elevator while dressed for decadence in a fluffy white bathrobe.

A crown jewel of The Henderson, the 10,000-squarefoot Salamander Spa, boasts 11 private treatment rooms, intimate couples rooms, a salt room, steam shower, cyanic

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cold treatment room and much more that its meticulously trained staff can customize with a holistically approached treatment plan specific to your care. Included is a fullservice salon, as well as relaxation spaces where one is required to do nothing but revitalize.

When staying at a resort, some of us notice the small things unrelated to the rooms, showers or luxury. We notice the attention to detail, and The Henderson nails it.

No surprise there: Some of the hotel’s senior management hails from establishments such as the Ritz Carlton and The Greenbrier. They know the power of personalization.

As I stepped to the desk for check-in, the front desk

professional greeted me by name — thanks, likely, to a very considerate hint by the valet. This small, pleasant surprise only foreshadowed the rest of my stay there.

On my second night at the bar, the bartender had already remembered my name and drink of choice. For the duration of our stay, the housekeeper addressed us by name and, beyond keeping a meticulous room, nicely folded our

clothes. The valet provided cold bottled water for our departure.

This is a small act of kindness, but one of many at The Henderson that blew us away. These simple touches distinguish a fine experience from a good one.

We felt no post-vacation blues or weariness, only rejuvenation and deep-seated contentment. This is how you get away.

Now we know. TM

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Whether in victory or defeat, the Seminoles exhilarate Florida State’s fans, students, faculty, alumni and supporters around the globe. And when the final seconds tick off the clock, what unites us all is our unconditional love for our school, our teams, our student-athletes and our coaches.

MAKE AN IMPACT. Get Involved with Florida State University Athletics and Seminole Boosters.

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PLAY • SHOP • DINE • STAY

at the Forgotten

Coast Events Calendar Salt Air Farmers Market Every Saturday in May & June City Commons Park, Port St. Joe Historic Apalachicola Home & Garden Tour May 3–5, 12 p.m.

Trinity Episcopal Church, 79 6th St. Apalachicola Forgotten Coast en Plein Air Invitational May 3–12 Fort Coombs Armory, 66 4th St. Apalachicola Rock by the Sea May 8–12 Harry A’s, 28 West Bayshore Drive St. George Island

THE INDIAN PASS GENERAL STORE

Apalachicola River and Floodplain Class May 17, 12:30–4 p.m.

Apalachicola National Estuarine Research Reserve Nature Center, 108 Island Drive Eastpoint

An “Old Florida” style building nestled amongst the cabbage palms on scenic highway 30A stands as beacon for the idyllic beauty of years past. The Indian Pass General Store invites the young and old to experience nostalgia through the store’s welcoming nature and product selection. The store offers a variety of groceries and gifts for visitors and locals alike, including local foods, regional Tupelo honey, beer, wine, candles, apparel, gifts, fishing supplies, bait, tackle and more.

Apalachicola Riverkeeper’s Field Trips May 25 & June 22 Apalachicola Riverkeeper, 232 B Water St. Apalachicola Pine Box Dwellers May 31, 7–10 p.m.

Gallery at High Cotton, 230 Water St. Apalachicola

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FORGOTTEN COAST EN PLEIN AIR MAY 3-12

Mullet Toss June 8, 10 a.m.–5 p.m.

Blue Parrot, 8 W. Gorrie Drive St. George Island

THE 14TH ANNUAL FORGOTTEN COAST EN PLEIN AIR INVITATIONAL welcomes internationally acclaimed artists to capture the natural beauty, character and local culture of Old Florida during this 10-day event. Watch 20 talented artists paint towards the theme of natural recovery after Hurricane Michael. Visitors can attend workshops, demonstrations, exhibits, presentations and lunch and learns. forgottencoastculturalcoalition.wildapricot.org

The Forgotten Coast Music Festival July 3, noon–10 p.m.

Nathan Peters Jr. Park, 505 Peters St. Port St. Joe Independence Eve Celebration July 3 Apalachicola Riverfront Park, Water St.

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VISIT THE

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The kitchen store and more since 1994! Gifts and necessities for the kitchen, garden, home and gourmet.

We offer free gift wrap.

Melissa Spear REALTOR® (850) 879-0687 Weichert Realtors, The H2 Group

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ives and businesses are being rebuilt along the Forgotten Coast after the devastating effects of Hurricane Michael in October of 2018. As the healing process continues, please lend your support to this region and remind them that they are never forgotten by their friends and neighbors.

(850) 653-1023 268 Water St., Apalachicola

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DOC MYERS’ PUB & SPORTS BAR

Come out to Doc Myers’ tiki bar in paradise! Hang out with people of all ages to watch your favorite sports team, play trivia or try your hand at cornhole in the yard. Nightly music, happy hours and a wide range of food and beverages in beautiful beach surroundings. Open seven days a week. Oyster happy hour Mon.–Fri. from 3–4 p.m.

(850) 799-1930, docmyersislandpub.com 36 W. Pine Ave., St. George Island 3

A distinctive upscale atmosphere for the 21+ crowd with quiet dining. Offering extensive martini and wine lists, signature cocktails and an expanded menu of lunch and dinner plates. Come in to experience Chef Richard’s creative combinations of ingredients and excellent tableside service.

Open Tuesday–Saturday.

(850) 653-4888, upthestairs.me 76 Market St., Ste. F, Apalachicola

Serving Tallahassee residents who are buying or selling a second home or investment property on the Forgotten Coast.

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GULF SPECIMEN AQUARIUM

A unique experience to get up close with sharks, sea turtles, starfish, octopus and other sea life from the Gulf of Mexico. One of the largest touch tanks exhibits in the U.S. Open Mon.–Fri. 9 a.m.–5 p.m. and Sat.–Sun. 10 a.m.–5 p.m.

Cape San Blas

5 St. Vincent Island

Apalachicola Bay

(850) 984-5297, gulfspecimen.org 222 Clark Drive, Panacea 4

HOLE IN THE WALL

Family-owned and operated raw bar serving the world’s best oysters with a full menu of Gulf of Mexico seafood, including fried shrimp, grouper and crab. Also serving kids items and daily specials. Open Tuesday through Saturday in downtown Apalachicola.

(850) 653-3222 23 Ave. D, Apalachicola

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INDIAN PASS GENERAL STORE

There’s a pristine spot reserved for your next RV adventure at the edges of Indian Lagoon! An old-timey general store on-site sells local merchandise and stocks a supply of grocery items and spirits. Visit us online to reserve. Located across from worldfamous Indian Pass Raw Bar! (850) 229-8600, watersedgervpark.net 8300 County Road 30A, Port St. Joe

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LYNN’S QUALITY OYSTERS

Enter as strangers, leave as friends at this familyowned and operated raw bar and local seafood market. Dine in or on the back deck. Open seven days. Bar is closed Sunday, but you can still buy fresh catch!

(850) 670-8796, lynnsqualityoysters.com 402 Highway 98, Eastpoint

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SGI Trading Company has everything you need to go to the beach. Buy a new bathing suit, T-shlrts

by Simply Southern and Salt Life and beach toys for the kids at this one-stop shop.

(850) 927-2252 101 Franklin Blvd., St. George Island

ST. GEORGE ISLAND REALTY

St. George Island Realty was established in 2002 and is locally owned. Contact our educated and seasoned professionals to help you find your next investment property, building site or beautiful island home.

(800) 344-7570, sgirealty.com 139 E. Gulf Beach Drive, St. George Island

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THE NAUMANN GROUP

Your local real estate experts with decades of experience — ready to help you find your perfect beach getaway. Look for the company Tallahassee knows and trusts!

(850) 799-1230, 139 W. Gulf Beach Drive, St. George Island

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This new, lively beach lounge features a menu inspired by the flavors of Mexico and Latin America.

Its house-made infusions using fruit are showcased in its signature cocktails and seasonal sauces. Every day is Taco Tuesday, and desserts change daily!

Open Tuesday–Saturday 11 a.m.–10 p.m., Sunday 12–8 p.m.

(850) 927-2222, stgeorgecantina.com 37 E. Pine Ave., St. George Island 11 ROBINSON REAL ESTATE COMPANY

The company that introduced you to the thrill of Florida fishing can help make Florida’s Forgotten Coast your next vacation spot or permanent home. Offering fully furnished vacation rentals and residential or commercial properties. Let us show you why it’s a great place to visit, and an even better place to live!

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THE NAUMANN GROUP

Your local real estate experts from Tallahassee thru to the Emerald Coast.

Located next to Shades Restaurant at 30A. (850) 933-0328 10952 E. County Hwy 30A, Inlet Beach

RED PIRATE GRILL

Make this family-owned sports bar featuring mini golf your first stop for fun!

With good food, grog, plus a game room, there’s something for everyone! Crab legs and oysters on the half shell served nightly and live entertainment by its house band on Fridays. Open seven days. Mini golf discount with any meal.

(850) 670-1090, redpirategrill.com 236 Highway 98, Eastpoint 9

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OYSTER CITY BREWING CO.

Sample award-winning local beers on the most social street corner in town! Enjoy handcrafted beers from 12 taps of brewery staples and rotating seasonals. Sit in the open air and enjoy the sights and sounds of lovely Apalachicola, or sip your beers on the brewery floor and watch our fine folks create the only local beer on the Forgotten Coast.

Growlers and crowlers available to go.

Open seven days, starting at noon.

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REGIONAL

MAY 17–18

Digital Graffiti The elegant white walls of Alys Beach provide outsized canvases for the projection artists who participate in Digital Graffiti, presented by the Alys Foundation.

Here, art meets architecture as artists from throughout the world unveil cuttingedge, technologically progressive projects that result in unexpected and wondrous experiences for viewers. The festival’s two nights will feature stunning examples of projection mapping, generative art, short films and animation, plus installations that respond to sound, motion and light.

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For more information, visit digitalgraffiti.com.

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PHOTOS BY KURT LISCHKA (DIGITAL GRAFFITI), BOB O’LARY (SOUTHERN SHAKESPEARE) AND THEERAPONG28 / ISTOCK / GETTY IMAGES PLUS (FIREWORKS) AND COURTESY OF KIMBERLY SMITH (EMERALD COAST BLUE MARLIN CLASSIC)

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JUNE 19-23

Emerald Coast Blue Marlin Classic → The Baytowne Marina at Sandestin hosts one of the most renowned bluewater sportfishing events in the world. Last year, 91 tournament captains and crews ranged far into the Gulf of Mexico in pursuit of blue marlin and other gamefish big enough to qualify for a share of more than $2 million in prize money.

Become a part of the action at the 17th annual ECBC by registering at fishecbc.com.

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JULY 4

WAKULLA COUNTY TOURISM DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL | SOPCHOPPY 4TH OF JULY CELEBRATION

MAY 9–12

MACBETH

→ The Southern Shakespeare Company presents a Shakespeare classic, Macbeth. Special guest actor Marc Singer will play the man himself.

Visitors also can experience the sights, sounds and flavors of a Renaissance festival including armored combat, jugglers, illusionists, madrigals and medieval foods. The event is free.

For more information, visit southernshakespearefestival.org.

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→ One of Wakulla County’s oldest traditions is the Sopchoppy 4th of July Celebration in the heart of downtown Sopchoppy. The festivities begin the morning of Independence Day with a parade, followed by an all-day and all-night festival — complete with arts and crafts and food vendors — at Sopchoppy’s famed Myron B. Hodge City Park, which rests on the banks of the Sopchoppy River. The evening is capped with a spectacular fireworks display that will illuminate the sky over the picturesque waterfront.

→ Southern Shakespeare Company and Tallahassee Community College bring you Much Ado About Fun, featuring all things fun in the name of theater. Your child will experience backstage tours of Theatre TCC, drama games, performances, outdoor games and a showcase of what they’ve learned.

For more information, visit wakulla.com/Events/ Sopchoppy-4th-of-July-Celebration.

For more information, visit southernshakespearefestival.org.

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For more events in the 850 area, visit 850Tix.com.

INTRODUCING TALLAHASSEE SOCCER CLUB Tallahassee’s newest sports franchise kicks off in May. If you haven’t heard about Tallahassee Soccer Club or haven’t seen a home game at the FSU main campus fields, then you are missing out. The men’s team features local players from our community, all representing the capital city in the Gulf Coast Premier League. Tickets are available now for all of the home games listed below. For more info, visit TLHSoccerClub.com.

ABOUT THE CLUB Tallahassee Soccer Club is a non-profit, men's, elite-amateur soccer team. We are run by a volunteer TLHSC vs. SAVANNAH CLOVERS board focused on bringing the best talent together from us forinthe first of game in the history of our club as the Leon County area Join to play front a family-friendly your hometown team, the Battle Lions, takes on the UPSL atmosphere, funded by community members. powerhouse Savannah Clovers in their opening match.

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The Battle Lions welcome AFC Mobile and their amazing fan support to Tallahassee.

TLHSC vs. HATTIESBURG FC LAST HOME GAME OF THE YEAR! Come out and give your support for the Battle Lions at their last home game of the year.

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Your mouth will water for this Southern seafood experience. This festival in Panacea nestled along Dickerson Bay boasts a parade down U.S. 98, a crab pickin’ contest, mullet toss, live music, historical demonstrations, children’s crafts and, of course, the opportunity to eat your weight in crab, fried shrimp, po’ boys, hush puppies and more.

This comedy, written by Ken Ludwig, will take to Theatre Tallahassee’s stage as characters Jack and Leo navigate a sticky situation involving an identity crisis, tangled romance and grand plans.

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TAILS AND TRAILS MAY 4 Tallahassee’s Animal Shelter Foundation is hosting its 18th annual race, Tails and Trails. Whether you’re up for a 1-mile, 5K, 10K or half-marathon race, this event invites all runners and animal lovers.

Created by volunteers, ASF is a nonprofit organization that benefits the animals at the Tallahassee Animal Shelter. animalshelterfoundation.org/event/tails-trails

BERNSTEIN & GERSHWIN MAY 11–12 The Tallahassee Ballet pirouettes and presents Bernstein & Gershwin, a musical and magical spring ballet finale featuring live orchestration. tallahasseeballet.org

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MYTHS & MAGIC SUMMER CAMP JUNE 10–14 Directed by professional theatre educators from Southern Shakespeare and Theatre TCC, Myths & Magic will create a world of mystery and excitement for campers. Campers will work with language, performance, movement, stage combat, backstage elements and games to explore all things theater. southernshakespearefestival.org

WATERMELON FESTIVAL JUNE 14–15 Nothing says summer quite like the first bite of a juicy watermelon.

Every June, Jefferson County invites attendees to devour delicious watermelon, listen to live music, enjoy the pageants, sip from the beer garden and enjoy sweet summertime. monticellojeffersonfl.com/watermelon-festival

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Visit The Grove Museum after hours for conversation and cocktails. The program will focus on innovative historic preservation approaches used in the award-winning Call-Collins House rehabilitation project. This ticketed event includes a tour, appetizers and libations.

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Get your sparklers ready for this annual, patriotic event. Located at Tom Brown Park, this fun-filled day is perfect for the family. Snack on local cuisine, jam out with local artists and linger in the beer garden. This red, white and blue night will surely get you celebrating America.

The Teen Challenge Tallahassee Charity Golf tournament offers an opportunity to impact teens by donating through various scholarship opportunities or by gathering a team to participate in the tournament at Golden Eagle Golf course. teenchallenge.cc/tallahassee-men

TURNING POINTE WORKSHOP JUNE 3-14 The Tallahassee Ballet’s two-week, summer intensive workshop “Turning Pointe” is available to provide in-depth professional training for the experienced dancer. Classes are available for ages 11 and up. Guest artist instructors performed with nationally acclaimed companies; Houston Ballet, Alvin Ailey and Dance Theatre of Harlem.

For information, go to TallahasseeBallet.org or call (850) 224-6917, ext. 21.

The smash hit musical will transform Tallahassee into Greek isles. The Young Actors Theatre will alight with the popular hits of ’70s group ABBA and the delightfully colorful characters.

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HARMONICA CHAMPIONSHIPS AUG. 24 The fifth annual Greater Southeastern Harmonica Championships will take place Aug. 24 at the Bradfordville Blues Club. Categories are Under 16, Female, Male, Amateur and Open. Each champion will have a “Blow Off” for the title of Overall Champion. Cash and trophies are awarded for each category.

General admission is $10.

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SOCIAL STUDIES First Commerce Credit Union Power Forward Speaker Series FEB. 6 Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary spoke to a sold-out crowd of more than 1,100 people in Tallahassee — including business leaders, students and aspiring entrepreneurs — during the First Commerce Credit Union Power Forward Speaker Series. O’Leary was the sixth speaker in the series, which has become Tallahassee’s largest annual business event.

PHOTOS BY KAY MEYER AND CARLIN TRAMMEL

1 Dinner with “Mr. Wonderful” Kevin O’Leary: (L-R, front row) Marsha Hartline, Michael Hartline, Kevin O’Leary, Cecilia Homison, Jerry Osteryoung, Ellie McCall and Kim Howes (L-R, back row) Wayne Mayo, William Woodyard, Donald Peaks, Dustin Rivest and Ken Rivest 2 Susan Fiorito and Kevin O’Leary with entrepreneurial students after Power Forward 3 John Thrasher and Kevin O’Leary

Casino Night 2019 FEB. 15 The Companion Animal Rescue Endeavor held its fourth annual Casino Night Fundraiser, and 100 percent of the profits went to helping sick/ injured animals in need. Guests enjoyed cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, blackjack, roulette, a silent auction and more as they stacked the deck in favor of the CARE animals. See more of their current work at facebook.com/careintally.

PHOTOS BY MATT SAURO

Guests mingled and enjoyed the atmosphere during the Casino Night fundraiser at Shiloh Farms.

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Tree House Tallahassee is a nonprofit that serves thousands of children throughout the Tallahassee community by providing an emergency shelter and safe home during times of crisis. All of the funds raised through ticket prices and donations will provide clothing, bedding, toys, food and more to local children brought to Tree House.

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SOCIAL STUDIES Tallahassee’s 2nd Annual Recycled Wedding Market

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1 Professional wedding vendors Lily Wells (Gather in Hope) and Tammy Brown (Vizuliz Photography) explain their services to buyers at the Recycled Wedding Market.

2 Nana’s Sweet and Treats pampered guests with their vast array of wedding offerings at the Recycled Wedding Market.

3 Recently married couples recouped some of their money by selling their used decor at the Recycled Wedding Market.

Cleaver and Cork FEB. 28–MAR. 1 The TCC Foundation hosted A Session with Chef, presented

by Dr. Russell B. Rainey DMD, a live cooking demonstration in front of a sold-out crowd of more than 425. The following evening, the fourth annual Cleaver and Cork: A Farm to Table Wine Affair, another sold-out event of more than 380, took place at Pearl in the Wild. This year’s event was presented

by Mainline Information Systems with title sponsor Moore, chef sponsor Capital City Bank, sous chef sponsor Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare and bar sponsor ABC Fine Wine & Spirits.

PHOTOS COURTESY OF TCC FOUNDATION

1 Pam Ridley, Dr. Ridley, Brenda Vaughn, Chef Alex Guarnaschelli, Jonathan and Becca Romero, Kevin Vaughn, Ed and Brenda Anthony 2 Sara Murdaugh, Karen Moore and Dr. Jim Murdaugh 3 Lauren Faison, Brooke Hallock and Tracey Cohen

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Red Hills International Horse Trials MAR. 9–10 Riders from 10 countries competed as the Red Hills International Horse Trials went off without a hitch at beautiful Elinor Klapp-Phipps Park. An all-volunteer team of approximately 600 people works year-round to produce this community event that brings millions of dollars to the local economy.

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1 Anne Phipps, Steve and Jo Ostrov and Colin Phipps 2 Peter Gray with Tom Barron and Anne Barron 3 Stephen and Stephanie Webster

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“CopyFax has been a wonderful partner with Eye Associates of Tallahassee. We always provide the best medical technology in our office and we expect our printing service to do the same. Because of CopyFax, we are now able to streamline our printer needs and focus our time on what we do best, serving our patients.”

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MAR. 7 Brehon Family Services held its annual Boots for Babies fundraising event. Brehon’s prevention programs saved the community over $20 million last year, and donations helped over 1,500 clients receive services, information for shelter, family support, household goods, baby items, clothing and education. Brehon Family Services Inc. is a local nonprofit celebrating 41 years of serving mothers and their infants in Tallahassee and the Big Bend.

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PHOTOS BY CLAIRE TRIMM, BOB O’LARY AND JUNE TRIEB

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ur capital city is where families are raised, college students study, politicians make major decisions and young adults begin their careers — all blending together at work and at play. Tallahassee is growing and thriving while striving to only offer the best. Our quality of life is further enhanced by superior products, catered customer service and inviting atmospheres provided by our favorite businesses. These are the reasons we crave Friday nights at our favorite restaurant, anticipate Saturdays at local bars, plan Sundays at a scenic park, count on our barista to know our order Monday mornings and entrust our service providers to perform efficient work during our weekly appointments. As a way to express your gratitude to the businesses that make your life the best it can be, cast your online ballot for the 2019 Best of Tallahassee readers choice awards.

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TALLAHASSEE NURSERIES BEST GARDEN CENTER | 1 9 9 9 - 2 0 1 8

Thank you for choosing us as Best Garden Center once again! Visit us to find all your favorite annuals, perennials, succulents, gifts, orchids, house plants, fruit trees, citrus trees, shrubs, seeds, bird feeders and everything else spring! See you soon!

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NARCISSUS BEST WOMEN’S ACCESSORIES | 2 0 1 1 - 2 0 1 8 BEST WOMEN’S CLOTHING | 2011, 2012, 2014,

2016, 2017, 2018 BEST WOMEN’S SHOES | 2011-2017

Thank you from all of us at Narcissus for voting for us in last year’s Best of Tallahassee! We love styling and shopping with such a fabulous community and appreciate your support. We look forward to another Best of win this year. Don’t forget to fill out the ballot found in this issue!

MILLER’S TREE SERVICE BEST TREE SERVICE | 2 0 0 9 – 2 0 1 8

HELGA’S TAILORING BEST ALTERATIONS | 2 0 1 0 - 2 0 1 8

Thank you for voting Miller’s Tree Service as Tallahassee’s best tree service for 10 straight years.

We appreciate your continued support and are committed to providing the highest level of customer service in the years to come. “We’ll go out on a limb for you.”

With more than 28 years of experience, Helga’s offers a full range of fine tailoring and alterations services in two locations. We can work with any style or material and are equally adept with both men’s and women’s clothing. Helga’s can create custom clothing and handle last-minute, same-day alterations. Two master tailors are available with two convenient locations.

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PINK NARCISSUS BEST STORE AND BEST TEEN CLOTHING STORE | 2 0 1 8

BLUE RIBBON CLEANERS DRY CLEANER | 2 0 1 6 - 2 0 1 8

Thank you from all of us at Pink Narcissus for voting us Best of Tallahassee 7 years in a row! We love and appreciate the support of our customers and look forward to another Best of win this year. Don’t forget to vote on the ballot found in this issue!

Over 25 years of cleaning service and being locally owned and operated means Blue Ribbon provides that local connection Tallahassee has grown to trust and respect!

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HENDRICKSON INSURANCE SERVICES BEST INSURANCE AGENCY | 2 0 1 8

TURNER’S FINE FURNITURE BEST FURNITURE STORE | 2 0 1 7, 2 0 1 8

Thank you for voting Hendrickson Insurance Services the Best Insurance Agency in 2018! We are humbled by the confidence and trust that you have put in us.

It has been a pleasure serving the community and our clients for the past 11 years and we are looking forward to many years to come! “Do you know YOUR Agent?”

For Tallahassee’s best furniture and mattress selection, come to Turner’s Fine Furniture.

Shop the area’s best brands with many unique looks you won’t find anywhere else. Plus, enjoy free interior design assistance and immediate delivery on in-stock items. Thanks for choosing Turner’s as your furniture destination!

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Open every day, Madison Social is Tallahassee’s most exciting Social House that features lunch, dinner, happy hour and late night experiences for all ages. It’s the perfect place to enjoy one of our gourmet brunch items or a refreshing cocktail from our bar menu.

Anywhere with a view of Doak Campbell Stadium is a great place to enjoy an end of day cocktail, but add in weekday specials from 4-7 p.m. on select sociables, beer cocktails, house wine, wells and select domestic drafts and you have yourself Tallahassee’s Best Happy Hour.

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TASTY PASTRY BEST BAKERY | 2 0 1 6 , 2 0 1 7, 2 0 1 8

Thank you for voting Tasty Pastry as Tallahassee’s best bakery. Tallahassee’s original cakery celebrating over 50 years! Stop by ­— we have it all.

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FULL PRESS APPAREL, INC. MONOGRAMMING/ EMBROIDERY SERVICES | 2 0 1 8

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headquartered in Florida, and there’s a lot of good programs, so we’re going to do a Governor’s Cup. Instead of it being Republicans vs. Democrats like we did in the Congress, I think we’re going to do executive branch vs. the legislative branch, so I’ve talked to (state Senate) President (Bill) Galvano and (House Speaker Jose) Oliva, and they’re on board to do it.”

The governor on a note he found from predecessor Rick Scott: A: “When I showed up the first day and sat behind the desk, the only thing that was in there was a note, just basically wishing me well and giving me advice. He was reflecting on eight years, and I think basically was like, look, there are a lot of things that can happen. There’s going to be a lot of things that you just can’t control; just focus on the things that you can do to be the best governor that you can. I think that’s good advice.”

The governor on how he met the first lady: A: “I was in the Navy. I was stationed in Naval Station Mayport in Northeast Florida. She was working as a TV reporter, and we both just happened to go to hit golf balls one day. Just randomly, we were hitting next to each other on the driving range, and someone had left a half-hit bucket of balls. So we’re looking, wondering who’s going to take the extra bucket of balls.

We decided to split them. We started talking and went out after that, and we started dating. We didn’t get introduced or anything. We just happened to be at the driving range at the same time.”

The first lady on having been a nationalchampion equestrian rider (And on a playful question about whether she could keep horses at the Governor’s Mansion): A: “No. I hung up those stirrups a long time ago. It was fun to do while growing up, but now I’m of the mind that when much is given, much is expected, so I go back to that role of service and doing what I can to support the people of this state. There’s some time here, and I want to maximize that. So no horses in the backyard for now.” TM

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dining guide AMERICAN ANDREW’S CAPITAL GRILL AND BAR

2017 and 2018. Tues-Thurs 11 am-2:30 pm, 5:309 pm; Fri-Sat 11 am-2:30 pm, 5:30-9:30 pm; Sun 10 am-2:30 pm, 5:30-9 pm. 1950 Thomasville Rd. (850) 224-9974. $$ L D

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

HOPKINS’ EATERY ★

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ISLAND WING COMPANY ★

Featuring burgers, sandwiches, pastas, fried ribs, tacos and wings, this new neighborhood bar and grill has something for everyone.

Mon.–Thu. 11 am–10 pm, Fri.–Sat. 11 am–Midnight, Sunday 11 am–10 pm 2738 Capital Circle N.E. $ L D

CAFE TAVERNA

Our cafe offering Southern cooking with a Latin twist is now open in Midtown. We serve brunch and dinner while offering a full bar and Lucky Goat coffee and espresso.

Tue.-Thur. 11 am-2:30 pm, 5-9 pm; Fri. 11 am-2:30 pm, 5-10:30 pm; Sat. 9 am-3 pm; 5-10:30 pm; Sun. 9 am-3 pm, 5-9 pm 1019 N. Monroe St. (850) 999-8203. $$ B D

CYPRESS RESTAURANT ★

To make a special evening a cut above the rest, bring the celebration to Cypress. Known for its sophisticated take on Southern cuisine, this restaurant won readers’ votes in 2014–2018 as Best Celebration/Special Occasion and Best Fine Dining Restaurant. Mon-Thurs 5-9:30 pm, Fri-Sat 5-10 pm, Sun Closed. 320 E. Tennessee St. (850) 513-1100. $$$ D

DOG ET AL ★

For the ultimate in comfort food, Dog Et Al offers hand-held deliciousness for the “down to earth” and “uppity” dogs in us all. Footlong and veggie entrees alike grace this awardwinning menu. If the entire family is down for the dog, be sure to ask about their incredibly valued family packs. Mon-Fri 10 am-7 pm, Sat 10 am-6 pm, Sun Closed. 1456 S. Monroe St. (850) 222-4099. $ L D

THE EDISON

A Tallahassee relaxed fine dining establishment, The Edison is so much more than just a pretty face. Equipped with a beer garden, wine cellar, casual café, open-air alternatives and a gorgeous view, this historic building and restaurant has quickly become a Tallahassee favorite. Mon-Thurs 11 am-11 pm, Fri 11 ammidnight, Sat 10 am-midnight, Sun 10 am-11 pm.

470 Suwannee St. (850) 684-2117. $$/$$$

FOOD GLORIOUS FOOD ★

The name says it all! This restaurant boasts a palate-pleasing combination of personalized service, eclectic ambiance and award-winning cuisine and is the Best Desserts winner for

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Hopkins’, a Best of 2018 winner, provides more than just your average sandwich. Favorites such as the Ultimate Turkey and the Linda Special, and a variety of salad meals keep customers coming back for more. And the food is healthy, too! Multiple locations. Hours vary. hopkinseatery.com. $ L Get baked! Tally’s Best Wings 2018 won’t serve you up greasy, fried wings; instead, they bake them and prepare them fresh. They don’t stop at wings, either: Try the mac ‘n cheese, burgers and tacos paired with a cold beer. MonThurs 11 am-12 am, Fri-Sat 11 am-2 am, Sun 11 am-12 am. 1370 Market St. (850) 692-3116. $/$$ L D

JUICY BLUE

Located in the Four Points by Sheraton Downtown, this cool lobby restaurant offers breakfast, lunch and dinner. Unique dishes include tapas with a twist, such as the Georgia peaches with caramel. Sandwiches, salads and a nice variety of seafood, pasta and chicken dishes round out the menu. Mon-Fri 7 am11 pm, Sat-Sun 7 am-midnight. 316 W. Tennessee St. (850) 422-0071. $ B L D

KOOL BEANZ ★

Eclectic and edgy, both in menu and atmosphere, Kool Beanz delights in art present both on the walls and your plates. This offbeat alternative won Best Casual Dining in Tallahassee.

Dinner Mon-Sat 5:30-10 pm, lunch Mon-Fri 11 am-2:30 pm, brunch Sun 10:30 am-2 pm.

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 & cheeses and friendly service. Lunch: Tues.-Sat., 11 am-2 pm; Dinner: Tues.-Sat., 5 pm-close; Lounge: Tues.-Fri. 5 pm-late., Sat.: noon-midnight.

113 E. Jackson St., Thomasville, Georgia.

(229) 226-9944. $$/$$$ L D

MADISON SOCIAL ★

Whether it’s for a social cocktail, a quick lunch or a place for alumni to gather before home football games, Madison Social offers something for everyone. Madison Social earned Best Happy Hour honors in 2018.

Mon-Fri 11:30 am-2 am, Sat-Sun 10 am-2 am.

CollegeTown, 705 S. Woodward Ave. (850) 894‑6276. $$ B L D

SAGE RESTAURANT ★

Sage’s menu masterfully melds regional influences, including Southern and French.

The setting is gorgeous but cozy, and the

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THE BEST LITTLE STEAKHOUSE IN TALLAHASSEE 2018

outdoor patio sets a charming, romantic tone for a relaxed evening. Mon Closed; Tues-Sat 11 am-3 pm, 6-10 pm; Sun 11 am-2:30 pm. 3534 Maclay Blvd. (850) 270-9396. $$$ B L D Low-key hangout with a family atmosphere, serving burgers, wings, cheesesteaks and reubens. Mon.–Thur. 11 am–Mid., Fri. 11 am– 2 am, Sat. 11 am–1 am, Sun. Noon–11 pm 3813 N. Monroe St. (850) 562-6500. $ L D

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WILLIE JEWELL’S OLD SCHOOL BBQ

TROPICAL SMOOTHIE CAFE ★

Serving a variety of smoothies and a selection of healthy alternatives, such as wraps, bowls, flatbreads and sandwiches. Multiple Locations.

Hours vary. $ L D

UPTOWN CAFÉ

Uptown Cafe and Catering, locally owned and operated for more than 30 years, is famous for its all-day brunch menu and lunch fare. Specialties at the bustling, family-run café include apricot-glazed smoked salmon, one-of-a-kind omelets, banana bread French toast and flavorful sandwiches. Mon-Sat 7 am-3 pm, Sun 8 am2 pm. 1325 Miccosukee Road (850) 219-9800. $B L

THE WINE LOFT WINE BAR ★

Chosen as a Best of winner in 2017 and 2018, Midtown’s Wine Loft offers a superb wine list, creative cocktails, quality beer and tasty tapas.

Mon-Thurs 5 pm-2 am, Fri-Sat 4 pm-2 am, Sun Closed. 1240 Thomasville Rd., #100.

(850) 222-9914. $$ D

VERTIGO BURGERS AND FRIES ★

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.

Vertigo is home to some of the juiciest, funkiest burgers in town. The modern building provides a no-frills setting to enjoy such favorites as the Vertigo Burger — a beef patty served with a fried egg, applewood bacon, grilled jalapeños, sharp cheddar and Vertigo sauce. Mon-Sat 11 am-9 pm, Sun 11 am-6 pm.

1395 E. Lafayette St. (850) 878‑2020. $$ L D

ASIAN KIKU JAPANESE FUSION ★

From tempura to teriyaki and from sushi to sashimi, Kiku Japanese Fusion fuses vibrant flavors with fresh ingredients. There’s a reason Kiku was voted Best Sushi in 2018.

Mon-Sat 11 am-1 pm, Sun 12-11 pm. 800 Ocala Rd. (850) 575-5458, 3491 Thomasville Rd. (850) 222-5458. $$ L D

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MISSION BBQ ★

Rated Best BBQ in 2018, Mission features features memorabilia honoring soldiers and first responders while offering smoked brisket, pork, turkey and more. Mon.–Thur.

11 am–9 pm, Fri.-Sat. 11 am–10 pm, Sun. 11:30 am–8 pm. 216 S. Magnolia Drive.

(850) 702-3513. L D

SALTY DAWG PUB AND DELI ★

This “Southern porch, table and bar” is cozied up among oak trees on one of Tallahassee’s favorite street corners. Serving lunch, dinner, Sunday brunch, fabulous cocktails and craft beers. Lucky Goat coffee-rubbed ribeye and Schermer pecan-crusted chicken are among the regional-produce offerings. Mon-Tues 11 am-2 pm, 5 pm-9 pm, Wed-Fri 11 am-2 pm, 5 pm-10 pm, Sat 5 pm-10 pm, Sun 10 am-3 pm.

1215 Thomasville Rd., (850) 329-2261. $$$ L D

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In 2018, Masa earned the title of Best Asian in town — and with good reason. Their menu offers a creative blend of Eastern and Western cuisines. Mon-Fri 11 am-3 pm, 4:30-9:30 pm; Sat-Sun 12-3 pm, 4:30-9:30 pm. 1650 N. Monroe St. (850) 727-4183. $/$$ L D

OSAKA JAPANESE STEAKHOUSE AND SUSHI BAR ★

Rated Best Hibachi for 2018, Osaka provides dinner and a show, with the chefs seasoning and preparing your meal right in front of you.

It’s a meal that’s sure to leave you satisfied as well as entertained. Sun-Thurs 11 am-10:15 pm, Fri-Sat 11 am-10:45 pm. 1690 Raymond Diehl Rd. (850) 531-0222. $$$ D

Smoked for hours and served in minutes, Willie Jewell’s promises the best BBQ experience you have ever had. Platters, sandwiches or by the pound, Willie Jewell’s offers smoked brisket, pork, turkey, sausage, chicken and ribs with a bevy of Southern sides. Daily 11 am-9 pm. 5442 Thomasville Rd. (850) 629-4299. $ L D

BREAKFAST/ BRUNCH/BAKERY CANOPY ROAD CAFÉ ★

Traditional breakfasts, fluffy omelets, skillets, French toast and sweet potato pancakes keep customers coming back. Breakfast is the main event but Canopy goes all out on lunch favorites, too, including salads and steakburgers. Mon-Sun 6:30 am-2:15 pm.

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

THE EGG CAFÉ AND EATERY ★

When you’re looking for breakfast favorites, even if it’s lunchtime, The Egg is the place to be. Their made-to-order items use the finest ingredients, and they were voted Tallahassee’s best 16 times, including the 2018 award for Best Brunch. 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 more.

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

THE BADA BEAN

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

For your daily pour, Bada Bean features lattes, cold brew, cappuccinos, espresso and Mighty Leaf teas. Mon. 6:30 am–2 pm, Tue.–Fri. 6:30 am–3 pm, Sat.–Sun. 7:30 am–3 pm.

2500-B Apalachee Pkwy. (850) 562-2326. $B L

CAJUN COOSH’S BAYOU ROUGE ★

This Best Cajun Restaurant winner for 2017 brings the best of the Bayou State right to your table. The menu is jam-packed with Louisiana-style dishes, including favorites like jambalaya, crawfish etouffee, po’boys and seafood gumbo. Not in a Cajun mood? Coosh’s also offers classic hamburgers, salads and chicken wings. Mon-Tues 11 am-10 pm, Wed-Fri 7 am-10 pm, Sat 8 am-10 pm, Sun 8 am-9 pm.

Multiple Locations. (850) 894‑4110. $$ B L D

CATERING TASTEBUDZ CATERING ★

Their slogan is, “Holler if you need your taste buds tantalized.” Cases in point: Moroccan chicken with lemon spinach, beef tips with burgundy mushroom sauce, and Caribbean sweet potato and black bean salad. Serving

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lunch and dinner. Open daily. 2655-12 Capital Circle NE. (850) 309‑7348. $$ L D

CUBAN GORDO’S

Tallahassee’s top Cuban spot for over 30 years, Gordo’s features favorites such as croquetas, papas rellenas, empanadas and pressed sandwiches like their classic Cubano.

Mon.–Sat. 11 am–11 pm, Sun. 11 am–10 pm 1907 W. Pensacola St.; Mon.–Thu. 11 am–10 pm, Fri. 11 am–11 pm, Sun. 11 am–9 pm. 1460 Market St. Suite #3-4. $ L D

GREEK SAHARA GREEK & LEBANESE CAFÉ ★

Sahara’s fusion of Greek and Lebanese cuisines is unmatched in the area. A large menu and friendly staff cater to all tastes. And don’t forget to order the falafel! Mon-Wed 11 am-9 pm, Thurs-Fri 11 am-10 pm, Sat 12-10 pm, Sun Closed.

1135 Apalachee Pkwy (850) 656‑1800. $$

ITALIAN/PIZZA BELLA BELLA ★

Take your taste buds to Italy with a trip to 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.

Mon-Fri 11 am-10 pm, Sat 4-10 pm, Sun Closed.

123 E. 5th Ave. (850) 412-1114. $$ L D

MOMO’S ★

After devouring a slice “as big as your head” at this 2018 Best Pizza winner, chain pizza simply is not gonna cut it. From the black-and-white photos to the bathrooms decorated in album covers, the restaurant has an unmistakable and enjoyable “hole in the wall” vibe. Multiple locations. Hours vary. (850) 224‑9808. $ L D

MEXICAN EL JALISCO ★

In the mood for sizzling enchiladas and frozen margaritas? Make your way to the 2018 Best Mexican/Latin American Restaurant, El Jalisco, where they do Mexican cuisine to perfection.

Multiple locations. Hours vary. $ L D

SEAFOOD/STEAK THE BLU HALO ★

Blue Halo is a high-end culinary experience featuring dry-aged steaks and fresh seafood along with fine wines and a martini bar. The gourmet farm-to-table menu selections include a wide variety of small-plate appetizers and high-end chops. A private dining room for up to 20 guests is available. Mon-Thurs 4-10 pm; Fri 4 pm-close; Sat 8 am-2 pm, 4 pmclose; Sun 8 am-2 pm, 4-10 pm. 3431 Bannerman Rd., #2 (850) 999-1696. $$$ L D

BONEFISH GRILL ★

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. Mon-Thurs 4 pm-10:30 pm, Fri 4 pm-11:30 pm, Sat 11 am11:30 pm, Sun 10 am-9 pm. 3491 Thomasville Road Ste. 7, (850) 297-0460. $$ L D

CHOP HOUSE ON THE BRICKS

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

GEORGIO’S FINE FOOD & SPIRITS

George Koikos has over 50 years of experience in Tallahassee restaurants, and his hands-on commitment to quality food has made this upscale restaurant a local favorite. Serving local seafood and prime steak, Georgio’s offers banquet rooms for private parties. Mon.-Sat. 4-9:30 pm 2971 Apalachee Pkwy. (850) 877-3211. $$$ D

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HARRY’S SEAFOOD BAR & GRILL

Harry’s Seafood Bar & Grille, established in 1987, serves Southern, cajun and creole flavors in classic and modern dishes. Full bar is available at each location and offers beer, wine, liquor and unique cocktails. Sun-Thurs 11 am-10 pm, Fri-Sat 11 am-11 pm, and holiday hours. 301 S. Bronough St., in Kleman Plaza.

(850) 222-3976. $$ L D

MARIE LIVINGSTON’S STEAKHOUSE ★

Dining at Marie Livingston’s is upscale yet comfortable and always a special treat. Not just a restaurant that serves up savory cuts of prime rib or marbled steaks, this 2018 Best Steakhouse winner is a Tallahassee tradition, and newcomers owe it to themselves to make it a priority to visit. Mon-Fri 11 am-2 pm, 5-9 pm; Sat 5-9 pm; Sun Closed. 2705 Apalachee Pkwy. (850) 562-2525. $$ L D

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

SOUTHERN SEAFOOD ★

Whether you’re looking for fish, shrimp, oysters, scallops, crab or lobster, these guys have you covered. The 2018 Best Seafood Market winner brings the ocean’s freshest choices to Tallahassee’s front door. Mon-Fri 10 am-7 pm, Sat 10 am-6 pm, Sun 12-6 pm. 1415 Timberlane Rd. (850) 668‑2203.

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. Open daily, 11 am–8:30 pm, 3439 Bannerman Road 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. Mon.–Thur. 11 am–10 pm, Fri.– Sat. 11 am–11 pm, Sun. 10 am–1 pm. 2714 Graves Road. (850) 629-4059. $$ L D

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

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THE POWER OF SERVING OUR CHILDREN AND OUR FUTURE

by SARAH BURGESS

My scholar/mentor relationship took flight with a young middle school girl. She had a softer heart than I did in middle school and had an affinity for learning. But she found herself surrounded by people who made school a negative environment.

For two years, this program gave me the ability to watch her grades soar and to help her see how she could tie her passions to her future. I made sure to show her that she was extraordinary when sometimes she felt that the rest of the world told her otherwise.

After leaving this program that I had been a part of for four years, I came to understand that this is the stuff that really matters. Children matter. Children hold the torches that ignite our future in this world.

I was privileged enough to be raised in an environment that gave me an eager attitude toward education, that provided me with all the tools and resources I needed to succeed.

But many students lack such tools and resources.

Particularly in cities such as Tallahassee, poor students attend schools that remain unable to offer necessities that many of us take for granted, including books, technology and even food.

In trying to help, I discovered life-changing moments that inspired me to champion education for the underserved. If you have a chance to be a part of a child’s educational career, be it through teaching or serving in a program such as this one, I encourage you to take it.

We should always show children that we are rooting for them. Let’s spread the spirit of hope. TM

Sarah Burgess completed an internship as a staff writer with Tallahassee Magazine in April. She graduates in May with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Florida State University.

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s a teenager, I spent weeks of my summers in Gretna, about 45 minutes from where I grew up in Tallahassee.

I participated in a program called Love at Work, which still aims to meet the needs of impoverished Gadsden County residents.

We’d serve Gretna residents through home repair and other projects through which we’d build lasting relationships.

It was here, while laying roof shingles in the hot sun, that I discovered what forming meaningful long-term relationships with children, who knew no such thing as stability, could bring about in their lives and mine.

A few years later, I discovered through our church at the time, Downtown Community Church, a program called Helping Others Prosper through Education, or HOPE. It’s an afterschool program that blossomed through the dream of Keely Norris, a young woman whom I had the privilege to serve alongside in Gretna.

Keely’s years of building relationships in Gretna and her time in the education program at Florida State University gave way to the start of HOPE, in which she wanted to cultivate in the Tallahassee-area underserved students a desire for learning, specifically through a mentor/scholar relationship.

I immediately knew I wanted to be a part of her team.

The HOPE program kicked off in the fall of 2014. We started with about five “scholars” — what we called the students — and an eager group of 10-15 volunteers, or “mentors.”

This original group included a little boy named Eugene, who would come to embody the HOPE program. Through forming a close friendship with his mother, we learned that Eugene had been diagnosed with autism and was having problems in school due to behavioral struggles associated with his diagnosis.

We engaged and watched as his curiosity swelled and his social interactions and expression of feelings grew stronger.

Eugene’s learning progress left us all with a sense of, well, hope.

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