Listen in right here: A Second Visit to Florida - Part 3 of the Guide to The Southernmost State Welcome again to the Sunshine Republic Podcast where we explore all things Florida with a focus on activities that benefit both the mind and the body. Today we'll be engaging into part three of the southern most of the guide to the southern most state is a document that was generated by the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1929. Many states in the union actually all 50 have guidebooks written about them back from back then, and without further ado, let's jump in to where we left off with part two. So Part Three begins for us today, with the second excursion of...
Welcome again to the Sunshine Republic Podcast where we explore all things Florida, with a focus on activities that benefit both the mind and the body. Today, we will be revisiting part two of the guide to southern mode to the southernmost state, which is a 1929 publication written by the Civilian Conservation Corps. Basically the federal government back in the 20s funded guidebooks for each of the 50 states and the one about Florida is actually one of the most fascinating so without further ado, let's continue on with part two of the guide to the southern most state. And while we're in the general information section, our next section is climate and equipment. So the weather of...
Explore the French Country Village, an Italian Village and Miami's own Very Tropical Chinatown! and of course there's that wonderful ride under the tree canopy of Old Cutler Road down to Matheson Hammock and Fairchild Tropical Gardens...
Formally entitled “Florida, A Guide to the Southernmost State”, the book we’ll examine here is just one of American Guide book series. This series is a group of books and pamphlets published from 1937 to 1941 under the auspices of the Federal Writers' Project (FWP), a Depression-era works program in the United States. The American Guide Series books were compiled by the FWP, but printed by individual states, and contained detailed histories of each of the then 48 states of the Union with descriptions of every major city and town. In total, the project employed over 6,000 writers. The format was uniform, comprising essays on the state's history and culture, descriptions of its major cities, automobile tours of important attractions,...
Welcome to the Sunshine Republic Podcast where we explore all things Florida with a focus on activities that benefit both your mind and your body. Today we'll be describing an outstanding bike ride from Virginia Key over to the Cape Florida lighthouse on Key Biscayne. This is where we get to Key Biscayne. We'll pass over through Virginia Key but even before we get the Virginia Key, you'll be paying your $2.25 cent toll at the Rickenbacker causeway toll plaza and entering into Hobie Beach, which really is very narrow. It's most of Overland with parking on both sides, the east on the west side, over the very large Key Biscayne bridge. On the east side. It's preferred and...
