Florida Spectacular
Cathy Salustri & Rick Kilby
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Take a weekly trip across Florida with authors Cathy Salustri and Rick Kilby and discover a side of Florida you never knew existed. From the scallops in Panhandle bays to the Hemingway cats in Key West, every week's a Florida adventure.
Get more Florida goodness with greatfloridaroadtrip.com and rickkilby.com.
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S6E260 Episode 260: Things To Do in Polk County, Florida Art, and Blair Petersen Updike
Send us your Florida questions!Florida artist Blair Petersen Updike joins the podcast to talk about why she created the Florida Gallery, Florida art, and what she thinks everyone should do in Polk…
S6E259 Episode 259: Word of South, Boy With Wings, and Things To Do in Tallahassee
Send us your Florida questions!Mark Mustian, author of Boy With Wings and founder of Word of South, talks about his book, the wildly popular Word of South festival, and what it means to be…
S6E258 Episode 258: Murals, Winter Park, and Rick Kilby's New Book
Send us your Florida questions!Rick talks about his new book, Shaping a Sense of Place. Links We Mentioned:Shaping a Sense of Place by Rick Kilby.Florida artist Joy Postle.More about Joy.Florida…
S6E256 Episode 257: Mermaid Star Motel, the Florida Wildlife Corridor, and FloridaRAMA
Send us your Florida questions!Kristin Hemphill, the Creative Director for FloridaRAMA, an immersive Florida art experience with a conservation focus, joins the podcast to talk about the art, the…
S6E256 Episode 256: Lindsay Cross, Florida's Environment, and Florida Forever
Send us your Florida questions!Florida State Representative (District 60) Lindsay Cross joins the podcast to talk about Florida Forever, environmental challenges in Florida, and what she's doing to…
S6E255 Episode 255: Kristen Arnett: Taxidermy, 7-11 Lizards, and Other Florida Things
Send us your Florida questions!Florida lesbian author Kristen Arnett joins the podcast to talk about her favorite lizard, what led her to set her debt novel in a taxidermy shop, and other special…
S6E254 Episode 254: Florida Environmental Victory!
Send us your Florida questions!Dawn Shirreffs, with the Environmental Defense Fund, talks about Florida's Coastal Resilience Bill. The bill protects Terra Ceia, the Skyway Fishing Pier, and the Santa…
S6E253 Episode 253: Rick and Cathy Live at the Florida Studies Book Festival
Send us your Florida questions!Rick and Cathy talk about writing about Florida in front of an audience at their first-ever live podcast taping. Support the showQuestion or comment? Email us at…
S6E252 Episode 252: Florida Women You Need to Know
Send us your Florida questions!Cathy and Rick talk about only a few of the many Badass Florida Women in our history.Women We MentionedEmateloyeCommodore RoseMay Mann JenningsMary Lee De PughMary…
S6E251 Episode 251: Wonders of Shadow Key, Elvis, and Cryptids We Have Loved
Send us your Florida questions!Florida author John Fleming joins the podcast to talk about his latest book, Wonders of Shadow Key.Links We MentionedWonders of Shadow KeyReview of Wonders of Shadow…
S6E250 Episode 250: Snails, Snail Kites, and Hilary Flower
Send us your Florida questions!Hilary Flower, author of The Kite and The Snail: An Endangered Bird, Its Unlikely Prey, and a Story of Hope in a Changing World, joins the podcast to talk about what…
S6E249 Episode 249: Submerged Stories: Santos, Segregation, and Disenfranchisement
Send us your Florida questions!Ryan and Cathy talk about Santos' Black history and how it's been erased, and put out a call for help from anyone who knows the history of the people displaced for the…
S6E248 Episode 248: Art of the Springs
Send us your Florida questions!Springs artist and activist Margaret Ross Tolbert joins Rick Kilby and guest co-host Chadd Scott to discuss her artwork and advocacy on behalf of Florida's…
S6E247 Episode 247: Submerged Stories (Sundown Towns)
Send us your Florida questions! Cathy Salustri and Ryan Worthington talk about Sundown Towns, apologies, and the problems the racism of the past still creates.Links We MentionedTougaloo College's…
S6E245 Episode 245: In the Shoes of Florida's Black History
Send us your Florida questions!Rick and Cathy talk about gentrification, the difficult relationship white people have with Black history, its place in Florida's history, and how Florida's Black…
S6E246 Episode 246: Bithlo, Getting Chased by a Cobra, and a Springs Adventure
Send us your Florida questions!Buckle in for a wild ride... this episode starts in Bithlo, detours through Orlando Speed World, gets chased by a cobra, and then goes on an adventure through the…
S6E244 Episode 244: Eliot Kleinberg, Nate Moran, and Hypocrite's Row
Send us your Florida questions!Eliot Kleinberg, a journalist whose career spans five decades, has turned his talents to fiction. His first book, Hypocrite's Row, is due out February 26.From…
S6E243 Episode 243: Learning Not To Be Racist, Drinking Too Much, and a Beautiful Life: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Send us your Florida questions!Ann McCutchan's book, The Life She Wished To Live: A Biography of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Author of The Yearling, focuses on Rawling's life. Ann, Cathy, and Rick talk…
S6E242 Episode 242: Naked Ed, Manatee Springs, and Fat Mermaids (That's a Good Thing!)
Send us your Florida questions!Author Holly Sprinkle joins the podcast to talk about her book, Florida Natural Springs: A History. The trio talks about — among other things — Naked Ed, the historic…
S6E241 Episode 241: Pete Gallagher, Florida Journalism, and Bodies Under Tropicana Field
Send us your Florida questions!While working as a journalist, Pete Gallagher investigated Florida stories that made a difference. He joins the podcast this week to talk about two of those stories,…
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