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What do Florida retirees, baby boomers and college students share in common? A growing fascination with small towns in Florida. How does the history and environmental impact affect the personality and character of the residents? Actually, many Hillsborough County residents trace their roots to farms or small town origins.
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| Bruce Hunt, author and photographer.
Photo courtesy of Pineapple Press |
On Thursday, Jan. 21, Bruce Hunt, author of Visiting Small-Town Florida, will present a lecture with slides at the Eagle Audubon membership meeting. Mr. Hunt prepared this lecture in celebration of the organization’s 27th birthday as an authorized chapter of Florida State and National Audubon Society. Birthdays often evoke memories and questions about the sociological influences transmitted during childhood years.
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| Historic Wood & Swink Store and Post Office, Evinston, Florida |
In his book, Bruce Hunt has combined and updated two volumes of his popular Visiting Small-Town Florida. Take a trip around the Sunshine Sate with Bruce as he visits 70 of Florida’s most charming and historic small towns — places with names like Sopchoppy, Ozello, and Two Egg. Tour historic districts, museums, galleries, antiques shops and great local eateries. Marvel at the intricate architecture, learn about each town’s history, and meet some of the unusual and endearing characters who call these small towns home.
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| Historic downtown Micanopy. |
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Bruce’s guidebook lets you experience the flavor of Florida’s backroad burgs and provides directions, addresses, photo numbers and websites.
The Eagle Audubon Society originally existed in Sun City Center as a nature club. Its Audubon Mission Statement reads: “As a chapter of the National Audubon Society, we seek to increase interest and involvement in our local and state environment, its history, wildlife, preservation and restoration.”
Eagle Audubon sponsors field trips, educational programs at its monthly meetings at the Kings Point Clubhouse, and offers grants to other non-profit organizations with related goals. Funding for these grants is raised by its members at the annual Outdoor Nature/Adventure Film Series.
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| The old high school gymnasium in Two Egg, Florida. |
One of the club’s activities has been the establishment and maintenance of The Butterfly Habitat at Camp Bayou Nature Preserve. Activities at Camp Bayou include the purchase and planting of native Florida plants, assisting Dolly Cummings with programs at the Habitat Gazebo and with school trips. Volunteers are trained under Dolly’s leadership in the Passive Park concept. This woodland (160-acres) was inhabited prior to the early Spanish explorations spanning 1540-1580. Volunteer gardeners, retired teachers and willing workers are invited to join Eagle Audubon and be willing to protect and preserve the historic Camp Bayou woodland area.
For more information about the Film Series call the Kings Point Clubhouse box office at 813-634-9229, Monday through Friday 8:30 am. to 4 p.m. A list of upcoming films is published here.
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