My Girl: The Tender Coming-of-Age Film Shot Across Central Florida
It is set in small-town Pennsylvania, but the beloved 1991 film My Girl was filmed across Central Florida, with Bartow and Sanford playing starring roles.
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Mount Dora: The Little Lakeside Town That Said No to the 21st Century
A freshwater lighthouse, 800 antique dealers, and 30 festivals a year. Mount Dora is the Central Florida lakeside town that traded strip malls for brick storefronts and never looked back.
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The Florida Scrub-Jay: America’s Only Sunshine State Bird
The only bird species found exclusively in Florida has lived on the state’s sandy ridges for two million years. Meet the bold, brainy corvid that will land on your hand.
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Florida Thunderstorms: The Daily Summer Show That Runs on Lightning
Every summer afternoon, Florida puts on the most dramatic weather show in America. The lightning capital of the country lights up like clockwork, and Floridians would not have it any other way.
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Spook Hill: The Lake Wales Road Where Cars Roll Uphill and Nobody Can Explain Why
A quiet street in Lake Wales where your car appears to roll uphill. Part optical illusion, part local legend, Spook Hill is one of Florida’s most wonderfully weird roadside attractions.
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Through the Groves: Growing Up in a Florida That No Longer Exists
A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist remembers her childhood riding shotgun through Central Florida’s citrus groves with her father, a fruit buyer armed with a pistol and a rattlesnake bite kit.
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Zora Neale Hurston: The Writer Who Put Eatonville on the Literary Map
Zora Neale Hurston grew up in Eatonville, one of the first all-Black incorporated towns in America, and turned the language and rhythms of rural Florida into some of the most powerful fiction ever written.
