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Dance Like Nobody?s Watching
2007-11-25 21:23:00 “Dance like nobody’s watching; love like you’ve never been hurt. Sing like nobody’s listening; live like it’s heaven on earth.” The quote is attributed to Mark Twain. The photograph is from the wedding of Arnold Pompos & Sarka Malkova. The image was found on a US Government web site. Isn’t she a beautiful bride? In ... More About: Watching
Putting power into the hands of the people.
2007-11-16 16:04:00 Florida is a state with great natural beauty. Throughout the state, developers are spending huge amounts of money to influence political campaigns and as a result, have their way when growth issues come before our elected officials. Florida Hometown Democracy puts the big growth decisions back into the hands of the voters. I support it.read more | digg story. More About: Power , People , Hands , Putting , The People
Putting power into the hands of the people.
2007-11-16 15:55:00 Florida is a state with great natural beauty. Throughout the state, developers are spending huge amounts of money to influence political campaigns and as a result, have their way when growth issues come before our elected officials. Florida Hometown Democracy puts the big growth decisions back into the hands of the voters. ... More About: Power , People , Hands , Putting , The People
Putting power into the hands of the people.
2007-11-16 15:55:00 Florida is a state with great natural beauty. Throughout the state, developers are spending huge amounts of money to influence political campaigns and as a result, have their way when growth issues come before our elected officials. Florida Hometown Democracy puts the big growth decisions back into the hands of the voters. ... More About: Power , People , Hands , Putting , The People
Upcomming Events
2007-10-29 03:56:00 Join me and 150 (so far) other Leon County citizens in cutting our carbon emissions and saving money by finding alternative ways of commuting to and from work. Visit Commuter Services of North Florida for more information and to register your participation.Veterans Day weekend, there is a special treat for folks who live in North Florida. This year, the Florida Folk Festival, which usually takes place on Memorial Day in May, is instead taking place during the glorious North Florida autumn. Tallahassee Events iCal Calendar
Upcomming Events
2007-10-29 03:27:00 Join me and 150 (so far) other Leon County citizens in cutting our carbon emissions and saving money by finding alternative ways of commuting to and from work. Visit Commuter Services of North Florida for more information and to register your participation. Veterans Day weekend, there is a special treat for folks who live in ... More About: Events
Upcomming Events
2007-10-29 03:27:00 Join me and 150 (so far) other Leon County citizens in cutting our carbon emissions and saving money by finding alternative ways of commuting to and from work. Visit Commuter Services of North Florida for more information and to register your participation. Veterans Day weekend, there is a special treat for folks who live in ... More About: Events
Will McLean
2007-08-21 06:03:00 It's hurricane season in Florida. This song ought to be our state song. It's "Hold Back the Waters", the story of the death and destruction caused by the worst hurricane in Florida history, the great hurricane of 1928. The composer and singer is Will McLean, who died too young and left thousands of songs and stories about this beautiful and blessed state. Will was born near Chipley and was a gentleman.
Will McLean
2007-08-21 05:56:00 It’s hurricane season in Florida. This song ought to be our state song. It’s “Hold Back the Waters”, the story of the death and destruction caused by the worst hurricane in Florida history, the great hurricane of 1928. The composer and singer is Will McLean, who died too young and left thousands ...
Will McLean
2007-08-21 05:56:00 It’s hurricane season in Florida. This song ought to be our state song. It’s “Hold Back the Waters”, the story of the death and destruction caused by the worst hurricane in Florida history, the great hurricane of 1928. The composer and singer is Will McLean, who died too young and left thousands ...
The Mountain Goats
2007-08-14 23:53:00 doing their song, Tallahassee.Go buy the song on iTunes! More About: Mountain , Goats , Mount , The Mount , Oats
The Mountain Goats
2007-08-14 23:51:00 doing their song, Tallahassee. Go buy the song on iTunes! More About: Mountain , Goats , Mountain Goats
The Mountain Goats
2007-08-14 23:51:00 doing their song, Tallahassee. Go buy the song on iTunes! More About: Mountain , Goats , Mountain Goats
TLH019 - Riding to Tallahassee
2007-08-03 05:41:00 Click on title above to listen to podcast!Tallahassee sees it's share of travelers. Between cars and trucks on I-10, the busy Greyhound station and the regional airport, we see a lot of folk passing through. In this edition of the TallyCast, we meet the Pink Panther, Lucinda Chandler, a traveler who passed through our city this past spring on a bicycle. What's special about Lucinda is that her trip started in San Diego California and ended in St. Augustine, Florida. Lucinda's trip blog.Not many people know that the Southern Tier transcontinental bicycle route passes right through our city. During the spring and fall, we have a lot of bicycle travelers coming through town. The official route (from the Adventure Cycling Association) comes into Tallahassee from Quincy on US-90, shifts to Jackson Bluff and Gaines Street and then turns south to meet the St. Marks bike trail. The route turns off the St. Marks trail south of town and continues east to Monticello. Lucinda made he... More About: Riding , Hass , Alla
25 points, public acclaim and a free sticker!
2007-08-02 05:49:00 25 points, public acclaim and a free TLH-TallyCast sticker to the first person who correctly identifies the location of the Forsyth Memorial Sanitarium & Hospital, and what happened to the building. Photo courtesy of the Florida State Library and Archives. More About: Public , Free , Points , Sticker , Ticker
TLH019 - Riding to Tallahassee
2007-08-02 04:46:00 Click on title above to listen to podcast!Tallahassee sees it’s share of travelers. Between cars and trucks on I-10, the busy Greyhound station and the regional airport, we see a lot of folk passing through. In this edition of the TallyCast, we meet the Pink Panther, Lucinda Chandler, a traveler who passed through ... More About: Riding , Alla
TLH019 - Riding to Tallahassee
2007-08-02 04:46:00 Click on title above to listen to podcast!Tallahassee sees it’s share of travelers. Between cars and trucks on I-10, the busy Greyhound station and the regional airport, we see a lot of folk passing through. In this edition of the TallyCast, we meet the Pink Panther, Lucinda Chandler, a traveler who passed through ... More About: Riding , Alla
25 points, public acclaim and a free sticker!
2007-07-13 05:06:00 25 points, public acclaim and a free TLH-TallyCast sticker to the first person who correctly identifies the location of the Forsyth Memorial Sanitarium & Hospital, and what happened to the building. Photo courtesy of the Florida State Library and Archives. More About: Public , Free , Points , Sticker
FRA Gage Restraint Measurement Vehicle 1
2007-07-05 03:59:00 This is not the engine that was in Tallahassee on the 4th, but a very similar unit..flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } FRA Gage Restraint Measurement Vehicle 1, originally uploaded by A.J. Smith. This is a US Railroad Administration GRMS similar to the one I saw in Tallahassee on the 4th of July. More About: TRAI
GRMS-2
2007-07-05 03:57:00 If you were around Gaines Street and Stone Valley Road today (4th of July, 2007), you probably noticed a very strange looking locomotive on the CSX siding. It's painted blue and yellow, has the CSX logo, is numbered "GRMS-2" and appears to be a rather high-tech device. It turns out that it's a "Track Geometry Unit" and is a rolling computer center on rails. According to Wikipedia.org, it measures the gauge of the tracks, the relative level between the two tracks and does other non-destructive tricks to access the condition of the rails. I wasn't smart enough to have a camera long when I saw it today, but there are some excellent photos of GRMS-2 on RailPictures.Net. Click here, here and here for photos of this very engine in other cities.All the rail in Tallahassee , to the best of my knowledge, belongs to CSX. If you notice a problem with the railroad (such as a stuck signal, a vehicle stuck in a crossing, etc.) the number to call is 1-800-232-0144. More About: Florida
The All Saints Cafe
2007-06-28 14:16:00 .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Tallahassee Florida, originally uploaded by geishaboy500. On Railroad Avenue, the All Saints Cafe roasts their own coffee and with coffee, fresh is best. More About: All Saints , The A
Old Folks at Home
2007-06-20 03:51:00 The state song, Old Folks at Home , by Stephen Foster, has some words in it's lyrics which in todays context, are, to most people, racist.This is a slightly redacted version of the song with the offensive line changed. The performers are Tallahassee treasure Doug Gauss and Blountstown fiddle hero, Wayne Martin. The signer is Diane Desloge from the FSDB in St. Augustine. The clip is from the 50th annual Florida Folk Festival on the banks of the Suwannee River in White Springs.
TLH018 - Consolidation
2007-06-04 03:53:00 TLH018 - You're tuned into the TallyCastCity-County consolidation is rearing it's ugly head again. I have great respect for staff at both governments. The way to look at consolidation is from the standpoint of government services received, economies of scale and natural barriers. Since I first moved to Leon County in the early 1970's, the consolidation issue has raised it's head several time. Past efforts seemed to be supported by the development interests of the community and soundly defeated by a collation of neighborhoods who knew that big government isn't necessarily good government. Surveys over the years have generally supported consolidation as a concept but been opposed to actually taking apart the governments and especially law enforcement. Personally, I'd like to see as much decision making as locally as possible and think that the issue is more complex than just consolidation or not. At one time, I thought that we should just un-incorporate the City of Tallh... More About: Cons , Solid , Dati , Soli
Florida Folk Festival Rescheduled
2007-05-26 02:09:00 From the Flor ida Park Service: "The new dates for the 55th Annual Florida Folk Festival will take place Veterans Day weekend, November 9 ? 11, 2007.Plans for the new dates in November include combining the festival with the park?s Rural Folklife Days events already scheduled for the week prior to Veterans Day weekend. For updated information please call 1-877-635-3655. In addition, in the coming months, we will be providing updated information on our Web site at www.floridastateparks.org."
2007 Florida Folk Festival canceled
2007-05-19 02:59:00 We received word today from White Springs that sadly, the 2007 Flor ida Folk Festival , scheduled for Memorial Day weekend, has been canceled due to the wild fires in North Florida and South Georgia. As it stands now, there are no plans to reschedule the event and the next Florida Folk Festival will be in May of 2008. More About: Ancel
TLH015 - Remembering Dr. King
2007-05-15 17:15:00 TLH015 - Remembering Dr. King Martin Luther King, Jr. Born January 15th, 1929; died too soon on April 4th, 1968. Dr. King was a peacemaker, an activist and a strong voice for freedom, equality and justice. Dr. King was the youngest person to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Jimmy Carter.The excerpt from Dr. King's "I have a dream" speech is from the Internet Archive. The photo appearing in our blog today is from the Wikimedia commons.From his speech "Beyond Vietnam: A Time To Break Silence", at Riverside Church on April 4th, 1967; one year to the day before his death: "We are at the moment when our lives must be placed on the line if our nation is to survive its own folly. Every man of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits his convictions, but we must all protest...A time comes when silence is betrayal."(found in Brad Blog.)This is also a good day to remember a local hero in the fight for... More About: Erin
TLH016 - LOST in Tallahassee
2007-05-15 17:15:00 A couple of weeks ago, I received a note from a listener to my technology podcast. Lynn wrote:"I'm a listener to Radio MacGuys and a big fan of the TV show LOST. In several episodes of LOST, Tallahassee has been mentioned. I know you live there from listening to your podcast. Do you have any ideas why the LOST writers are picking on your city?"Two of the characters in the show (Sawyer and Kate) mention connections to Tallahassee. Sawyer is a nickname for a character named "James Ford." James Ford was a former mayor of Tallahassee but looks nothing like the character on Lost .In a recent episode of the Official Lost Podcast with Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse (the writer/producers), they said that a future episode this season will be called "The Man From Tallahassee". This was recently confirmed in an ABC Medianet spreadsheet (requires Excel or OpenOffice). The episode will be broadcast on March 21st, 2007.I've been watching Lost for the last few years but didn't really th... More About: Hass , Alla
TLH017 Smoky Festival
2007-05-15 17:13:00 It's dry in North Florida and very smoky. There's a huge swamp fire burning on the Florida/Georgia border. There has been a haze in the air the last few days, but today it's so smoky that my eyes burn when I walk outside. Right now, both I-10 and I-have sections closed because of the smoke.This link should take you to the FHP site for road closure information.On today's TallyCast, we travel down to Pinellas County, over to White Springs for the Florida Folk Festival and down to Gainesville. The podcast opens with a tune by Mary Smith McClain, better known as Diamond Teeth Mary, a great blues performer and an amazing person. Check out this story about Mary that was written after her death in 2000. I re-tell a story about Diamond Teeth Mary and her diamond teeth. I first heard Mary sing and play the piano at the Florida Folk Festival in White Springs about 10 or 15 years ago. If you have some time over the Memorial Day Weekend and are anywhere near the intersection of I-1...
NHMFL
2007-02-26 17:22:00 .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } mag lab tlh, originally uploaded by macguys. When I saw on my walk.
Florida's Old Capital Dome
More articles from this author:2007-01-01 18:51:00 .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Dome , originally uploaded by macguys. A beautiful photo of the most beautiful skylight in Tallahassee. Photo by Jane. More About: Capital , Flor 1, 2, 3 |
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