No, it’s true: Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn, whose coronation as the ”king and queen of banjo” would come courtesy of Paste magazine, met at a square dance. From there, the celebrated pickers began to collaborate, musically and otherwise, married,…
The poet is in the business of asking questions and making connections, they're just not the ones you think.
The 36th annual Kiwanis Club Firecracker 5K Run is cause for reflection for our editor Steve Bornhoft.
His mission as a conservation photographer is to inspire people in saving the natural world.
A good student shows us the way and restores our editor's faith in humankind.
A tale of the heroism during World War II includes a spectacular Tallahassee native.
All are welcome, young and old, to learn from the intricate details of these anglers.
Birds inspire natural wonder and with 10,000 species they're sure to make your heart soar.
These early adopters have made their success from honing in on a trait many people forget to do: listening.
Editor and angler Steve Bornhoft explains the lure of groupers.
Tolerance for the intolerable should be retired according to our Editor Steve Bornhoft
Glenda and Archie have been cutting it close for quite some time.
Not long after I moved to Tallahassee, I injured myself playing softball at Tom Brown Park such that I could not walk without the use of a cane or without excruciating pain for a period of several weeks. Despite visits…
Improbably, white pelicans spend winters on Blairstone ponds.
It was the Fourth of July and the sacred music wouldn’t play. Hundreds of runners, cued up at the start line for the annual Firecracker 5K, conducted at Cascades Park, grew agitated — at 8 a.m., it was hot already…
The writer of Florida-based novels frequently travels the state gathering material
TMH Foundation President confident Mustian Center will stimulate donations
illustration by John Russo Like a fighter who survives 12 rounds with the champ and wins a split-decision victory, Rocky Hanna emerged last November from a race that was at turns combative, salacious and personal to win election as…
Kaizsa (rhymes with Asia) is a remarkable black woman who somehow simultaneously managed home, motherhood, work, internships and studies on her way to the bachelor’s degree in strategic communication that she collected in May. She is the kind of person…
Five rafts’ worth of Rowland Publishing employees enjoyed a day away from the office on the Chattahoochee River on June 6. All would do it again.
J.R. Harding opens doors for students with disabilities.
Finding myself one tweet over the line, I very deliberately, consciously turned off the news and reported to a weekly gathering of optimistic, grounded people who are close to the earth. They are the kind of folks who would line…
Migrating monarchs make St. Marks a stopping-off point.
Columnist Gary Yordon is the butt of his own hilarious anecdotes.
Paul Simon, of all people, turned me on to it, Pulitzer Prize winner Edward O. Wilson’s remarkable assessment of life on our planet, “Half-Earth.” Writing in The New York Times, Simon rates the book “compulsory reading” for all who care…
My mother is well shielded from the sun in her bucket hat, long-sleeved gingham windbreaker and long cotton pants. She is seated at the bow of a heavy, open fiberglass fishing skiff and, while her eyes are shielded by sunglasses,…
A look into the lives of the girls of Boys Town North Florida.
There are those playing-field-leveling events — natural disasters and the holiday season, for example — that bring people together and infuse all involved with a desire to make a contribution, to help out in some way. Hours after Hermine blew…
Gulf Power Co. lived up to the watchwords for its 20th economic symposium, connecting representatives of various economic sectors, economic development officials and community leaders in engaging ways designed to promote the growth of Northwest Florida. A total of 525…
In North Miami, police respond to a 911 report of a suicidal man with a gun. Arriving at the scene, they encounter two men in the middle of an intersection and order them to lie down with their hands raised.…
Shari Cakir Brogans, as worn by men in latter 19th-century America, were cobbled, I was to find out, such that the left was indistinguishable from the right. Too, their hard soles made it hard to obtain purchase on surfaces the…
A captivating image of a gator caught sunning on a mild March day.
The editor takes a nostalgic trip around the bases.
Nearby my apartment is a two-rut road that leads gradually uphill through ash and pine and magnolia to a power line easement. Turkey frequent the trail and deer and one day I satisfied myself that I heard a bear. As…
You saw it, probably — the television commercial in which Bob Dylan carries on a conversation with a gizmo that represents Watson, the IBM computer system that is said “to mirror the same learning processes people have through the power of…
Flounder fishing gets hot when the water cools.
When I first met Joseph Kuciauskas eight years ago, he was able to operate the joy stick on his wheelchair and, surrounding a pencil with a fist, he could, painstakingly, produce a legible script. His muscular dystrophy had contorted his…
Dick Stephens, one of 80 volunteers who contributed to the success of the inaugural Bluebird 5K Run for Brookie B on Labor Day, turned to me and said, “I think I am going to declare victory.” Not without good reason.…
