April 24, 2024

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Florida Icon: Rita Case

Before Rick passed away, it was more like he was 70% charity and 30% of the business. I was more 70% running the business and 30% doing charity. Read more »
Published on 3/8/2022

Florida Icon: Clarence Otis Jr.

We moved to California from Mississippi when I was a child, and from when I was in the second grade on, we lived in Watts. It was a unique neighborhood,... Read more »
Published on 2/9/2022

Florida Icon: Christopher Still

"People are hungry to see where they live expressed in art." Read more »
Published on 1/11/2022

Florida Icon: Robert Metzger

Transplant nephrologist; medical director, OurLegacy; Orlando, age 82 Read more »
Published on 11/30/2021

Florida Icon: Former farmer of the year Lynetta Usher Griner

Logging executive, cattle rancher, Levy County; age 65 Read more »
Published on 10/27/2021

Hall of Fame inventor Norma Alcantar

On her research: “Nobody really knows how the plaques in Alzheimer's disease form, so I thought that would be a niche for me. Read more »
Published on 8/31/2021

Florida Icon: First Hispanic U.S. congresswoman, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

“I'm very worried about the direction of our political discourse." Read more »
Published on 7/30/2021

Dave Krepcho is a Florida Icon

The CEO of the Second Harvest Food Bank of in Central Florida talk about what drives him. Read more »
Published on 6/29/2021

Karen Bell is a Florida Icon

What we do is so important. We feed people. It makes me proud just to be part of it. Read more »
Published on 5/26/2021

Jack Payne is a Florida Icon

The No. 1 challenge in Florida is climate change, sea-level rise. There's research being done in South Florida... Read more »
Published on 4/28/2021

Florida Icon: Richard Bowers

Richard Bowers shares his memories of coaching and growing up in a different era... Read more »
Published on 3/29/2021

Icon Yann Weymouth shares his secrets to successful architecture

"You can't be an architect and have a template, I don't think." Read more »
Published on 3/1/2021

Former president of Minor League Baseball Pat O'Conner

"I had three years left on my contract, but I decided to retire. I'm not going to stay just to get a check or fight what is the undeniable path baseball is on." Read more »
Published on 1/27/2021

Meteorologist Bryan Norcross

Meteorologist, Miami Beach; age 70 Read more »
Published on 12/30/2020

Florida Icon: Richard Lapchick

Director of the DeVos Sport Business Management program at UCF, Orlando; age 75 Read more »
Published on 11/25/2020

Astronaut Nicole Stott is a Florida Icon

Retired astronaut, artist and director of the Space for Art Foundation, St. Petersburg; age 57 Read more »
Published on 10/28/2020

Ed Chiles is a Florida Icon

"Mullet is the fish that built Cortez. This is not a trash fish. This is a wonderful fish." Read more »
Published on 8/26/2020

Steven Yerrid is a Florida Icon

You leave a little piece of your soul inside the courtroom after every case. Read more »
Published on 7/27/2020

Nadine Smith is a Florida Icon

LGBTQ rights advocate and founding executive director of Equality Florida Read more »
Published on 6/25/2020

Judy Genshaft is a Florida Icon

Former president, University of South Florida, Tampa; age 72 Read more »
Published on 4/27/2020

Florida photographer Herb Snitzer talks about shooting iconic figures from the past

"I'm pretty unassuming. Just a regular guy."  Read more »
Published on 1/27/2020

Gene Deckerhoff is a Florida Icon

Florida Sports Hall of Fame broadcaster, voice of the FSU Seminoles and Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Tallahassee; age 74 Read more »
Published on 12/26/2019

Florida Icon Jack Hartmann

The children's entertainer talks about his life making educational music videos for kids... Read more »
Published on 11/26/2019

Special Olympics athlete Maryann Gonzalez

Special Olympics athlete and offical, member of the Florida Sports Hall of Fame and the Florida Special Olympics Hall of Fame, Leesburg; age 54 Read more »
Published on 10/25/2019

Writer Randy Wayne White is a Florida Icon

The creator of the Doc Ford series of novels shares his view on writing, baseball and getting stabbed. Read more »
Published on 9/25/2019

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Florida shoe cobbler mends more than soles
Florida shoe cobbler mends more than soles

Jim McFarland, a fourth-generation shoe cobbler in Lakeland, Florida, never anticipated his trade mending shoes would lead to millions of views on social media. People are captivated by his careful craftsmanship: removing, then stitching and gluing soles on leather footwear.

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