Florida Spectacular
Take a weekly trip across Florida with authors Cathy Salustri and Rick Kilby and discover a side of Florida you never knew existed. From the scallops in Panhandle bays to the Hemingway cats in Key West, every week's a Florida adventure.
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Podcasting since 2020 • 238 episodes
Florida Spectacular
Latest Episodes
Episode 213: Submerged Stories: An Effort To Find Florida's Forgotten, Buried, and Deliberately Erased History
Ryan Worthington joins the podcast to talk about a new initiative he and Cathy are working on — a podcast to document and discuss history in Florida that doesn't get taught in schools. Submerged Stories is the name of the forthcoming podcast, a...
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Season 5
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Episode 213
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Episode 212: The War of 1812, Florida along the Mississippi, and What Historians Get Wrong
With Cathy traveling through what she calls "historic West Florida", she and Rick talk about forgotten parts of Florida's history — and geography, the War of 1812, and some less savory parts of the early history of the United States and why the...
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Season 5
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Episode 212
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52:03
Episode 211: Cows Kill More People Than Wolves, Florida Cattle, and a Moral Responsibility to Florida
Did you know cattle ranchers were the "first intentional conservationists" in Florida? Annie Muscato does. She wrote her doctoral dissertation on it, and this week she joins the podcast to talk — passionately! — about research into how some Flo...
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Season 5
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Episode 211
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50:25
Episode 210: Insider's Guide to Palatka, the Great Fire, and Even Better Beer
Andrea Conover of Azalea City Brewing and Palatka Mayor Robbie Correa join us this week to help roadtrippers find Palatka's best-kept secrets.Links We MentionedPalatka Coffee Compa...
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Season 5
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Episode 210
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38:14
Episode 209: Insider's Guide to Winter Park
Rick serves on the board of the Winter Park History Museum, and Cathy lived there for a time in the '90s (and loves to go back). That's why the book written by this episode's guest, Kim Michalak, was so appealing to both of them. Kim shares how...
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Season 5
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Episode 209
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29:48
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