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Sunsets and Shrimp Salad

After 20 years away, I came back to live a life that’s “real” Florida in every way.

04/25/2014 By staff

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Because of the Arts

Our city’s passion for culture helped inspire my career—and find the love of my life.

04/25/2014 By staff

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The Two of Us

A partnership between a black artist and a white businesswoman helped fuel a local theater troupe’s success.

04/25/2014 By staff

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Hip-Hop in the Courtyard

It was my first big contemporary exhibition for The Ringling. Would people think we’d gone too far?

04/25/2014 By staff

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Alone on the Bus

More than 50 years later, I vividly remember the day I became one of the first black students at Sarasota High.

04/25/2014 By staff

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A Dolphin Tale

A Mote scientist on what he learned from nine-month-old dolphin Nellie.

04/24/2014 By staff

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No Mickey Mouse City

I thought Florida was about early bird specials and Disney. Then Ringling College called me about a job.

04/24/2014 By staff

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My Search for John D.

In 1979, I’d never been to Sarasota. But the writer I admired most in America lived there—and so we set off.

04/24/2014 By staff

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My Christmas Miracle

A prominent philanthropist volunteers to be a Salvation Army bell ringer.

04/24/2014 By staff

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The Span of Life

With its 24/7 pulse of people, Ringling Bridge captures the beauty and energy of our town.

04/24/2014 By staff

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Summer of ’72

Novelist Clifford Irving spent a summer on Longboat Key before going to jail for the Howard Hughes hoax.

04/24/2014 By staff

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A Wrong Made Right

When baseball great Buck O’Neil finally got his due.

04/24/2014 By staff

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Trailer Park Tale

A reclusive newcomer in an Old Florida trailer park meets his neighbors at a dance.

04/24/2014 By staff

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Shakespeare at the Asolo

At the bejeweled Italian opera house, I savored the magic of language—and Sarasota.

04/24/2014 By staff

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Raindrops Keep Falling

It never rains in March in Sarasota, my father-in-law-to-be had promised me. So that’s when we scheduled our wedding.

04/24/2014 By staff

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The Day I Fell in Love With Paradise

A drive from Disney World to Miami changed my life forever.

04/24/2014 By staff

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The Third Element

A Sarasota Orchestra concert opens a young musician’s eyes to a vital component of her art.

04/24/2014 By staff

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Salty Roots

Surrounded by the Gulf, the pass, bay and lagoon, South Lido Island inspired my life and work.

04/24/2014 By staff

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Stop This Filth

Onstage, the maiden ravaged by a soldier let out a blood-curdling scream. Kate Alexander recalls what happened next.

04/24/2014 By staff

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Get the Net

Just offshore from his Indian Beach home, 5-year-old Kelly Kirschner goes fishing in Sarasota Bay.

04/23/2014 By staff