Florida Heritage Travel Volume I: Places off the Beaten Path;

FLORIDA HERITAGE TRAVEL VOLUME I will entertain you with tidbits about Florida places off the beaten path and off beat people. The book is a collection of articles from the complementary newsletter emailed monthly by Mike Miller, the author of the travel website, FLORIDA-BACKROADS-TRAVEL.COM. The typical article includes photographs or vintage postcards of the subject person or place.
Volume 1 contains 42 articles from the years 2009 through 2012. Examples of places you will read about include Wigwam Village in Orlando; boom town Indialantic; The Kapok Tree restaurant in Clearwater; Doc Webb’s drugstore in St. Petersburg; St. Augustine’s Old Slave Market; Frank Lloyd Wright and the large collection of his buildings at Florida Southern College and a host of other eclectic meanderings throughout the state.
The National Trust for Historic Preservation defines cultural heritage tourism as “traveling to experience the places, artifacts and activities that authentically represent the stories and people of the past and present. It includes cultural, historic and natural resources”. This is a fancy way to describe what Mike Miller does both in his website and the newsletter. He travels around Florida and visits places – many times ordinary everyday places – and fills in some of the history to give you a sense of how the place came about and what the people were like who lived there.
The book can be enjoyed one article at a time or read all at once. It’s your choice. There is no plot. Its only goal is to entertain you.