December 12th Meeting and Dinner
Register for our December 12 dinner and meeting: The Tallahassee Museum Free to members; non-members $10 each (because we have to pay for the turkey) Non-member guests can join at the door and get in for free.
Dinner at 5:30 pm; Program at 6:00 pm
WE SUPPLY THE MEAT AND DRINK; YOU BRING THE SIDES, SALADS, DESSERTS, ETC. LET US KNOW WHEN YOU REGISTER WHAT WE CAN LOOK FORWARD TO FROM YOU.
“How to Become a Tourist Trap...Lose a War”
So here’s a little quiz for you: when did Florida become the country’s biggest tourist trap? Was it the 1950s and 60s when Dinah Shore was singing her little ditty, “See the U.S.A. with your Chevrolet” on television every night? Was it the 1940s when soldiers from around the nation were stationed in all of our cities, including those in the Big Bend on the way to Europe? Was it the 1920s when Willis Carrier invented real air conditioning (sorry, John Gorrie)? Or was it 1916 when the federal government built the Dixie Highway from Maine to Miami and it split in two when it got to Florida and ran it down both coasts? Or was it when the two Henries—Flagler and Plant—built their two railroads, one down the Atlantic Coast and one down the Gulf Coast?
Well, the right answer, at least according to our December 12 speaker at our Christmas dinner, is none of those.