Roaring Reptiles, Bountiful Citrus, and Neon Pies

Roaring Reptiles, Bountiful Citrus, and Neon Pies
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Publisher : University Press of Florida
Total Pages : 111
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ISBN-10 : 9780813065250
ISBN-13 : 0813065259
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Book Synopsis Roaring Reptiles, Bountiful Citrus, and Neon Pies by : Mark Lane

Download or read book Roaring Reptiles, Bountiful Citrus, and Neon Pies written by Mark Lane and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2019-09-09 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Florida Historical Society Charlton Tebeau Award With an eye for the illogical and a flair for the irreverent, journalist Mark Lane aims his sharp wit at one of the most intriguing duties of the Florida legislature—signing state symbols into law. In Roaring Reptiles, Bountiful Citrus, and Neon Pies, he spotlights nineteen things that have been proposed and/or appointed to officially define Florida. Lane guides readers through the often-comic historical events that led to the selection of Florida’s official fruit, tree, gem, bird, song, and other items ranging from the well known to the obscure, packing in personal stories and laugh-out-loud moments along the way. Did you know the state slogan was almost “the alligator state”? Or that a mailbox in the shape of the state marine mammal can tell you a lot about a person? Readers will also discover that the bill proposing the state soil caused a crisis in the Senate and that the state play—written in the peculiar genre of symphonic outdoor drama—puts a heroic spin on the grisly European conquest of St. Augustine. “Full of the kind of unnecessary commentary that might cause trouble,” as Lane describes it, this book is also written with affection toward the wide diversity of lives and experiences that make up the state he calls home. He shows that deciding the things that represent us at any given moment is far trickier than it appears. Especially in Florida, a state aptly symbolized by “a lot of contradictions baked into a Key lime pie.”


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