Christmas in Florida - Softcover

McCarthy, Kevin M

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1561642088 ISBN 13: 9781561642083

Publisher: Pineapple Press, 2000

Synopsis

Florida has its own special way of celebrating the holiday.

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From the Back Cover:

From Santa on the beach to Christmas palm trees, Florida incorporates its sunny Southern style in its Christmas festivities. Although Florida is known for sun and beaches rather than pcituresque white Christmases, the state has had its own special ways of celebrating the holiday:

-In Hypoluxo in the 1870s, one of the early settlers invited his neighbors for a Christmas feast of possum, which he had fattened on sweet potatoes for over a month
-On Christmas in 1925, at the height of Prohobition, the sea sent Daytona Beach residents a holiday present: hundreds of boxes of contraband whiskey washed ashore from a two-masted schooner, Fulshem, which sank in a strong winter storm.
-In Jacksonville in 1992, shoppers who allowed their parking meters to run out around Christmas returned to a Christmas poem instead of a ticket.
-Officials at the Kennedy Space Center near Melbourne have made the Shuttle Landing Facility available for emergency landings by Santa Claus since it opened in the 1970s.

You will also discover the holiday celebrations of Florida's many ethnic communities, including African-Americans, Czechs, Finns, Germans, Greeks, Hispanics, Italians, Minorcans, and Scots, as well as a traditional Christmas recipe from each.

About the Author:

Kevin McCarthy is professor emeritus and a distinguished alumni professor of Florida studies and English at the University of Florida in Gainesville, where he taught for 33 years. He has written many books for Pineapple Press.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pineapple Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1561642088
• ISBN 13: 9781561642083
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160