Florida has depended on tourism since the earliest days of American ownership. Entrepreneurs, scoundrels, and visionaries flocked to the Sunshine State to take advantage of the natural resources--land, water, climate, natural beauty, flora, and fauna--to implement their schemes and dreams. The majority of these schemes depended on convincing individuals from northern states to invest in their projects or to vacation in the state. One of the attractions was golf. Every Florida resort of note included a golf course, and golf became the major attraction for winter visitors and part-time...

An important and exciting new author of Southern regional fiction in the vein of Carl Hiaason, Nick Wynne manages to capture the lives of the citizens of a small Georgia town with perfection. The author captures the essence of the intricacies of the interplay between religion, greed, and self-delusion.

What if an Oscar winning movie star is stopped for speeding in a small Georgia town and is arrested for a twenty-five year old murder in the same town? What if the merchants in that town seize his arrest as an opportunity to get tourists to come to the town and spend money to revive the town's economy? What if a single female attorney agrees to represent the movie star and falls in love with him? What if the movie star admits enigmatically, "I killed him, but I didn't murder him " What if? Welcome to Flighty Jo Jones: A Love Story

Nick Wynne and George Baker take readers and cooks of all kinds on a leisurely stroll through their kitchens, providing tasty recipes and philosophical insights on cooking, southern culture, and life in general. Nick and George are serious traditional cooks, but both enjoy side trips into the unusual and the uncommon. This book requires the reader to have a sense of humor and to be flexible in food experimentation. Written in a conversational mode, this is the first collaboration between Wynne and Baker, and it is a harbinger of more books to come.

The financial boom of the 1920s gave Florida citizens a look at prosperity and promise. By 1926, natural disasters, financial misdeeds and failures to realize those promises created a sense of impending doom and forced entrepreneurs into bankruptcy. With the hurricane of 1928, the boom was over, and coupled with bank failures and numerous farming epidemics, Florida plunged into a depression--two years before the stock market crash of 1929. Journey with noted Florida historians Nick Wynne and Joseph Knetsch as they detail the hardships of the times and the defiance of a state determined to...