Hosted by Cathy Salustri & Rick Kilby · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 283 episodes
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Take a weekly trip across Florida with authors Cathy Salustri and Rick Kilby and discover a side of Florida you never knew existed. From the scallops in Panhandle bays to the Hemingway cats in Key West, every week's a Florida adventure. Get more Florida goodness with greatfloridaroadtrip.com and rickkilby.com.
Cathy Salustri & Rick Kilby hosts Florida Spectacular, a society show with 283 episodes published.
Send us your Florida questions! Lisa Moore, president of Save Crystal River, joins the podcast to talk about their efforts with the Kings Bay Restoration Project. Kings Bay is the second largest spring system in Florida.
Send us your Florida questions! Florida artist Blair Petersen Updike joins the podcast to talk about why she created the Florida Gallery, Florida art, and what she thinks everyone should do in Polk County. Links We Menti
Send us your Florida questions! Mark Mustian, author of Boy With Wings and founder of Word of South, talks about his book, the wildly popular Word of South festival, and what it means to be different. Mark's Top Five Thi
Send us your Florida questions! Rick talks about his new book, Shaping a Sense of Place. Links We Mentioned: Shaping a Sense of Place by Rick Kilby. Florida artist Joy Postle. More about Joy. Florida artist Sam Stoltz. L
Send us your Florida questions! Kristin Hemphill, the Creative Director for FloridaRAMA, an immersive Florida art experience with a conservation focus, joins the podcast to talk about the art, the artists, and why the ex
Send us your Florida questions! Florida State Representative (District 60) Lindsay Cross joins the podcast to talk about Florida Forever, environmental challenges in Florida, and what she's doing to help make Florida a p
Send us your Florida questions! Florida lesbian author Kristen Arnett joins the podcast to talk about her favorite lizard, what led her to set her debt novel in a taxidermy shop, and other special Florida experiences. Li
Send us your Florida questions! Dawn Shirreffs, with the Environmental Defense Fund, talks about Florida's Coastal Resilience Bill. The bill protects Terra Ceia, the Skyway Fishing Pier, and the Santa Fe, among others. L
Send us your Florida questions! Rick and Cathy talk about writing about Florida in front of an audience at their first-ever live podcast taping. Support the show Question or comment? Email us at cathy@floridaspectacular.
Send us your Florida questions! Cathy and Rick talk about only a few of the many Badass Florida Women in our history. Women We Mentioned Emateloye Commodore Rose May Mann Jennings Mary Lee De Pugh Mary McLeod Bethune Joy
Send us your Florida questions! Florida author John Fleming joins the podcast to talk about his latest book, Wonders of Shadow Key. Links We Mentioned Wonders of Shadow Key Review of Wonders of Shadow Key Connections TV
Send us your Florida questions! Hilary Flower, author of The Kite and The Snail: An Endangered Bird, Its Unlikely Prey, and a Story of Hope in a Changing World, joins the podcast to talk about what prompted her to write
Send us your Florida questions! Ryan and Cathy talk about Santos' Black history and how it's been erased, and put out a call for help from anyone who knows the history of the people displaced for the Cross Florida Barge
Send us your Florida questions! Springs artist and activist Margaret Ross Tolbert joins Rick Kilby and guest co-host Chadd Scott to discuss her artwork and advocacy on behalf of Florida's springs. Links we mentioned: Aqu
Send us your Florida questions! Cathy Salustri and Ryan Worthington talk about Sundown Towns, apologies, and the problems the racism of the past still creates. Links We Mentioned Tougaloo College's Sundown Town database
Send us your Florida questions! Buckle in for a wild ride... this episode starts in Bithlo, detours through Orlando Speed World, gets chased by a cobra, and then goes on an adventure through the springs. Links We Mention
Send us your Florida questions! Rick and Cathy talk about gentrification, the difficult relationship white people have with Black history, its place in Florida's history, and how Florida's Black history impacts modern-da
Send us your Florida questions! Eliot Kleinberg, a journalist whose career spans five decades, has turned his talents to fiction. His first book, Hypocrite's Row, is due out February 26. From Eliot: Hypocrite’s Row, the
Send us your Florida questions! Ann McCutchan's book, The Life She Wished To Live: A Biography of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Author of The Yearling, focuses on Rawling's life. Ann, Cathy, and Rick talk about Rawlings' lif
Send us your Florida questions! Author Holly Sprinkle joins the podcast to talk about her book, Florida Natural Springs: A History. The trio talks about — among other things — Naked Ed, the historic marker at Manatee Spr
Kristen Arnett
Author of With Teeth · Meant To Be Me
1 appearance on this show
John Fleming
former Republican Congressman · Carry-Out Killarney
1 appearance on this show
Cathy
Lead Treatment Coordinator · Just Thought Lounge
2 appearances on this show
Ryan
student · Brown University
1 appearance on this show
Rick
pastor · Children's Organ Transplant Association
1 appearance on this show
Pete Gallagher
Major General
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