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2007-11-01
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World Golf Village
Golfweek Magazine:
ONE'S PASSION FOR golf comes alive at World Golf Village where luxury, leisure, legends and lore collide to
create one unforgettable world of excitement and adventure dedicated entirely to the greatest game on Earth.
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2007-08-06
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St. Augustine celebrates 442nd birthday
ST. AUGUSTINE, Florida (AP) -- This city almost erected a billboard outside Jamestown, Virginia, to congratulate it on its 400th birthday -- and remind everyone St. Augustine passed that milestone four decades ago.
It would have said, "Happy birthday to our younger brother," former Mayor George Gardner said.
Jamestown got a lot of attention this past spring celebrating the anniversary of its founding on May 14, 1607, making it the oldest English settlement in the nation. Queen Elizabeth paid a visit, and so did President Bush.
But St. Augustine is the nation's oldest city, and its 442nd birthday celebration is scheduled for August 28-September 1, including historical re-enactments, entertainment, and yes, a Thanksgiving feast. But this one will commemorate a feast held in September of 1565 by the Spaniards and native Timucuan Indians, when the menu likely included wild turkey, venison and salted pork stew.
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2006-12-22
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50 Best U.S. Tennis Resorts of 2006
12/12/2006 - Tennis Magazine
So many new resorts pop up these days that you wonder how they’ll find enough guests to fill them. Unfortunately, few of these properties are interested in tennis. Golf courses? By the dozen. Spas? By the bathful. Tennis courts? They come in ones and twos. That’s why, when we set out to rank the best tennis destinations in the U.S., we ended up with a Top 50 of trusty resorts that have impressed our readers for years. A quick glance at our list might look like things haven’t changed much since last time, but these aren’t the same old places they’ve been upgrading their facilities (a new clubhouse here, new surfaces there, new pro staff, new programs) to make them more appealing. 1. Ponte Vedra Inn & Club, Ponte Vedra Beach
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2007-07-01
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Treading Softly in St. Augustine
July, 2007 - Travel-travel-travel.com
St. Augustine, FL: If you like surprises, St. Augustine is overflowing with them. Unlike Ponce de Leon I wasn’t looking for the fountain of youth, but in less than a week I was gushing with youthfulness. Enough to soar like a kite a thousand feet over Matanzas Bay, single-handedly paddle a kayak on Guana Lake, ride a horse on Ponte Vedra Beach and climb over 200 stairs to the top of St. Augustine Lighthouse!
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2007-02-08
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Watery world shelters wealth of wild wonders
Feb 08, 2007 04:30 AM - Toronto Star
Anastasia State Park, Florida - A menacing creature comes screeching from the forest's gloomy depths, swooping low over the cowering crowd huddled together in the inky blackness of a moonless night. "It just missed my head!", gasps Peggy, ducking low, obviously shaken up.
"In all the years I've been taking folks out on Owl Prowls, I've only seen this happen once before," laughs birder Carole Adams, using a special birding night-light to point out a small screech owl perched on the branch of a tree, looking more like some kid's stuffed toy than the man-eating monster Peggy must have imagined.
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2007-08-13
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The past lives on in historic St. Augustine
St. Augustine — On moonless nights, they say, you still can hear the wail of the conquistadors from atop the fortified walls of the Castillo de San Marcos.
Certainly the ghosts of the distant past are very much on everyone's mind in this small but historically significant coastal city, just a few miles south of Jacksonville.
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2007-08-27
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St. Augustine marking civil right sites
Ten historical landmarks designated as part of the Freedom Trail
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. - Lillian Roberson was about to doze off when she heard a car pull up outside her home. Her husband, Bungum, and her four young sons were asleep.
When she got up to check, the back of her home was ablaze — a firebomb had been thrown inside, likely by the Ku Klux Klan. She and her husband were able to get the boys out safely, but their home was destroyed.
The Feb. 7, 1964, attack was aimed at intimidating the Robersons — the black family had begun sending their children to a previously all-white elementary school. All that remains today of their Victorian home are three moss-covered brick steps.
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