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  • Roadside Attractions
    • Coral Castle
    • Old Florida Festival
    • Shootout at Big Cypress >
      • Seminole War Reenactors
      • Billie Swamp Safari
    • Smallwood Store
    • Flamingo Gardens
    • The Redland
    • Bob Hughes and the Ole General Store >
      • Remembering 3500 year-old tree, The Senator
    • Lion Country Safari
    • Butterfly World
    • Sunken Gardens
    • Jimbo's
    • Gatorama
    • Roadside Blog
  • Road to the Keys
    • US 1 — Part 1 >
      • Keys Parks
      • Upper Keys
      • Middle Keys
      • Lower Keys
      • Key West
    • US 27 Part 1
  • On the Water
    • Rock Springs Run
    • Newnans Lake
    • Silver Springs
    • Cabbage Key & Cayo Costa
    • Stiltsville
    • Salt Springs
    • Peace River
    • Black Hammock
    • On the Water Blog
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​​Welcome to My Old Florida

Writer Sue Harrison's journeys through Florida...

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Looking for the places that bring back the elusive feel of life in a simpler time when getting by was good enough. 

The site was born from nostalgia, from a desire to find again the way we used to pass through our days with grace, hope and satisfaction. 

But it turned to discovery and anticipation as each trip, each turn down some little road to nowhere revealed that the essence of that time, of what I think of as Old Florida, is still as near as the next highway exit.    

Cross Creek sign
Through essays and photos this site will take you along to rediscover the places I thought were lost, places I’d never heard of but seemed to know me, places that resonate with the fullness one feels at the end of a long day in the sun, staring out toward the horizon happy just to be. 

Not that all these places are so lovely, some are fishcamps, some are juke joints, some are quaint and some ain’t. 

Please join me.


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© Copyright 2012: text Sue Harrison;  photos Sue Harrison & Lee Brock for MyOldFlorida.com