Coffee and Conversations: Weeki Wachee the City of Mermaids with Lu Vickers
Schedule
Thu Oct 21 2021 at 07:00 pm
Location
The Old Courthouse Heritage Museum | Inverness, FL
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Lu Vickers has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for fiction for excerpts for a novel in progress. She has also been the recipient of two Florida Book awards and three Florida Individual Artist Fellowships for fiction. In addition to writing Remembering Paradise Park (with C. Graham), she has written the novel Breathing Underwater and three other Florida history books: Weeki Wachee, City of Mermaids, Cypress Gardens, America’s Tropical Wonderland, and Weeki Wachee, Thirty Years of Underwater Photography, with Bonnie Georgiadis.This program covers the fascinating history of Weeki Wachee Springs through vintage photographs of the mermaids from their earliest days performing silent ballets to the heyday when ABC built them a million-dollar theater. When Newt Perry sank a theater into the edge of the spring in 1947, he had no idea his mermaids would become world-famous Florida icons.
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Where is it happening?
The Old Courthouse Heritage Museum, 1 Courthouse Sq, Inverness, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
