Category Archives: In the Arts

The Biology / Art Intersection

Tanya Rogers has two loves: biology and science. This makes sense, as wildlife is inherently beautiful. As she explains, a drawn image can be more than pleasing imagery, it can be illuminating as well. Continue reading

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Paint Every Feather

Part two of our Green Guide EcoAdventure takes us down the Wacissa River. One of our Guides was George Weymouth, a painter, sculptor, and arrowhead maker with an intense eye for detail. Watch this web exclusive video to see how he plucks a scene from his memory and layers on feathers, scales, and ripples. Continue reading

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Wakulla Green- by Hot Tamale

Excerpts of Hot Tamale’s song, “Wakulla Green,” were featured on our latest EcoAdventure: Green Guides and the Lost City of Magnolia. Here is the song in its entirety. Continue reading

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In the Grass, On the Reef, Over the Airwaves

In the Grass, On the Reef June 29, 2011 at 7:30 PM/ ET WFSU-TV Rob Diaz de Villegas WFSU-TV A little over a year ago, when the FSU Coastal & Marine Laboratory and WFSU-TV – a TV station – started … Continue reading

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A Year of Sunrises

Mike Plummer WFSU-TV I have known John Spohrer since the late 1980’s, when he was introduced to me as one of the locals who lived year-round on St. George Island. I often rented houses with friends for weekends on the … Continue reading

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Oystermen Artist Project

Mike Plummer WFSU-TV Michael Harrell is a local artist, brought to WFSU-TV’s attention by one of our viewers. Michael paints in both oils and watercolors and among his nautical themes are depictions of the oystermen of Florida and South Carolina. … Continue reading

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Writing about a bygone era of fishing.

WFSU-TV’s dimensions traveled to Spring Creek, FL. to talk to a man who is preserving a bygone era in commercial fishing in his books. Mike Plummer reports. Continue reading

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Two Poems

Here are two more poems by Dawn Evans Radford.  In her first post, she depicted the day of an oysterman. Here we have a limerick about the oysters themselves, and a more serious piece on our relationship with our natural … Continue reading

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Oysterman

In Yesterday’s post, Tanya Rogers wrote about an old-timer oysterman in Jacksonville whose local knowledge aided David Kimbro and his team in locating reefs to study.  In today’s post, we take a poetic look at the life of an oysterman. … Continue reading

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“Thicker than Water” Opening

Roberto Diaz de Villegas WFSU-TV We have some photos from the event, and you can see the turnout was good.  The SAIL Bluegrass Ensemble played in the garden.  It never ceases to amaze me how many young people in Tallahassee … Continue reading

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