Merritt's Mill Pond is fed by a handful of springs. Its water feeds the Apalachicola watershed and its caves are a draw to divers from around the world.
Chuck Hatcher is the Director of Jackson County's Parks and Recreation Department. ...
WFSU-TV sought out Tallahassee's Belle and the Band to write and record a theme song for our new Local Routes show. Lead singer Kathryn Belle Long wrote the song over a weekend, and here we see the rest of...
Mike Plummer is one of our Local Routes producers. One of his hallmarks is that his stories stem from his own curiosity about something. Something curious, unexpected or out of the ordinary makes him wonder if there's a story behind...
LOCAL ROUTES producer, Rob Diaz de Villegas joined program host Suzanne Smith for a chat about his work on LOCAL ROUTES. She asked him about how he became interested in ecology, his favorite stories, and about finding bands to...
Local musician & one-man-band, Dylan “Ragpicker” Allen, performs his original song “Wolfman”. In this piece, he plays 4 different instruments and sings, often at the same time.
Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) did not originate locally but has been growing in popularity. Some people think of MMA as guys fighting in a cage, broadcast as entertainment, but for some it's more than that – it is a...
Haiqiong Deng began her life and musical career in northwest China. Her father started her learning music when she was only three years old.
“Throughout my memory, I'm with music. There is not a moment I'm off music. I went...
In this special web extra, internationally recognized Chinese musician and Tallahassee Resident, Haiqiong Deng, appears in our studio for a second “Local Routes” performance. She plays the song “The Guangling Melody” for us using a 21-stringed instrument called a...
Every fall, nature lovers look forward to the arrival of monarch butterflies as they pass through Florida on an epic migration. They get a lot of attention, but our native butterflies like to live here all year long.
Dean and...
