WFSU's Mike Plummer tapped into his own curiosity and headed south to Alligator Harbor to find out about clam farming. If you look out over the waters of Alligator Harbor, you will see a proliferation of white PVC pipes...
With the passing of the civil rights act in 1964, integration has been repeatedly used as a reason to close historically black Institutions. This story explores how the creation and closing of one African American hospital on the Florida...
Some dogs have all the luck. The dog in this story has had all that luck, and then some. As a road-running stray, he captured the imagination of animal lovers in Ochlocknee, Panacea, and Crawfordville, Florida. Today, they call him Buddy...
After 30 years, local biologist Bruce Means' has completed his final adventure in the tepuis (table-top mountains) of the Guyana Shield. Home to rare and endemic frogs, lizards, and snakes, Means has found several species new to science here,...
When we first came up with the name of the program we immediately started to do debate how we pronounce it. Some say root likes Route 66. Others say Route like stout. To find out which way is correct...
Originally Posted May 20, 2021
The cottages at Lake Ella are one of the capital city’s most recognizable landmarks. The story behind them is also the story of a gentleman named Gilbert Chandler and his family. After stopping in Tallahassee...
The South wouldn't be the South without boiled peanuts. But a really good boiled peanut can be elusive. Mike Plummer hit the road to find local boiled peanut experts.
First he met up with Marvin McKenzie, owner of Glenda's Country Store on Highway...
Originally Posted May 28, 2020
Early in the Pandemic, WFSU Ecology Producer Rob Diaz de Villegas and his family hiked the Garden of Eden Trail through biologically and geologically unique steephead ravines, a recently burned longleaf forest, and up...
The Liberty Foundation had a date with Tallahassee on its tour of a B-17 Bomber and P-51 Mustang.
If you live in the Big Bend region of Florida, you’re probably aware of Apalachicola - the sleepy little town that gave its name to the formerly plentiful and famous Apalachicola Bay oyster. The town has been through...
