Donna Green-Townsend
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Listen and Watch song samples from the new “Tribute” CD below: The newest video just added is, “Lost Tourist’s Letter Home.” (To order a CD, please send $15.00 to: Jessie Townsend, 13501 SE 171st Lane Hawthorne, FL 32640) Jessie and Lee Townsend recently went back into the studio to record six more songs to … Continue reading Jessie and Lee Townsend Tribute CD now available
Update February, 2018: Florida officially added Blue Springs as the 175th state park. Update June 14, 2017: On Wednesday morning the Florida Cabinet approved purchasing Blue Springs Park in Gilchrist County. The state has agreed to pay $5.25 million dollars for the 407-acre property which includes frontage along the … Continue reading Florida adds Blue Springs property as official state park
The 1988 Pines and Palms television program hosted by the late Don Grooms featured several singer songwriters who have since passed on. They may have left this earthly life, but their music lives on. Their songs can still be heard on the stages of many music festivals around the state. In 1988, Grooms who was … Continue reading Archival television program features many of Florida’s greatest folk songwriters
The Father of Florida Folk, Will McLean, penned hundreds of songs about Florida. McLean, who was the first folk artist inducted into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame loved to watch sandhill cranes. In Florida there are migratory sandhill cranes and cranes that stay in the state all year long. Below is a video produced … Continue reading Courtship Dance of the Florida Sandhill Crane
Every Fall a new litter of baby squirrels emerge from the dead Bay tree outside my bedroom window. It’s such a delight to see them scrambling around the tree for the first time and playing with each other. I know when I see them it won’t be long before the mother squirrel will carry them … Continue reading Baby squirrels in the “Mystery Tree”
With record-breaking temperatures expected in Florida, cabbage pickers between Hastings and Palatka were busy today trying to harvest the latest crop. Today’s scene was very similar to 2011 when cabbage growers also faced the risk of losing their winter crop to a hard freeze. Click on my archive story below to watch the process of … Continue reading Cabbage Growers Race To Beat the Expected Hard Freeze
It’s that time of year again when North Central Florida serves as host to migrating sandhill cranes. Floridians are very familiar with the loud, squawking sounds of these tall birds with wing spans as wide as 6 feet as they circle above and fly to favorite feeding grounds around the Gainesville area, especially Payne’s Prairie and … Continue reading Migrating Sandhill Cranes Inspire Artistry
Singer songwriter Elisabeth Williamson was so saddened by the low level of Gatorbone Lake in the Keystone Heights area in recent years that she wrote a song about it called, “Land of Flowers.” Lake levels in many North Central Florida lakes have been low for a long period of time (some say since 2005, the … Continue reading Land of Flowers Music Video (highlighting area lake levels past and present)
(From my archives) Florida’s official state animal, the Florida panther, continues to be an endangered species with only between 50 to 150 animals left in the wild. Many of the big cats are hit by cars each year. Florida’s growing population has encroached on the panther’s historic territory. As Donna Green-Townsend reports, wildlife biologists and … Continue reading The Effort To Save The Florida Panther
(From my archives: Originally aired on Florida File on WUFT-TV in 1990) The University of Florida Large Animal Hospital Neonatal Foal Intensive Care Unit was one of the first facilities dedicated to neonatal medicine for foals. Veterinarians and highly trained staff care for the most sensitive and complicated equine cases at the facility. They also … Continue reading UF Neonatal Equine Unit: Helping Sick Foals