Winner Bruce Tetley “Dodgin’ A Hurricane”
2nd place Cathy DeWitt “My Heart Belongs to Florida”
3rd place (tie) Lucia Jenkins “Here To Stay”
3rd place (tie) Bob Patterson “Lullabye of the Rivers”
Two wacky off Broadway creators, “Jed” and “Boyd”;, are in the borrowed Park Avenue penthouse of Mrs. Sidney Lipbalm to perform their new creation, an epic musical that spans the history of the world from the Big Bang to the present, for potential backers. Their play is budgeted for $83.5 million with a cast of 318 performers and 6,428 costumes.
Two zany creators accompanied by a third on piano perform eighteen side-splitting musical numbers, singing, dancing, narrating, and portraying every major figure in world and pop history (Adam and Eve, Attila the Hun, Julius Caesar, Napoleon, Plato, Jesus, Cher, to name a few).
Winner Mike Jurgensen “Florida Blessings”
2nd place Charley Simmons “Song for Gamble”
3rd place David Milam “OH! Florida”
Just before the 2004 Will McLean Folk Festival Donna Green-Townsend spoke with contest winner Mike Jurgensen.
In November of 2003 the Consumer Product Safety Commission surprised many in consumer and environmental circles by something they didn’t do. The agency, which is usually associated with recalling unsafe products from the marketplace, decided to deny a petition to ban wood playground equipment made with chromated copper arsenate or CCA. As Donna Green-Townsend reports, the issue has some special significance to one Gainesville family
Winner (tie) John Hammond, Bettina Makley “The Hawk”
Winner (tie) Jeffrey Smith “Up Where The Suwannee River Flows”
2nd place Bryan Rivers “Walking Florida”
3rd place Mike Jurgensen “The Golden Fleece of Tarpon Springs”
| Introduction- to Re-Release of the Documentary | Part One- The Issues |
| Part Two- Florida’s Oyster Capitol | Part Three- Apalachicola’s Waterfront |
| Part Four- Water Quality and the Tri-State Water War | Part Five- Apalachicola’s History |
| Part Six- Tourism on the Rise | Part Seven- Water Quantity and the Tri-State Water War |
| Part Eight- Close and Credits | Part Nine- Epilogue |
Aired on WUFT on August 9, 2002
Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Mark Brunell has done more than lead his relatively new NFL franchise team to the playoffs for four straight seasons. Brunell is busy establishing a reputation on and off the field. In 1995 he began a bible study with a few other NFL teammates. That bible study has grown into Southpoint Community Church in Jacksonville with a congregation of nearly 15-hundred people. Brunell also started his own foundation to help sick children in the Jacksonville area. Despite big money offers from other NFL teams, the father of four remains loyal to Jacksonville.
Winner Amy Carol Webb “Turtle Tears”
2nd place Steve Sternberg “Apalachicola Blues”
3rd place Amy Carol Webb “Rivers Roll On”
(originally aired on WUFT in December of 2001)
Some may say Rex Grossman was robbed of the Heisman Trophy in 2001. The University of Florida Sophomore quarterback lost to Nebraska senior Eric Crouch by 62 points. It was one of the smallest margins in the history of the Heisman Trophy. In the 2001 season Grossman completed 65.6 percent of his passes for a total of 3,896 yards. He had 34 touchdowns. Some sportswriters remarked that maybe he didn’t win because he was a sophomore. Donna Green-Townsend talked with former Heisman winning quarterback, Danny Wuerffel, about his thoughts on Grossman not winning the coveted trophy.
Originally aired on WUFT on May 11th, 2001
If there’s one day of the year everyone tries hard to make special, it’s Mother’s Day. Donna Green-Townsend and Alexa (Woell) Elliott talked to elementary students and their parents at P.K. Yonge Developmental Research School at the University of Florida to hear special memories about good ‘ole mom.