Florida Heritage Travel Volume II: Places off the Beaten Path

FLORIDA HERITAGE TRAVEL VOLUME II will entertain you with interesting stories about Florida places off the beaten path and off beat people. The book is a collection of articles from the complementary newsletter emailed monthly by Mike Miller, the author of the travel website, FLORIDA-BACKROADS-TRAVEL.COM. The typical article includes photographs or vintage postcards of the subject person or place.

Volume II contains 24 articles from the years 2013 and 2014. Examples of places you will read about include Yankeetown where Elvis made a movie; Cabbage Key where Jimmy Buffet was inspired to write Cheeseburger in Paradise; Mandarin, the winter home of Harriett Beecher Stowe, Green Cove Springs and the U.S. Navy mothball fleet and many other eclectic adventures across the state.

The National Trust for Historic Preservation defines cultural heritage tourism as “traveling to experience the places, artifacts and activities that authentically represent the stories and people of the past and present. It includes cultural, historic and natural resources”. This is a fancy way to describe what Mike Miller does both in his website and the newsletter. He travels around Florida and visits places – many times ordinary everyday places – and fills in some of the history to give you a sense of how the place came about and what the people were like who lived there.

The book can be enjoyed one article at a time or read all at once. It’s your choice. There is no plot. Its only goal is to entertain you.