Holidays, Religious, Holidays, Christian, Regional Studies - Southern U.S., Florida - State & Local History
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Overview
From Santa on the beach to Christmas palm trees, Florida incorporates its sunny Southern style into Christmas festivities. Although Florida is known for sun and beaches rather that picturesque white Christmases, the state has had its own special ways of celebrating the holiday:- In Hypoluxo in the 1870s, one of the early settlers invited his neighbors for a Christmas feast of possum, which he had fattened on sweet potatoes for over a month
- On Christmas in 1925, at the height of Prohibition, the sea sent Daytona Beach residents a holiday present: hundreds of boxes of contraband whiskey washed ashore form a two-masted schooner, Fulshem, which sank in a strong winter storm.
- In Jacksonville in 1992, shoppers who allowed their parking meters to run out around Christmas returned to to a Christmas poem instead of a ticket
- Officials at the Kennedy Space Center near Melbourne have made the Shuttle Landing Facility available for emergency landings by Santa Claus since it opened in the 1970s
Book Details
Published
September 1, 2000
Publisher
Pineapple Press, Inc.
Pages
159
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9781561642083