Comments on: Exotic Hotel For Travelers to Florida

By: pen4hire

pen4hire — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 06:34:05 +0000

Kerry: No on both counts, although thanks so much for pointing out the reference to Plant in Del Suggs’ song. I loved St. Augustine on my one visit there, and have always wanted to go back.

By: Alexandra

Alexandra — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:57:31 +0000

Thanks for sharing your adventures in Florida! That museum looks amazing. Too bad you didn't have more time to spend there. .-= Alexandra hopes you will read blog ..Revving Up for a Cape Cod Valentine ... =-.

By: Kerry

Kerry — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:28:15 +0000

Vera,
your post made me think of two things: a song by Florida musician Del Suggs called, I think, Standing in the Rain, in which he speaks of the homeless on Tampa’s streets standing ‘in the shadow of Plant’s pride.’ We’ll get to more of Del’s work when the road trip reaches Florida.

and the Lightner Museum in Saint Augustine. It’s a trip back to the gilded age, certainly, in another building connected with Plant which used to be a hotel. The collections are very spruced up looking now, but when I was a little kid it was not so — you could wander around and touch a lot of the stuff. My mother loved running different songs on the player piano there, which they let you do in those days.

do you know the song, and have you been to the Lightner?
.-= Kerry hopes you will read blog ..Lovers’ Well: Matt & Shannon Heaton =-.