Tarpon Springs, Florida
January 17th, 2010 at 11:34 am ET
As I sit at home eating Greek honey cookies I brought back on the plane, I note that if you had said to me two months ago, “Rich, there’s a Greek fishing village in the Tampa suburbs about a mile from US 19, half an hour from the Tampa airport, whose primary industry is sponge boats owned and operated by generations of Greeks, followed in economic impact by tourists who stroll up and down Dodecanese Boulevard, stopping off to eat grilled fish and Greek pastries and drink muddy coffee,” I would have replied, uh, are you high? But, well, there it is.
Oh, and yesterday was Tarpon Springs’ first annual Manatee Celebration Day. Photo taken on the door of the Tarpon Springs historical museum, where the inimitable Julie Peeler gave us the nickel tour after hours. In the museum, along with local historical artifacts, are replicas of the eight ten-foot murals about Florida history (painted by Tarpon Springs artist Christopher Still) that hang in the Florida State House in Tallahassee.
Incidentally, Hellas Restaurant was already in the Foursquare database, although it was listed as “Hella’s…”
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