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Selection Reminder: Cracker Christmas!

Saturday, Dec. 3-Sunday, Dec. 4 – Cracker Christmas Let’s get this out of the way: Cracker Christmas, the county’s post- Civil-War-themed festival held at Fort Christmas, is not named after a racial slur. The term “cracker,” at least from a Florida historian’s perspective, refers to the cowboys who patrolled the lawless Florida of the late […]

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Happytown

The week we weathered Gov. Rick Scott’s terrible foray into teaching Immokalee kids about owl pellets and farming … before getting lost in the gay crossfire of a mayoral bitchfest over a benefits ordinance. Floridian pride overload!

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