An undated photo of him in glasses and a full mustache benignly keeps watch in the lobby of the Sebring Chamber of Commerce building on the Sebring Circle. A buff-colored historic building that squats on North Ridgewood Drive, a few blocks away, bears his name on a sign that only those who look up notice. ...more

July 27, 2008

When George Sebring bought 9,000 acres in 1911 to build his town, not even a sand trail ran south from Avon Park. ...more

July 27, 2008

We came across two Navy recruiting posters in our home. Both measure 41 inches by 30 inches. They show naval scenes, and each one has a slogan: "Sail With the Bold Ones" or "Command the Bold Ones." ...more

May 7, 2008

SEBRING — After countless hours of scanning photos and sorting through records at the Sebring Historical Society, Susan MacDonald was overwhelmed when the book "Sebring" was finally completed. "All the pictures and captions turned out just how I wanted them to," said MacDonald, a previous Sebring resident. "Now I just hope the people of Sebring will like it." Through 200 vintage photos, the book chronicles the history of Sebring from its founding as the City on the Circle. MacDonald lived in Sebring from 1969 to 1978 and is a 1976 graduate of Sebring High School. She called the book a labor of love for her father, Tom Priest, who affectionately called Sebring his adopted home, living here from 1969 until his death in 1999. ...more

January 14, 2008

More than 200 years after they were written, huge portions of the papers of America's founding fathers are still decades away from being published, prompting a distinguished group of scholars and federal officials to pressure Congress to speed the process along. ...more

December 15, 2007

No, Virginia, Santa Claus was not invented by the Coca-Cola Co. The contention that Coke created the modern image of Santa and decked him out in corporate red has become something of an urban myth in recent years. Just the other day, the BBC phoned Coca-Cola archivist Phil Mooney and put him on the radio to address the issue. ...more

December 11, 2007

The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library is unable to find or account for tens of thousands of valuable mementos of Reagan's White House years because a "near-universal" security breakdown left the artifacts vulnerable to pilfering by insiders, an audit by the National Archives inspector general has concluded. ...more

November 10, 2007