How does Dorvan Cofield love Diana, his wife? Let him count the ways. ...more

October 24, 2009

Pauline Cole remembers riding in the back of the Ybor City streetcar because she was black. ...more

January 19, 2009

Oct. 10, 2008 ...more

October 10, 2008

Another special request came in the other day to the old brick-walled factory on Gallagher Avenue, where pride - if not much profit - is taken in being the country's last maker of washboards. A worker, one of only four, all women, reached for an empty box and began to fill the order: ...more

May 24, 2008

When the impoverished seamstress Mimi sighs her last breath and Rodolfo cries out in anguish, the curtain goes down on a story of love and loss that always merits revisiting. ...more

November 18, 2007

Karen Shuey isn't a krewe member, but she knows all about Gasparilla. Especially costumes. ...more

October 31, 2007

SEBRING — With a smile on her face, Magda Marek drags out the hose and waters plants in her garden every morning. The 82-year-old doesn't consider it a chore at all as she performs the daily ritual. She even sings or talks to the plants on the patio outside her home at Kenilworth Care and Rehabilitation Center. Her personality shows that she loves every second on life, even more perhaps because of her amazing tale of survival. ...more

September 22, 2007