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Vote today for our next “What’s Up with South Florida?”

Wed, May 13, 2009


What's Up With South Florida?

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Hairy Truman /Courtesy of Hemingway Home and Museum

Vote today  for our next “What’s Up with South Florida?” feature.  In our regular Under the Sun segment, you ask us a question about something bizarre, quirky, or just plain confusing here in South Florida.  We answer it on the air.

We are down to three nominations for our third episode, which will be about all things literary in South Florida.  Now we need you to help us decide which  question we should answer.  Please vote today for choice 1, 2, or 3 at web@wlrnunderthesun.org.

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/ Hemingway Home and Museum

1.
What’s up with the dozens of six-toed cats living in the Key West home of American novelist Ernest Hemingway?

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/Howard Schneider

2.
What’s up with the eerily life-like statue of Marjory Stoneman Douglas at Fairchild Tropical Garden?

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3.
What’s up with the “Inglish Gratis” sign displayed at Hialeah Senior High School?

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3 Responses to “Vote today for our next “What’s Up with South Florida?””

  1. Grant says:

    what’s up with those 6 toed cats anyways?

    :)

    g

  2. Shirley says:

    Taking our audience to the Keys (where I live) will be like a mini-vacation for some folks. Thanks for considering a story down here. And I’m embarrased to say I can’t answer the question “what’s up with those 6 toed cats anyways?”!!!

  3. Trina says:

    Shirley–Thanks for checking out Under the Sun. The audience voted on a different question for this “What’s Up with South Florida?” but we look forward to doing future stories about the Keys. You might enjoy our story about Alabama Jack’s, the gateway to the Keys!
    http://wlrnunderthesun.org/2009/03/end-of-the-line-postcard-from-alabama-jacks/

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