A Side Walk with the Art Festival, 1960-1979
Winter Park (Fla.)
Artists--Florida
Art--Southern States
Festivals--Florida
<em>A Side Walk with the Art Festival</em> by Elizabeth Bradley Bentley. The book celebrates two decades of the Winter Park Sidewalk Art Festival in Winter Park, Florida. Bentley documents the festival's history using newspaper articles, oral history interviews, personal experiences, scrapbooks, programs and minutes. Each chapter in Section One represents one year of the festival. Several photographs of prize winning displays are included. Section Two is an appendix of winners, judges, officers, committees, commission and associates.<br /><br />Debuting in 1960, the Winter Park Sidewalk Art Festival is one of the nation's oldest, largest, and most prestigious outdoor art festivals. By 2018, after 60 years, the festival attracted more than 350,000 visitors a year. 225 artists are selected from over 1,000 applicants by a panel of three independent judges. Arts and crafts categories include clay, digital art, drawings and pastels, fiber, glass, graphics and printmaking, jewelry, leather, metal, mixed media 2D, mixed media 3D, painting, photography, sculpture, watercolor and wood. The festival incorporates hands-on activities for young children and students to encourage participation in and appreciation of the arts.
Bentley, Elizabeth Bradley
Original 160-page book: Bentley, Elizabeth Bradley. <em>A Side Walk with the Art Festival</em>. Winter Park, Florida: Cody Publications, 1979.
Cody Publications, Kissimmee, Florida
Shepp, James G.
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Winter Park, Florida
Letter from Percy D. Blunt to the Editor of The Winter Garden Times (April 1, 1966)
Lake Apopka (Fla.)
Water quality--Florida
Pollution--Florida
Fishing--Florida
A letter to the editor of <em>The Winter Garden Times</em> from Percy D. Blunt, who served as the Mayor of Winter Garden, Florida, from 1963 to 1965. In the letter, Blunt comments on a previous editorial which called for rejuvenation of tourism and water sports on Lake Apopka. Blunt believes that for this to be possible, citizen advocacy groups must form to combat the special interests groups who benefit from the pollution of the lake. Blunt mentions several state legislators that he appealed to for help in restoring the lake, without success. He also mentions the polluted state of Lulu Creek, which flows through Winter Garden and carried citrus processing discharge into Lake Apopka.
Blunt, Percy D.
Photocopy of original newspaper article: Blunt, Percy D. "Letter to the Editor." <em>The Winter Garden Times</em>, April 1966: binder 1966, Friends of Lake Apopka Archives, Ginn Museum, <a href="http://www.oaktownusa.com/Pages/Preserve/index" target="_blank">Oakland Nature Preserve</a>, Oakland, Florida.
<em>The Winter Garden Times</em>
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Winter Garden, Florida
Lake Apopka, Florida