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From The Beginning [PG.1]
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
1972 — Trilogy
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Independent Florida Alligator photographs
(((VIDEO))) dave hogerty (c.1980)
1912 — Henry Morrison Flagler (above), wearing the white skimmer hat), arrived in Key West (January 22), aboard his Overseas Railroad. Later that year (September 24) the University of Florida printed the first edition of its daily newspaper, The Florida Alligator. Since, The Alligator has been published continuously, and has evolved dramatically. Never more than in 1971, when the student newspaper fought for Abortion rights, against the always Christian University of Florida administration. [INCREDIBLE PULP]
[FROM THE TOP]
MUCOZO*
The Mysterious Murphree Stones* — The gargoyles and ghostly figures carved into walls and arches all across the University of Florida campus tell stories of exploration, education, love, and war. They’re the stories of Gainesville, going back as far as when Spanish sailors and North Floridian natives were meeting, and getting to know each other.
The first Florida Alligator was little more than a transcription of president Albert A. Murphree’s opening speech to UF’s Inaugural Class of 1912.
Alligator Photographs (((VIDEO))) — A reel (moving stills) of daily photographs taken in and around Gainesville and the University of Florida (1979-1999)
Flagler’s Moon* — Earlier in 1912, the year of The Florida Alligator‘s first edition, Henry Morrison Flagler, the first Gilded Age Floridian, realized his life-long, railroad baron dream. He rode his own FLORIDA EAST COAST RAILWAY car into Key West. For Flagler, whose effort to reach America’s southernmost point was first called a “FOLLY,” reaching the small Caribbean island fulfilled an explorer’s dream. KEY WEST HAD ALWAYS BEEN FLAGLER’S MOON, the end of the Florida road.
Naked Launch*
[STORY HERE]
Pretty As A Florida Picture — When photographer Spencer Tunick was looking for the picture to fill the “Florida” position in his 50-state “NAKED STATES TOUR” on which he and his wife, Krissy were driving across America, looking to take a nude (portrait) in all the United States. It was Missy, a University of Central Florida theater student in Orlando who called Spencer, who she had met at a Phish concert in Vermont, telling him she had a good idea, and that she wanted to be the subject of his PICTURE OF “FLORIDA.”
a.lligator*
PG1 — From The Beginning
PG2 — Ride Captain Ride
PG3 — LOOK TO THE FUTURE (1980s)
PG4 — TO THE MOON (AND BACK)
PG5 — Lost In Space
Sail Away to The Moon*
On The Alligator Road
w/ CHARLES KURALT (CBS)*
Florida Sugar*
How Sweet Is It*
The Marstons Have Landed*
East Coast Ride [A1A]*
East Coast
Florida’s Road Through Time & Space [SR50]*
Weeki Wachee to Cape Canaveral and The Moon
Day Tripping (#1.)*
Mysteries In The Florida Jungle
Day Tripping (#2.)*
Weeki Wachee to the Moon [SR50]
FLORIDA ROAD TRIPS
ROAD TRIPS (NOTES) 1.
ROAD TRIPS (NOTES) 2.
A Beach For All Seasons*
SUMMER
space & time
ALAN SHEPARD (Starrider)
JOHN GLENN (Round and Round)
1961* — ORIGINAL 7 ASTRONAUTS
TIME & SPACE
MERCURY (MESSAGE & MESSENGER)
GEMINI (IT TAKES TWO TO TANGO)
APOLLO (LURE OF THE MOON)
1969* — VOODOO ASSASSINATION & HOPE
SPACE COAST (NASA) TIMELINE
Earthrise
FOR EARTH BELOW
SPACE COAST
HOME IS WHERE THE ROCKETS FLY [ 1.]
HOME IS WHERE THE ROCKETS FLY [ 2.]
NAKED LAUNCH
Pretty As A Florida Picture
Indian River Fruit
ORANGES b/JOHN McPHEE
ORANGE CRATE ART*
LILLY AND HIGHWAYMEN IN SPACE*
A Beach For All Seasons*
SUMMER (MORE THAN A BREAK)
SPACE COAST (NASA) TIMELINE
1959 — LOCAL PIONEERS
Nancy Grace Roman (Mother of Hubble)
Andrew Edward Janosov (Gemini)
NASA / NASCAR
DAYTONA 500
MINUTEMAID
ORANGES b/JOHN MCPHEE
The Right Stuff (1983)
Moonshot (1994)
MOONSHOT (PT1) (((VIDEO)))
MOONSHOT (PT2) (((VIDEO)))
From The Earth To The Moon (1998)
From The Earth To The Moon (1958)
For All Mankind (1989)
COOL #9
COOL #9 (CONT’D)
Saving Pluto
HOME IS WHERE THE ROCKETS FLY
ART & NASA (TIME)
MERCURY (WIKI)
GEMINI (WIKI)
ALAN SHEPARD (STARRIDER)
JOHN GLENN (FIRE!)
APOLLO (WIKI)
EARTHRISE (DARK SIDE OF THE MOON) ’68
APOLLO 11 (THE LANDING) ’69
PLANET EARTH (PLAYLIST)
Summer ’69*
1968 — For Earth Below (Apollo 8)
1969 — Gator On The Moon (Apollo 11)
1971 — Space Truckin’ (Apollo 14)
Apollo 11
JULY 1969 — ALLIGATOR MOON
JULY 08 — GATOR IN WAITING
JULY 11 — TENURE MATTERS
JULY 15 — ANXIOUS MOON
JULY 18 — LUNAR REST AND RELAXATION
JULY 22 — PIONEER STROLLING
JULY 25 — HOME AGAIN
The “Astro” MixTapes
APOLLO 11 (PLAYLIST)*
MOON (PLAYLIST)*
EARTH (PLAYLIST)*
Apollo 14
FEBRUARY 3, 1971
Special Delivery
Back To The Moon
Artemis
APRIL 1, 2026 — After fifty five years, NASA sends men (and women) back to the Moon. (((VIDEO))) See it like a Native, including the drive north on Indian River Drive (The River Road) to the 1880s church, with a widow’s watch with a clear view of the Sacred Ground, across the Indian River Lagoon.
SPACEX (MARCH 31, 2026)
ARTEMIS (K’S BEACH)
ARTEMIS (A MOON TO REMEMBER)
ARTEMIS (IN THE SHADE)
Henry Morrison Flagler (holding hat in circle) greets a crowd upon his arrival on the first train into Key West, Florida, January 22, 1912. Flagler built the Florida East Coast Railway as a way of linking his string of hotels and other properties in Florida, finally stretching the railway across seven miles of open water in into Key West, the southernmost point in the United States. (Hutton Archive)
1912 — Henry M. Flagler was aboard the first (his own) OVERSEAS RAILROAD train to arrive in Key West, January 22, 10:43 a.m. For Flagler, personally, it was as if he had landed, and was stepping onto the Moon. His Moon. Since starting his Florida East Coast Railway in St. Augustine, with plans to continue south, Flagler told the World that his ultimate destination was Key West. The southernmost spot in America. A small island, 150 miles south of Miami, and less than 90 miles north of Cuba. As John F. Kennedy had made his dream of putting a man on the Moon, fifty years later, Flagler expressed to the World his Florida’s first land-developer’s goal. His explorer’s eye was focused on Key West, the last in a string of small islands that stretched into the Florida Straits.
After decades struggling with the tropical environment (Heat/ Hurricanes/ Mosquitos) and the engineering difficulties to build a bridge across the ocean, Henry Morrison Flagler, in 1911, could see the light at the end of the tunnel. His crews were working on the last leg of his East Coast Florida Railroad. Near connecting the last two, southernmost keys running south into the Florida Straits. Key West, just 90 miles north of Cuba was Flagler’s “Moon.” The impossible dream he had since building his first hotel in St. Augustine, the Ponce de Leon in 1888.
1910s — WWI, Model T, Titanic
Progressive Era (1890s–1920s)
The Rich Get Richer (Lochner) Era (1897–1937)
U.S. Occupation of Haiti (1915–1934)
World War I, U.S. involvement (1917–1918)
First Red Scare (1917–1920)
1911 — RMS Titanic, Oreo cookies introduced. Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red Sox. Suffragettes and their supporters parade in New York City. President Theodore Roosevelt is shot by saloonkeeper John Schrank. U.S. presidential election, 1912: Democratic challenger and Governor of New Jersey Woodrow Wilson wins a landslide victory over Republican incumbent William Howard Taft. Taft’s base is undercut by the Progressive Party candidate (and former Republican) Theodore Roosevelt, who finishes second, ahead of Taft. W. C. Handy publishes his “Southern rag” “The Memphis Blues.” The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York City.
SEPT. 24, 1912 — The University of Florida publishes the first edition of its student newspaper, The Florida Alligator.
1912 — The Overseas Railroad opens: the first train arrives in Key West, Florida, at 10:43 a.m. with Henry M. Flagler, the railroad’s creator and owner, aboard.
Oreo cookies introduced. RMS Titanic, Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red Sox. Suffragettes and their supporters parade in New York City. President Theodore Roosevelt is shot by saloonkeeper John Schrank. U.S. presidential election, 1912: Democratic challenger and Governor of New Jersey Woodrow Wilson wins a landslide victory over Republican incumbent William Howard Taft. Taft’s base is undercut by the Progressive Party candidate (and former Republican) Theodore Roosevelt, who finishes second, ahead of Taft. W. C. Handy publishes his “Southern rag” “The Memphis Blues.” The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York City.
1913 — At the University of Florida, Anderson Hall and Peabody Hall are built. Pensacola Naval Air Station, Joe’s Stone Crab, and the Venetian Causeway (Miami-Miami Beach) all open.
1914 —
1915 —
1916 — PROHIBITION
Florida became the only state to elect a Prohibition Party candidate for governor, Sidney J. Catts. One year later, voters mandated statewide prohibition in advance of the Eighteenth Amendment. Race and gender mores also shaped and were shaped by the temperance movement.
1917 —
1918 — WWI, Mata Hari
1919 — Just Say No.
Prohibition In Florida
Havana, Cuba, Rum Runners, (Bacardi/Cane) Key West, Bahamas, Miami, Bill McCoy, “The Real McCoy.” Jamaica, Haiti, Puerto Rico …
Ziegfeld Girls were the chorus girls and showgirls from Florenz Ziegfeld‘s theatrical Broadway revue spectaculars known as the Ziegfeld Follies (1907–1931), produced in New York City. The revues were based on the Folies Bergère of Paris. Erté Fashion. Ziegfeld Girl (1941)
Apollo 11
Summer of ’69*
JULY 1969 — Alligator Moon
GATOR IN WAITING (JULY 8)
A MATTER OF TENURE (JULY 11)
ANXIOUS MOON (JULY 15)
RESTING UP (JULY 18)
PIONEER STROLLING (JULY 22)
SPLASHING DOWN (JULY 25)
APOLLO 11 (PLAYLIST)*
The “Astro” Mix Tapes
MOONSHOT ’69 (PLAYLIST)
MOON (PLAYLIST)*
EARTH (PLAYLIST)*
ALLIGATOR (PLAYLIST)*
NORTH FLORIDA (PLAYLIST)*
Dead (UF) Presidents
ALBERT A. MURPHREE* (THE HOLY SPIRIT)
Murphree’s Opening Message (alt.)
Best Bible College in the Land. CHRISTIAN SOUTHLAND THAT IS.
STEPHEN C. O’CONNELL’S SUDDEN RESIGNATION
by CARL HIAASEN
ROBERT Q. MARSTON* (THE FUNDRAISER)
NIXON “GOODBYE DICK”
GERALD FORD (“SUBSTITUTE”)
JIMMY CARTER (“EVEN THE LOSERS”)
CARTER “RAINY NIGHT IN GEORGIA”
RONALD REAGAN (“JUST SAY OH NO”)
Stephen C. O’Connell’s Holy War
1969 — You WILL Pledge Allegiance to the Flag.
UF’s most notorious president begins his tenure-long (seven years), throughout the VIETNAM WAR, to demand all University of Florida professors and employees sign a LOYALTY (ANTI-COMMUNISM) OATH as a requirement to work for Florida’s first, and largest, state university.
STEPHEN C. O’CONNELL
by CARL HIAASEN
Cortez The Killer
Gainesville, Florida: When the Spanish ruled the World.
Gov’t Mule
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Conquistador
Procol Harum (1967)
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Cosmic Messengers (PG.1)
Jean-Luc Ponty
Voyage La Florida
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Alligator Time Passages
(1971-1981)
FLORIDA HISTORY
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Vol. 1 No. 1
A.A. Murphree’s Opening Sermon
September 24, 1912