Ever since Sam Vinikoff laid his eyes on the Everglades, he hasn't stopped painting the national park ... ``You can't get bored of painting it,'' says Vinikoff, a London transplant, whose work hangs in galleries today and has amassed quite a following throughout the years. ``There's always something new to see when you go there.'' ...
Activists want to renovate yesteryear glories, from Hampton House, the Brownsville boarding home where Martin Luther King Jr. practiced his I Have a Dream speech, to a $3 million sprucing of the damaged Miami Springs mansion of early airline entrepreneur Glenn Curtiss. Tourists clamor to get on a tour to see a now-closed missile base in Everglades National park. Meanwhile, Palmetto Bay has found its most popular website link describes the village's historical homes ...
Environmentalists urged residents to think beyond planned power lines that may be installed along U.S. 1 and within Everglades National Park starting in 2012 ...