Where America's wildest dreams came true"At Cypress Gardens--the original Florida theme park--movie stars, water-ski champs, and southern sweethearts created magic. More than anyone, even Wal
By the late 1940s, long before Disney dreamed of building a magic kingdom in central Florida, the state had more botanical gardens, jungles, monkeys, parrots, and glass-bottomed boats than a tourist c
“A strange and unsettling glimpse of the land of sun and surf in the waning moments of segregation in the South.”—Gilbert King, author ofDevil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and
