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Wat Mongkolratanaram — Palm River Thai Temple

April 6, 2008
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temple front If you take the 50th Street exit off the crosstown expressway, go south across the Palm River, turn left at the first light, and then, soon after the railroad tracks, turn left into the big parking lot, you will be transported to a different mindset, a completely different approach to life and being: [...]

Good Shepherd International Dinner

April 6, 2008

Italian I was a preacher’s kid. Church potluck suppers often formed the mainstay of my family’s diet. Memories of those affairs are good ones. Everyone tried to outdo everyone else and we got food we never got at home. I drive a good 50 minutes to the far side of Tampa just to go to [...]

SPIFFS — St. Petersburg International Folk Fair Society

April 5, 2008
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(Image credits for above posters: SPIFFS; left — right) SPIFFS, or the St. Petersburg International Folk Fair Society, just concluded its highly successful International Folk Fair (poster above on left). Earlier this year, I attended the Asia Pacific rim Festival (poster above on right), which is under the aegis of SPIFFS. That was such a [...]

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