“I don’t think of that as Real Florida,” Jeff states plainly, “Real Florida tends to be somewhat timeless. One thing Jeff loathes nowadays is the narrative description of Florida as the ‘weird capital’ of the world. “I don’t think of that as Real Florida,” Jeff states plainly, “Real Florida tends to be somewhat timeless.” I wanted to talk to real people who might be a little colorful.” I’m talking to the Miami Dolphins when they’re the world champions. Looking for books by Jeff Klinkenberg See all books authored by Jeff Klinkenberg, including Seasons of Real Florida (The Florida History and Culture. I had the best beat, according to some people, on the whole newspaper. Klinkenberg wrote for almost four decades for the Tampa Bay Times, where his finely crafted Real Florida columns told the fascinating stories of the states. A lot of people thought I was crazy because I was 22 years old. I was looking for a way to write about interesting people. Jeff got his start in Miami covering the sports beat, but it wasn’t ideal, he describes, “so I was covering the Miami Dolphins and I got tired of it. Faced with cave diving, mosquitos, hurricanes and alligators, jeff would still classify the drive from Tampa to Daytona Beach on I-4 the most dangerous thing in Florida. His column, Real Florida, began in 1986 and documented the arts, culture, nature and way of life of Floridians. A journalist for four-decades at the Tampa Bay Times, Jeff Klinkenberg has the kind of job that most people dream of.
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