by J John Swanko
10/04/2011 White Springs, FL (People Port)- The Dixie Battle Flag above North Florida's private Civil War Memorial kept a local group of artists, craft people from using Florida property to sell their wares to tourists.
It seemed like a simple plan. Adopted Statewide, could put more than a thousand artists, crafts people, to work at various State Farmers Markets. Farmers markets rent space facilitating the sale of various farm products and the like. This was a test designed to last two weeks.
They asked for use of Florida's Farmer's Market. The Suwannee Valley Arts And Crafts League (SVAACL) Asked for a two week test using Florida's Farmers Market Land to sell arts and crafts. When up and running it would create more than 200 jobs, at that one location. Florida will spend $2,400 per job binging in 500 big paying telecommunications jobs.
What SVAACL asked, Port-o-lets, space, $3 a day rent, an economic impact study (not the fancy one, one from the Department of Agriculture), a quilt and jar of jam at the Welcome To Florida Center, a flyer at close rest-stops (10 total), and Commissioner Adam Putnam is free to use the information as a cookie-cutter design at every other Market.
Here is why, there is a North Florida Memorial to the Confederate Soldiers adjacent to Interstate 75. It contains a huge Confederate Battle Flag. Not the image Florida wants our tourists to remember. The memorial is located about 12 miles east of Live Oak in Columbia county. Its location is considered White Springs. Same White Springs as Stephen Foster. Their battle flag does not have an American Flag of equal size flying, So apparently it is better to keep the 15 to thirty people from trying to establish an Arts & Crafts center to market their homemade quilts, jams, arrowheads, jewelry and the like...
Note:
The Sons Of Confederate Veterans was established in 1896. It is their North Florida Chapter that built the memorial in 2002. Like most war memorials, a visitor want to touch the names of the fallen, say a prayer. It is off Interstate 75 at the County Road 136 exit, enter through the White Springs Farmers Market.
I helped start SVAACL, opened their blog (http://svaacl.blogspot.com).., the same day they received word the project would not move forward.
10/04/2011 White Springs, FL (People Port)- The Dixie Battle Flag above North Florida's private Civil War Memorial kept a local group of artists, craft people from using Florida property to sell their wares to tourists.
It seemed like a simple plan. Adopted Statewide, could put more than a thousand artists, crafts people, to work at various State Farmers Markets. Farmers markets rent space facilitating the sale of various farm products and the like. This was a test designed to last two weeks.
They asked for use of Florida's Farmer's Market. The Suwannee Valley Arts And Crafts League (SVAACL) Asked for a two week test using Florida's Farmers Market Land to sell arts and crafts. When up and running it would create more than 200 jobs, at that one location. Florida will spend $2,400 per job binging in 500 big paying telecommunications jobs.
What SVAACL asked, Port-o-lets, space, $3 a day rent, an economic impact study (not the fancy one, one from the Department of Agriculture), a quilt and jar of jam at the Welcome To Florida Center, a flyer at close rest-stops (10 total), and Commissioner Adam Putnam is free to use the information as a cookie-cutter design at every other Market.
Here is why, there is a North Florida Memorial to the Confederate Soldiers adjacent to Interstate 75. It contains a huge Confederate Battle Flag. Not the image Florida wants our tourists to remember. The memorial is located about 12 miles east of Live Oak in Columbia county. Its location is considered White Springs. Same White Springs as Stephen Foster. Their battle flag does not have an American Flag of equal size flying, So apparently it is better to keep the 15 to thirty people from trying to establish an Arts & Crafts center to market their homemade quilts, jams, arrowheads, jewelry and the like...
Note:
The Sons Of Confederate Veterans was established in 1896. It is their North Florida Chapter that built the memorial in 2002. Like most war memorials, a visitor want to touch the names of the fallen, say a prayer. It is off Interstate 75 at the County Road 136 exit, enter through the White Springs Farmers Market.
I helped start SVAACL, opened their blog (http://svaacl.blogspot.com).., the same day they received word the project would not move forward.
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