☀️ Hotels, Motels, and Inns of Florida with Kristen Hare

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Kristen Hare is a Florida-based journalist and author who started exploring Tampa Bay when her family made the move from St. Louis more than a decade ago. She never really stopped. Kristen has written three editions of 100 Things to do in Tampa Bay Before You Die. Kristen is a media reporter and faculty member at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies, where her focuses are the local news industry and early career journalists. She's also a mom, a wife and, when not adventuring, a very happy homebody.
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For generations, tourists have packed into trains, loaded up cars, and filed onto planes with one destination in mind-—the Sunshine State ☀️ Join Florida author Kristen Hare in conversation with Gabrielle Calise at Tombolo Books to discover these historic gems and beloved places to stay in Florida. You’ll find a Spanish-Moorish palace that went from grand hotel to county courthouse to grand hotel again, the lodge on a spring where a 1950 sci-fi classic was filmed, the hotel where NASCAR was born, and the motel where Martin Luther King Jr. honed his “I Have a Dream” speech! RSVP now!

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