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The most recent editions of Snowbirds Gulf Coast and Snowbirds South Edition now available online.

May 2012

Welcome!
Snowbirds Gulf Coast returns for a 6th season of publication along the northern Gulf Coast stretching from the Florida Panhandle communities of Apalachicola and St. George Island to Panama City Beach, South Walton, Destin, Fort Walton Beach, Navarre Beach, Pensacola Beach, Pensacola, Perdido Key to the Alabama Gulf Coast communities of Orange Beach, Gulf Shores, Fort Morgan, Fairhope, Foley, Mobile and the Mississippi Gulf Coast communities of Biloxi, Gulfport and beyond!
Why spend your precious weeks – or months – in this region?
Smart travelers understand that winter is the best time to find value in this part of the country.
Summer marks high season and there are thousands of vacation rentals, hotel rooms and RV spots available at heavily discounted rates.
Want to find out more information as the season goes along? Be sure to register for our e-newsletter and click “Like” on our Facebook page.
We also post every new edition – along with our archives – on this website in full pdf version. No need to miss an issue!

Have a question or if you are a businesses looking to reach this valuable demographic, contact me at publisher@snowbirdsgulfcoast.com or 850-291-1266.

If you are interested in advertising, click here to view our media kit. The Snowbirds now look for us upon arrival so don’t miss your chance to connect with this very special market!

Best,

Karen Harrell
publisher@snowbirdsgulfcoast.com
850-291-1266, 850-934-9878 (fax)

Want to check out our print archive? http://snowbirdsgulfcoast.com/magazine-archives.  Also, be sure to join our Facebook Fan Page for updates!

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We are happy to report that we will be back for our 5th season of publication in 2010-11 along the northern Gulf Coast and second season in the Central Gulf Coast. If your business is looking to reach this valuable market, click here (Donna put link) for our advertising information.
Our publication reaches visitors from the Mississippi Gulf Coast to Gulf Shores and Orange Beach, Ala., the Florida panhandle from Pensacola, Navarre, Fort Walton Beach, Destin, Beaches of South Walton and Panama City to the central Gulf Coast including Tampa, St. Petersburg and Clearwater markets to stretches along I-75 from Ocala to Sarasota, Bradenton and Siesta Key. You can read our archived editions at:
The Gulf Coast is looking forward to hosting its most loyal visitors and part-time residents, The Snowbirds. We look forward to seeing you all again and are confident that the Gulf Coast will survive and thrive through this challenging time. The Deepwater Horizon oil disaster has marred the summer season for many areas, including those who have seen little or no impact but we have proven our resilience time and again.
Our hotels, condominiums, RV parks, golf courses, restaurants, casinos and shops look forward to another Snowbird season and are ready to offer great deals for our winter guests!
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at publisher@snowbirdsgulfcoast.com. or 850-291-1266.
Also, be sure to join our Facebook fan page for updates!
As always, we are glad you are here on the Gulf Coast.
Best,
Karen Harrell
Publisher

 

News of Interest

The Snowbirds’ Flight South

by Elizabeth Bonner
It’s the most wonderful time of the year.
No, it’s not Christmas — it’s the days and weeks after. For snowbirds, that means pulling out of one driveway piled high with snow and parking in another bordered with palm trees.
Every new year, retired residents of northern states travel south for the winter to escape chilling temperatures. Many find their temporary home on the Gulf Coast.
These migrants have become known as snowbirds.

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The Florida Orchestra’s concerts during April

By Henry Adams

Hailed by England’s Manchester Evening News as “one of the greats,” internationally renowned conductor Günther Herbig returns to conduct The Florida Orchestra on the Tampa Bay Times Masterworks series in a program featuring Principal Trumpet Robert Smith in Hummel’s Trumpet Concerto. The program opens with Schubert’s Symphony No. 6 and finishes with Brahms’ mighty Symphony No. 4. These concerts are April 13, 14 and 15 in Tampa, St. Petersburg and Clearwater respectively.

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News from New Orleans

November 2011 is a major month for New Orleans’ cruise industry. Royal Caribbean’s Voyager of the Seas will call New Orleans its home port beginning November 12, 2011, and will offer seven-night cruises to the Western Caribbean, accommodating 3,414 guests. This is the largest cruise ship to call New Orleans its home port.

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America Still Stands, He Will Not Defeat Us!

by Karen Harrell, Publisher

It was hard enough for adults to wrap their heads around what happened on 9-11 much less young children. Many of the schools had their classes write essays and use art as therapy in the days and months that followed this tragic event in 2001. This is what my daughter wrote in the months after the event when she was just 8-years-old and I believe, in the 2nd grade.

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First Arts Concert Tickets on Sale

Tickets are now on sale for the 23rd season of First Arts Concerts. The five concerts included in this season are The Annie Moses Band, Tim Zimmerman and The King’s Brass, Cowboy Balladeer Don Edwards, Jazz Trumpeter Dominick Farrinachi with Aaron Deihl on piano, and The Festival of Four.

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The GPS: A Fatally Misleading Travel Companion

As you plan your trip South this year you might be tempted to try to find a less congested route.
This story on NPR is a cautionary tale on relying on GPS – a godsend for many of us – to take us off the beaten path.

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Third Baby Dolphin Born at Gulf World

Gulf World Marine Park is proud to announce the third birth in a three-week period of an Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphin. Indie, an Atlantic Bottlenose dolphin, gave birth at 9:05 pm on Saturday September 11, 2010.

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Frank Kaiser Addressing Prejudice

Ask my parents if they were prejudiced, they’d flatly reject the notion.
Yet I grew up in a house hating Jews, suspicious of Catholics, barely tolerant of “colored folks,” and so loathing communism and all things Russian that my father openly suspected his son of pinko tendencies based on my taking a comparative government course that included the Soviet Union.

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Margaritaville Casino & Restaurant Biloxi Set to Open May 22 “Fun and Easy…Play Longer.”

The Margaritaville Casino and Restaurant Biloxi will open to the public on May 22 at 8pm, bringing a casino experience to the Gulf Coast unlike any other.
Inspired by the lyrics and philosophy of Jimmy Buffett, a native son of the Mississippi Gulf Coast, Margaritaville Casino and Restaurant is a natural fit for Biloxi.

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Santa Rosa County’s Bubba Watson couldn’t imagine growing up anywhere else.

by Chuck Corder
Santa Rosa County’s Bubba Watson couldn’t imagine growing up anywhere else.
The 2012 Master’s champion hails from the historic Village of Bagdad, Fla., with piney woods for a backyard, the Blackwater River within an easy walking distance and the sugar-white sands of Navarre Beach nearby to frolic and play.
“It’s a great place,” Watson said. “You’ve got great restaurants. You’ve got great golf courses. You’ve got great beaches. You’ve got everything for every part of the family because there are so many different things to do.”

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The Florida Orchestra

In addition to a variety of soaring symphonies, explosive concertos, choral blockbusters and pop favorites from Broadway tunes to Frank Sinatra hits, The Florida Orchestra has lowered its ticket prices to $15, $30 and $45 for the upcoming 2011/2012 season to make concerts available to more people throughout the Tampa Bay area.

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Broadway in Pensacola

Jam Theatricals and the Friends of the Saenger are proud to announce the Broadway in Pensacola 2011-2012 Season with six fantastic shows, highlighted by The New Mel Brooks’Musical: Young Frankenstein and back by popular demand, Hal Holbrook in Mark Twain Tonight!

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Who Are the Snowbirds?

Legend has it that the term Snowbird was first used to describe Canadians who often fled the brutal cold weather characteristic of our neighbors to the north.

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Gulf Place

Going off the beaten path – in this case off Hwy. 98 – can often mean great finds.
One day I was leisurely making my way to Panama City and decided veer off at Hwy. 30 in South Walton County to find a place to have lunch and browse

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The Grand Hotel Point Clear

Some six generations of southerners have grown up vacationing at the venerable Grand Hotel & Resort at Point Clear, Ala.

They’ve been joined by renowned authors, celebrated athletes and coaches like the state’s icon, Paul “Bear” Bryant, politicians and countless brides.

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Finding a good breakfast spot is like gold to me

For years I was loyal to one place – the Holiday Inn on Pensacola Beach. This was more than 10 years ago – pre-Hurricane Opal when the hotel was full service. The restaurant there had an amazing Gulf view, the food was good and inexpensive and servers had worked there for 15-20 years each.

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