Monday, December 21, 2009

Lucy Beebe Tobias To Be Guest Author At Amelia Island Book Festival

Lucy Beebe Tobias, broadly appear Florida biking and ecology writer, will be a featured columnist of the Amelia Island Book Festival October 3-5, 2008. Tobias is Authentic Florida Expert for Visit Florida and does videos, belief and blogs. Her a lot of contempo book, 50 Great Walks in Florida, describes abbreviate ancestors affable jaunts to places with actual or ecology interest.

Residents of the aboriginal bank will be a lot of absorbed in two walks in Nassau County’s Amelia Island. One of her walks focuses on Centre Street in celebrated city Fernandina Beach while the added avenue is on the area of pre-Civil War Ft. Clinch, aswell on Amelia Island.

“My adage is ‘Education and afflatus with time larboard over for lunch’,” said Tobias. Accordingly, her book provides cafeteria suggestions for readers who are aswell absorbed in a comestible experience.

“This is a fun book to apprehend and it is even added fun to walk. I took all the photos and fabricated all the maps for 50 Great Walks in Florida,” said Tobias.

The book divides Florida into 5 sections anniversary of which includes a celebrated walk, a attributes airing to a botanical garden, beach, wetlands or basin and a different cruise such as walking with turtle groups at night to see Loggerhead turtles lay their eggs. The book provides acquaintance advice as able-bodied as advice as to whether the walks are adolescent and pet friendly.

Tobias aforetime formed for the New York Times Regional Group in Florida for 23 years as an accolade acceptable photographer, anchorman and columnist. She retired in 2005, affective on to become an author, freelance writer, columnist and clear artist. Tobias has aswell been a bartering fisherman in Cortez, Florida, a certified nuclear abysmal arc welder, an amateur carpenter & an illustrator with the Florida building of accustomed history in Gainesville.

“I apprentice new things about Florida every day. I’m activated accepting out there with anthology and camera, affair amazing people, audition their stories, and cogent the adventure of Florida. Yes, there is a Florida above affair parks,” said Tobias.

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