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Dry Creek  -  Parrish

3/24/2016

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You will not find the village of Dry Creek on a Florida map or listed in a Florida cities and towns directory.  But it is a real place. We know, we saw it for ourselves.   We were there.  We even took pictures. 
Dry Creek began in the mind of a young boy, Les McDowell, when his father drove him to Roy Rogers ranch and Roy Rogers let them drive on down back.  Young boy Les knew he wanted to be a cowboy and have his own ranch.  Watching the old shows like Roy Rogers and  Rin Tin Tin created dreams of creating his own old west town.  ​
Les McDowell did become a real cowboy.   He lives on his own ranch in Parrish with horses and wagons and he writes cowboy poetry.  Les built a mid 1800's stagecoach, build the town of Dry Creek board by board, produced and acted in his TV shows and movies in his own town.  He lives and shares the values of another time, a time when people weren't too busy to care, were neighborly, when a promise an a handshake meant something and people had values of honesty and wholesome talk.

Les likes to say, "
Everyone knows where Dry Creek is because it's inside each and everyone of us".
Dry Creek is America's First Frontier.  It is a time, an idea, an inner guide for life as it should be.  America needs to revisit the town of Dry Creek and rediscover who we really are. ​
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Website: DryCreekTV.com

Facebook:  Facebook.com/DryCreekTV

Written by:  Tom Noe
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Florida Railroad Museum - Parrish

2/16/2016

 
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​Trains might not be as useful as they once were, but they still hold a certain place in our collective imaginations in the same way old bookstores do for some people. The Florida Railroad Museum brings trains to life with their weekend train rides and other events. This year (2016) there will be opportunities to learn how to drive (operate? pilot? captain?) a train, as well as murder mystery dinner theater. On Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays, there are no rides, but the gift shop and exhibits are open. This is when I went. At the time, only the interior of the sleeper car was open to the public while the others had to be viewed from the outside.
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I was surprised how narrow the hallways were and how small the rooms. Most were just a sink, chair, and pull-down bed. The larger compartments had toilets while the smaller ones shared. Obviously the passenger trains of old didn’t cater to the claustrophobic or those more than a little heavy. I was also told that the windows were never meant to be opened, making me wonder how often they let the place air out between trips and how often they emptied the ashtrays.
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Outdoors there are several cars exhibited. They do not let humans climb on them (insurance reasons), but do not stop the lizards. Picnic tables are provided under the canopy, though if one doesn’t mind sunburn and ants, one could always picnic in the grass I suppose. There is plenty of parking. The gift shop is full of every kind of shirt, hat, cup, mug, patch, pin, whistle (four-tone and five-tone), model, toy, and book even remotely train-related. Though the facility lacks the space for a lot of information-dense exhibits like the kind you might see at a more traditional museum, the books are rather informative.

12210 83rd street east, Parrish, Florida
Frrm.org

Written by Daniel Noe, InkDoodler.com

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