MARCH 4, 2024 Vol. 42, No.10 Let’s Keep The Championship Rodeo in Homestead BY GRANT MILLER Publisher Travel south of Miami and you’ll find yourself in deep in the country. I’m talking farms and boots and old pickup trucks with radios blaring Toby Keith and...
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MARCH 4, 2024 Vol. 42, No.10 Let’s Keep The Championship Rodeo in Homestead BY GRANT MILLER Publisher Travel south of Miami and you’ll find yourself in deep in the country. I’m talking farms and boots and old pickup trucks with radios blaring Toby Keith and Tammy Wynette. I’m talking about land that’s home to real cowboys. There was a time when Dade County — what we used to call ourselves before we thought we had to add the word “Miami” just so people would know where we are — was renowned for it agriculture. Young Julia Tuttle sent an undamaged orange branch to Henry Flagler during a hard win- ter freeze and that act persuaded him to ex- tend his railroad down to South Florida and, eventually across 7 miles of open ocean down to Key West. Neighborhoods that are now home to endless suburban tract homes once hosted vast acreages of mangoes, avocados, and lime trees and pastures where cattle were raised for milk and meat.. One vestige of our agrarian past is an annual festivity that was
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