Winter Park looks quiet on the surface, but beneath the brick streets and lakeside parks is one of Florida’s most influential cultural cities. This episode takes you beyond the café patios of Park Avenue and into the deeper story of how a small, carefully planned community became a powerhouse of art, architecture, and historic preservation. We explore the city’s origins in the 1880s, the citrus empire that vanished overnight, and the reinvention that followed. You’ll hear how Rollins College ...
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Winter Park looks quiet on the surface, but beneath the brick streets and lakeside parks is one of Florida’s most influential cultural cities. This episode takes you beyond the café patios of Park Avenue and into the deeper story of how a small, carefully planned community became a powerhouse of art, architecture, and historic preservation. We explore the city’s origins in the 1880s, the citrus empire that vanished overnight, and the reinvention that followed. You’ll hear how Rollins College ...
Helen, Georgia: The Bavarian Town That Shouldn’t Exist
Chad Gallivanter
9 minutes
3 months ago
Helen, Georgia: The Bavarian Town That Shouldn’t Exist
How a fading mountain town reinvented itself as an Alpine village in the Deep South. Nestled in the North Georgia mountains is a place that looks nothing like the South. Half-timbered chalets. Bavarian beer halls. Gingerbread rooftops. It’s called Helen, Georgia, a town that once teetered on the brink of collapse, until a handful of locals decided to gamble on a wild idea: transforming a former logging town into a Bavarian Alpine village. In this episode, we dig into the improbable reinventio...
Chad Gallivanter
Winter Park looks quiet on the surface, but beneath the brick streets and lakeside parks is one of Florida’s most influential cultural cities. This episode takes you beyond the café patios of Park Avenue and into the deeper story of how a small, carefully planned community became a powerhouse of art, architecture, and historic preservation. We explore the city’s origins in the 1880s, the citrus empire that vanished overnight, and the reinvention that followed. You’ll hear how Rollins College ...
