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Artist Pablo Cano collects
junk – but don’t tell him that. In his able hands, broken clocks,
cast-off children’s toys and scrap metal are transformed into one-of-a-kind
marionettes. New Florida meets the puppet master
behind these sometimes charming, often creepy creations.
Imagine living with a cleft
lip or cleft palate – birth defects that may make
you an object of ridicule or even scare away potential friends.
Now imagine having that cleft palate repaired in less than
an hour, for free. A program called Operation
Smile makes that life-altering surgery possible. New
Florida visits a Florida hospital
to meet a few of the volunteer doctors behind Operation Smile,
and witness the miraculous transformation their patients
go through.
When President George Bush needs a little
R&R, he heads to his ranch in Crawford, Texas. In fact,
most American presidents have had a special place like this
that they’ve returned to year after year – a
retreat where they can dress down, kick back and lay low.
But we think President Harry Truman picked his better than
most. New Florida tours
the Little
White House in Key West.
Behind the Florida Aquarium in Tampa Bay,
sits a relic of wars past. The S.S.
American Victory, a massive Merchant Marine vessel, has
been fully restored and re-opened as a floating museum. New
Florida climbs aboard for
the ship’s “shakedown cruise” – her
second maiden voyage.
On the west coast of Florida, the tiny
town of Pineland holds a secret: this otherwise unassuming
seaside community was once the center of a great civilization. New
Florida visits the Randell
Research Center in Pineland to learn about Florida’s
most powerful early residents: the Calusa Indians.
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