Flamingo Magazine

For The Love Of Dogs (and Quail Hunting)

Start Me Up: Classic Car Reboot

I am a sucker for historic markers. Behold, those weighty plaques at roadsides trivializing notable events from a hazy past. To wit, this gem from a crossroads south of Atlanta: “On November 28, 1864, General William Tecumseh Sherman stopped here to water his horse, Sam, during his storied March to the Sea.” Or this one from […]

Change Agents

Feb 11, 2019

Parkland: The Faces of Change

Valentine’s Day, a day that is supposed to revolve around love and romance, now marks the one-year anniversary of one of the deadliest mass school shootings in modern history. On Feb. 14, 2018, 17 people died at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, a quiet city named one of the state’s safest only days before […]

Floridians

Jan 22, 2019

Flamingle: Captains of Conservation

HOLLY PARKER CURRY Eco-Ripper Curry runs the 11 Florida branches of the Surfrider Foundation, an activist group that protects the world’s beaches. She has always loved the sea: growing up the daughter of a Coast Guardsman, she and her family lived near the coasts of Puerto Rico, Guam, Bolivia and Panama. Today, Curry has taken her […]