Posts tagged Elvy Callaway
Florida Panhandle Garden of Eden, Dead on the Fourth of July
Florida Panhandle Garden of Eden, Dead on the Fourth of July This morning on Killing the Buddha, my tribute to Elvy Edison Callaway. He died 30 years ago today, but his highly idiosyncratic vision of the Garden of Eden in the Florida panhandle lives on…
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Get Into Eden for only $1.50!
55 years ago today, Florida lawyer and entrepreneur Elvy Edison Callaway opened a tourist attraction in Bristol, Florida. He called it the Garden of Eden Park. And he didn’t just mean that figuratively—Callaway had conjectured for years that the actual Garden of Eden, where God created Man, had been right there in the Florida Panhandle. … More →
A 1956 report on the Garden of Eden Park in Bristol, Florida
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