Second Time Survivors – If your house had been destroyed by a hurricane – not once but twice – how would you react? We’re betting most people wouldn’t have coped half as well as 90-year-old Ben & Harriett Shepard did. In the wake of Hurricane Charley in 2004, New Florida spent the day with this resilient couple at the site of their former home in Lake Suzy.
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Key West Chicken Catcher – The clock was ticking for Key West's famous fowl. The 2,000 free-roaming chickens that populate the tiny 2-by-4 mile island were taking a toll on sleep-deprived residents. The city's solution? Hire a Chicken Catcher and send some of the poultry packing up state. But as New Florida discovered, that policy ruffled a lot of feathers.
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The Chicken Store

Beneath the Surface – New Florida dives into a unique high-fashion ad campaign. To promote tourism, the City of Bal Harbour hired a well-known underwater photographer to portray the seaside city as a place where fashion and nature converge. We joined the crew to get a shark’s eye view of how this distinctive ad campaign came together.

Building Big-Engine Boats – If you’ve ever seen a boat powering through the water at more than 100 miles per hour and looking good while doing it, then chances are, you’ve seen a Cigarette boat. New Florida takes you to the Miami factory where these boats have been built since 1969.
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Florida Powerboat Club

The Revitalization of Virginia Key – Before Miami’s Virginia Key Beach was designated a “coloreds only” beach in 1945, African-Americans could not legally sun themselves in the sand or swim in the waves at any of Dade County’s public beaches. Now, a Civil Rights Task Force is working to preserve the 82-acre strip of seashore. New Florida visits Virginia Key to learn more about this historic gem.

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