Kevin McCarthy, HISTORIC PHOTOS OF UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOOTBALL author: Mr. Media Radio Interview

BY BOB ANDELMAN

I graduated from the University of Florida in Gainesville in 1982 and, to be honest, I was glad to be done. I never took much to life in a college town and I wasn’t one of those crazy gators.

Heck, the football team was pretty bad back then and it wasn’t the great source of pride it is now.

Over the last X-number of years—and you can do the math if you care to—I’ve come to appreciate my collegiate heritage a great deal more and become a pretty big fan of those Florida Gator football teams.

AUDIO EXCERPT: "The reason that the St. John's River flows north instead of south, as you know, is that Georgia sucks. I wrote a book about the St. John's River and included that in the front but the publisher took it out."

My daughter’s even got her heart set on attending UF.

So how could I pass up the opportunity to give Kevin McCarthy this forum to promote his new book, Historic Photos of Florida Football?

McCarthy has written 43 books and spent 33 years as a teacher of linguistics and writing at the school.

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You can LISTEN to this interview with KEVIN McCARTHY, football historian and author of HISTORIC PHOTOS OF FLORIDA FOOTBALL, by clicking the BlogTalkRadio.com audio player above!

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Rick Smolan, AMERICA AT HOME photo book editor: Mr. Media Interview

I love great photographs. Over my desk, I have a black and white Florida Everglades print by Clyde Butcher that never gets old. When my eyes start glazing over from the computer, I like to switch my gaze to Butcher’s photo and see what new things I can glean from it.

I suspect I’m the audience that Rick Smolan and his wife and partner Jennifer Erwitt envision when they create new coffee table photography books, such as their latest: America At Home: A Close-Up Look at How We Live.

This is the latest high quality project from the team that also produced A Day in the Life of America and America 24/7.

You can LISTEN to this Mr. Media interview with RICK SMOLAN by clicking the BlogTalkRadio.com audio player below!

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