Nov 25, 2019 | All, Community Spotlight, Local Resources
For Jaye Bailie, Executive Director of the Marion Cultural Alliance, there is no such thing as a typical day. Sitting with me outside on the sunny patio of The Brick, home base of the MCA’s art exhibitions and offices, she details getting up early Mondays, Wednesdays,...
Aug 7, 2019 | All, Community Spotlight, Discover Ocala
Food, Wine, & Community Pride | Jennifer Murty Written by Brooke Gregory When I sit down to interview Jennifer Murty, I assume she is a lifelong Ocala resident. Being from Northwest Florida, where life is even slower than it can be in horse country, it’s an...
May 25, 2018 | All, Community Spotlight, Equestrian
A Lasting Gift | Vintage Farm Will Impact Students for Decades to Come by Cynthia McFarland Located in the southern part of Marion County where some of the area’s oldest thoroughbred farms were first established, Vintage Farm is a testament to how land can...
Apr 1, 2018 | All, Community Spotlight, Discover Ocala, Equestrian
Celebrating a Legend By Cynthia McFarland An Occasion to Celebrate Everything about this day breathes spring. The soft shade of new green painting the leaves and blurring the pastures. Birdsong everywhere. Sky the color of gently-faded delphiniums. Delicate clouds...
Mar 1, 2018 | All, Community Spotlight, Discover Ocala, Local Resources
Written by Brooke Gregory Beginnings While its exact origins remain nebulous and hotly debated, it is widely thought that wine was born before the dawn of civilization, as the result of a happy accident—one of the happiest, many will agree, in all of human history....
Jan 19, 2018 | All, Community Spotlight, Discover Ocala
Ask anyone who knows the story of how Ocala native Leroy Baldwin became one of the best black Angus ranchers in the country, and they’ll tell you, with a mixture of admiration and disbelief, how he began building his empire at age six with a paper route, a pony, and a...
