Anna Maria Island, FL makes more headlines – Boston Globe
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
Headlines for Anna Maria Island
For the last year I have been sounding like a broken record. Anna Maria Island continues to make headlines in major newspapers and publications. New York Times, USA Today, Southern Living, Island’s and lots more. The latest positive press that Anna Maria Island has received is in the Boston Globe.
The Boston Globe just wrote a feature on great places to visit in Florida. They based the article on asking Floridians where Bostonians should visit? Orlando, Key West, Miami, and you guessed it, Anna Maria Island. It’s amazing that such a small island with only 6000 properties is mentioned in the same breath as Orlando. Awesome!!
Below you can find a portion of the article in the Boston Globe by Patricia Borns.
Retreat to Anna Maria Island
“If you came to visit me, I’d take you straight to the beach,’’ says Rhea Chiles, Florida’s former first lady. For her and her late husband, Lawton – known as “Walkin’ Lawton’’ for his gubernatorial campaign walk from Pensacola to Key West – Anna Maria was a haven from political life. “This place transcends thought and words,’’ Chiles says of the island, 3 miles long by a quarter-mile wide
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(www.annamariaislandchamber.org). “It’s still one wide, noncommercialized beach. Go to the Sandbar Restaurant, order the wasabi-encrusted salmon, and wiggle your feet in the sand.’’ Chiles’s Studio at Gulf and Pine serves as artistic and intellectual salon (www.studioatgulfandpine.com). “We have one small thread of a bridge leading to mainland Sarasota,’’ she says, but visitors seldom take it. “They come for the beach experience. It’s a feeling there’s no place you’d rather be.’’
