The Bud Marquis story and EAL Flight 401

[Anonymous]

The Bud Marquis and EAL Flight 401 story

The magazine article on Robert "Bud" Marquis and Eastern Airlines Flight 401 is scheduled to appear in the:

Floridian
St. Petersburg Times
Sunday, September 16th

by: Jeff Klinkenberg

Jeff Klinkenberg writes about Florida culture and the people who make the state unique. He joined the Times in 1977, and his work takes him from Pensacola to Key West.

Klinkenberg's interest in Florida began when he was a small boy growing up in Miami on the edge of the Everglades. He jokes he was a charter member of "the boys without dates'' club because of hobbies that included catching snakes. He started working at the Miami News when he was 16 and later became a journalism graduate of the University of Florida. His latest book, which collects favorite columns, is Seasons of Real Florida, published by University Press of Florida.

The current URL for the FLORIDIAN is (the Bud Marquis story does NOT appear there): http://life.tampabay.com/

 

[woodswoman]

Thanks for this info!

I enjoy tales of old Florida and the pioneering people who made it unique! Bud Marquis is an airboat hero! It is my sincere hope that we modern day airboaters will choose to live up to his high standard of doing what is right.

Being respectful and courteous to folks in our own group or others we do not know, should not be a value thats time has come and gone. I will be anxious to read this story and hopefully the public will become more educated of the good deeds that airboaters do.

Lauren

 

[Anonymous]

That will be a good story from a writer that's familiar with airboating culture.

I'm sure a favorable image of our culture and values as reflected by Mr. Marquis will be read with interest by the 400,000 readers of the Sunday edition of the St. Pete Times.