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Current Issue:
SUMMER 2025
- Posted: June 26, 2025
Features
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Celebrating 85 years, Mead Botanical Garden is on the upswing. But there were times when it nearly succumbed to apathy and politics.
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To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Winter Park Magazine’s Most Influential People, we’ve selected 10 “All-Time Influentials” whose impact has spanned decades.
Departments
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New Rollins President Brooke Barnett boasts a lengthy list of accomplishments in academia (and journalism). But perhaps her most important assets are her charisma and small-town relatability.
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Saluting Winter Park’s founders, The Chapman offers jazzed up modern American fare along with subtle local history lessons. But this striking new contemporary restaurant is no stuffy museum.
Columns
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‘Influentials’ has a strict word count. But I just had to disregard it for these two guys.
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The botanist who inspired the local garden lived to bring beauty to the rest of us.
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Are eggs really smaller now? Or has time simply scrambled our perception?