About 20 miles east of Lake Wales, just up the road from Highway 60, Lake Kissimmee State Park re-created an 1876 cow camp in the heart of Central Florida. A decade after the Civil War, Florida ...

BROOKSVILLE — Florida Cracker Kitchen's inverted cowboy boot logo — seemingly plastered on every pickup truck in Hernando County — may someday be just as ubiquitous across the state.

Entrenched in Florida folklore, romanticized in the literature and celebrated year after year in festivals throughout the state, the Florida Cracker culture nonetheless is poorly understood.