Lake Okeechobee News

Ready to ride into history?

There’s still time to sign up for the Great Florida Cattle Drive, set for Dec. 4-10.

To celebrate the previous drives and to salute the 500 years of Florida’s “cow culture,” the Florida Cow Culture Preservation Committee will once again be driving cattle, riding the trail, sleeping on the ground, and living the life of our ancestors; even if only for a few days.

“I think this would be fun to see” Ethan Hawk

The drive will end in Kenansville, Florida with a Grand Trail’s End Celebration on Dec. 10, which will include musicians, singers, poets, storytellers, historians, and re-enactors. Dancers, singers, and historians from the Seminole Tribe of Florida will be there to make the event more colorful and to remind folks that the Seminoles were an important factor in this state’s development as a cattle power; and remain so to this day.