Tucked between Gainesville and Ocala, there’s no sparking coastline or shiny amusement park to bolster Micanopy, Florida's name. However, there is plenty of history and character to go around in the self-proclaimed Town That Time Forgot. Here's how to spend a weekend exploring Florida’s oldest inland town.
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If the government shuts businesses down again because of the pandemic, Mary Moyer might just give up. She’s tired of struggling, she said.
Moyer, 62, has owned the only flower shop in High Springs for 15 years and worked there for 20. Thompson’s Flowers barely survived the Great Recession in 2008, and now the pandemic could cost it nearly 60 percent of its yearly revenue, the florist said.
“It was dead quiet – except for a few funerals I had,” she said of when COVID-19 began wreaking havoc on the economy. “We sat around here, just my husband and I, doing nothing.”
With most people still avoiding the chaos from their couches and beds, the owners of shops, restaurants and attractions they frequented across north central Florida miss their customers.