When Orlando filmmaker Tom Lowe came to town last year to shoot a documentary about sponge diving he wasn't sure what he'd find. He spent days interviewing dozens of people. It was only when he met ...

HERAKLION, GREECE - The best pure athlete in Greece at the moment might be standing on a tiny dock in a small harbor on the island of Crete. Wearing a Yankees baseball cap, a week-old stubble of beard ...

An increase in sponge production would help Tarpon Springs, some say. In an effort to bolster the supply of sponges from waters around Tarpon Springs, a group of local sponge buyers, divers and boat ...

TARPON SPRINGS, Fla. — The history of Tarpon Springs is rooted in immigrants who came to the area at the turn of the century from Greece. George Billiris belongs to one of those families who made ...

Greek immigrants have been sponge diving here for more than a century, but Taso Karistinos doesn't come from that tradition. He made his own way to America. He had never even heard of Tarpon Springs.

If you`re addicted to the late show, or are simply a moviegoer from way back, you may remember actor Gilbert Roland-he of the leather wrist supports and coal-black mustache. Roland, and a boyish ...

Dodecanese Street announced the character of the Tarpon Springs waterfront at once, with a stucco structure plainly derived from memories of the Erechtheum. Caryatids were mercifully not attempted, ...

“Neither yet, thank you,” I reply, as I walk the narrow sidewalk past her shop along Athens Street on this fine December morning. For a moment, I’m disoriented. This IS still Florida, isn’t it? With ...