Garden of Eden - Bristol, Florida

11/24/20 • 12 min

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Every religion has a story of creation, of how man & woman became to inhabit & flourish life on Earth, of how a supernatural being, bigger than us, created a Terrestrial Paradise or simply a paradise, the biblical "Garden of God". We never forget certain aspects of this biblical story....Adam and Eve wondering around the garden in the nude due to their innocence, God forbidding Adam & Eve from eating fruit from the "Tree of Knowledge", or how Eve was tempted by a snake to eat an apple, causing a disruption, Adam & Eve's disobedience against God.
While scholars and other archaeologists have never been able to find the Garden of Eden, one man , a preacher, thinks he found the "Garden of God", the earthly paradise, full of water & fruit, in the small town of Bristol, Florida. In the 1950s, Elvy Edison Callaway, a Baptist preacher, retired lawyer, and Republican candidate for governor, bought some land he believed to be the Earthly Paradise, and developed it into the "Garden of Eden" park setting off one of the most bizarre theories on the "Garden of Eden".
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When I say the word Transylvania, what comes to mind? for most people it brings up the images of blood sucking vampires & castles. What if I told you there is another Transylvania, and this Transylvania was not located in Europe, but in Lexington, Kentucky, that has more scientific teaching instruments than any college in America except Harvard, would you believe me? Transylvania University, in the many years its been serving up academic achievements, has also turned out some very interesting history. One of those bits of history is the Transylvania Moosnick Museum or as its actually called The Monroe Moosnick Museum and it displays some very interesting oddities.
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