Lake Okeechobee The description speaks to the migrant African American laborers working in this area during the agricultural season in the 1920s. Lake Okeechobee and the Everglades are settings in Patrick D. Smith's novel "A Land Remembered", chronicling the effects of modernization upon the lake and the Seminole tribe. Lake Okeechobee is famously mentioned in Hank Williams Jr.'s number one Billboard country hit song "Dixie on My Mind", in 1981. When comparing country life to big city life: ""I've always heard lots about the big apple / So I thought I'd come up here and see. / But all I've seen so
Florida Heartland Series race usually held in the second week of March, drew a "paying crowd" of more than 169,000 in 2006. Many seasonal residents live in the area during the winter months only, as temperatures in south Florida stay very moderate during that time of year. Lake Okeechobee and Lake Istokpoga attract fishers to the area. Area code 863 is used throughout the region. There are two daily newspapers published in the Heartland, the "Okeechobee News" (Okeechobee), and "Highlands Today" (Sebring). Other daily newspapers that serve the Heartland include: There are no local television stations in the Florida Heartland. TV service