Editor's Note: While Harold Bubil takes some time off, we'll reprise some of his popular columns. Bok Tower Gardens is anything but your typical Florida tourist attraction. Sitting atop 295-foot Iron ...

LAKE WALES, Fla. – It’s a hidden gem on a mountain in Lake Wales, combining music and art with nature and history dating back to the 1920s. “It’s just incredible, the color and the tile. It’s ...

Bok Tower Gardens in Lake Wales will drain the moat surrounding its namesake edifice on June 16 as part of a preservation project. Historically, the moat around the 205-foot-tall Singing Tower was ...

Bok, who was the publisher of Ladies Home Journal for decades, wrote a short book about the tower, which he titled “America’s Taj Mahal.” He died shortly after the structure opened and is buried in ...

Bok Tower Gardens’ carillonneur will play music that he was commissioned to write for Peace Tower, a project in Belgium that replaces a bell tower destroyed during World War I. Geert D’hollander’s “A ...

Five long-lost and rediscovered musical pieces will be part of this year’s International Carillon Festival at Bok Tower Gardens. The original carillon pieces were composed in the 1930s for Bok’s ...

From the parking lot, we could see the top of the Singing Tower peeking through the pines and moss-draped oaks, an elegant pink tower of marble and coquina stone that houses a set of bells – a ...

Bok Tower Gardens will reopen to the public on June 1, the Polk County attraction announced Monday. It will use a system of “timed entry,” meaning that visitors will have specific, assigned times to ...

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Bok Tower Gardens is anything but your typical Florida tourist attraction. Sitting atop 295-foot Iron Mountain about 90 minutes northeast of Sarasota off U.S. 27 in Polk County, the 205-foot tower and ...