"There’s a thriving music scene here, which I had not expected," Elliott, who moved to Sarasota in 2012, says. "I feel quite at home.” ...

The reason was, there just weren’t all that many surfers around in 1958. It was a full year before the “Gidget” movie came ...

A surf filmmaker blasted surveillance video to his online followers, with countless other surfers coming forward with stories ...