Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The bells of Bok Tower have been filling Polk County’s air with their gloriously distinctive melodies since 1929, but their ...

LAKE WALES – Geert D’hollander’s office sits nearly 140 feet in the air and beneath more than 60 tons of bronze. At Bok Tower Gardens, D’hollander plays the massive carillon: 60 bells operated by ...

Bill DeTurk blushes when people hint that he may be the world's best carillonneur. This heady praise comes after DeTurk was named director of carillon services at Historic Bok Sanctuary following a ...

LAKE WALES -- Six internationally recognized carillonneurs will perform in Historic Bok Sanctuary's 18th International Carillon Festival that begins today and continues through Feb. 16. Daily carillon ...

LAKE WALES -- Say it ain't so! Historic Bok Sanctuary no longer has the most bells of any carillon in Florida. Nudging Bok from the top spot is the University of Florida's Century Tower Carillon. This ...

In some circles, Lake Wales is known for gravity-defying Spook Hill and as the hometown of electrifying Amare Stoudemire of the NBA's Phoenix Suns, but it's best known for the Historic Bok Sanctuary.

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 ...