[1] McLean also wrote "Osceola's Last Words", a stirring tribute to the Seminole chief.

Michael Peter Smith, with his wife Barbara Barrow, recorded the best-known version of this song.

A weekend music festival is held every March at the Sertoma Youth Camp in Brooksville, Florida.

In 2007, Florida film producer Elam Stoltzfus, in conjunction with the Will McLean Foundation, created a short film; "Will McLean: Songs about Florida” for the festival.

[3] Will McLean's song lyrics, correspondence, photographs, recordings, newspaper articles and personal artifacts such as his guitar, harmonica and black hat, Florida Artists Hall of Fame Award and more are preserved in the Special Collections Area of the University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries.