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Author Archives: larry

A Land Remembered

  For the past century or more, beginning prior to the War Between the States, the history of central Florida is that of cattle drives, open ranges, vast plains of native, untamed land. Not much has changed except the migration of  cowpokes moving further from their connection to the ways of the past. The crackers have dwindled … Continue reading »

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A Pine Island Search

Previously reading about the white pelicans that migrated off the coast of Pine Island between the mainland and Captiva Island, we ventured south of Punta Gorda onto Pine Island proper. En route we passed through a sleepy fishing village that proved to be a Mecca for every chotchkie hunter and pastel aficionado. Welcome to Matlacha. … Continue reading »

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Visiting Punta Gorda

Punta Gorda is a cluttered urban peninsula, bounded on the north by Charlotte Harbor and surrounded by great rural sea, the misleadingly serene surfaces of the South, no hills, grassy swales, hay fields and cattle, swamps humming with flies, and dejected woods. The city is not unusual in that way. It keeps with the Southern … Continue reading »

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