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  • SMALL TOWNS ROCK – PALATKA, FLORIDA

    SMALL TOWNS ROCK – PALATKA, FLORIDA

    Any discussion about the Florida town of Palatka begins and ends with the St. Johns River, which helped create the community centuries ago. Back in its golden days, many called it the “Gem City of the St. Johns.” The St. Johns River flows for 310 miles northward, making it Florida’s longest river. It begins in

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  • ICHETUCKNEE SPRINGS – A HISTORY AND CULTURE OF A FLORIDA SPRING – #FREE

    A Project of the Heart Please download my new book, Ichetucknee Springs – A History and Culture of a Florida Spring. It’s #Free to download in any format that works for you. Click on the cover or here. Ichetucknee Springs – A History and Culture of a Florida Spring – my latest project offers a

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  • SMALL TOWNS ROCK

    Small towns form the backbone of our country where farming and culture met and flourished for the first centuries of our existence. Railroads and interstates nearly destroyed them, but with the resilience of strong foundations, they have begun the slow process of bringing us together once again. Revitalization efforts across the country are bringing back

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  • The Lighthouses of the Forgotten Coast of Florida

    Florida’s Forgotten Coast – I almost hate writing about this section of Florida along the Gulf of Mexico coastline at the eastern start of the Panhandle. It is remote, beautiful, rural, and filled with small fishing villages that once thrived in the early days of Florida’s history. Along the Highway 98, Florida’s coastal scenic road,

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  • Lighthouse Passion

    A dark and stormy night out on the seas with waves crashing the sides of the ship and cargo and crew slipping from port to starboard through the tumultuous waters threatened many a sailor and passenger with burial at sea as the ship neared shore and unknown dangers of a rocky coast and shallow sandbars

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  • JIMMY, YOU WILL BE MISSED

    I wrote the following blog post in February 2024 about my “brush” with President Jimmy Carter and Rosalynn Carter more than twenty years ago in Plains, Georgia. It’s still one of my bittersweet favorite stories. When I learned of his passing two days ago, I retold the story. Then I remembered something else. Jimmy Carter

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