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In 1923, 24 businessmen crossed the Everglades in 10 cars to encourage the state to pave the Tamiami Trail. Photo courtesy [Original Source citation], World Digital Library

All Roads Lead to Florida

Though Florida’s 1920s boom was followed quickly by a bust, it foreshadowed our modern-day growth

Welcome To The Wilderness

Like the Eye in the Sky at the Hard Rock Casino, wildlife is watching us all the time.

Stuff And Nonsense

Stuff, like intestinal E. coli bacteria, is something we all have. To put a finer point on it, what we have is stuff; what other people have is junk.

Did Spain Discover The New World Twice

Native people, traditional people like the Hopi who tell of couriers running in both directions across the Bering Straits, believe that they didn’t come from anywhere, that they were always here.

Name Your Poison

No matter where we hang our Stetsons, the subdivision we all share is the Atlantic coastal ridge, sometimes called the rim of the Everglades, a narrow strip of land elevated a little higher than a curb and platted with beach and dunes, turtle grass jungles, mangrove swamps, tidal mud flats, marshes, hammocks, prairies, pastures and piney flatlands. Like any Eden, our idyllic parcel is also favorable to the mythical apple, the poisoned fruit. (The apple, incidentally, is not just mythically toxic. Slice through its equator and you’ll find a pentagram of chambers, each holding a lustrous brown seed veined with cyanide.)

Snowbirds, Exotics, & Other Interlopers

It’s early morning. A curl of foam rushes to shore carrying sea beans and the egg case of a skate while a sandpiper runs after the flotsam on twinkling feet.

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