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…ings established Prairie Garden, a large commercial vegetable farm, to feed the growing number of tourists now coming to St. Augustine and North Florida as part of a booming health spa industry. When Henry Flagler routed the Florida East Coast Railroa…
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…ed how deserts are reborn when the rains come after a prolonged drought. The scene opens with Marlin firmly wedged in some desert shrubbery, only the snout of his binoculars protruding from the foliage. Whispering enthusiastically, Marlin would descri…
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…o live, and left plenty of evidence to attest to this fact. Near the north shore of Orange Lake, one of the oldest burial mound complexes is found near an interesting village site surrounded by earthworks. By the time Europeans began their exploration…
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…me in my little canoe, he in his flat , open crab-boat, for nearly an hour as he simultaneously worked his traps and doled out colorful anecdotes in answer to my questions. He told of outlaws, such as Al Capone, who sought refuge in the area’s remote…
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…le lure to Lars the snake-catcher have become, to Lars the river guide, the greatest concern – poisonous snakes. Unlike so many bits of local ‘wisdom’ – often the fruit of overactive imaginations – the legendary abundance of water moccasins on these c…