We're putting down roots in Florida...

By reading of other pioneers…
Maria, the first in the Florida Trilogy by Eugenia Price this novel brings us into the life of Mary Fenwick (aka Maria) as she evolves from soldier’s wife to respected citizen in Spanish St. Augustine in the late 18th Century.
Charlotte’s Story, the journal of Charlotte Arpin Niedhauk who lived on a small but not isolated Key 35 miles southeast of Miami during the Great Depression.
Yesteryear I Lived in Paradise, the memoir of Myrtle Scharrer Betz . Published in 1985 on Ms. Betz’s 90th birthday, this memoir contains the history of the West Coast of Florida as experienced by one born on an isolated island (Caladesi Island, two miles west of Dunedin, Florida) when the whole of Southwest Florida was still pioneer country.