Growing up in Rural Florida
Growing up in Rural Florida

Author: Ronald Martin

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2010-09-27

Total Pages: 111

ISBN-13: 1453548858

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Here, readers will witness how it is like to live in a rural area, where life remains simple amidst the modern world. Martin begins by introducing a few essential things in rural Florida, such as cow whips. Used to drive cattle, a cow whip is part of a cowboys work tools. Anyone who could really work one was something special. Where there are cowboys, there are also horses and saddles, and the author shares how he and his brother yearned to have one in their youth. He also takes readers on Florida summers and fi shing trips, where some of his most treasured childhood memories took place. From remembering the chickens at their backyard, hot peppers as staple condiments, hunting trips, holiday food, family, and more, Martin gives readers a nostalgic feeling of familiarity and memories of home. Growing Up In Rural Florida is not only a book that features culture, but also encourages people to look back at their own past and relive moments as if it were yesterday.

Oh, Florida!
Oh, Florida!

Author: Craig Pittman

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2016-07-05

Total Pages: 413

ISBN-13: 1250071208

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A fun- and fact-filled investigation into why the Sunshine State is the weirdest but also the most influential state in the Union.

A Land Remembered
A Land Remembered

Author: Patrick D Smith

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2012-10-01

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 1561645826

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A Land Remembered has become Florida's favorite novel. Now this Student Edition in two volumes makes this rich, rugged story of the American pioneer spirit more accessible to young readers. Patrick Smith tells of three generations of the MacIveys, a Florida family battling the hardships of the frontier. The story opens in 1858, when Tobias and Emma MacIvey arrive in the Florida wilderness with their son, Zech, to start a new life, and ends in 1968 with Solomon MacIvey, who realizes that his wealth has not been worth the cost to the land. Between is a sweeping story rich in Florida history with a cast of memorable characters who battle wild animals, rustlers, Confederate deserters, mosquitoes, starvation, hurricanes, and freezes to carve a kingdom out of the Florida swamp. In this volume, meet young Zech MacIvey, who learns to ride like the wind through the Florida scrub on Ishmael, his marshtackie horse, his dogs, Nip and Tuck, at this side. His parents, Tobias and Emma, scratch a living from the land, gathering wild cows from the swamp and herding them across the state to market. Zech learns the ways of the land from the Seminoles, with whom his life becomes entwined as he grows into manhood. Next in series > > See all of the books in this series

Grown and Gone, But Not Forgotten
Grown and Gone, But Not Forgotten

Author: Ron Fuller

Publisher:

Published: 2020-11-07

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13:

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This is a collection of short stories mostly from my childhood growing up in Central Florida. Most of the stories are true and my characters are real. However, I have included some stories that have just enough truth to keep it real and just enough embellishment to keep it entertaining. I began writing these stories as a journal of sorts to be able to pass on to my children and grandchildren some stories of my childhood. After I wrote five or six, I thought I had exhausted all my memories. However, as I wrote, one memory led to another, and another, and so on. I had always been convinced that my childhood had been relatively insignificant. As I took the opportunity to look back on my childhood through the eyes of a man in his 60's, I slowly began to realize I had a great childhood. I just didn't realize it at the time. You see, neglected to ask my grandparents, parents, aunts, uncles, and siblings enough questions to really get to know them. I knew what their adult lives were like, but I now wonder what their childhood was like. As I wrote, I would post on Facebook Group pages for my hometown, which was the Winter Haven/Auburndale area. The stories seemed to hit home with many folks, and I was encouraged to assemble my stories into a book. I also created a few videos about growing up and I have included links to those in the ebook edition.

Growing Up Floridian
Growing Up Floridian

Author: Michael Arthur Taylor

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2016-03-31

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 9781530099931

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Growing Up Floridian is a personal memoir that relives moments as a boy grew up in the 1950's and 1960's learning life lessons in a rural Cracker-cowboy environment. He put those lessons to use as he adapted to Florida's west coast as a beach-loving teenager.

Kids Don't Have Backs
Kids Don't Have Backs

Author: Tom Pelham

Publisher: Bookbaby

Published: 2021-11-16

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 9781098395391

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Kids Don't Have Backs is a collection of stories by lawyer and former Secretary of the Florida Dept. of Community Affairs Tom Pelham, drawn from his memories of growing up in the late 1940's, 1950's, and early 1960's on a family farm in Holmes County, Florida, in the rural Florida Panhandle. It was a time of economic hardship and transformative change -- electricity came to the area only in the mid 1950's. These stories bring to life, from a child's point of view, many aspects of this challenging and colorful time. Beginning farm life in 1947 in a two-room shanty with no electric lights, indoor plumbing, or air conditioning, and no tractors or modern farm equipment or vehicles to assist in working the land, the author's family, through backbreaking physical labor, ingenuity, and sheer will, overcame tremendous adversity to eventually expand the farm to 400 acres and build and move into a proper house with modern conveniences. The hard work created a thirst for pastimes, and the introduction of vehicles and electricity brought greater access to the outside world via picture shows, the sports pages, radio, and TV, propelling the author and his siblings to explore the world beyond the farm.

Pumping Sunshine
Pumping Sunshine

Author: Susie H. Baxter

Publisher: Susie H. Baxter

Published: 2017-10-04

Total Pages: 446

ISBN-13: 9780998082820

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Young Susanette makes Southern rural life in the 1940s and 50s come alive with humorous stories and anecdotes.

Rural Odyssey
Rural Odyssey

Author: Dr. R Leonard Carroll

Publisher: Elm Hill

Published: 2018-10-30

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 1595557075

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Rural Odyssey is a story that follows the family and life of a young man who grew up in rural America. This book is made up of the many experiences and stories and incorporates secrets that were involved in all relationships in his parents' families and in his own family. It also weaves in the accounts of growing up in a straight Pentecostal and faith-based life. The young man's life is shaped by his experiences and is followed as he grows up in a minister's family. His education is begun in a rural one room schoolhouse and then advances to the usual elementary and secondary school systems, attendance at a state university, and entry in medical school at 19 years of age. Multiple successes and failures are included. The intricacies of his life along with multiple marriages, children, and drug associated problems are told through stories. Always trying to be a knight in shining armor and everything to everyone caused many problems. Faith was the glue that kept his life together. 50 years in the practice of general surgery has brought about a lot of observations and many varied and entertaining stories. Many technical advances are noted both in life and medical practice. Problems are presented and interesting simple solutions are given. All in all, this is very readable, understandable, hilarious, and intensely fascinating adventure of growing up in the country and memories of family, faith, and secrets.

Florida
Florida

Author: Charlie Carlson

Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

Published: 2009-05

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9781402766848

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A guide to visiting the odd and less known tourist attractions in the state of Florida.

Bad Monkey
Bad Monkey

Author: Carl Hiaasen

Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

Published: 2013-06-11

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 0385350074

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Coming as an Apple Original series from Ted Lasso Executive Producer Bill Lawrence and starring Vince Vaughn • A wickedly funny novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Squeeze Me in which the greedy, the corrupt, and the degraders of what’s left of pristine Florida—now, of the Bahamas as well—get their comeuppance. “[A] comedic marvel … [Hiaasen] hasn’t written a novel this funny since Skinny Dip.”—The New York Times Andrew Yancy—late of the Miami Police and soon-to-be-late of the Monroe County sheriff’s office—has a human arm in his freezer. There’s a logical (Hiaasenian) explanation for that, but not for how and why it parted from its shadowy owner. Yancy thinks the boating-accident/shark-luncheon explanation is full of holes, and if he can prove murder, the sheriff might rescue him from his grisly Health Inspector gig (it’s not called the roach patrol for nothing). But first—this being Hiaasen country—Yancy must negotiate an obstacle course of wildly unpredictable events with a crew of even more wildly unpredictable characters, including his just-ex lover, a hot-blooded fugitive from Kansas; the twitchy widow of the frozen arm; two avariciously optimistic real-estate speculators; the Bahamian voodoo witch known as the Dragon Queen, whose suitors are blinded unto death by her peculiar charms; Yancy’s new true love, a kinky coroner; and the eponymous bad monkey, who with hilarious aplomb earns his place among Carl Hiaasen’s greatest characters.