Category: Grit and Grace
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Down By The Riverside: The Sawmill Life
Marie “Mickey” Wesley Swinford was born in India, Mississippi, in 1910, and was brought to her home in Point Washington, Florida, at the mouth of the Choctawhatchee River when she was three months old. After graduating from high school in DeFuniak Springs, she studied nursing at Charity Hospital in New Orleans, Louisiana, receiving her RN […]
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Questions…For Inquiring Minds
Do you know what “Deadheading” is? Have you ever heard of “Grove’s Chill Tonic”? Did you know that Walton County, Florida was the last home to North America’s only tropical bird species? How is it that “Tupelo Honey” is not produced in Tupelo, Mississippi? Did you know that pioneers in the Florida Panhandle ate as many gophers as […]
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Down By The Riverside – Now In Print!
Down By The Riverside Brand New from Ronnie McBrayer. Available now by going here. Before there was a “Scenic Highway 30-A” or a tourist-friendly “Emerald Coast,” there was only the backbreaking labor of timbering, the slow chugging of paddle-driven riverboats, hardscrabble living in Walton County’s small villages, and subsistence farming and fishing along the waterways […]