This is the second train depot that served folks coming or going from Boynton Beach. This photo is from ‘Speedway to Sunshine’ by Seth Bramson. You can purchase a copy by clicking here or below.
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A bit about the 100 year celebration of John D. MacDonald’s books. From Travis McGee to non-McGee books. Also how to get books of MacDonald from me! Also a bit of Florida television history involving Simon and Simon and MacDonald.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy and the gang are taking full advantage of International Literacy Day and reading all they can. Hope you get a change to turn more than a few pages yourself today! You can learn more about International Literacy day by[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This Labor Day is a good day to go to your local book store Hopefully you have one nearby and purchase a volume or two to read. Even better to buy a book based in or about our great state[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Time for a good book about Florida and Swampy is well indulging! You can indulge, too! Nab a book off the shelf at your home, your local book store or library and log in a few pages or more this[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Florida, Land Of Images by Nixon Smiley My rating: 4 of 5 stars Nixon Smiley has collected a series of informative essays of various historical markers in Florida history. Each is very well written and most provide a very good[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I like to start each year reading a Mike Shayne novel. The stories are hard to solve and uses real locations around Miami and Miami Beach at the time the stories are written. The books are now nearly impossible to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Melbourne A Century of Memories by Melbourne Chamber of Commerce My rating: 5 of 5 stars This book is part of my Swampy’s Florida book collection: This is a wonderful selection of columns telling of the history of Melbourne and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Gold Coast by Elmore Leonard My rating: 3 of 5 stars This is part of my Swampy’s Florida book collection. Not sure why I had trouble connecting with this book. It does occur to me that I’ve had trouble connecting[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Resort Nurse by Diana Douglas My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is part of my Florida book collection. I picked this up noticing the Florida location and considered it a romance novel. I hadn’t read one before. However, after[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sorry to learn of the death of the prolific author, Elmore Leonard. Besides his writings with weastern and Detroit settings were his many books with Florida settings. Many of which are seen above. Settings mostly focused on Dade and Palm[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Sea and the Stars by Robert Wilder My rating: 2 of 5 stars Robert Wilder stepped a bit too far in his prose involving detailing so much Daytona Beach and Florida history. I LOVE Florida history and volunteer and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…