I have always loved history. I am originally from New York and have been living in Florida for over 29 years. If you gave me a round trip ticket to New York, I would most likely spend the entire time walking up and down the crooked rows of an old cemetery, scouting out an historic old building somewhere down in Greenwich Village or checking out the Gargoyles on properties up in Washington Heights.

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Although my love of New York history will never wane, there is much to discover and see in the great state of Florida. First occupied for hundreds and perhaps thousands of years by Native Americans, white settlers began arriving in the early to mid 17th century. These early pioneers lived in total isolation, other than venomous snakes, alligators, bears and wild cats, having very few neighbors and no medical facilities. Their only highway was not on the ground but on the sea.  Their sailboats took them where they needed to go and then there was always the threat of Indian or Pirate attacks. They withstood many hardships along the way as they held their machetes and broke thru the swamps blackened by mosquitos and built their homesteads while living off the land and created the diverse area that Florida is today.