This review is from: Yesteryear I Lived in Paradise: The Story of Caladesi Island (Paperback)
I read this great little book a few years ago. It is a heart warming story of a women’s love affair with a beautiful Florida island that has been saved from development, and is now a park.
Myrtle Betz moved to the island with her father when she was a small child, and grew up there rowing a small boat to school on the mainland each day.
If you love Old Florida you will enjoy this book. You may be inspired to take a trip to this beautiful unspoiled park.
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This review is from: Yesteryear I Lived in Paradise: The Story of Caladesi Island (Paperback)
The book is definitely worth the money. We thoroughly enjoyed her memoir. We’re thankful she took pen to paper and at the age of 87 wrote it. We’ve often wondered how people back then lived the challenging life in FL of heat, bugs, storms etc. Now we have a better understanding. Husband and I can’t praise the book enough.
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If you like reading about old Florida then you will really like this book. Caldesi is still very wild and remote so it is not a far stretch to imagine how it must have been. And, one still has to travel there by boat so I think it will remain preserved for some time. I especially love how self sufficient and skilled the author became at a very young age as a result of her learning to live in harmony with nature and learning to sail and farm and fish practically as soon as she could walk. This book does ramble a bit and is not always chronological but it was still very enjoyable.
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Paradise on earth,
Myrtle Betz moved to the island with her father when she was a small child, and grew up there rowing a small boat to school on the mainland each day.
If you love Old Florida you will enjoy this book. You may be inspired to take a trip to this beautiful unspoiled park.
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