Browsing: Everglades City Life & History

The parking lot at the Gulf Coast visitor center had eleven cars in it on a Tuesday in April, which…

The Airbnb listing described it as a waterfront retreat with authentic Florida charm. The couple who booked it drove down…

A woman I met at the boat ramp in October had been to three small towns in eighteen months. All…

I read about the NSW Top Tourism Town Awards on a Tuesday morning in late May. I was sitting in…

The Saturday of the Seafood Festival, I stood on the waterfront at Everglades City and counted more people than I…

The fishing guide I spoke with in March did not use the official name. Nobody out here did. He called…

The story came up the way it usually comes up, which is sideways and without invitation. I was sitting on the waterfront eating stone crab at a table that

There is a lot on Camellia Street where a house used to be. I know this because the woman who sold me a cup of coffee at a place that does not have a sign

The Waterline Is Still on the Wall The mark is at chest height on the eastern wall of a building off Camellia Street, a pale stain where the floodwater sat

The waterline is still visible on the wall of the building on Copeland Avenue if you know where to look. Not marked, not commemorated, just there, a faint