Cedar Key resident and Cedar Key Beacon columnist Susan Engle Roquemore has compiled her writings into two wonderfully and cleverly titled books:
Turn Left at the Big Osprey Nest and
Water Under the Number 4 Bridge: A Memoir of the Beacon Years (1988-1993)
These books are currently sold at:
the Cedar Key Chamber of Commerce Welcome Center,
the Cedar Key Historical Society Museum,
the Florida’s Nature Coast Conservancy events,
and the Woman’s Club.
These organizations receive the book’s full sales price.
For your reading pleasure and enjoyment of an incisive, often humorous
view of Cedar Key two decades ago, Ms. Roquemore and the Cedar Key News intend to publish selected articles monthly.
Cedar Key News hopes you enjoy the articles. If you do, and should you purchase one or both books, the above non-profit organizations will certainly appreciate the effort.
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LOOKING BACK: A LETTER FROM THE APPALACHIAN TRAIL, APRIL 1992...
Probably the last place you’d expect to find two “rugged” Appalachian Trail thru-hikers would be at a posh mountain resort: heated pool, saunas, tennis courts, golf course, houseboats and real bathrooms with tub and a flush toilet. Imagine the sense of profound shock at being faced with a full-length mirror after fifteen days and 165 miles on the trail. My mother always told me to give people that looked like that a wide berth. Perhaps it was the lean and hungry look around the eyes or the Arnold Schwartzenegger legs. It could have been the trace of drool around the mouth that began at the Coke machine in the lobby. Hot water (lots of it), shampoo (lots of it), and Brillo to the knuckles and nails made the image almost civilized looking. Neither did I grope through David’s pack looking for the towel and toilet paper. I totally ignored the high rhododendron outside our patio. There was still a vestige of “couth.”
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