Amelia Beach is a strong woman for a southerner. Already in her twenties, her younger sister, Lucy, taunts her that she is no longer of marriageable age. Growing up in the wealth and privilege of a Savannah home, pampered by slaves, during the Civil War,...

“So…why build a lighthouse where nobody lived?” That was the general assumption in the mid-1800s about the geographic location of Jupiter Inlet in southeast Florida. Once a major trading hub for Native Americans and now home to over 8 million people, Jupiter Inlet seemed an...

Life and Death on the Loxahatchee: The Story of Trapper Nelson by James D. Snyder is a fascinating study of a Florida notable whose death, ruled a suicide, evokes conspiracy theories to this day. Vince “Trapper” Nelson, born Vincent Nataulkiewicz in New Jersey in 1908,...