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Local support for our tourism ‘commons’

In the English tradition, there is the common. Not common as an adjective, as in ordinary, but the “common” as a noun, as in the places that we all own together, as a public. Many here on Gasparil…

Hot dogs with the Methodists at the Strawberry Beach 

On Sunday morning, the day after the Strawberry Festival, a four-year-old boy posed a question. “Can we go to the Strawberry Beach?” The boy, unconcerned with actual geography, thought the w…

Redundant systems and Boca Grande’s Auxcomm 

In the aftermath of Hurricane Ian, communications for Cape Haze and Boca Grande went back to the pre-Flintstones era.  That might sound extreme. It is not, as Barney and Fred had dial phones wi…