Assassination Trivia

[Jim Page]

(11-28-2012 02:14 PM)Rsmyth Wrote:  Jim, I have a friend in Naples and one day my wife and I drove down to Everglades city. That really is in the boonies. We went to the historical society. They said in the summer the mosquitos were unbearable.

Richard, the summer we spent there (1966) was the pits. My dad was a pilot, had several planes at some Godforsaken airfield near Everglades City and found our family a rental apartment above a general store. Like you say, it was the boonies and the mosquitos were worse than I had seen anywhere. A true Hell-hole.

Dad was content to live in a cardboard box as long as it was near an airport but that was the last straw for my mom, my brother and me. We told my dad that we'd move to Naples and if he wanted to join us there, so be it. So that's how our family ended up in Naples, and we greatly enjoyed it. My brother still lives down there, as I mentioned in a post a minute ago to Roger.

--Jim