Presidents and First Ladies Trivia

[Jim Page]

(07-05-2015 05:58 PM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:  Naples is very nice (anyway the Gulf coast is). Re.: "escapees from labs" - wasn't that the way the hamsters spread in the US in the 1920s?

Yes; Naples is nice, indeed. We moved there in 1967 and my brother and his wife are still down there. He was the director of EMS services in Collier County for many years, retired, and is now giving history boat tours of the Glades and is a fire commissioner for Naples. I wrote a mystery set in the Naples of the late 1960s.

Other nice Florida places I know of:
Amelia Island, where I was born and partly raised, on the upper Atlantic coast; Marathon, in the Florida Keys, which was great for fishing and diving; and Apalachicola, in the Gulf panhandle, which is quiet and non-touristy, or was when we lived there in the early 1960s.

Tampa, on the other hand, I did not like, though St. Pete, where I worked, was nice and had the best bookstore I've ever seen. Haslem's was its name and it was a wonderful place to get lost in, and had a great staff, too.

--Jim