Journey Through Florida

Throughout this course, I have read two books, A Land Remembered and The History of Florida . Throughout my blog I mainly used The History of Florida , that is because this book is all factual information. The book A Land Remembered  is a fictional story of a family, based on the history of Florida. This book is a great book to read alongside The History of Florida  because you get a better sense of what life was like throughout Florida's history. The only thing it does not cover is The Spanish first concurring Florida which was in the 1500s. A Land Remembered starts the time period at about 1863 when there was tension between white settlers and the Indians. As we read through our textbook, the fictional story followed. So as we read about the different Seminole Wars, the Civil War, World War I, and World War II, A Land Remembered  followed the same war with the same family but with different generations. Reading through The History of Florida , we see how the upper class...

 My news source is News4Jax. The title of the article is Realtors say buyers are reluctant to purchase homes due to constant property insurance hikes . The article was published on April 23, 2023, at 9:01pm and updated on April 24, 2023, at 12:22pm. This article is about the whole state of Florida. The people who are involved are those who own homeowners insurance and people buying homes. This is affecting the entire state of Florida. The plan was signed last week (week of April 16) and will be in effect in October of 2023. Starting in October of 2023 insurers will collect assessments from policyholders and send the money to Florida Insurance Guaranty Association. Some realtors are having a hard time selling homes, condos, and trailers because some people have a set budget. People in the state of Florida are not happy to hear their insurance rates are increasing. It's frustrating for others whose insurance is going up to help fund homes that were affected by natural disasters even ...

On Saturday, April 15, 2023, Lyndi and I went to Fort Clinch. I was talking with Lyndi when she asked me if I have ever been to Fort Clinch or Amelia Island, I have not until Saturday. We were at the Fort for an hour, arrived at 1:50pm, and left at 2:50pm. Since Lyndi grew up on and around Amelia Island and had to been to Fort Clinch numerous times she knew a lot about the place. We started in the museum where there were things that were found at the abandoned fort. Then we walked around the Fort starting with the lower rank soldiers' quarters, then she took me to one of their dungeons. We then walked up to an outlook, they would use it to see oncoming enemies and look down into the fort. We walked around and saw 4 of the kitchens the fort has, the place they would go to the bathroom, and storage rooms that would hold their ammunition and weapons, we went up to where the cannons were and then we saw where the higher-ranked soldiers would stay. While we were there we learned ...

This week I listened to a podcast about draining the Everglades and read chapter 16, which is titled The First Developers. Out of all the things I could talk about this week I wanted to talk about something that is important. I truly believe the Everglades are important. At the end of the Ice Age, the Everglades became what we know it now. The Everglades came to be about 5,000 years ago. The Everglades exist because Florida gets a lot of rain, there is a lake that overflows into the Everglades known as Lake Okeechobee, and there is not that much elevation throughout the southern part of Florida. Before the Everglade was damaged by humans, the size of the Everglades was huge. The Everglades is larger than the state of Connecticut and the entire size of the watershed system, aka the waterways, is twice the size of New Jersey. When agriculture came into the land, the fertilizers and other chemicals ran into the Everglades causing havoc on the ecosystem. Buckingham Smith was the first pers...