There has been a lot of publicity about the apparently "done deal" concerning the sale of South Florida's most illustrious trailer park, namely Briny Breezes. The idea that people would get $US1,000,000 for a trailer has a lot of mobile home dwellers envious. But there are some important economic forces behind his as well that …
Henry Louttit: Not a Chip off the Old Block
The letter from the Bishop of Georgia, Henry Louttit, to his oldest parish trying to force them to pay up to an Episcopal Church they have no confidence in shows in vivid terms how far the Episcopal Church has gone in the last forty years. As we reminisce in a piece from our "Palm Beach …
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Ann Coulter’s Voting Problems Continue
Back before the election, we noted a piece in the Shiny Sheet about Ann Coulter's problems with voting in Palm Beach. At the time, we felt that this was a prosecutorial fishing expedition, politically motivated. Things keep moving somewhere with this. Now the Town of Palm Beach has thrown the investigation back to the Palm …
The Island Chronicles: In Print at Last
We are pleased to announce that The Island Chronicles--our premier work--is now in print. The first two installments, Paludavia (The Swamp Road) and At the Inlet, are immediately available, and the last two, The Final Decision and Two Paths, will be very shortly. These represent the fourth and fifth books this webmaster has had published …
The Event of the Season
The Christmas/Advent season is upon us at last, complete with the culture war over replacing a Christian holiday with a secuarlist/pagan one. It's sad that it has come to that, especially since this isn't the first time that we have different religions celebrating something at the same time of year. So let's really brighten up …
Ann Coulter Finds Voting in Palm Beach Tricker Than It Looks
We cannot resist saying something about the problems that Ann Coulter is having in establishing her proper precinct to vote in in Palm Beach. First, I find the whole concept of voting at either St. Edward's Catholic Church or Bethesda-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church--where I grew up--to be an entirely fascinating concept. Second, I think that the …
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Election 2006: Going from Bad to Werts
When people think of "traditional" Palm Beach restaurants, they usually refer to places such as Testa's (my grandparents' favourite hangout) or the Petite Marmite. But for those of us who lived there in the late 1960's, a place not to be left off of the list was Wert's, on South Ocean Boulevard not far from …
The Tree that Grows in Heaven
At the very end of the Bible, the following appears in the description of paradise: On each side of the river was a Tree of Life which bore twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit each month; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. (Revelation 22:2, Positive Infinity New …
Katrina Reflections, One Year Out
Last year, when Hurricane Katrina did her destruction on the Gulf, we spent a good deal time on the subject, as we had spent a good deal of time in South Louisiana in years past. Some of our postings were as follows: When Your Metairie is Wiped Out Prayer and the French Quarter Reflections on …
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