A childhood in Florida's charming Northern Palm Beach County creates genuine nostalgia for sun, sand and running barefoot under palm trees. Those memories include hurricanes and Hetzel Brothers Christmases, Sir Harry Oakes's haunted mansion and James Munroe Munyon's Fountain of Youth. The once quaint little coastal towns from Riviera Beach to Jupiter are now much larger, but the memories of s'mores and summer camps remain. Author Ruth Hartman Berge weaves memories of a boomer childhood in Northern Palm Beach County with the history of the people and the places so many loved in this glimpse into a Florida that no longer exists.

While North Palm Beach itself is relatively young--just about retirement age--the history of this area is as broad as the horizon. Long before this village was founded in 1956, the Jeaga tribe lived and thrived here. In 1883, perhaps with a mind to farm pineapples, two men began purchasing local plots, becoming the area's first landowners. From there, through fits and starts, this idyll of small-town life began to take shape. The population surged in 1956 when Pratt & Whitney built a facility west of town, making the village a destination for professionals and their families. Former village historian Rosa Sophia traces the long and fascinating history of North Palm Beach, touching on the little known and providing broader understanding of the people and events that nurtured the undeniable community atmosphere that exists today.

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“It’s Not the Heat, it’s the Humidity, Stupid!” chronicles the life of Nick Finch, the fifth of five children of J.W. and Charlene Finch from the post WW II meeting of his parents to his life growing up in one of the most unique places in the United States, Palm Beach County. Follow his journey from childhood to college to a career in the classroom surrounded by personalities, events, and challenges that will leave you laughing, grinning, and even at times, crying. Set in Palm Beach County as the backdrop for some sixty years of Nick Finch’s incredible journey so come along for the ride and make sure you have sunscreen and an umbrella because it is Palm Beach!

In a time before fast food, microwave ovens, and home videos, there existed a world where adventure was as close as ones next thought. These are stories of a very imaginative child and the love of a father in a world that watched history change on a daily basis as never before in the 20th century. (Motivation)

Winner of the 2005 Klinger Book Award Presented by The Society for Economic Botany. Florida Ethnobotany provides a cross-cultural examination of how the states native plants have been used by its various peoples. This compilation includes common names of plants in their historical sequence, weaving together what was formerly esoteri

*20% of net proceeds will be donated to organizations that fight voter suppression and support voting rights* We are all created equal, but not our votes. In 2016, Hillary Clinton beat out Donald Trump for the popular vote and by millions of votes in states like California and New York. In a “winner-take-all” format, she was given all the electoral college votes for those states. Unfortunately, the millions of additional voters in favor of Clinton in those states were basically worthless. Conversely, since Trump didn’t win electoral college votes in those states, the millions of Californians and New Yorkers who voted for him were also statistically irrelevant. They had no part in getting him elected. Trump won the election because of his voters mainly in Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Florida, and Arizona. Combined together, he won by just 314,000 votes in just those 5 states alone. Voters in those five states were statistically more important than the millions of voters in California and New York. What if just a fraction of Clinton’s excess voters in California, New York, Illinois, Massachusetts, and Maryland moved to battleground states like Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Florida, and Arizona? Madam President would have thanked them from her Oval Office. In a new playbook for winning elections, this book discusses how everyday passionate politicos can M.O.V.E. (Make Our Votes Elect) the President. It is rare for a candidate to win the popular vote but lose the election. It has only happened four other times in our nation’s history. However, we’re entering an era where winning the popular vote and losing the general election will occur more frequently. Why? Because most of the nation’s key demographic transformations are occurring in states that matter the least to the electoral college process. Each year, around 40 million Americans, or about 12% of the current U.S. population, moves at least once. Much of that movement involves younger people relocating within states that already heavily lean toward a certain political party. What if they made a conscious decision to M.O.V.E. to a battleground state? Well, our votes would be equal, the way we were created.