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Ah, the simple pleasures of Cedar Key
Date published: 3/5/2006
How delightful to read Paul Sullivan's view of Cedar Key in Town & County, because that dear little island is a part of my family's history ["A village at the end of the road," Feb. 18]. My Aunt Carrie lived and taught school there prior to World War II. During the Depression, my father had a small dry-cleaning business about 40 miles inland, and Cedar Key was a weekly "run." This Gulf Coast, Suwanee River area of Florida has been home to my family for several generations and to me for my first nine years. It will always be "home." Winslow Homer painted it and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings wrote stories about it. It's truly old Florida, with its natural beauty, fabulous seafood, unassuming Southern ways, family-owned ranches and easy humor, often directed at itself. Cedar Key is for slipping back in time and forgetting the clock, calendar and car. It's for unwinding and enjoying the simple pleasures of our planet. Kay Roscoe Stafford
Date published: 3/5/2006
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