I was born in Augusta, GA on February 24, 1946. Following undergraduate studies at Emory University, I received my M.D. degree at the Medical College of Georgia in 1970. While completing a Straight Medical Internship at the Medical College of Georgia, I was drafted into the U.S. Navy. I served as a medical officer during a year of sea duty followed by a year at the Coronado Naval Base in California. After my time in the Navy, I received my postgraduate training in Pathology at the University of Virginia (1973-1978). From 1978 to 2001, I participated in a private group practice of Pathology in Macon, GA.
Many have heard of the Old Spanish Trail, but have misleading ideas of its use and course. Robert Hurst takes the reader on a 465 mile journey through the eyes of early Spaniards and others across the marshes, swamps, rivers, natural bridges, and highlands of Florida from St. Augustine to Pensacola.
Somewhere on the border between reality and fantasy lies the land of “What Ifs.” A little boy wakes from a busy dream to discover something has changed in his safe, familiar bedroom. A horn that looks exactly like the ones in the pattern of his bedspread is lying on the rug beside his bed. “What if,” he thinks, the cotton soldiers on his bedspread came alive and left it behind? A child’s fantasy. Or is it?
