The author was born in 1927 and has lived for fifty-two years in the house where he was born. His first five years in school were in one room school houses in Bartow and Cherokee Counties. He finished elementary school in White, graduated from Cass High School, and attended Reinhardt College. He earned his Bachelors and Masters from the University of Georgia. Before retiring, he taught Biology, Physical Science, and Physics at Cherokee High School in Canton, Georgia.
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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?