We're on our way back from South Florida where we were at the Orange Bowl on New Year's Day. Sadly, our school, NIU, was beaten by Florida State, but that is another story.
We spent Saturday and Sunday nights on St. George Island, Florida, near Apalachicola. Before this trip, we'd never heard of the place, but now it definitely is on the short list of places to return to in the future. It was the Florida before the high rises.
Anyway, the island's pride and joy is the 1852 lighthouse that has been moved to its current site and rebuilt by the locals. During the war, Confederates removed the Fresnel lens and hid it inland. The museum also has a Union cannonball that was dug up on the island, fired by a Union ship in the East Coast Blockading Squadron.
Not So Forgotten To Us, Now. --Old B-Runner
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