Escalating Land Prices in Cape Haze
Written by Diana Harris
In 1971, when Cavanagh Leasing Corp. bought the remaining Vanderbilt property, they paid $730 an acre.
Echoes of Englewood
Englewood has a rich history. Enjoy these little vignettes as Diana Harris shares the texture of "Olde Englewood."
Bring More Ice!
Written by Diana Harris
At the time of his death at 49 in 1927, James Oliver Curwood was considered the most well-read, well known adventure writer in the world. He has always been put in the same elite class with Zane Grey and Jack London, although his name is not as well known today as Grey’s or London's.
Curwood’s brother settled here in Englewood and built several rental cottages on S. McCall Rd., which the locals called the “Curwood Cottages Camp”. The author came to visit and wrote his last book here in Englewood, “Green Timber”, although it was left unfinished at his death. There was great excitement in Englewood about his celebrity presence, especially when it was rumored the famous writer sat at a kitchen table working in one of his brother’s cottages, with his feet in a bucket of ice water, supposedly to set the mood for the great frozen north he was writing about.
Curwood’s brother settled here in Englewood and built several rental cottages on S. McCall Rd., which the locals called the “Curwood Cottages Camp”. The author came to visit and wrote his last book here in Englewood, “Green Timber”, although it was left unfinished at his death. There was great excitement in Englewood about his celebrity presence, especially when it was rumored the famous writer sat at a kitchen table working in one of his brother’s cottages, with his feet in a bucket of ice water, supposedly to set the mood for the great frozen north he was writing about.
In 1971, when Cavanagh Leasing Corp. bought the remaining Vanderbilt property, they paid $730 an acre.
The Land Boom
Written by Diana Harris
Oysters How Big?
Written by Diana Harris
Whitehead used an old dutch oven with lightered pine cut into strips and green mangrove leaves to make the smoke.
“You’d fish for 10 minutes until the mosquitoes got bad, then step into the smudge for a few minutes, and you were good for another 10 or 25 minutes. In the morning when it got daylight, it would look like the boats all over the bay were on fire.
He also said that as a boy he used to take oysters from Lemon Bay. They were so large, the liquor drained from only 30 of them would fill a quart jar. He sold them for 50 cents a quart.
