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Amy Bennett Williams Essays

Petrichor

In consideration of the factors that create one’s sense of place, it can be easy to overlook one powerful characteristic: the smells. In this week’s encore essay from News-Press story teller Amy Bennett Williams, she takes us on an olfactory journey through some of the common and not-so-common scents associated with the Southwest Florida experience including her favorite; a smell named by geologists in the 1960s, as 'Petrichor.'

Amy Bennett Williams Essays