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This week News-Press storyteller Amy Bennett Williams creates of sense of place and offers a glimpse into Williams’ family life in this vignette of her…

The opening ceremony for the original Edison Bridge in downtown Fort Myers occurred on the 82nd birthday of its namesake, famed inventor and long-time…

The Orange River in Lee County is an idyllic path on the Great Calusa Blueway and a favored local spot for News-Press Storyteller Amy Bennett Williams who…

This week’s offering from News-Press storyteller Amy Bennett Williams takes us back to her days studying anthropology at the University of Illinois before…

On a bustling day mired in chores, responsibilities, and too much to do at work, News-Press storyteller Amy Bennett Williams had a couple of moments that…

Aubergine, Guinea Squash or Garden Egg; Call it what you want, but the tropical perennial we most commonly refer to as eggplant stands apart in the world…

When the Tamiami Trail connecting Naples with Miami first opened in 1928, it was considered an awe inspiring feat of human engineering and control over…

From her earlier years traveling and exploring Mexico to family life today on her rural Alva homestead, a healthy curiosity and sense of adventure have…

Hendry County may be a sparsely populated and mostly rural region, but it also holds a wealth of historic markers. In this week’s encore essay from…

Here in Southwest Florida’s subtropical climate, its well-known that all sorts of plant and animal life indigenous to other parts of the world survives…