Like Mudder Like Son (ENCORE )

Summer’s seemingly constant rainstorms have long been a fact of life here in Southwest Florida. And besides helping to replenish groundwater stores, it creates the perfect conditions for something that’s a virtual magnet for kids of all ages: MUD. That’s the topic of this week’s encore essay from News-Press storyteller Amy Bennett Williams, for which we dug DEEP into the archives. It features Amy's eldest son D.P. back when he was just a ten years old boy.