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Amy Bennett Williams Essays

Tamiami Trail

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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 nature, but environmental advocates today lament the project’s profound and unintended consequences. In today’s essay from News-Press storyteller Amy Bennett Williams, she details some of those perhaps lesser known consequences among some of the sunshine state’s indigenous people

Amy Bennett Williams Essays