Here in Florida, land and water can sometimes change places with little warning, especially after natural disasters. While Florida's swampy landscape initially impeded established strategies of early U.S. settlement, over the course of the 18th and 19th centuries, Americans learned to live in Florida's landscape in unconventional but no less transformative ways.
We’re listening back to a conversation Julie Glenn had with Michele Currie Navakas, she is the author of “Liquid Landscape: Geography and Settlement at the Edge of Early America” and an Associate Professor of English and Affiliate of American Studies at Miami University of Ohio. Julie sat down with her about a month after Hurricane Irma made landfall in Southwest Florida, and many people were still trying to find a way forward in Florida’s liquid landscape.
