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That’s me (above) back in the day on the Suwannee River with the family boat. My dad and mom, way back when, are on the top right followed by my grandfather with a nice string of fish and my aunt Vee in her basketball uniform.  On the bottom, there’s also a peek at long ago Weeki Wachee Springs mermaids.

My mother’s father helped build the roads and railroads that crisscrossed the state from Jacksonville to Tampa. My father’s father ran a hardware store in a small central Florida town where he was also the mayor. Their wives made everything possible.

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My aunt Vee poses in her Gulf Hammock yard proudly wearing her Bronson Eagles basketball uniform.

Poppa has been down to the creek for some fish.

Weeki Wachee was always mesmerizing.

"The past is as near 
as the next 
highway exit"

About Sue Harrison

Sue Harrison was an award-winning professional journalist with a specialty in arts and entertainment for 15 years, receiving 13 awards from the New England Press Association for writing and for the arts section as a whole at the Provincetown Banner. Since then Sue has developed her own business providing travel articles and targeted content for print and the web. In addition to her Florida heritage travel website, My Old Florida, Sue has a separate travel/food/essay blog. Previous to her writing career Sue owned and operated her own artisan leather business, Half Moon Bay Inc., for 20 years in New England. She has also created and sold rustic woodcarvings and furniture and most recently has used fine silver and found objects to create a line of artisan jewelry, Fossil City, that is marketed in galleries and online. The jewelry uses fossils that she has found along with coral, beach glass and polished beach stones from various Atlantic and Gulf beaches.
Sue is an accomplished photographer.  In her photography she currently works in a digital format following almost three decades of film work. She was previously featured in juried shows at the Bonnet House, Schoolhouse Gallery, Broward Art Guild and Provincetown Art Association and Museum and held in collections in New York, Massachusetts and Florida. Her specialty is evocative landscape and flora. Sue is a fifth generation Floridian with strong ties to the land and people of her home state. She has always found beauty in the unexpected, unposed and unembellished side of nature.

Still on the water, a little older and not much wiser but always happy to be under Florida skies.

© Copyright 2012: text Sue Harrison; photos Sue Harrison for MyOldFlorida.com