Category: Human Interest Articles
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Sunday Favorites: Doctors, Healers and Midwives
Published Sunday, April 20, 2014 12:05 am by Merab-Michal Favorite For the most part, early settlers had to self-treat their wounds using natural remedies to heal the infections and diseases that befell them. While some treatment methods could be considered acceptable by today’s standards, others such as purging the stomach, bleeding and the use of…
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‘The neighborly thing to do’: Bounty hunter holds burglary suspect at gunpoint
Originally published in the Charlotte Sun Wednesday, May 8, 2013 PORT CHARLOTTE — Some residents get welcomed to a new neighborhood with cookies or cake. Sometimes, it’s a simpler gesture, like a wave hello or a knock on the door and a friendly greeting. The first time Juan and Maria Martinez met their neighbor across…
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Remembering Ben Fredrick Sutton, Everyone’s Best Friend
PALMETTO –As children, my brother and I loved to scan the lofty branches of our favorite tree in search of the rusty handle of a knife fused into the wood. The moss-covered live oak was in my grandmother’s yard. She enjoyed telling the story of how a neighborhood boy once brought the knife over to…
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The Feral Children of Terra Ceia Island
TERRA CEIA – According to local legend, he had to catch the Guerro children in a castnet. Famished and in a state of confusion, the children were roaming around the Terra Ceia wilderness completely disillusioned. Mumblings of an indiscernible language confused their captor, who wanted nothing more than to help the lost youths. But there…
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Somehow Old Ball Players Come to Bradenton
BRADENTON – Perry Land knew how to make an entrance. He figured he’d make the greatest one he’d ever made before, being that it was the very first day of major league baseball in Bradenton, and seeing as how everyone in town held him responsible for the expensive venture totaling a whopping $2000!He was an…
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In Search of the Missing Link: A Look into the Underground World of Artifact Hunting
Jake displays a portion of his artifact collection PALMETTO– The 1990 white Toyota pick-up plows past a road barricade into a field of tall grass and continues slowly down a dirt trail. The brake lights glow as it rounds a corner near a lowland swamp and comes to a halt. Jake gets out…
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