Boots Jr., John R.
Description
In the center of Florida lies a village most people don’t even know exists. In 1940 it had perhaps two hundred residents, most of whose lives revolved
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around agriculture. Life in this area, almost equidistant from the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean, and some sixty-five miles North of Orlando was not at a crossroads in any sense of the word.
A paved road from what was then US-27/441 dead-ended in Candler. There was a Railroad Depot, a Post Office, and a General Store containing the only telephone. The closest town was six miles away. But the residents had interesting and lively tales to tell. This books details what it was like to live in rural isolation in the forties and fifties.
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