Selected Excerpts

 

Compiled:  November 1993

Published:  March 2006

 

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Contents

 

                                    Foreword

                                      By Allen C. Altvater

 

                                  Chapter One  -  The Massacre at Payne’s Creek

                                      Bulletin Number Thirty Three, July 1981.

 

                                  Chapter Two  -  Chokonikla

                                      Bulletin Number Thirty Three, July 1981.

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                                  Chapter Three  -  Battle of Okeechobee

                                      Bulletin Number Thirty Four, October 1981.

 

                                  Chapter Four  -  Hog Drives  &  Cane Syrup

                                      Bulletin Number Twenty Two, January 1977. 

 

                             Chapter Five  -   An Eye for an Eye  &  Violence

                                                Bulletin Number Five, April 1970. 

                                                Bulletin Number Fourteen, July 1973. 

 

                                  Chapter Six  -  Arson

                                      Story of the Sebring Fire Men

 

                                  Chapter Seven  -  Panthers

                                      Bulletin Number Eight, April 1971. 

 

                                  Chapter Eight  -  Park Trammell DeVane

                                       Bulletin Number Twenty Two, January 1977.

 

                                  Chapter Nine -  Senator Henry Murphy

                                      Bulletin Number Four, January 1970.

                                                Trivia, October 1985.

 

                                  Chapter Ten  -  Congressman J. Hardin Petersen

                                      Trivia, October 1985.

                                                Sebring Air Terminal, December 2005. 

 

                                  You’re An Old-Timer in Sebring if... 

                                      Bulletin Number Nineteen, July 1975. 

                                                Olio, January 1979.

 

                                Chapter Eleven  -  Rex Beach, Sebring Citizen

                                      Bulletin Number Fourteen, July 1973.

 

                                  Chapter Twelve  -  The Most Unforgettable Character

                                      Bulletin Number Thirty Three, July 1981.  

 

                                  Chapter Thirteen  -  Football

                                      Bulletin Number Twenty One, January 1976.

 

                                  Chapter Fourteen  -  September 18th, 1926

                                      Bulletin Number Eleven, October 1972.

 

                                  Chapter Fifteen  -  The Day Moore Haven Disappeared

                                      Bulletin Number Eleven, October 1972.  

 

                                  Chapter Sixteen  -  Hot Water Well

                                      Bulletin Number Two, July 1969. 

                                                Bulletin Number Thirty Four, October 1981.

 

                                  Chapter Seventeen  -  Sebring Utilities

                                      Bulletin Number Twenty One, January 1976. 

                                                Bulletin Number Thirty Six, April 1982. 

 

                                  Chapter Eighteen  -  Highlands Hammock

                                      Bulletin Number Twenty Seven, October 1979. 

                                                Bulletin Number Thirty One, January 1981. 

                                                Bulletin Number Thirty Two, April 1981. 

 

                                  Chapter Nineteen  -  “Hotshot”

                                      Bulletin Number Fifty Five, April 1987.  

 

                                  Chapter Twenty  -  The Race

                                      Bulletin Number Eighteen, January 1975. 

                                                Olio, January 1979.

                                                Sebring Air Terminal, December 2005. 

 

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