Al Burt's Florida: Snowbirds, Sand Castles, and Self-Rising Crackers

Florida Historical Society Patrick D. Smith Florida Literature Book Award

A tour of twentieth-century Florida through the writing of a roving reporter

As a roving reporter for the Miami Herald from 1973 to 1995, Al Burt traveled all of Florida, studying it with the insight of a native and the detached eye of the foreign correspondent he had been. During those years, he observed connections with the state’s past and speculated about its future, and,...