Scrabblin'

A new chapter in the lives of the Mathis family begins, which threatens their peaceful lives along the Indian River. E. Nelson Fell, in Fellsmere, and Herman J. Zeuch in Vero, have both purchased large plots of land to drain and sell to northern and foreign investors. This will prove to be a death blow to the local truck farmers. Lydia and Melvin and other farmers in the John’s Island area feel the pinch. This tribulation, accompanied by World War I, their child’s death and the death of a b...