Voices of the Apalachicola One of the main water resources for Florida Alabama and Georgia the Apalachicola River begins where the Chattahoochee and Flint rivers meet at Lake Seminole and flow unimpeded for miles throug
One of the main water resources for Florida, Alabama, and Georgia, the Apalachicola River begins where the Chattahoochee and Flint rivers meet at Lake Seminole and flow unimpeded for 106 miles, through the red hills and floodplains of the Florida panhandle into the Gulf of Mexico.Voices of the Apalachicola is a collection of oral histories from than thirty individualsOne of the main water resources for Florida, Alabama, and Georgia, the Apalachicola River begins where the Chattahoochee and Flint rivers meet at Lake Seminole and flow unimpeded for 106 miles, through the red hills and floodplains of the Florida panhandle into the Gulf of Mexico.Voices of the Apalachicola is a collection of oral histories from than thirty individuals who have lived out their entire lives in this region, including the last steamboat pilot on the river system, sharecroppers who escaped servitude, turpentine workers in Tate s Hell, sawyers of old as Christ cypress, beekeepers working the last large tupelo stand, and a Creek chief descended from a 200 year unbroken line of chiefs.
An interesting collection of stories that describe perfectly the area of the Panhandle that is so uniquely the "Forgotten Coast".