Lostmans Heritage follows the author's journey as she searches for her ancestors from the slave country of Savannah to the wilds of the Florida Everglades. Her story begins with her ancestor, Richard Hamilton, an extraordinary and dangerous man, a man who, against all odds, untangled himself from the bonds of slavery and began a family and a life in the Ten Thousand Islands. Hamilton follows Richard and other island residents to the ending of an era when the National Park Service evicted them all. Along the way she uncovers secrets and stories, polygamy, bootlegging, fist fights, murders, gangsters, killers, and tales of tomahawks and missing school teachers.
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Höhe: 229 mm
Breite: 152 mm
Dicke: 13 mm
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978-1-7347858-0-7 (9781734785807)
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Hamilton lives in Southeast Florida and is a former English teacher. She has spent the past 30 years researching her family history and life in the Everglades. Her educational background includes a BA in English and coursework towards an MFA in Creative Writing. Hamilton has published essays with Heritage Press, Florida Living magazine, and the St. Pauls Review, and was a finalist in the 2017 New Letters Award in Creative Nonfiction. Her organization, Lifetales Media, offers assistance in recording lifestories and organizing those stories into print, providing descendants with a lasting memory for their families. In addition, Hamilton offers memoir writing workshops and editing and layout help for those wishing to publish their lifestories. Her motto is Preserving history...one lifestory at a time.
