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The Barefoot Mailman, The Flame
Tree and The Big Bubble, and the
late Stuart News editor and environmental
crusader Ernie Lyons’
musings, My Florida and The Last
Cracker Barrel. Sales of a book by
Palm City resident Annie Potts,
Last Lights, about hand-wound
lighthouses, are earmarked to
help repair lighthouses that were
damaged by the September 2019
hurricane in the Bahamas. Another
book, Up Keeps the Light On,
is a children’s book written and illustrated
by students at the Hope
Town Primary School in Elbow
Cay. The school was damaged by
the hurricane, and book sales will
help pay for repairs.
Florida Classics Library got
its start because of Martin’s love
for the book Jonathan Dickinson’s
Journal, which was first published
more than 300 years ago, in 1699.
It’s the saga of a Quaker merchant
whose ship, the Reformation, was
wrecked on the beaches of Jupiter
Island during a storm. The book
was popular among customers
in Martin’s store in Stuart, so in
1971 Martin bought the last 600 >>
Julie Alexander and her husband, Lindsay, moved to Hobe Sound last year after retirement. She painted
this mural of the Everglades in a courtyard at their business,Florida Classics Library.
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