My dad's side of the family was from Florida and when we visited my granddad, he would take me fishing in rugged, wild swamp land like Disney World was built on. He wouldn't let my dad go with us because "if you don't eat fish, you ain't a fisherman." Tough love. We'd putter up Rice Creek in its black water with cottonmouths and gators on the bank.
This article about a fascinating general took me back to the heat, humidity, and the most deadly animal on the planet, the mosquito.
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This was an old Florida back then, more rugged, wild and so far away from the well-manicured Disney grounds known today. On a boat ride through the canal, Potter and his team brought a gun because snakes hung from the trees, his daughter recounted."
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