As for books, I am working through a slow, rich reconstruction of life in the 1880-1910 period in the east Florida coast Thousand Islands region. A beautiful and evocative job of reconstructing the historical, the linguistic and the personal threads of the time and space, it is called "Killing MIster Watson" by Peter Matthisen. The writing--the choosing of metaphor and tone and twang and rhythm--is very impressive.


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