The Boys From Old Florida

Author : Buddy Martin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1613212968
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Boys from Old Florida written by Buddy Martin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Boys from Old Florida, Buddy Martin takes the reader beneath the surface of Florida football as, without bias or sugar coating, he skillfully excavates the truths behind “The Gator Nation.” In this book, Martin, a Florida native, has chronicled the real stories of Gator coaches and players through their own eyes and in their words over a 55-year period since 1950—and not all are valentines. The school asked all but one of the coaches interviewed to leave or move up. Some players became estranged or never really felt appreciated. Yet, others are forever grateful for their experience as Gator players and feel a sense of brotherhood. Liberating moments such as the arrival of Ray Graves come to life through the words of somebody who experienced it firsthand. Martin’s fresh investigations have bolstered his sharp memory of those moments as they unfolded, including Graves’s firing after a fairy tale season with his “Super Sophs.”

Author : Frank Oppel
Publisher : Castle Books
ISBN 13 : 9781555212254
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tales of Old Florida written by Frank Oppel and published by Castle Books. This book was released on 2008-05-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One hundred years ago, Florida was a wilderness of swamp and beach, dense forest and abundant wild game. Undiscovered, except for a few pioneer sportsmen and hearty farmers and ranchers, the state was still a frontier. True, a few towns flourished on the fishing and the Caribbean trade, but it was generally a sleepy place, far removed from the later boom of the 1920s. Here is a collection of original articles and stories of the old Florida, of hunters and Indians, the development of the sportsman's paradise, the vast canvas of nature prior to the coming of the condominium. Illustrated with rare drawings, photographs and engravings, this book will recreate a paradise that can never be again.

Author : Roger Dean Kiser
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0757397581
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The White House Boys written by Roger Dean Kiser and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hidden far from sight, deep in the thick underbrush of the North Florida woods are the ghostly graves of more than thirty unidentified bodies, some of which are thought to be children who were beaten to death at the old Florida Industrial School for Boys at Marianna. It is suspected that many more bodies will be found in the fields and swamplands surrounding the institution. Investigations into the unmarked graves have compelled many grown men to come forward and share their stories of the abuses they endured and the atrocities they witnessed in the 1950s and 1960s at the institution. The White House Boys: An American Tragedy is the true story of the horrors recalled by Roger Dean Kiser, one of the boys incarcerated at the facility in the late fifties for the crime of being a confused, unwanted, and wayward child. In a style reminiscent of the works of Mark Twain, Kiser recollects the horrifying verbal, sexual, and physical abuse he and other innocent young boys endured at the hands of their "caretakers." Questions remain unanswered and theories abound, but Roger and the other 'White House Boys' are determined to learn the truth and see justice served.

Author : N. D. Wilson
Publisher : Yearling
ISBN 13 : 0449816761
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boys of Blur written by N. D. Wilson and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fans of Jerry Spinelli's Maniac Magee and Louis Sachar's Holes will enjoy this story about a boy and the ancient secrets that hide deep in the heart of the Florida everglades near a place called Muck City. When Charlie moves to the small town of Taper, Florida, he discovers a different world. Pinned between the everglades and the swampy banks of Lake Okeechobee, the small town produces sugar cane . . . and the fastest runners in the country. Kids chase muck rabbits in the fields while the cane is being burned and harvested. Dodging flames and blades and breathing smoke, they run down the rabbits for three dollars a skin. And when they can do that, running a football is easy. But there are things in the swamp, roaming the cane at night, that cannot be explained, and they seem connected to sprawling mounds older than the swamps. Together with his step-second cousin "Cotton" Mack, the fastest boy on the muck, Charlie hunts secrets in the glades and on the muck flats where the cane grows secrets as old as the soft earth, secrets that haunted, tripped, and trapped the original native tribes, ensnared conquistadors, and buried runaway slaves. Secrets only the muck knows.

Author : University of Florida
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Seminole written by University of Florida and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Regine Rossi
Publisher : College Prowler, Inc
ISBN 13 : 9781596581548
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book University of Florida written by Regine Rossi and published by College Prowler, Inc. This book was released on 2005-12 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Colson Whitehead
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0345804341
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nickel Boys written by Colson Whitehead and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this Pulitzer Prize-winning follow-up to The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys unjustly sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida. When Elwood Curtis, a black boy growing up in 1960s Tallahassee, is unfairly sentenced to a juvenile reformatory called the Nickel Academy, he finds himself trapped in a grotesque chamber of horrors. Elwood’s only salvation is his friendship with fellow “delinquent” Turner, which deepens despite Turner’s conviction that Elwood is hopelessly naive, that the world is crooked, and that the only way to survive is to scheme and avoid trouble. As life at the Academy becomes ever more perilous, the tension between Elwood’s ideals and Turner’s skepticism leads to a decision whose repercussions will echo down the decades. Based on the real story of a reform school that operated for 111 years and warped the lives of thousands of children, The Nickel Boys is a devastating, driven narrative that showcases a great American novelist writing at the height of his powers and “should further cement Whitehead as one of his generation's best" (Entertainment Weekly). Look for Colson Whitehead’s bestselling new novel, Harlem Shuffle!

Author : Tony Barnhart
Publisher : Triumph Books
ISBN 13 : 1623684889
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Southern Fried Football (Revised) written by Tony Barnhart and published by Triumph Books. This book was released on 2008-08-01 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the cultural phenomenon that is college football in the South. This completely new edition provides a close-up look at the great players, great rivalries, great coaches, and great traditions that make college football in the South more than just a game. It is a way of life that lasts 365 days a year.

Author : David Stirt
Publisher : Sports Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781582611136
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Florida Saturdays at the Swamp written by David Stirt and published by Sports Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2004 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the history and tradition that takes place on football Saturdays at the University of Florida.

Author : Tom Gribbin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781940300320
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Florida Boy written by Tom Gribbin and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: