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"We don’t heal in isolation, but in community.”– S. Kelley Harrell “We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us wit...

MELISSA JAMES SALMON November 30, 1968 - May 7, 2022 (Click for obituary) We grew up in Indianapolis together, a couple of Winston Drive ki...

A few years back, I started a private Facebook group for my immediate family, prompted by my niece Kyrsten’s inquiry about our family histor...

We didn’t always see eye-to eye, me and him. I was his oldest and too much like him for their to be a lot of middle ground. We were stubborn...

Princeton, Indiana, my birthplace will forever be home to me. I have deep roots there dating back to pioneer times, 1811. I grew up in India...

 Original post: https://fmbislander.wordpress.com/2023/07/28/beach-elementary-a-unique-firsthand-perspective/ BY Ellie Bunting  (Special to ...

  https://fmbislander.com/2023/07/24/no-date-for-reopening-matanzas-pass-preserve/ I haven’t been writing like I should, but I did post one ...

https://fmbislander.wordpress.com/2023/07/18/fort-myers-beach-library-update/ To view all my recent articles, visit FMBIslander.com My new F...

  Video credit: @DebyRoxane Photos I took last week: The famed dive bar at 2201 Estero Blvd was decimated by Ian and demolished today by hea...

  It sits at the end of Connecticut Street and is my favorite spot to take my coffee and journal to greet the day! No better place to catch ...

I'm in the process of starting a new venture -- an online, independent news site specific to Fort Myers Beach. I previously worked for t...

In my last post about my blog name, alma mater and fandom , I ended on a player I did not originally care for. He arrived at Florida State f...

My Dad moved to Tallahassee in April 1986 for a new position. He would lead the Florida Credit Union League. We helped him move into a small...

  CBS Morning News - 1 Apr 2023 WTHR-Indianapolis, 1 Apr 2023 The National and Local news this morning led off with the deaths in Sullivan C...

It was 6 months ago today that my ISLAND HOME was decimated by Hurricane Ian. I watched all the coverage I could the morning of September 28...

On their Agent Provocateur album, Foreigner sang "Two Different Worlds," and that song just came back to me as I was about to star...

...the world lost a great woman, my maternal grandmother, Kathryn "Kate" Dunning/Larson/Wright... One of my most favorite blog pos...

You can read part of the story in the news article, below, published on page 4 of the 1 Sep 1911 Evansville Journal newspaper. It tells of t...