Florida Roundabout

Excerpt from Florida RoundaboutM Y sincere thanks are extended to the Huntington Hart ford Foundation of Pacific Palisades, California, for furnishing me with congenial quarters in a delightful place, hidden deep in a beautiful canyon Of the Santa Monica Mountains, to work on this book. The Foundation makes no requirement whatsoever Of those accepted for residence to report about what they are working on, Offering complete, utter freedom for the creative worker to do as he Wishes, a thing that can happen only in the Western World and in this case by means of American capitalism in the person of Mr. Huntington Hartford Of The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company (translation: the A St P), possessing that rare thing, a cultural conscience. The state rivalry between California and Florida being What it is, I am sure it Will tickle him and everyone else concerned, including the wonderful staff at the Founda tion headed by Dr. John Vincent, that I was able to work an entire summer at this excellent California institution With out the necessity Of telling anyone until now that the subject of my labors is a place called Florida.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.