This winter I will be delivering at least three new presentations in the Punta Gorda area.

• I have updated my Burnt Store Road material for the Burnt Store Golf & Activity Club. The title for this November 2018 talk is Fifty Fun Facts About Burnt Store Road.
• In January Butch Coward and I are co-presenting to the Burnt Store Lakes Property Owners Association on the topic of the early flower growing operations in the area. We will screen two short films shot in the early 1960s describing the floriculture of the Coward & Hobbs company and I will also use a series of historical maps to outline the history of the property before this commercial operation.
• In February I will be delivering a new history presentation to the Renaissance Academy of Florida Gulf Coast University at their Herald Court location. This session will draw upon a series of published and unpublished accounts from surveyors, trading post operators, military officers, customs officials and other adventurers to describe conditions in the Charlotte Harbor / Peace River area prior to the end of the Civil War in 1865.