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Living Legends of the Unconquered Seminoles

Living Legends of the Unconquered SeminolesAn excursion into the heart of the Everglades 40 miles west of Clewiston is a unique “place to learn” (translated from the Miccosukee), the namesake of the Seminole Tribe of Florida’s Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum. Walking through tall glass doors, the visitor is greeted by a large inscription depicting the purpose of the museum: “The museum collects, preserves, protects and interprets Seminole culture and history, inspiring an appreciation and understanding of the Seminole people.” The Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum, located in the middle of a 64-acre swamp on the Big Cypress Seminole Reservation, demonstrates and displays in their own words their story of survival in the unforgiving Everglades.

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Iris Wall: Indiantown Pioneer “Cow Huntress”

Iris Wall: Indiantown PioneerPublished in Florida Cattleman’s Magazine June 2007

“I am a true ‘Florida cracker’ but with a little extra salt!”

Whether it is hunting “piney wood rooters,” parting cows, rounding up wild horses, hunting alligators or heading-up the six family owned W&W Lumber Yards, Iris Wall is at home in what she says “is the best town on Earth” Indiantown, Florida.

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Escape to Glades County in Florida’s Last Pristine Wilderness

Jeff Harrod and Daisy the BearPublished in Hobe Sound Magazine, May 2007.

A soft breeze feathers through thatches of palmettos spiking a crimson horizon, as dragonflies dance from peak to peak, flashing their turquoise iridescence along a whimsical path. Beams of sunlight stream through waving cabbage palms tracing their graceful stalks into native scrub. Quietly, the morning awakes in this small area of Glades County, nestled on the western shore of Lake Okeechobee in the vast Everglades prairie; a living spectacle of Nature’s unobtrusive Beauty that captures the senses and stamps its unique imprint upon space, time, and those who carry their weary bodies from the bustle of city drama into the fresh air of the pristine wilderness.

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Florida Cattleman: A Gateway of Goodwill to the World

It’s quite a surprise to see the Premier of the Republic of Macedonia wearing a Stetson, and perhaps even more of a surprise to learn that Florida cattle ranchers are working on exporting live animals to the southern most part of the former Socialists Federation of Yugoslavia, but this is the cultural and economic bridge being extended around the world by two Florida cattlemen: Bud Adams and Jim Strickland.

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Two Hundred Years of Tradition: The Great Florida Cattle Drive of Ought 6

Two Hundred Years of Tradition: The Great Florida Cattle Drive of Ought 6

The 1800s cattle drives are carved deeply into the legends of Florida history when “cow hunters” drove their herds over hundred of miles on the old “cracker trail” to markets in Punta Rassa, shipping them aboard paddle boats to Cuba and Key West to replenish the beef supply after the Civil and Spanish American Wars, and by train from Ft. Pierce north to the breadbasket of the country.

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The New Pioneers: Capitalizing on the Emerging Economies in Glades/Hendry County

Nancy Dale, keynote address to the Inaugural Graduating Leadership Class of the Glades/Hendry County EDCs June 16, 2007

Culminating six months of interactive workshops and seminars, twenty graduates of the inaugural leadership class of Glades/Hendry County Economic Development Councils received their diploma June 16, 2007 at the Clewiston Country Club with more than one hundred guests in attendance. Janice Groves, Hendry EDC Executive Director and Emcee Dan Regelski, Director of the Small Business Development Center at Florida Gulf Coast University, congratulated the graduates and encouraged them to take the foreground in leadership for the community. [download#4#image]

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Pioneer Cattle Hunter Bobby Roberts Building Ranch in the Heart of Everglades

Pioneer Cattle Hunter Bobby Roberts Building Ranch in the Heart of Everglades

Published in The Cattleman Magazine, Sept. 2005

A year before Baron G. Collier used his own money in 1923 to stretch the first road across the wild and intrepid Everglades that would eventually link Naples, Miami, and Tampa, Robert Roberts, Jr. and his pioneer family had already planted deep roots in an even more remote part of South Florida’s Big Cypress swamp in a town, yet to be named, Immokalee.

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The Tattered Flag

The Tattered Flag

September 2005

Running was no longer easy. The uneven curvature of the ragged stones tore effortlessly through frayed jeans, every stride a drudgery of toil and pain. This infliction of the world had to stop, manifested in the bloodstain of a hopeless cause. But for now, there was no other way but to run until the cursed body surrendered….

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Other Publications

Publications

Cambridge Scholars Publishing – Florida College Level English Assocation: Iris Wall “Cow Huntress” from Indiantown, 2008

BIRMINGHAM POLICE DEPARTMENT PREPARES FOR HOMELAND SECURITY
Chief of Police Magazine, April 2003

SURVIVAL STRATEGIES FOR VISIONARY POLICE LEADERS IN THE NEXT DECADE
The Florida Police Chief Association Magazine, November 1999

9-1-1 DISPATCH: THE OPTIMUM CUSTOMER SERVICE IN COMMUNITY POLICING
9-1-1 Magazine, September 2000
Law and Order Magazine, Sept. 2000

BOOT CAMP: THE LAST STOP FOR JUVENILE OFFENDERS
Law and Order Magazine, December 2000

VISIONARY LEADERS OF THE PORT ST. LUCIE POLICE DEPARTMENT
The Florida Police Chief Association Magazine, April 1999

THE FT. PIERCE POLICE DEPARTMENT: A TURN-AROUND AGENCY
The Florida Police Chief Association Magazine, July 1999
Chief of Police Magazine, August 2000

A VISION OF THE 21ST CENTURY POLICE DEPARTMENT
Police Chief Association Magazine, October, 1998
The Police Times Magazine, Aug/Sept. 1999
Presented results of statewide research conducted by N.Dale of Florida Police Chiefs.

HIGH CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS: COMMUNICATION ETHICS IN TELEVISION NEWS
Broadcast Education Journal, February 1998

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Newspaper Feature Series on Palmdale, Florida

Glades County Democrat beginning June 1st, 2000 to Present

Featured Stories (partial list):
Donald Peeples: The Legendary Life of a Florida “Cow Hunter”
Ancient Indian Mounds;
Palmdale: The Tin Lizzie Trail to the Garden of Eden;
The Old World Indian Farmers at Fort Center;
The Railroad Opens the Gateway to Glades County;
Tribute to a Lost Art: The Closing of the Cypress Knee Museum

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Invited Conference Presentations

2006 and 2007: Presented paper to the Florida College English Assocation Conference in Lakeland and at Indian River Community College on “Pioneer “Cow Hunters” – The Books”

Keynote Address – Glades/Hendry County Economic Development Council – “Carving an Economic Role into the Future” – 2007

Clewiston Museum – “Would Do, Could Do, and Made Do: The Florida Pioneer ‘Cow Hunters’ Who Tamed the Last Frontier” – 2006

Florida Police Chief Association Conference
Presenter: “Survival Strategies for Visionary Police Leaders in the Next Decade,”
Published survey results conducted by N. Dale of Florida Police Chiefs.
Summer Conference, Daytona Beach, FL, June 22, 1999