Tag Archives: William Bartram

A Christmas Tree Shrine on the Highway of the Dead

Each Christmas season someone decorates a pine sapling as a Christmas tree along a stretch of Highway 98 in the Naval Live Oaks, a federally protected forest near my home. I’ve watched the sapling double in size the last few … Continue reading

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Before Audubon, this writer-artist documented the Gulf South

Before Audubon, came Bartram, canoeing and hiking through the West Florida territory, exploring, documenting, and sketching images of flora and fauna and Native Americans. William Bartram came a decade before John James Audubon was even born, though Bartram isn’t a … Continue reading

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