On the Eighth Day of Christmas..

On the 8^th day of Christmas, my true love gave to me:

An EIGHT-Sided Castle and the builder’s biography;

SEVEN Honorable Floridians;

SIX swans swimming in Orlando’s Iconic misspelled lake;

FIVE Gold Star reviewed books:

A history of how a gift of FOUR acres became a city;

Lake TRIPLET’S Namesake, 1 lake of 303;

The story of “SECOND Lake” – aka – Lake Monroe to thee;

And ONE Mule - The Rutland Mule Matter, all by RLC.

A cradle to grave biography, Will Wallace Harney: Orlando’s First Renaissance Man was researched and written by RLC for the Pine Castle Historical Society. Builder of the Pine Castle on central Florida’s Lake Conway, for which the city of Pine Castle was named, Harney was one of the most important of early Orange County pioneers. A newspaper correspondent during the 1870s, his articles, published in the North, encouraged new settlers to the area – and serve today as an invaluable collection of reference material for historians.

Harney's Pine Castle shortly before it burned down.

Pick up an autographed copy at Pine Castle Historical Society’s quarterly meeting this Sunday, December 8, 2019 at 5901 S. Orange Avenue. Book sales begin at 2:30 PM.