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Ayers’ book remembers beaches of Tampa Bay
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PINELLAS COUNTY – Arcadia Publishing’s “Tampa Bay’s Beaches” by R. Wayne Ayers and Nancy Ayers will be available soon at area bookstores, independent retailers, online retailers and through Arcadia Publishing. The book is due to be released March 11.
“Tampa Bay’s Beaches” chronicles how area beaches have transformed from a wilderness setting to expansive development, most of which has occurred since the 1950s. The book includes “then and now” photographs of area landmarks, businesses, homes and tourist attractions; aerial images showing the transformation of the beaches and eyewitness accounts by long-time residents.
Residents of Belleair Beach, Wayne and Nancy Ayers are long-time contributors to Tampa Bay Newspapers publications.
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Author details Florida’s smuggling history
Bootleg wine, Columbian cocaine, marijuana, Cuban cigars and guns and ammo – journalist Stan Zimmerman covers just about everything that has illicitly slipped into the state in his recent book “A History of Smuggling in Florida.”
Florida’s history, the author points out, is itself a history of smuggling. From the earliest incursions by Spanish conquistadors searching for gold and returning home empty-handed, the peninsula’s history has been burdened by materialism, malice and mercilessness.
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Tampa Bay Newspapers
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Seminole, FL 33772
(727) 397-5563
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