Introducnon.
Notes from a Fan
by John Rothchild
The first time I saw Marjory Stoneman Douglas was in the gymnasium
of the Everglades City school. It was 1973, sometime in late summer,
known locally as the mosquito season. An incredible optimist in this
town of 100 stone crabbers and a handful of odd Yankees, lost in the fog
of mosquitoes at the edge of the Everglades National Park, had proposed
to build a suburb. The optimist needed a bridge permit, which was the
subject of this public hearing, sponsored by the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers.
The suburb idea stirred up environmentalists from both sides of the
state, and they were fighting the bridge permit. We townspeople, most
of us opposed to the development ourselves, were delighted when Mrs.
Douglas appeared in her famous floppy hat. We d heard that this power-
ful woman, old enough to be prehistoric by Florida standards, would not
allow any suburbs in the Everglades. In fact, it was rumoured that she d
more or less created the Everglades and was as fiercely protective as a
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