1674-3 Polly Redford A Good Mind•
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I hope you saw anngy t tha Polly Redford. as
' won the.Rembert W. Patrick Memorial Aw .,tin.
guished contribution to Florida.1istory---Billion-Dollar Sandi
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bar:A Biography of Miami :._,•".4'uttoti, 1970).Thea a••• .
given by the Florida H 1,f
cal Society, honors both +' aa.
writer and the man for whoni z-
t it was named: the late Dr. r. .- j
Patrick, historian, long-time
chairman of the history de
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Flotidg Atetttiti bf'iron•
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Under Five Flags. �
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"Why don't more people„,11., t •h, 00.
read good books?" a wispy ' s�, ,
• village librarian 'once asked , - ,;
t me.The best I could do at.the' `
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moment was quote 'a .line. .''
from Dorothy Parker: "You lyi
• can lead a horticulture but-0) eh•,..
you can't make her think." ti4!' i la
SHAW.'
A, I should have also cont-,'. • ' '
I merited on the publishing decisions that either draw or repel
t I readers.If it looks like a text book,say bye bye to reviews. A
' weak title can turn off potential readers. Suppose that Haw-
` thorne had called the story of Hester Prynne Old Time Leg-
ends Together with Sketches, Experimental and Ideal, as he
originally intended. Many of us would have missed the story
of the scarlet. letter. Other proposed titles have undergone j
similar improvement: The Sea Cook to Treasure Island,Pendl''
y Sketches of English Society to Vanity Fair, and The Corre-
skndence of James McNeil Whistler to The Gentle Art of
Making Enemies.
1 •The handicap that Billion-Dollar Sandbar had to over-
ri come was a misleading dust jacket. You don't have to go east
• of doliins Avenue to see models for the cartoon characters:
frizzy-haired, bulbous mama, her scowling husband, Miss
Shrinking Bikini of 1970, the strong man from muscle beach,
and the cigar chewer in wine jacket and yellow vest.The dust
jacket would be appropriate.fpr satire; it couldn't do less for
social history'.
MRS. REDFORD'S BOOK makes Its primary appeal to
history buffs—especially those who like to observe a good
mind at work. Almost any paragraph suggests the quality of
the book: "The jungle. . .-is always at your door. Rare birds
fly over the motels; in wet weather alligators crawl up into
the carports of new subdivisions; and beneath its water-ski-
ers, Biscayne Bay is full of porpoises and sea horses . Is
there any better way to live than in a place where, within a.
mile pf Miami's City Hall, you may have fifty species of wild
birds and orchids in your,garden? This happens not through
any wisdom from City Hall,I can assure you, but because the
place is so new and its forms of life so varied that even the
Chamber of Commerce has not been able to destroy them all."
'The Rembert W.,Patrick Memorial Award,given to Mrs.
Redford for the best-book,otLFlockla:,history in 100,is sure',.
to go to Charlton W.Tebeau this year for his definitive study,
A History of Florida (University of Miami Press, $12.50).
Book buyers have already honored Dr.Tebeau in a way that
any writer can appreciate. Five thousand copies of his book
sold before publication. In spite of the summer doldrums,the
second big printing steadily diminishes.
In 1966 Dr. Tebeau and Ruby Leach Carson published
their three-volume history, Florida: From Indian Trail to .
Space Age. Before that time, Charlton Tebeau was better
known as a teacher,.and friend of writers than as a historiog-
rapher. As a professor of history, a director of many a thesis
on Florida and Dade County, and editor of Tequesta, the
jiyurnal of the Historical Association of Southern Florida, he
influenced many struggling historians and encouraged more.
• ; Dr.Tebeau will be glad;o know that other writers con-
tnue filling in the gaps in Fkrida history. In writing Sanford
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• As I Knew It, 1912-1935, Peter Schaal depended largely on
tigo sources, his memory anil„the files of the Sanford Herald,
which he served as news-spojrt,s editor from 1930-35.The'146-
page book is not so much a jiiece of writing as a recitation of
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