Word: apalachicola
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Shooting a Splinter. But Emma was not done. She shot a tornadic splinter straight through the heart of the little northwest Florida town of Apalachicola. Then, still producing 90-m.p.h. winds, she thundered up out of the Gulf into Mississippi and Louisiana...
Elsewhere in this first novel by 21-year-old Peggy Bennett of Apalachicola, Fla. there is still more hair-raising prose. The story, probably more or less autobiographical, is that of three children (the varmints) who grow up on the wrong side of the tracks in a town like Apalachicola. Author Bennett describes their environment sympathetically, and now & then probes their moods with humor and delicate skill. But more often she assaults her readers with rhetoric ("0 God, what jubilance, exuberance, terror and pain"), plagues them with questions ("What is love? . . . What are you, Pivot?"), emotes, postures, harangues...
...Gorrie has ever been written. His story was told last week in Scientific Monthly by Professor George Byron Roth of George Washington University. Born in Charleston, S. C. in 1803, John Gorrie studied medicine in the North - exactly where, no one knows. He began practice in the seaport of Apalachicola, Fla., took such an interest in municipal affairs that he became postmaster, city treasurer, city councillor, mayor. Fever descended on Apalachicola every summer and Dr. Gorrie found it impossible to treat his patients in the hot weather. The earnest young physician thought the best thing was to cool his patients...
...medical practice to push his ice machines. An agent appointed in Manhattan accomplished little or nothing. Almost penniless, Dr. Gorrie went to New Orleans for backing, found a Boston man who bought half the project. The Bostonian died. Unable to interest anyone else, Dr. Gorrie went back to Apalachicola, secluded himself, brooded, sickened, died...
...Southern Ice Exchange erected a monument to Gorrie in Apalachicola. Year ago the John Gorrie Memorial Foundation was chartered to provide Apalachicola with a hospital. By proclamation of Governor Dave Sholtz, next August 11-17 will be "Dr. John Gorrie Ice Memorial Week...