Correction

In an e-mail from my mom this morning (Happy 35th birthday, ma! wink, wink), I have learned that some facts from my previous post about my Everglades project need to be set straight.

Here is my mom's corrected version of the events of my childhood and our family's long history in Miami as it concerns my interest and connection to the Glades, from her e-mail:

As a kid growing up in Miami......and into early adulthood......[Denise] went to the Everglades quite a bit. Both with school fieldtrips.....and with family, we would go to the everglades......often times to the Miccosukkee Indian reservations, where I was
fascinated by the people, the colors, the smells and the art. I always remember feeling somehow connected to this culture since, even then, I knew that part of my distant heritage was American Indian (although at the time I did not know what tribe). I also certainly remember our jaunts into the Everglades on airboats,
fascinated by the wildlife in abundance there.....so close in proximity to my home (the big city....or so I thought). I remember the alligator wrestlers, the roadside stands where back then you could buy almost anything made of alligator hide. So, the Everglades was a part of our lives growing up.....we knew it was always there......different but very much a part of our Miami.

Leave it to mom to set the record straight! Well, my mom's passion for the Everglades is surely in my blood... and there is even more reason for my project.

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