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New videos will be uploaded at least twice a month.
Smith's books, which are available at PatrickSmithOnline.com, include:
A Land Remembered A White Deer and Other Stories Allapattah Angel City Forever Island In Search of the Russian Bear The Beginning The Last Ride The River Is Home The Seas That Mourn
Thousands of people of all ages have enjoyed his books and his talks. On this channel, you will find video excerpts from his popular books and his DVD, Patrick Smith's Florida: A Sense of Place.
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Raised up in New Smyrna Beach...Has been home for 60 + years...This has and is the best RU-vid Video I have ever had the pleasure to watch ! It brings tears to my eyes and thank you for making my dream of "going back in time and experiencing Old Florida for a minute" and through Patrick's Eyes ...Thank You ! Thank You !
Hi!... My father is from Florida, his family was from North Central Florida (Lake Butler)... His grandmother (my great Grandmother) was Annie Rimes (whose sister was Conye Rimes who was like a "Matriarch" of the Shaw farms)... Do you know them?... Actually, many of the people who speak here seems pretty familiar to many of the ways of speaking and being of my dad
I red your book " forever Island" and their was a character who's name was Pogey Bill a catfisherman who also became the first Sheriff of Okeechobee. He was a good friend of my Grandpa who was elected to Clerk of County Courts .My Grandma had a pen Pogey gave Grandpa that was inscribed " To Josh from Pogey" .
You’ve not lived until you’ve cow hunted for days in the swamps. I’m as Florida as you can get, driven cattle and hunted (there’s a difference) God bless y’all.
I was born in 1982, within the heart of Central Florida. It was a childhood painted upon the canvas of dirt roads, a time when the world felt larger and more mysterious. I recall, with a sense of longing, the days of youthful adventures amidst orange groves that stretched endlessly under the sun. With my parents by my side, we would harvest the sun-kissed fruits from the arms of random farms, a simple joy now lost to time. Yet, of all the treasures of my youth, it is the woods that once embraced my childhood home that I yearn for the most. These woods were alive, a community of Blue Jays and Red Cardinals that danced among the leaves, their vibrant hues a stark contrast against the green. The old oak trees, majestic in their ancient wisdom, whispered secrets on the wind, a language lost to those not paying heed. And then, there were the sunsets-oh, the sunsets. As the day bid its farewell, rays of dying light pierced through the veil of Spanish moss, a spectacle so divine it seemed a glimpse into heaven itself. It was in those moments, as a child, that I felt the closest to something far greater than myself, a fleeting beauty that remains etched upon the soul.
Pretty sure Southeast Georgia, believe it or not, had the first cowboys. Most native americans escaped into florida as the colonies expanded more southern and western in Georgia in the 1770-1820's, before going westward. These vast areas were dominates by long leaf prairies that were ideal for the piney wood cattle the settlers would push through to pasture. Florida cowboys came later, when they pushed the last native americans out of the east.
Cattle were first brought to the United States by the Spanish in 1521 via FL. Ranching in FL began in 1540. This all took place in the St. Augustine area, so I guess it is possible that it didn't take too long before the Spanish cattle had made their way to that part of GA. Regardless, the first cowboys definately originated in FL.
@@321gates They were released to free range off the coast of Florida on islands. I won't go into the debate about whether or not the true location of the first spanish settlement was actually in present day Saint Augustine or in Georgia. But there were no "cowboys" wrangling cows during that time. The explosion of cattle population actually happened after the spanish settlement into more settled regions of the US, where they were allowed to free range in the vast long leaf prairies in SE Georgia and up into S. Carolina first, relatively free from the threat of natives.
If you grew up in Chobee and Cowboy you know my uncle Gene & Peggy Fulford I'm a Barber Grandson of Josh L Barber and son of Mary Elizabeth Barber and we are direct descendants of Moses Edward Barber one of the first crakers in the State lol !!! I'm watching the fellas wrestling around with that Boar hog ! I used to boar hunt when I was younger out on the St John's River in Brevard Co where I now live later !
@@panoramarick I found that former migrant camp and have it saved to my Google maps! It’s pretty well marked no trespassing. I was finally able to locate the opening scene location near Clayton, Georgia! Another movie was filmed there in 2020
Mr Smith I'm 70 yrs young and spent the first years of my life in Okeechobee with my mother and Grandparents Josh and Mamie Barber . Descendants of Moses Edward Barber and John and Sally Stratton of Kissimmee fla.Moses was arguably the first Cattle barron in Florida and had the lions share of beef contracts to the Confederate Army . Moses was allegedly accused of killing the only sitting Sheriff in the state's history to this day . At the time of the accusation Moses suffered from a wound to his shoulder he received from the first Indian War and could not draw or shoot except from a point blank position witch made his alleged crime an impossibility . What became next was the murder of 19 Barber Men that had been hunted down and killed by the order of Judge John Mizell and his possie from Orlando Fla . Im familiar with your books and am a Brevard Resident since 1961 thank you. Harry Kersey .
Wouldn’t it be great if Florida was like it used to be? Now it’s over run with yanks and it suck’s! People act like the springs is the fountain of youth. Please STOP coming to Florida!
Best book ever, I’m reading it again for the fourth time, I thought it was lost until my Momma returned it today. It’s the second one I bought after loaning I the first one out. It was passed on to so many people that I lost track of it and finally just went and bought another one. Everyone should read it, if you like real Florida history.
😢❤ cowboy 🤠 🐄 real rodeo heroes!! it's not life like living on the farm , or the farmer wants a wife either it hard core sport and then risk their lies and I in this please us 🙏😭 god bless America of real cow boys as bull riders lane and all as know lost ♉ 🐂
Thank you thank you thank you for this wonderful video. I have always said they should have closed the Florida border 100 years ago. I am a native and hate to see what my home has become.
@@soundcheck2k7 I almost tear up today when I hear one cause sadly Yankees have drowned the beautiful warm accent out and replace it with their cold brash sounding accents..
Just noticed the fern right behind him...that's our native Golden Polypody...an epiphytic fern that grows mostly on the trunks on sabal palmetto. He has a love of our native plants...our natural heritage.
I’m reading A Land Remembered now, I’m about two thirds the way through. I’m enjoying it so much, and found this video to hear from the author. What a treat. And what a memoir of Florida
I'm glad you found this and enjoyed this segment from the video Patrick Smith's Florida: A Sense of Place. For more information on the video, you can go to patricksmithonline.com/patrick-smiths-florida-a-sense-of-place/
Thank you for sharing. I’ve lived in Florida my whole life but never experienced this side of Florida. I wish I had. Sad that you can’t live off the land anymore. I won’t eat fish from the river here.
For a stranger like me, this is a little confusing. So the person in the accident heard the paramedics say he wasn't going to make it, then he did? So if he survived, then the date of his death in this presentation is unrelated to the events depicted? Please clear the confusion some time. My guess is, paramedics are pretty cool cucumbers who've seen a lot, and aren't quick to verbalize something like that.
