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to get restoration

in Everglades City

as a small theater featuring the 1957 movie "Wind Across the for settlers and indigenous people, still stands along the shores of
Everglades," filmed in Everglades City and featuring Burl Ives, Chokoloskee Bay.
Gypsy Rose Lee and Christopher Plummer. The screening room “The Everglades area is frequented by thousands of visitors
will be dedicated to a previous owner of the building, Bob Flick, each year who are hoping to get a glimpse of what Old Florida
who was an extra in the film. may have looked like,” says the historical society, “and they won't be
The second floor will include a community conference room disappointed.”
and historical library. Architect McLean makes another point on the significance of
Fundraising efforts have been modest -- including tours the project. He says it offers a ray of hope to rebut the notion that
and bank-themed history books, note paper and tote bags. But “we have become a disposable society.”
a federal grant of $3 million secured by U.S. Rep. Mario Diaz- Huff is correct when she says of the bank, “They don’t make
Balart serves as a confidence-builder. them like that anymore.”
The bank will have a fellow historic attraction a few miles away. For more information, go online to www.save-boe.org,
The Ted Smallwood Store, a former trading post, was a hub call ECHS President Patty Huff at 239-719-0020,
email: ESHP@hotmail.com.

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