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No road has captured the imagination of modern Alachua Countians like the Bellamy Road. Cauthen brings this legendary thoroughfare to life through a combination of personal reflection and hauntingly beautiful illustrations by Barbara Gibbs. These striking black-and-white images reveal the Bellamy Road as a holy place populated by people and places long gone. The book offers a taste of old Florida, whose mysteries Gibbs captured on film in the 1980s. - Dr. Peggy Macdonald, adjunct professor of history at Stetson University and former director of the Matheson History Museum. She is the author of Marjorie Harris Carr: Defender of Florida's Environment. Sudye Cauthen has written a resonant and evocative book about the place where she grew up and watched change. The road speaks, she writes, and she has listened well, rendering Bellamy Road with inspired words that convey the sensory life there, the remembered experiences and the family and community members who come alive for readers, and the deep marks on the landscape left from prehistoric beasts to Timucan Indians to frontier ancestors to her own neighbors and friends. Her words sing with passion for the place. Barbara Gibbs's photographs make visual Cauthen's words, producing a first-rate documentary project that ranks with the best of classic studies of the American South. - Dr. Charles R. Wilson, former Kelly Gene Cook Sr. Chair of History and Professor of Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi. His most recent book is Flashes of a Southern Spirit. A love letter to both a road and a vanishing Florida, this book is a must for anyone interested in the real Sunshine State. It will be a great addition to any Floridiana bookshelf and an incentive to get out and hike the byways of north central Florida. Part coffee table book, part lyric memoir, and part environmental tract, it will move you in subtle and informative ways. - Dr. Steven Noll, senior lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Florida, where he teaches American history, Florida history, and the history of disability.

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Cauthen writes about north Florida. Her poetry, fiction, and nonfiction have received awards, including two Individual Arts Fellowships from the Florida Arts Council. Her book SOUTHERN COMFORTS: Rooted in a Florida Place received a Florida Book Award. Originally from Bronxville, New York, Barbara Gibbs received a BA in photography from the University of California, Riverside. After college, she worked as a professional photographer at the Institute of Amazonian Research in Manaus, Brazil. She moved to Gainesville in 1981. She has exhibited in solo and group shows in California and locally. One of her shows was From the Bellamy Road: Alachua's Beginnings at the Thomas Center. The photos in this book are from that exhibit. Her photos have also been published in The Fishes and the Forest by Michael Goulding, Lost Cities of the Ancient Southeast by Mallory O'Conner and Southern Comforts: Rooted in a Florida Place by Sudye Cauthen. Jack E. Davis is a professor of history at the University of Florida and the author of several books, including The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea, winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in history.

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