http://www.nancydalephd.com Professional Writer and Communication Consultant Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:02:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en An excursion into the heart of the Everglades 40 miles west of Clewiston is a unique “place to learn” (translated from the Miccosukee), the namesake of the Seminole Tribe of Florida’s Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum.   Walking through tall glass doors, the visitor is greeted by a large inscription depicting the ... http://www.nancydalephd.com/living-legends-of-the-unconquered-seminoles/ Featuring true stories as told by Florida's rugged pioneers who survived disease, drought, floods, and varmints to carve a lifestyle in wild Florida.    As Norman Proveaux (Myaaka) says: “True ‘Cow Hunters’ are bred, not made". Click to order via Paypal directly from the author and receive a personal inscription: ... http://www.nancydalephd.com/new-book-%e2%80%93-available-for-christmas-2008/ "The cowboy is not the dying breed he is said to be by those that drive down the highway looking for him. As Lee Marvin told Jack Palance in the 1970's movie, "Monte Walsh": "As long as there is one man on one horse pushing one cow, there will always be ... http://www.nancydalephd.com/would-do-could-do-and-made-do-florida-pioneer-cow-hunters-who-tamed-the-last-frontier/ Palmdale, a remote town in Glades County with a population less than 1,000, is on the curb of creeping urbanization. Today, more people than Palmdale's entire population are moving into Florida each day. Click to order via Paypal directly from the author and receive a personal inscription: Select ... http://www.nancydalephd.com/where-the-swallowtail-kite-soars-the-legacies-of-glades-county-florida-and-the-vanishing-wilderness/ Published in Florida Cattleman's Magazine June 2007 "I am a true 'Florida cracker' but with a little extra salt!" Whether it is hunting "piney wood rooters," parting cows, rounding up wild horses, hunting alligators or heading-up the six family owned W&W Lumber Yards, Iris Wall is at home in what she says ... http://www.nancydalephd.com/iris-wall-indiantown-pioneer-cow-huntress/ Published in Hobe Sound Magazine, May 2007. A soft breeze feathers through thatches of palmettos spiking a crimson horizon, as dragonflies “toe-dance” from peak to peak, flashing their turquoise iridescence along a whimsical path. Beams of sunlight stream through waving cabbage palms tracing their graceful stalks into native scrub. Quietly, the ... http://www.nancydalephd.com/escape-to-glades-county-in-floridas-last-pristine-wilderness/ Celebrating National Day of the Cowboy published in Florida Cattleman's Magazine [download#13#image] http://www.nancydalephd.com/cowboys-rule-in-downtown-okeechobee/ It's quite a surprise to see the Premier of the Republic of Macedonia wearing a Stetson, and perhaps even more of a surprise to learn that Florida cattle ranchers are working on exporting live animals to the southern most part of the former Socialists Federation of Yugoslavia, but this is ... http://www.nancydalephd.com/florida-cattleman-a-gateway-of-goodwill-to-the-world/ The 1800s cattle drives are carved deeply into the legends of Florida history when "cow hunters" drove their herds over hundred of miles on the old "cracker trail" to markets in Punta Rassa, shipping them aboard paddle boats to Cuba and Key West to replenish the beef supply after the ... http://www.nancydalephd.com/two-hundred-years-of-tradition-the-great-florida-cattle-drive-of-ought-6/ Nancy Dale, keynote address to the Inaugural Graduating Leadership Class of the Glades/Hendry County EDCs June 16, 2007 Culminating six months of interactive workshops and seminars, twenty graduates of the inaugural leadership class of Glades/Hendry County Economic Development Councils received their diploma June 16, 2007 at the Clewiston ... http://www.nancydalephd.com/the-new-pioneers-capitalizing-on-the-emerging-economies-in-gladeshendry-count/