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Sarasota, the city where I live, still has a busy Main Street and I'm glad because it still gives me that small town feeling. (And hopefully will continue to, though sometimes "progress" makes me wonder.) Main Street is only five minutes from my home, so it's an easy walk to the library, restaurants, a stationary store, the post office, the dry cleaner, Soto's--the place that fixes my glasses, some clothing boutiques, a bookstore and the movies.
I can walk down Main Street and if I give someone a smile, even a stranger will give me one back. I realized the other day though, that something is missing from Main Street, at least the Main Street I remember from when I was a kid. There isn't a drinking fountain--a good old fashioned water bubbler with a wooden step in front of it. (I was always too short to reach the bubbler on my own.) "Just don't touch the faucet with your mouth." Mom would always warn.
I don't think my thirst was what really attracted me to the bubbler. I was more fascinated by watching the water stream over the top of the drinking fountain, when I turned the knob as far as it would go.
Those back-in-the-day feelings inspired me to call the city government office to see if someone there would be as excited as I was, about the idea of a water fountain on Main Street. The man I talked to--he wasn't. He said it would be much too expensive and everyone in Florida drinks bottled water anyway. I explained to him about my childhood memories, but he didn't catch my wave of excitement. Well, I guess in a way he did. He suggested that if I wanted to play in the water, I should go to the beach.
Thanks for reading with me. It's so good to read with friends.
Suzanne Beecher
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AUTHORBUZZ: WINTER PARK (Fiction) by Graham Guest
A darkly funny tale of two unlikely friends: Eric Swanson, a drug-addled philosopher from Colorado, and Harris Birdsong, an epileptic, synaesthetic savant from the deep south. At a rodeo camp in West Texas, each tries to outrun his troubled past, as their comic adventure belies a tragedy of racism, sexism, substance abuse, and murder. Winter Park is experimental literary fiction.
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