During the summer, most hours of the day, the sounds of others at play abound... but at 7:40 a.m., it's just me and the insects, birds and fish. It's second nature to imagine the history of this magical place.
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By Scott Darnell “So proud of my niece Amelia Darnell and my nephew Riley Darnell!
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Featured Image: Our 2002-2016 Labor Day weekends at Camp Merrie-Woode were awesome.
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Dedicated to the MVPs in my brother's life who are helping to make the dream work.
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By the time the week was over, we were starting to understand that things had worked out divinely...
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Thank you Mom… and very, very, very well done.
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From my 2017 journal: "I think there is a very strong possibility of us returning next year."
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In August, 2016, our first trip to Saint John, U.S. Virgin Islands, represented an incredibly deep well of lavish scenery that had been captured with my original documentary project Rare Air in mind. All but two of the episodes that I’ve published since then have been based on that year’s footage. As it winds up, Episode 25 features the last cinematography captured in that wondrous location on that trip. I hope you’ll be happy to hear that there is more to come from our favorite Caribbean retreat. With what I photographed last year, there are probably at least another seven…
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...monuments given and absorbed, forever ours, registered in eternity.
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In the late summer of 1989, I had an idea to approach the University of Central Florida’s student newspaper, “The Future,” about writing a weekly column. I wrote the first one and very humbly submitted it in person to the editor, Scott Altman. Without much fanfare, it was accepted, and so it went for the next fifteen months. Ultimately, many positive experiences grew from these efforts. One esteemed instructor made much of my work and was instrumental in me winning a Scripps-Howard Foundation Fellowship for the column. Thank you, Keith Fowles.