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Article: Keeper's daughter prizes memories: Gladys Meyer Davis cherishes the life her parents built at lighthouses in Ponce Inlet and on the Eastern Seaboard.
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- The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, FL)
- Article date:
- February 26, 2006
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Byline: Terry O. Roen
Feb. 26--PONCE INLET -- It was a simpler life, when the crabs trapped at the end of the dock were served that night for supper. The boys raked the beach for oyster shells, and the girls pulled weeds around the collard greens in the backyard garden. Gladys Meyer Davis grew up in the shadow of lighthouses along the Eastern Seaboard. She still lives around the bend from Ponce de Leon Inlet Lighthouse, where her father was the last keeper before it was automated. The doctor who delivered Davis on Independence Day in 1928 arrived by boat. Four of the six Meyer children were born at remote light stations where they were rocked to sleep by ...
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Article: Ponce Inlet, Florida
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May 1, 2001 ;
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... ... feature at this lighthouse complex. Open daily to the public, the lighthouse is located at 4931 South Peninsula Drive, Ponce Inlet, FL 32127; (904) 761-1821; www.ponceinlet.org. For area information communicate with the convention and visitors ...
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