A Road Trip Through Florida in 1933
In 1933, my father Patrick Smith, took a two-week road trip through Florida with his family. It was truly a trip of a lifetime for an 8-year-old boy from a small town in South Mississippi, and even in his 80’s, he remembered it like it was yesterday. A few years ago, I was able to […]
How the Award Winning Video Patrick Smith’s Florida: A Sense of Place Came to Be
Not long after I graduated from college in 1975, I ended up moving to California where I still live. I knew Dad wrote books, spoke at a lot of places, and won a lot of awards, I wasn’t that involved in his life or know just how popular he had become. (That has all changed.) […]
The Great Florida Cattle Drive: Unbroken Circles
This past year I was contacted by Emmy award-winning father and son filmmakers Elam & Nic Stoltzfus who asked me to write the forward to their new book, The Great Florida Cattle Drive: Unbroken Circles. I was honored to do so. I am excited to let you know that it is now available! This coffee table book chronicles the Great […]
Fort Drum Christmas Frolic
This is one of my favorite scenes in A Land Remembered. It depicts the Fort Drum Christmas frolic where Zech and Glenda get to know each other better. For several years we printed Christmas cards based on scenes from A Land Remembered. When I asked Dad what scene we should use, without hesitation he said “the […]
The Last Ride
Introducing The Last Ride … a real bull ride of a book. Get it today for $3.00 off. When I unearthed “the lost books” of my father, Patrick D. Smith, I was able to make 3 more titles widely available for the first time. They are The Seas That Mourn, In Search of The Russian Bear and The Last […]
The Christmas Platter – a story by Patrick D. Smith
[dt_row ][dt_column column=”12″][dt_text_html spy=”none” scroll_delay=”300″] It was the year 1935, the height of the Great Depression, and I had reached the ripe old age of 8. My knowledge of the world was limited to the lifestyle of a small Mississippi town, including corn bread, grits, black-eyed peas, and nearby fields and streams; but at the […]
What is a Florida Cracker?
Below is a short excerpt from “What Is A Florida Cracker?” © 2008, Patrick D. Smith … What really makes a person a true Florida Cracker (besides being born in the state)? Several things: A love of the land and nature, growing things in the soil, close family ties, and a deep sense of religion. It […]