Author Archives: Lois A. Bolin, Ph.D.

Every single thing you see on screen came out of somebody’s creativity. It doesn’t exist. Nature didn’t deliver it to us. Everything had to be dreamed. — Jeffrey Katzenberg, Dreamworks

The new school year began this week, and with it a rekindling of the hopes and dreams of several generations: parents dreaming of a successful life for their children, children wanting to define success on their terms, old-timers wanting youth to learn from their experiences.

“They were in a sense pioneers, these year-round settlers who came to Naples in the early 1930s, ’40s and ’50s. They didn’t fight savages, but they did fight mosquitoes, snakes and the wilderness beyond.”

Naples City Clerk Tara Norman called me not long ago with some wonderful news. She had discovered a cache of information about The Naples Plan. “No wonder we could never find anything about it,” she told me. “It’s held under its original name: ‘The Make Naples a Better Place to Live to Live Plan.'”