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

The U.S. Department of State estimates there are more than 2,000 open cases of international parental abductions involving 3,000 children. This trend parallels another “snatching racket” in the 1920s and ’30s that took an international hero and the death of 20-month-old child to wake Congress to what was happening right here in America.

I’m often asked what qualifies me to talk and write about history. My usual response is, “Because I’m Southern, and Southerners love their families and their family’s families.”

“If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.” — Pearl Buck In the heart of the Ten Thousand Islands cresting the Everglades is a place called Chokoloskee Island. Truly one of Florida’s last frontiers, its first inhabitants came some 2,000 years ago and altered the watery terrain by building shell mounds and canals.

“How will we know it’s us without our past?” — Walter Havighurst “With Heritage So Rich,” 1966 A few months after the 1966 report titled “With Heritage So Rich” was published, Congress passed the National Historic Preservation Act, which enacted almost every major recommendation from the report.