A place can mean many things to a person, and each one has a story to tell, its own unique history. In much the same way that people do throughout their lives, a place will undertake many changes, journeys and phases. And, much like people, there are things left behind as they grow, and some things that remain unchanged in spite of the wear and tear of hundreds of years. The little-known oasis of history and community known as Ormond Beach remembers its long story. The Halifax River holds...

The young colonel sat shivering on the shores of the frosty bank, having only just pulled himself free of the hungry river and thus from what would have been certain death. Pneumonia was a notorious killer in the eighteenth century, but mercifully, such was not to be his fate. His companion, a stout surveyor and frontiersman, was busy hastily building a fire before the freezing temperature regained the upper hand. It was all the colonel could do to inch his way across the carpet of...

The Rock at Sunset 1/200 sec f/7.1 ISO 100 70mm Imagine yourself perched at the top of a stunning landmark that overlooks the domain of both land and sea. You're sitting nearly six hundred feet up, you feel the gentle warmth of the sun and the harsh wind in your face, the sharp scent of the sea and the din of life down below. You're not afraid of falling, though everything beneath you feels far away and the people no larger than ants. Rather, you feel as though you were sitting at the top...