It is often said that a picture is worth a thousand words, and most of us find it to be true. Photographs can represent portals to the past, adventures taken out of our daily lives in a momentary attempt to forget the cares of the day. It is the hope of every artist that their works do one very important thing to the observer: transport. A famous painting can inspire awe and wonder toward a gone-but-not-forgotten artist. Photographer's are no exception to that rule, and like all artists, they...

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...