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PLAY BALL!
Spring training brings lots of action
on and off the field to Southwest Florida
In Southwest Florida, the words “spring training” often conjure up images of the Boys of Summer limbering up under our warm sun, getting their swings and pitches in before it really counts. Sluggers like the Boston Red Sox’s David Ortiz (or Big Papi as he’s also known) and the Minnesota Twins’ Joe Mauer, the American League’s Most Valuable Player in 2009, sign autographs...
ISLAND EXPLORATIONS 
In the Dominican Republic, the resorts aren’t the
only thing that’s all-inclusive
The palm tree–lined, powdery beach is strewn with beautiful bodies, those who would do better to cover up their abundant ones, old men sporting Speedos, and tattoo-covered and topless sun worshippers, all speaking a multitude of languages. In Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, vacationers hail from all over the Americas and Europe.
THE ENVIRONMENT WHISPERER 
Bill Hammond works small to accomplish big
“Daniel Quinn in his novel Ishmael makes a statement that I think is so powerful, and it’s just the wisdom of the teacher,” says Bill Hammond. “It’s that you will become what your culture whispers in your ear. And so we [today] become the culture we see on TV. We become the culture we hear in the orderliness of our structured schools and testing programs and all of those kinds of things. So we need to help that culture whisper other tunes in children’s ears. And I think we’ll...
A PASSION FOR POWER
Classic cars really rev the engine
of Punta Gorda collector Rick Treworgy
A young man pushes a cart full of cleaning supplies across the cement floor, stopping to shine the hood on an already impossibly glistening 1955 Camaro. “You have a never-ending job, don’t you?” I ask, looking around at the army of nearly two hundred classic high-performance cars that surrounds me. He grins widely. “Yeah, and I love it!” he says. “There are a lot of people...
GROWING GATORS
Alligator farming has helped to preserve
Florida’s iconic reptile residents
“Don’t worry ma’am, gators don’t feed in the winter months; they are pretty dormant,” alligator farmer Mark Green tells me. Around the dike where I’m standing are ponds filled with three to five thousand gators, all beady eyes, humped bony backs, and notched tails. Instead of cattle, horses, or fields of watermelons, part of Green Farm breeds and harvests alligators.
JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2010
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