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Preserving history…one life story at a time…

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Date: December 15, 2017Author: Karen Yvonne Hamilton 0 Comments

Published by Karen Yvonne Hamilton

Karen Yvonne Hamilton grew up hearing stories from her father and uncles about their lives growing up on Lostmans River. As a child, she spent almost every summer in the Florida Keys, especially Key West, where her parents would show her places in the Keys where they, their parents, and grandparents lived, worked, and played. Those summers instilled in her a great passion for the history of Florida and an intense desire to learn more about her family history and South Florida. The first book that she read about Florida history was Man in the Everglades by Charlton Tebeau. In that book she found her ancestors and was hooked. She began researching in 1985 and, over the years, amassed volumes of records on the Hamilton family. Peter Matthiessen's book, Killing Mr. Watson, where she found the Hamilton family fictionalized, spurred her on to tell the real story of her family. Karen has spent the past 30 years researching her family history and life in the Everglades, the Florida Keys, and the Bahamas. She is the author of Lostmans Heritage: Pioneers in the Florida Everglades, which was a silver medal winner in the Florida Author's and Publishers Presidential Awards in 2021. Her educational background includes a BA in English and she has studied with some of the top universities in the MFA in Creative Writing programs. She has published essays with Heritage Press, Florida Living, and the St. Pauls Review, and was a finalist in the 2017 New Letters Award in Creative Nonfiction. Karen works as an editor, helping other writers fine-hone their books for publication and as a consultant, helping families gather their stories through interviews and genealogical research. You can contact Karen at kyvonnehamilton@gmail.com

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