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Amy Bennett Williams Essays

Remembering Barbara Oehlbeck

Barbara Oehlbeck was a noted Glades County writer, horticulturalist and champion of Florida’s often underappreciated state tree, the Sabal Palm. Upon learning of Oehlbeck’s death last month at the age of 90, News-Press storyteller Amy Bennett Williams got to thinking back to when she first met Oehlbeck some 20 years ago, and their time together working to bring her masterpiece to life: a comprehensive book about her beloved Sabal Palms and all of the Florida folklore that comes with it.

Amy Bennett Williams Essays