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The trip that had the most impression for me was when we went
to downtown Ft. Myers. I have lived in Ft. Myers my whole life and there were
many things new that I had learned but never heard about. It is always great to
hear the history of a place that you have known your whole life.
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I have always enjoyed downtown, but it was not always as
beautiful as it is today. It was deserted and there were not that many people
roaming the streets as we saw on our field trip. Going to the museum was
enjoyable. I enjoyed hearing how Ft. Myers was home to some dinosaurs that it
snowed here and was also home to the Calusa and Seminole Indians.
This field trip allowed me to have an appreciation for the
place that I have grown up in. I feel more connected to Ft. Myers from learning
about its history. There were some great things such as the three C’s as our
guide mentioned, cattle, cane, and citrus and then some things that bothered
me, which I cannot seem to get my head around, is the way that people wanted to
get rid of the Indians that were here FIRST, but that is something that I will
never understand the reasoning, but I am happy to call Ft. Myers my home and
sense of place.
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When I was reflecting on the past field trips, this one stood
out to me the most because it is my hometown, and it also made me think of the
book, A Land Remembered. Knowing that
the book is fiction, it made it more realistic to think of the places that were
mentioned on our field trip in relation to the book. For instance, the mounds
built by the Calusa Indians that Tobias and his family fled to during a huge
rain storm.
This field trip made me love where I was born and raised even
more. Although, it may not be much, it is MY home.
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