BONIFAY - Holmes County Public Library is gearing up to host a traveling historian who will take local residents on a trip into Florida's past. Ricky Smith will present a multimedia showing of A Land Remembered, a book by his father Patrick Smith that chronicles his experiences in the southern states through the lives of a fictional southern family, the MacIveys, who would rise from dirt poor living to wealthy status as real estate tycoons. "The story spans for 114 years and talks about the Florida history and features a cast of 'crusty, indomitable Crackers battling wild animals,'" said Assistant to Administrator at Panhandle Public Library Cooperative System Cynthia Delahunt, sighting the book's summary...
