Spring Creek Chronicles

By Leo Lovel

Book Overview

Read these stories and you will have struck thousands of pounds of mullet with a gill net, hunted turkeys and deer, been stone crabbin' from before daylite till dark, hauled grouper two at a time in a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0970961618
• ISBN13: 9780970961617
• Release Date: June 2000
• Publisher: Leo V Lovel
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Reliving good times

I am from Pensacola, Fl. and been on a trip, on my way home stopped at Bates Turkey in Greenville Al. for lunch and found your book and could not put it down. Many of your fishing stories are very similar to my life on the water gill net fishing in this area as we know those days are gone but you can keep the spirit alive in tour writting. I have not found a book anything like yours. I liked it enough to buy the second book after reading it hoped you would write a third. Thank you for sharing your stories that will help preserve the history of fishing comunities along the gulf coast

Wonderful depiction of real life, country-style

I'm from Michigan, but I have some Florida friends and have visited a few times. I grew up in the country. I think that country people look to the country wherever they go. When we visit Florida, I ditch the town and hit the creeks and springs right away. I only eat at local-owned restaurants. It's just the best thing in the world to eat fish fresh caught by the owners at a beach-front restaurant. Anyway, this Michigander says this book is right on! So, Leo, you've got cross-over status! You don't have to be from Florida. All it takes is an appreciation of unvarnished reality. Straight, family-style storytelling. Truth is always stranger than fiction anyway. Why invent things when life itself is so rich? Leo, you're onto something! I publish "small world" books myself...Leo's book is an example of what I call a good book! (Oh, and I had nothing to do with it, except to read it, recognize something good and wish it well!)Read this book to read about real life. It shows a heritage anyone could have pride in. And it's being replaced by what? ... Enjoy the last of the Panhandle while you can, folks. But don't worry: "they" are doing the same to the rest of the country. What a thing to leave your kids. (Oh, that's not why you ruined our land? Why then?) But remember: the enemy is us: whenever we buy from a chain, franchise or absentee-owner, we're helping destroy the heritage this land had. I *especially* enjoyed reading the preface where Leo says thanks to the local fish patrol, who if they hadn't busted him he would've never had the time off work to write this book. There ya have it!

Great depiction of the REAL Florida

I am a native Floridian, but I had never spent a large amount of time in the small fishing villages on the Gulf Coast, mainly just going en route to the beach or for (in my opinion) the best seafood in the world. This book does a wonderful job of bringing places like Spring Creek to life, with all of its natural beauty and fascinating people. It's also a great read because everything is broken up into short stories, and by the time you're finished you'll feel like you've been there and met the people and seen the sights that have clearly made a tremendous impression on the author. Also notable is that the book is fantastically illustrated with drawings of the wildlife and natural scenery. Sadly, though, it appears that the book will stand as a memorial to a way of life that the State of Florida seems have decided is expendable, despite the fact that people like these are so much of a part of Florida's heritage. (Sorry for ranting there) Anyway, I highly recommend this book without any reservation.