Pine Island: Old Florida in the New Millennium | Untold Stories
Pine Island: Old Florida in the New Millennium | Untold Stories
You could almost call Pine Island the “anti-Florida. No crowed beaches. No high rise condos. No fancy resorts. No sprawling subdivisions. But to these who live there, it represents all that Florida used to be. It’s more than just an island; it’s a way of life, much as it’s been since the first white settler put down roots in 1873.
The sunshine state has a rich and colorful history. For hundreds of years the state has attracted dreamers, opportunists, inventors and fortune-seekers. WGCU’s Untold Stories aims to preserve the history of Southwest Florida communities.
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Our way of life is being strangled to death by “progress”.
Great documentary! I moved to St. James City in 1983 with my grandparents and will always cherish those years!
What a production very good.i grew up in sarasota
If the Caloosa were so superior, then why are they virtually extinct/no more? Isn’t the human immune system part of evolution? Slaves are made such against their will, etc?
Do the residents still refer to themselves as “mullets”?
In the 1970s and 1980s that was my favorite spot to fish pine island sound great snook trout redfish and tarpon fishing and flounder
2:01 blowup in the water as big fish chases smaller fish.
Forty years ago we raised our children to appreciate nature and old Florida life. I am glad they had that experience.
About 5 years Ago, I wanted to write a piece called Ding Darling Wildlife Sanctuary has lost its ding. Comparing what it was like decades ago to what it was becoming and what it is now, void of the wild life. It was sad to see a decline in the waters been altered and I won’t comment by who.
I never heard of Pine Island.
Being born in Florida and missing it so much as I have lived and served overseas for 26 years, I adore the spirit and determination of these islanders for their desire to maintain such a humble and lovely community! I pray one day to be able to see this place for myself!
Pine island. A place for Karens
"Soon as the Colusa Indians left Pine Island"…that’s a way to gloss over the total decimation of a people after thousands of years…
Great video thanks!! Such a beautiful natural wonder! My great grandfather Frank English moved there with a lot of our family in the early sixties after retiring from the family TV/Radio business our family had just south of the Detroit border several generations.. Still have some great photos of their fish and stories..
We love SJC
No discussion of Pine Island being one of the premier tropical fruit growing communities in the country?
Grew up in Florida never knew Pine Island is the biggest island in Florida
A touching and inspirational video about the wonderful, Pine Island. The first time I visited Pine Island was in 1989. I should have bought a piece of property, then…especially near the water or canals. I have been back several times since then, and each time…I fall in love with it, again! There is just something very different, very unique, very old-fashioned, about it. Yet, you can drive to several towns nearby, quickly! I do have a friend at the gym, who has a mobile home on a canal there and he travels from Fort Lauderdale to Pine Island to fish. He says he may build a regular house there, one day. I want to learn more about the island now. My spouse loves mangos so it would be easy to live there now!
13:05 By my reckoning that’s about forty miles, now I could understand how it might take even longer through the Everglades or Big Cypress but I don’t understand how it could take three days from Pine Island to Fort Myers, what am I missing?
I miss Phil ❤️
Note: As much as the current residents of Pine Island want to retain its "unique" culture… remember the Colusa Native american residents wanted to preserve their way of life and culture too….
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Wonderful documentary.
Enjoyed video but so sad the Publix was allowed to be built. Such a monstrosity! Will destroy so many small and medium sized stores we frequent. Also worry about the future of Capt. Conns!
At 2:05, what is that jumping in the water off that lady’s right ear?
Great. Now people are going to rush to pine island and turn it into another wasteland of condos and McMansions.
hello i would like to give you all a heads up on a
mind blow dynamic of migration-al transition and adaptive fact
the Calusa as you call them are the survivors of the Mayan /Aztec Inca populations of south America
as of the post chietz sunnitize impact that is the I dotted and the T Crossed
if you think about it the Native American Indian is actually the ancestor
of the survivors of that event that migrated north to occupy and become
the Hopei Pueblo Anasazi Apache Seminole and all the other tribes history has recorded
in error
Was considering moving to the island. It was the junkie, and trailer park atmosphere that turned me off…
Wow nearly a mirror image of my island Cedar Key, Fla. up the gulf a piece.
my home, Bokeelia
@2:05 you can see a big fish busting bait in the background.
Aaaaaaaaa
We are not Indian we are Native Americans
um…um…um..
pine island also was a huge mango plantation
The jackasses at YouTube f’d up the aspect ratio.
Wiped out by slavery? Do we know that or is that just a guess? Is there evidence or story telling here?
Loving these videos…thankypu
Somehow the Natives have paid again.I hope they were compensated and provided an opportunity to use their talent and abilities of their beautiful environment I would love to go see the Art. Peace
Love the history… as a native Floridian it’s a true source of pride so the more knowledge the better! Shalom from Plant 🌱 City…
vince tapager is slow
I really enjoyed this. I had family in St. James City and spent many vacations there as a kid. No it’s not a resort town and I hope it never becomes one. Yeah you’d probably hate it so check out Marco or something.
When I saw the title I thought of Pine Island NY which is close to Florida NY. I grew up in Orange county not far from these towns.
The natives are still here and we’re walking on them. Spoken with such callous and ignorance. So basically he built his house on secret burial grounds. I but then again that’s Florida.
Show us on the map ..where ..pine lsland..is located
Awesome. I live in Cape, so I always wondered Pine islands story. Love learning new stuff
Wouldn’t it have been good to actually shell in the beginning where the hell Pine Island is
A Winn-Dixie? I thought for certain a Publix would’ve been there instead.
She says oh we dont know where they came from but the estuaries weren’t even formed until 6000 yrs ago. That’s when God made the Earth. The ENTIRE Bible is true. Jesus Christ is the way, truth, and life.
I love Pine Island
Sick of the ages old "they practiced human sacrifice", without any evidence, so white men had to take their lands and sacrifice them and their cultures for jesus.