http://marconews.com/news/etc/features/marconews.com Stories: Featuresen-usetc/featureshttp://marconews.com/news/2008/jul/13/magnificent-mile-tour-naples-trolley/If you’ve lived in Naples for a decade or more, most residents would call you a native. Those born and bred in Southwest Florida who have stayed in the area are few and far between. Sun, 13 Jul 2008 04:03:00 -0000http://marconews.com/news/2008/jul/13/magnificent-mile-tour-naples-trolley/featureshttp://marconews.com/news/2008/jul/13/nazi-germany-naples-perilous-road/An elderly man sat on a leather chair at Borders Books in Naples. On the floor next to him, a couple of aluminum crutches. “Would you watch my chair while I go to the men’s room?” the man asked before hobbling ever so slowly through the rows of books and magazines heading to the restroom. After what seemed to be a very long time, he returned and sat again. Sun, 13 Jul 2008 04:02:00 -0000http://marconews.com/news/2008/jul/13/nazi-germany-naples-perilous-road/featureshttp://marconews.com/news/2008/jul/13/avow-hospice-music-therapists-bring-song-soothing-/Erin Melton is making a house call. The Avow Hospice therapist enters the East Naples home. She is greeted by her patient’s family members and asks if there’s been any developments since the last time she visited. Melton is told her patient has taken a turn for the worse, that he is mostly unresponsive. Sun, 13 Jul 2008 04:01:00 -0000http://marconews.com/news/2008/jul/13/avow-hospice-music-therapists-bring-song-soothing-/localhttp://marconews.com/news/2008/jul/13/big-three-july-13-2008/  Sun, 13 Jul 2008 04:00:00 -0000http://marconews.com/news/2008/jul/13/big-three-july-13-2008/etc/featureshttp://marconews.com/news/2008/jul/13/words-wisdom-natures-cycle/There are many poems written about nature, including those written about the world, universe, environment, seasons, plants and animals. If we were to include those poems written about “human nature” the list becomes even longer. Sun, 13 Jul 2008 04:00:00 -0000http://marconews.com/news/2008/jul/13/words-wisdom-natures-cycle/etc/featureshttp://marconews.com/news/2008/jul/13/strange-true-july-13-2008/ If your take-home pay leaves something to be desired, you probably won’t be surprised to learn that the English word “salary” is derived from the Latin word for the allowance provided to Roman soldiers to buy salt. Sun, 13 Jul 2008 04:00:00 -0000http://marconews.com/news/2008/jul/13/strange-true-july-13-2008/etc/featureshttp://marconews.com/news/2008/jul/13/your-tv-review-july-13-2008/  Sun, 13 Jul 2008 04:00:00 -0000http://marconews.com/news/2008/jul/13/your-tv-review-july-13-2008/etc/featureshttp://marconews.com/news/2008/jul/13/everglades-captured-mural/A one-of-a-kind photographic mural of the Everglades has been installed at Big Cypress Market Place, a new air-conditioned flea market and winery opening this summer in East Naples. Sun, 13 Jul 2008 04:00:00 -0000http://marconews.com/news/2008/jul/13/everglades-captured-mural/featureshttp://marconews.com/news/2008/jul/06/laid-back-everglades-city-celebrates-fourth-sixth/Folks do things a little differently in Everglades City. At few times is that more evident than at the town’s annual Fourth of July parade, held Sunday. “Our fireworks are the best,” said Mayor Sammy Hamilton Jr. “That’s the reason we don’t do it the same day as everybody else, because ours are the best and we want everyone to be able to come and see ours.” Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:43:00 -0000http://marconews.com/news/2008/jul/06/laid-back-everglades-city-celebrates-fourth-sixth/going_outhttp://marconews.com/news/2008/jul/06/forever-legacies-prints-and-family/Awe inspiring photographs and art grace the walls of Joel and Judy Gewirtz’s second floor office on Marco Island. As a C.P.A. for more than 25 years, Gewirtz’s career in accounting is a situational irony compared to his role as a photographer and publisher of his coffee table books. Sun, 06 Jul 2008 04:03:00 -0000http://marconews.com/news/2008/jul/06/forever-legacies-prints-and-family/localhttp://marconews.com/news/2008/jul/06/story-naples-squatters/Most of us may remember Walter Haldeman’s name when we think back to the beginning of Naples. But, how about Roger Gordon? Joe Wiggins or the Weeks brothers? Sun, 06 Jul 2008 04:02:00 -0000http://marconews.com/news/2008/jul/06/story-naples-squatters/etc/featureshttp://marconews.com/news/2008/jul/06/florida-naturally-features-34-works-color-photogra/Now through August 20, Florida Naturally features 34 works in color photography, painting and bronze sculpture. Artists who choose landscapes and wildlife as their subject matter have a very special affinity for nature. Sun, 06 Jul 2008 04:01:00 -0000http://marconews.com/news/2008/jul/06/florida-naturally-features-34-works-color-photogra/going_outhttp://marconews.com/news/2008/jul/06/words-wisdom-freedom-and-what-it-means-be-human/Freedom can be defined as “the right to choose and the power to be, act ,speak or think without externally imposed restraints.” It is the capacity for self-determination through individual free will. To be free is to be in possession of oneself. Sun, 06 Jul 2008 04:00:00 -0000http://marconews.com/news/2008/jul/06/words-wisdom-freedom-and-what-it-means-be-human/etc/featureshttp://marconews.com/news/2008/jul/06/down-yonder-beyond-celebration/Another Fourth of July has come and gone and we remain free people — most of us, anyway, so far. I admit I couldn’t help myself and shot a couple of bottle rockets into the bayou just to see the flash and hear the muffled, “boof.” I hope the fish and pelicans don’t suffer too much because of my freedom. Sun, 06 Jul 2008 04:00:00 -0000http://marconews.com/news/2008/jul/06/down-yonder-beyond-celebration/etc/downyonderhttp://marconews.com/news/2008/jul/06/strange-true-july-6-2008/Actress Sharon Stone, of “Basic Instinct,” is a member of MENSA, the most famous high-IQ society in the world. Sun, 06 Jul 2008 04:00:00 -0000http://marconews.com/news/2008/jul/06/strange-true-july-6-2008/etc/featureshttp://marconews.com/news/2008/jul/06/big-three-july-6-2008/  Sun, 06 Jul 2008 04:00:00 -0000http://marconews.com/news/2008/jul/06/big-three-july-6-2008/etc/featureshttp://marconews.com/news/2008/jun/29/parade-history-fourth-july-celebrations-explained/When Mary and Henry Watkins arrived in Naples in 1949, they brought with them a new tradition — fireworks! “My husband’s family owned a fireworks factory in Indiana,” recalls Naples’ first lady of hospitality. “There weren’t any fireworks displays here, or if there were, they were minimal. So we just did our own thing. Every year, he’d shoot fireworks off the beach in front of house.” Sun, 29 Jun 2008 04:02:00 -0000http://marconews.com/news/2008/jun/29/parade-history-fourth-july-celebrations-explained/featureshttp://marconews.com/news/2008/jun/29/wwii-vet-crashes-germany/Little did Bill Pace know when he was drafted into the United States Army Air Corps in June of 1943 that he would wind up being captured by a German officer from Chicago. Sun, 29 Jun 2008 04:01:00 -0000http://marconews.com/news/2008/jun/29/wwii-vet-crashes-germany/featureshttp://marconews.com/news/2008/jun/29/artist-residence-angelika-kade/Art League, Marco Island’s Center for the Arts, continues the Summer Wine and Art Series from 5:30 to 7 p.m. on July 1 featuring a variety of wines in addition to the opening of a special exhibit of art by Angelika Kade. Sun, 29 Jun 2008 04:00:00 -0000http://marconews.com/news/2008/jun/29/artist-residence-angelika-kade/going_outhttp://marconews.com/news/2008/jun/29/links-naples-regarded-working-persons-course-area/Pre-1996, it was just a big old piece of farm land out on the Tamiami Trail near 6L Farms. Enter Wayne Wallrich, owner of a string of golf courses scattered across the country. His vision: create an executive course that would have the added attraction of being lit up for night golfing, just like one of his ventures in Tampa. Then, make it cheap. Make it the working person’s course. Sun, 29 Jun 2008 04:00:00 -0000http://marconews.com/news/2008/jun/29/links-naples-regarded-working-persons-course-area/play/golf