Dear friends and RSR readers:
I must ask your kind forgiveness in my being absent for so long, but hope and trust you do understand that in addition to my currently working on three books and teaching classes at a local (Miami) fine and fully accredited university, I am involved with numerous local and statewide history projects and initiatives but want to assure you all that I will work diligently to improve my time performance.
Miami’s 125th anniversary is coming up in July and I am pleased to share a piece which I re-wrote for a fellow who is doing a yeoman’s job in preparing for said anniversary. Please enjoy but please remember that while this piece was written by my friend, Cesar Becerra, I did a major restructuring and correction(s) job and so I am not taking credit for anything but that, along with correcting some of the facts, in several cases in which said corrections needed to be made in order to be certain that truth was being conveyed.
LAND: The land at St Benet s (INSET: Joanna Brickell) RESIDENTS living near a county hotel say they are not against a proposed gym and leisure centre being built on-site, but think it should be built on a different part of the land. Joanna Brickell, who lives near Stanbrook Abbey Hotel in Callow End, said the proposed location of the building would affect the nearby birds and bats, as well as the plantlife. She said: “There are 26 acres within the Abbey Enclosure where the development could be built. “Former hotel managers said that the development would be in the old disused wing and stable block of the Abbey.