Findlay resident and nationally-published author, Dan Guillory, was the special guest speaker at the Shelbyville Rotary Club meeting on Monday. Guillory quipped, “Of course, you are not a true Findlay resident unless you have lived there for at least 100 years and fathered three or four other families that bear your name.”

Especially if you come from Up North like our family does, it's easy to think of railroads in connection with states such as New York or Pennsylvania, where my Granddad Dickinson drove an engine for the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie line, a starched white shirt collar under his jacket and a striped engineer's hat on his head. But when it comes to great railroad states, Florida can stake its claim with the best of them.

They are gone now. In most villages, it's hard to even find where they once stood. But 100 years ago, everyone could point to the local railroad depot.

Jay Price, who directs the public history program at Wichita State University, has done a masterful job of chronicling the history of El Dorado through pictures and narrative in "El Dorado: Legacy of an Oil Boom."

"You ought to get all those pictures together and publish them in one nice book." Many readers who like this section's old-time scenes have told us that. Lynne Howard Frazer has done it. Twice. Her first paperback chronicle of postcards and other old photos, from Naples' earliest days, came out last year. Now she has published a sequel, "Naples: 1940s to 1970s.""While I was researching my first book, 'Naples,' I saw the incredible photos in the Daily News archives, and was especially intrigued with the images from the 1940s to the 1970s," she writes. "This is such an overlooked period in the history of Naples — the coming-of-age years when the languishing backwater became a boomtown." Frazer has a master's degree in colonial American history from the College of William and Mary in Virginia. A former business writer for the Daily News, she now does freelance work for regional and national publications.