Ted Smallwood's Store in Chokoloskee has weathered Mother Nature's hurricanes and floods for a century. But can this piece of old Florida, now a nonprofit museum open to the public, survive humankinds ...

A 3-2 vote by the Collier County Board of Commissioners Tuesday will most likely send a land case involving the historic Smallwood Store to trial. The years-long litigation involving a developer, the ...

In the tradition of their forefathers, Seminole Indians today will glide across Chokoloskee Bay in cypress dugout boats. Their destination will be the same as it was for their fathers and grandfathers ...

CHOKOLOSKEE ISLAND, | The Seminole medicine man climbed the steep wooden stairs to the Ted Smallwood Store and shuffled past the counter used to measure raccoon hides, past the Jeris Hair Tonic ...

Ted Smallwood built his store out of Dade County Pine on the edge of Chokoloskee, facing the Everglades' Ten Thousand Islands. He called it Ted Smallwood's Store. In 1917, it was the hub of the ...

Sawgrass marches and scaly, slithering reptiles have lived in my backyard for most of my life. But, I am sad to say, I've only actually visited the swamp twice, from what I can remember. The first was ...

Legendary gospel composer Richard Smallwood has died at 77. His music was covered by Whitney Houston and Destiny's Child.

A taste of Italy is coming to St. Petersburg’s EDGE District• Food News The Tampa Bay Times e-Newspaper is a digital replica of the printed paper seven days a week that is available to read on desktop ...

As their forefathers had done in the early 1900s, Seminole Indians today will pole their cypress dugout boats across Chokoloskee Bay to a frontier trading post being restored on the western edge of ...

Chokoloskee is a small community located at the edge of the Ten Thousand Islands in Collier County. The population was 345 in 2020, according to the U.S. Census, down from 359 in 2010. The area was ...