We've said it before: In South Florida, where some think nothing happened until Henry Flagler showed up, a century is a long, long time. Indeed, the story of the Barefoot Mailman is almost 140 years ...

In a world of email, text messaging, and Facebook, it’s hard to believe that the Barefoot Mailman actually existed. But in the 1880s, with no roads to connect the 68-mile route from Palm Beach to ...

So said Columbia Pictures director Earl McEvoy in July 1950 about capturing a stretch of virgin beach on film just before new construction began. The movie was “The Barefoot Mailman,” based on a novel ...

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Editor's note: This story was excerpted and edited from an Eliot Kleinberg Florida Times column that originally ran in 2012. We've said it before: In South Florida, where some think nothing happened ...

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