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Robin Van Auken

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Robin Van Auken is a writer and professional archaeologist. She enjoys working on projects, large and small, through her research company, Hands-on Heritage.

She is the author and co-author of 10 books on regional history, including “Play Ball! The Story of Little League Baseball.”

She also is the author of contemporary romance (sometimes writing as Madeline Sloane).

‘Island Time’ Began Here

The ‘Before Times’

We live on Pine Island, the largest island in Florida. Once upon a time, the little village of Matlacha welcomed us as we drove from the mainland to get home.

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It was a place of sun and color, the narrow ribbon of land between sea and sky. It was a cluster of brightly painted houses, art-filled shops, and weathered docks that bobbed like sleepy sentinels along the saltwater’s e

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