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Joe Palmer

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in Waycross, The United States

Website

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joe_fernandina

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Fiction, Contemporary

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Pat Conroy, Ray Bradbury, William Faulkner

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A native of Waycross, Georgia, Joe Palmer is an award winning former newspaper reporter and longtime columnist, whose folksy newspaper column, Cup of Joe, ran for ten years in the Fernandina Beach News-Leader with a large and enthusiastic following.

He’s written investigative reporting and feature stories for the Bradenton Herald, Macon Telegraph and News and the Florida Times-Union, where he wrote a long series of articles about a plague that was killing massive numbers of Atlantic bottlenose dolphins on the East coast in 1987.

A Navy veteran and medical corpsman, Joe went on to work as a surgeon’s assistant at a major medical center in Jacksonville, Florida, while attending college for his BA in English with an emphasis on literature. He pa ...more

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Naughty And Nice For Christmas

One of the perks of being married a long time is that you know what and what not to get your wife for Christmas. Trolling motors are out. Ditto vacuum cleaners. Jewelry’s always a winner, especially if it’s so expensive you have to hock your boat to pay for it.

We old dogs who’ve been hanging out in the Christmas shopping for wives market long enough have figured out the kinds of gifts that’ll mak

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