If you love Florida history, you really ought to meet author/instructor Cathy Salustri

Did you see the write-up about Cathy Salustri in The Gabber? If you're at all curious about Florida history you'd do well to get to know Cathy. She teaches some of the history sessions in the Eckerd College Osher Lifelong Institute. She's also the author of Backroads of Paradise, a fascinating volume in which she takes a modern-day tour of some of the places detailed in The WPA Guide to Florida. Scholars of the state's history know that the Works Progress Administration's Federal Writers Project kept writers such as Zora Neale Hurston, Stetson Kennedy, and Carita Doggett Corse employed during the Depression. Cathy is the arts and entertainment editor at Creative Loafing Tampa Bay. She used to write for The Gabber and once worked at the Florida Studies program at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg. Cathy is working on a new book about small towns in Florida. She lives in Gulfport, one of the small towns she's likely to write about.