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58. Workers arrive hours before sunrise for buses bound for
the fields.
67. Hurricane Irma rain floods the low-lying areas of Belle
Glade.
70. The Schelecter Tree survived the Storm of 1928. It
marks the spot where the Schelecter home used to be and
where several members of the family perished during the
hurricane.
79. A medicine cabinet inside the Osceola Housing Authority
project in Belle Glade. The complex was built in the 1930s,
following the Great Depression, to provide housing for migrant
farmworkers.
86. A rooming house is an apartment building with single
rooms for rent and shared communal bathrooms. They
were constructed to house the large number of agriculture
workers, foreign and domestic, who flocked to the Glades
for seasonal farm work. There are still some in use.
92. "The Sara Lee Doll" was the first anatomically accurate
black doll produced in the United States. It was made by
Sara Creech of Belle Glade. Author Zora Neale Hurston,
who was friends with Ms. Creech, also played a role in its
production. Mary Evans, featured in the photo, was one of
the original models for the doll.
94. T.I. cared for his dog Gator as he ran a laundromat in down
town Belle Glade.
98. After work, Ms. Balla's place is the gathering spot for old
friends in downtown Belle Glade.
102. The Sunday domino tournaments rotate from bar to bar
each week so that each club owner can make a profit.
105. Participants compete for first place and $40. Scores are
tallied to see who wins the domino tournament.
108. Dreddy and David at Dee's Lounge.
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109. Fish for sale.
112. Mourners at Cowboy's Deadyard (funeral celebration).
118. Uncle Bill was known for his dancing and for being Belle
Glade's best pool player.
126. A shrine honors a Belle Glade man who was shot and killed.
131. Tape keeps bugs from climbing in through a bullet hole in
my wall.
134. Kids hone their shooting skills around Thanksgiving by
aiming at targets for a chance to win a turkey.
136. From the Lawrence E. Will Museum archives, the first
Harvest Queen contestants in Belle Glade.
138. High school students practice for a tractor driving competition
at Glades Day, a private school in Belle Glade.
139. Kids in the FFA (Future Farmers of America) program
learn to care for livestock, which they then sell at the annual
South Florida Fair.
145. Business pioneer George Wedgworth founded the Sugar
Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida in the 1960s by proposing
that many smaller farmers join to pool their resources.
Together, these pioneer farming families were able
to compete and survive.
150. Sugarcane harvesting is is done by heavy machinery, but
planting sugarcane is is still done by hand.
154. Former farmworkers from Jamaica have taken root in
Lake Harbor. J aniaicans were originally selected to come
work under contract in America and cut sugarcane by
hand. Heavy machinery has replaced that work but some
Jamaicans have stayed and built their lives in the Glades.
158. Local Historian Butch Wilson at the Clewiston Museum.
160. Angie and her family spend time together outside a motel
room they rented out in Belle Glade.