South Walton local and SoWal.com friend Garrett Horn has recently published a new book, Postcards of Seagrove, a blend of area photos and narratives capturing the beach life experience over the years in Seagrove Beach and other nearby beach towns. The paper back book is available at Sundog Books in Seaside, Hidden Lantern in Rosemary Beach, and Amazon.com. Book signings will take place this weekend in Seaside and Rosemary Beach where you can meet the author and pick up your copy.
Grab your Postcards of Seagrove for a slice of magic along a pristine stretch of the Florida Panhandle, halfway between Panama City and Fort Walton, in the still-unincorporated town of Seagrove Beach, “where nature did its best.”
Come out to meet Garrett at his book signing events this weekend Fri and Sat nights!
Friday, May 20 @ Sundog Books from 5-8pm
tip: stop by Modica Market for a wine/beer tasting and live music on the sidewalk around the same time!
Saturday, May 21 @ Sundog Books from 5-8pm
Sunday, May 22 @ The Hidden Lantern Bookstore 1-4pm
About Postcards of Seagrove
Seagrove is a small beach town located in northwest Florida on the Gulf of Mexico. Seagrove is also a state of mind. “Postcards of Seagrove” might best be described as a somewhat autographical, semi-fictitious history, but without a cohesive narrative. Hence, the notion that these are “postcards”. It is an attempt to capture the spirit of beach living, in and around Seagrove Beach in the “early days” of settlement, roughly the sixties, seventies, and eighties, but venturing into the near present. It is a combination of short vignettes, mostly two or three pages, describing bits of the lifestyle of a young man during this time period, and it tries to tiptoe between true history and the surrealistic thoughts of our young man, sometimes blurring the lines between fact and fiction. Although most of these postcards are settled in the warm, fuzzy decades of the past, some of them are settled only in the author’s mind, perhaps, also, warm and fuzzy.
About Author Garrett Horn
Garrett Horn is a person who has traveled a lot, especially as a young kid. As the son of an Air Force officer, he was lived in Japan, Saudi Arabia, and Germany by the time he was 10 years old. During that early period of his life overseas, he also traveled to Rome, Jerusalem, Cairo, Athens, Heidelberg, Paris, and Amsterdam. Most of his high school and college days were spent between Ft. Walton Beach and Tallahassee in the Florida panhandle. No matter where he lived, his heart was, always, in Seagrove.
In 1983, while working as a journeyman carpenter, he had the privilege to join a small group of people who were just beginning the construction of the town of Seaside. It was around this time that he began to write small descriptions of what he saw and felt, and as the years rolled on, these notebooks of paper gradually began to form the core of “Postcards of Seagrove”. Garrett continues his career in homebuilding, being one of the many proud builders in this great community of craftsmen dedicated to building some of the finest houses to be found anywhere.
Somewhere, in the years that have transpired since those golden years at the beginnings of Seaside, the author has assumed maturity, along with marriage, grown children, and even grandchildren. He still lives in Seagrove with his wife, Nina on the lakeside property that his father first discovered in 1959.
Photos from Postcards of Seagrove
just a few selections shared with us by Garrett...
Eastern Lake in the 60s
The old Butler Store in Grayton Beach in the 70s
Seaside Florida 1984
Congratulations to Garrett, long time SoWal.com reader, original forum member and old friend. Publishing your slice of life from Seagrove is a labor of love which many will enjoy in the years to come. Cheers to the good life in a very special place.
Teresa and Kurt Lischka, SoWal.com
Grab your Postcards of Seagrove for a slice of magic along a pristine stretch of the Florida Panhandle, halfway between Panama City and Fort Walton, in the still-unincorporated town of Seagrove Beach, “where nature did its best.”
Come out to meet Garrett at his book signing events this weekend Fri and Sat nights!
Friday, May 20 @ Sundog Books from 5-8pm
tip: stop by Modica Market for a wine/beer tasting and live music on the sidewalk around the same time!
Saturday, May 21 @ Sundog Books from 5-8pm
Sunday, May 22 @ The Hidden Lantern Bookstore 1-4pm
About Postcards of Seagrove
Seagrove is a small beach town located in northwest Florida on the Gulf of Mexico. Seagrove is also a state of mind. “Postcards of Seagrove” might best be described as a somewhat autographical, semi-fictitious history, but without a cohesive narrative. Hence, the notion that these are “postcards”. It is an attempt to capture the spirit of beach living, in and around Seagrove Beach in the “early days” of settlement, roughly the sixties, seventies, and eighties, but venturing into the near present. It is a combination of short vignettes, mostly two or three pages, describing bits of the lifestyle of a young man during this time period, and it tries to tiptoe between true history and the surrealistic thoughts of our young man, sometimes blurring the lines between fact and fiction. Although most of these postcards are settled in the warm, fuzzy decades of the past, some of them are settled only in the author’s mind, perhaps, also, warm and fuzzy.
About Author Garrett Horn
Garrett Horn is a person who has traveled a lot, especially as a young kid. As the son of an Air Force officer, he was lived in Japan, Saudi Arabia, and Germany by the time he was 10 years old. During that early period of his life overseas, he also traveled to Rome, Jerusalem, Cairo, Athens, Heidelberg, Paris, and Amsterdam. Most of his high school and college days were spent between Ft. Walton Beach and Tallahassee in the Florida panhandle. No matter where he lived, his heart was, always, in Seagrove.
In 1983, while working as a journeyman carpenter, he had the privilege to join a small group of people who were just beginning the construction of the town of Seaside. It was around this time that he began to write small descriptions of what he saw and felt, and as the years rolled on, these notebooks of paper gradually began to form the core of “Postcards of Seagrove”. Garrett continues his career in homebuilding, being one of the many proud builders in this great community of craftsmen dedicated to building some of the finest houses to be found anywhere.
Somewhere, in the years that have transpired since those golden years at the beginnings of Seaside, the author has assumed maturity, along with marriage, grown children, and even grandchildren. He still lives in Seagrove with his wife, Nina on the lakeside property that his father first discovered in 1959.
Photos from Postcards of Seagrove
just a few selections shared with us by Garrett...
Eastern Lake in the 60s
The old Butler Store in Grayton Beach in the 70s
Seaside Florida 1984
Congratulations to Garrett, long time SoWal.com reader, original forum member and old friend. Publishing your slice of life from Seagrove is a labor of love which many will enjoy in the years to come. Cheers to the good life in a very special place.
Teresa and Kurt Lischka, SoWal.com
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