I beg to differ about the insects and snakes, but many parts of this were spot on. Our well on my homestead in Point Washington was artesian until First American Farms bled everybody's well from Freeport on down dry in the 1960's. I grew up on sulphur water and either lime or iron or both.
And although you can no longer see it, 40 years ago you could walk the woods between my family's store (the building is now Haven House Thrift Store and what is now Helen McCall Park and see large craters/depressions in the ground. I was told that is where a large citrus operation was that fell victim to canker during the old Santa Rosa days.
