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Peggy Farren

Longtime Naples resident and recently retired Peggy Farren now lives in Port Charlotte and is delighting in discovering the many parks and trails there. One of her favorites is Charlotte Harbor State Park, above. “You really feel like you are out in the middle of nowhere,” she says. Before it was blown away by Hurricane Ian, she also loved the Cape Romano Dome House, right. She first visited the six abandoned modules in 2015 and soon was leading photo tours to the locally famous curiosity in the Ten Thousand Islands. Hurricane Irma took the first two domes out in 2017; Ian finished the job last September. “I’m so happy that not only did I get to see the house so many times, but that I could bring so many others there to enjoy and photograph it,” she says.

03/08/2023 01:00 AM

Peggy Farren celebrated her 19th birthday on the road, moving to Orlando with her family from Michigan in 1978. A longtime Naples resident who now calls Port Charlotte home, she had never seen frost in the Sunshine State until the Christmas cold snap of 2022. “It took me a few minutes to process what I was seeing on my windshield!” she says. We’re glad she thought to snap a picture with her iPhone.