PASCO: Then and Gone (Pasco Past Series)

PASCO: Then and Gone (Pasco Past Series)

Pasco: Pastures to Pavement is a true-to-life memoir that traces one man’s journey through the backroads and backwoods of Old Central Florida — before progress paved over the past. Harold R. Andrews grew up in a time when barefoot boys fished cow ponds, bonfires lit up Saturday nights, and neighbors measured wealth in cattle and kin, not concrete and cash. Through vivid storytelling and dry country humor, Andrews takes readers from his youthful days in the cow pastures and orange groves of Land O’ Lakes to the modern developments that replaced them. Along the way, he captures the spirit of a vanishing Florida — its people, values, and hard-earned lessons — in a voice that’s both personal and universal. More than nostalgia, Pasco: Pastures to Pavement is a reckoning with change: what’s gained, what’s lost, and what still lingers in the heart long after the fences fall and the roads are paved.