Was the magic for you an original bedtime story told by one of your parents? Or was it a tale told around a fireplace or campfire by an adult friend or relative? Perhaps the magic came from stories about your mother or father when they were young or even from stories of distant family members you never met.
What happened to the magic of storytelling? Where do you go today to find that magic for your own child if you are a parent or for your students if you are a teacher? What you are about to discover in The Adventures of Charlie Piercebook series is a truly remarkable storytelling experience for you and your child or student. These are the best of true life stories that have been passed down through family members for five generations.
Charlie Pierce led one of the most intriguing and exotic lives imaginable. His adventures as a young boy growing up in the wild, untamed frontier of Florida became legendary. Perhaps no other boy in America’s history experienced firsthand as many important events and met as many influential characters.
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The Adventures of Charlie Piercebook series captivates readers of all ages while following the epic adventures of Charlie and his Seminole friend, Tiger Bowlegs. Follow Charlie and his family as they become the first settlers in the American Jungle, encounter wild animals, survive hurricanes, endure great personal challenges, and discover Spanish treasure. Your entire family will love Charlie Pierce and his adventures.
This Website is your invitation to explore the world of Charlie Pierce. Whether you are a teacher or parent, here you will find information, articles and tools to re-discover the art of storytelling to awaken the power of history in your child or student through true life family experiences.
The first three books in The Adventures of Charlie Pierceseries are available now and can be purchased at the Buy Book tab. See the Educationpage for specifics on how the Charlie Pierce books fulfill teaching standards. New pages and information of interest for both parents, children and teachers will be added to this site on a regular basis. For now, please accept this welcome to your journey of re-discovering the magic of storytelling.Charles William Pierce (July 16, 1864 – July 10, 1939) was one of South Florida's most important pioneer citizs. Arriving in 1872, Pierce was a community leader in banking, seamanship, the postal service, and author of the stinel book on early South Florida life.
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Charlie Pierce was the son of Hannibal Dillingham Pierce and Margretta Louise Moore. Born in Waukegan, Illinois, Pierce's family moved to Chicago. Pierce's uncle, William H. Moore, told the Pierce family of the warm Florida weather, and how he believed it would cure his developing tuberculosis. Hannibal Pierce purchased a sailing vessel (the Fairy Belle) for the family to sail down the Mississippi River towards Florida. Just as they were preparing for the trip, the Great Chicago Fire consumed most of the city, but not the Pierce boat. The family set sail and evtually moored at Cedar Key. Hannibal Pierce sold the boat and the family wt by train and steamer to Sand Point (Titusville, Florida). They camped for several weeks on the Indian River until a fire destroyed their possessions. Hannibal Pierce th accepted a position as an assistant lighthouse keeper at the Jupiter Lighthouse.
After serving at the Jupiter Lighthouse for a year, Hannibal Pierce homesteaded a large portion of Hypoluxo Island, located in the Lake Worth Lagoon. At the time of their homestead claim, the island had no name. In conversations with the Seminole Indians, Hannibal Pierce learned that the name was Hypoluxo, which meant water all around, no get out. Here the family built a house from driftwood and palmetto thatch.
Hannibal Pierce became the keeper of the Orange Grove House of Refuge, in what would become Delray Beach. The United States federal governmt built five Houses of Refuge in Florida to care for shipwrecked sailors. It was at the House of Refuge that the first child of European desct was born, Lillie Pierce (Lillie Pierce Voss), in 1876. The Pierce family returned to its Hypoluxo Island homestead. Pierce led many expeditions through the Everglades on hunting and fishing trips, being one of the first to explore what would become Everglades National Park.
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Pierce accompanied his boyhood frid Guy Bradley, Bradley's brother Louis and famed egret plume hunter Jean Chevalier aboard Pierce's boat the Bonton in 1885. The hunting party killed thousands of birds for their plumes, which were used to decorate wom's hats. The egret plumes were worth more than their weight in gold.
Pierce began piloting boats through the inland route to Titusville, the main point of trade on the lower Florida east coast at that time.
Pierce tered the U.S. Postal Service in 1886, starting as assistant postmaster at Hypoluxo. In 1888, he became one of the famed Barefoot Mailm (a term he was the first to use, in 1939) who walked the beaches and crossed the rivers betwe Hypoluxo and Miami, a trek of over 60 miles (97 km). In 1893, Pierce began captaining the mail steamer Hypoluxo which delivered mail through the Lake Worth Region along the 22 miles (35 km) lgth of the inland waterway. Pierce also farmed tracts on Hypoluxo Island on his homestead. In 1895, Pierce moved to Boynton, Florida, where he had a dry goods store near the Florida East Coast railway station. In his store he also served as town postmaster, a career that spanned more than 30 years. He served from 1900 until 1903, th from 1908 until his passing in 1939.
The American Jungle The Adventures Of Charlie Pierce (2008)
Pierce also served as presidt of the Bank of Boynton, and was one of the first masters of the Masonic Lodge in Boynton Beach.
They had one son, Charles Leon Chuck Pierce, the first boy of European desct born in Boynton Beach. Yallahs Pierce was the daughter of traveling tertainers Watty Wallack and Fannie Peters Wallack.
Pierce th married Ethel Sims August 16, 1924. Charlie Pierce died July 10, 1939, following a short illness; Charlie and Yallahs are interred at Woodlawn Cemetery in West Palm Beach.
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Towards the d of his life, Pierce worked on a manuscript of his experices and advtures in his Florida pioneer days. The 698-page work, titled On the Wings of the World remained unpublished for decades. In the 1960s, Judge James R. Knott, a promint Palm Beach County historian, sought the help of Florida Atlantic University history professor Dr. Donald Walter Curl.
Dr. Curl took the manuscript and added historical context to the masterpiece. The resulting book was Pioneer Life in South Florida, heralded as an authoritative work on pioneer history in South Florida.
In 1981, the Florida Departmt of State and the Florida League of Cities created the Great Floridians program to recognize deceased individuals who made significant contributions to the state's history and culture. Charles Pierce is one of 89 Floridians giv this great honor. His plaque is at the Oyer Building (site of the old Boynton Beach Post Office), 523–525 East Ocean Avue, Boynton Beach, Florida
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In 2008, Pierce's great-grand nephew Harvey Oyer III, published a childr's book based on Pierce's early Florida advtures. The American Jungle: The Advtures of Charlie Pierce became a standard reader for childr in many Florida school districts, where Florida history is an integral part of the fourth grade curriculum. The book's popularity resulted in subsequt books in the series, including The Last Egret, The Last Calusa and The Barefoot Mailman.
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