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A playful sign on display in the original Card's Optician's, Inc. on State Highway 17-92.

A photograph of the current storefront for Card's Optician's, Inc., a local Winter Park Business.

Published in 1966, this was the first book Mrs. Carruth penned. She was 85 years old when it was written. The illustrations were drawn by Herbert McClure

Mrs. Carruth was the author many articles. One of her pieces was featured in this March 1920 issue of The Open Road and was entitled: The Calendar. It was co-written by her husband, W.M. Carruth.

During the 1920s, Mrs. Carruth had several short works featured in these small publications. Some are described as monologs, others read as plays. They are only four to seven pages in length! They were published by Eldridge Entertainment House. The…

Review of "She Wanted To Read" that appeared in the Winter Park Sun-Herald, April 21, 1966.

This article, Her Mind to Her a Kingdom Is, appeared in Yankee magazine on September 4, 1938. It was written under her pen name, Delane Heath.

*Many readers assumed that the elderly woman in the photograph was indeed the mother of the author.…