Patchwork: The Poems and Prose Sketches of . . . Maley Bainbridge Crist]]> Short stories, Vignettes, or Poetry]]> Hotel Ponce de Leon with his fiancée, George Allen Van Zant, from the Bluegrass region of Kentucky meets and befriends a young girl, Petronilla Pedro, who develops a crush on the older man. She has a great love of music and he pays for her to receive lessons. He leaves after his vacation and she grows up. After Petronilla becomes a woman and a famed travelling soprano, she goes in search of the man who was kind to her.

Other notable local locations visited include the Cathedral Basilica, the seawall, and the Castillo de San Marcos.]]> Maley Crist]]> 1898]]> HathiTrust.
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