Never mind the stereotype of singleminded profiteering and greed in American business, with its crippling economic consequences.

The do-gooders remain strikingly in evidence, fortunately for the rest of us.

Benjamin Disraeli, the famed author and British statesman in the mid-1800s, said there are three kinds of lies: lies, darned lies and statistics.

The final frontier of Southwest Florida attracted all walks of life, men and women who were connected by the common thread of adventure and freedom. Perhaps nowhere is this connection so unusual as the one between Walter Haldeman, the founder of Naples, and Dr. Cyrus Teed, founder of the Koreshan Unity settlement in Estero.

“Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these courageous couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.” Contrary to what many people think, those words did not originate with the United States Postal Service.