When author Jessie Allen Chesser was growing up in Naples, Florida, it was a time of small-town living, where folks were hard workers, where friendships were cherished and enduring. In The East Side of the River, Chesser's moving and well-researched tribute to the history of Naples and her family's place in its nineteenth century origins, readers are introduced to a world of settlers on the town's working-class east side, fishermen and farmers who struggled through hardship and hurricanes, yet forged ahead to add their name to the founders of Collier County. Chesser recalls in vivid prose her...