"A knowledge of history is a very vital basic cultural asset. History does not have to be a recording of dull happenings of the past. History is for those seeking knowledge. We live with the results of history, and at the same time we, today, are making history for generations to come. History preserves the accounts of all classes and, recited properly, becomes the most charming of all stories. It is a living thing... a moving thought. When we reach the end of recorded facts, history passes into an unknown darkness and it is here that tales are told and legends begin.

The more one knows and understand the history of the world, the more one knows and understand life itself. There is no better place to start a study that with the very beginning of time, the beginning of man. Hence, we start with some basic facts."

-Florida's Hibiscus City Vero Beach by J. Noble Richards