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  • Strickland's Landing closes for business [killed by death tax]

    05/21/2002 2:38:52 PM PDT · by xlib · 23 replies · 4,026+ views
    Gainesville Sun ^ | Tuesday, May 21, 2002 | GARY KIRKLAND
    For all of Elaine Thornton's life, the sight of Kingsley Lake has brought to mind happy thoughts of her family and memories of work and play. "What we see now is a ghost-like silhouette of what's been our way of life, and it's hard," she said. Thornton is the eldest daughter of Frow Woodrow Strickland, who for 56 years owned and operated Strickland's Landing, one of North Florida's favorite swimming holes, perched on Kingsley Lake next to Camp Blanding. Frow Strickland died April 15 at the age of 90, and two days later his five children learned their lives and...