Son on a beach

Don’t get excited! Slow down—read the title again. This column is about an unbelievable adventure that happened many years ago to our family on a vacation in Florida.

My late wife was insistent we stay on Treasure Island. Her reasoning went like this: Her mother and father always vacationed there AND her best friend from Indiana did the same.

Treasure Island is a sliver of land off the shore of St. …