Every piece is limestone: curved crescent moons, towering planets, beds, rocking chairs, tables, star-shaped fountains, a functional sundial, all carved from that brittle, bone-encrusted rock, painful to the touch when it’s sun-starched. ![]() Ed, who was reportedly 5 feet tall, 129 pounds, and chronically sick with a respiratory illness, alone took 2.2 million pounds of limestone and built a giant, megalithic “castle” of a dollhouse. I don’t know if Edward “Ed” Leeskalnin considered the poetics of this metaphor, but he unwittingly embodied it when he built Coral Castle in 1923. Floridians traverse a wet, aquatic history with every footstep. I am the only native Floridian in my family, and this is my favorite thing about Florida: that it’s a sponge made of dead things. ![]() ![]() They should probably call it the Limestone State, because that’s what Florida is made of: porous limestone, itself composed partly of mollusks and corals - their dried, skeletal remains.
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