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He named it Fernandina in honor of the King of Spain, but the English called it Long Island because of its appearance — 66 miles (106 km) long and no more than 4 miles (61⁄2 km) in width.
As I took Celebration to task for its faux history and democracy, I reflected back on Fernandina, which was, whatever else might be "Peyton Place-ish," at least a real community, the product of hundreds of years of conflicts bloodier by far than Parent vs. Disney school disputes.
I've talked with some Fernandina residents who can't wait to leave their hundred-year-old, history-laden homes and move in there.
While Celebration promotes itself as a model for American innocence, hearkening back to the way we were pre-1940, before we were so corrupted by the highway and the suburb, Fernandina Beach was literally (and literarily) the model for another and more cautionary rendition of that same '40s ur-village.
Since I left, all the institutions that made Fernandina the place that neotraditionalist America wants so desperately to return to have disappeared: The banks have moved out to the highway.
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