Journey to sainthood included three days in Lake City
Thu, 09/08/2016 - 10:41am
By:
Richard Ousky, Editor
One day in October 1937, a young woman from Albania got off the train at the Lake City depot and walked eight blocks up Lyon Avenue to Collins Drug Store at the corner of Lyon and Lakeshore Drive.
There she inquired as to where she might find Eleftera Peters.
“Well,” old Doc Collins told her, “You can go one block to your right to the Blue Moon Cafe where she works or you can go one block to the left to the house where she lives.”
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