PIERCE

We had one church in Pelican Bay. It started out as an old Quaker establishment when the town was first settled, and then over the years turned from one denomination to the other until now we used it as a nondenominational building, which hosted services every Sunday morning and Wednesday evening.

If you wanted any of the big mega churches with the fancy lights and music, you had to leave the area, but none of the traditional families did. It was a town right ...