PRINT | E-MAIL. In September of 1942, Lt. Col. William L. Plummer, with a handful of officers and enlisted men, made his way through the long pines and palmetto scrub of rural South Dade County to assume control of an isolated airstrip located about a mile inland from the shore of Biscayne Bay.
gardener. 1  a person who likes or is skilled at working in a garden. 2  a person whose occupation is making and tending gardens.
1. 1  a. To involve oneself in a situation so as to alter or hinder an action or development: Every gardener faces choices about how and how much to intervene in nature's processes (Dora Galitzki). 2  b. To interfere, usually through force or threat of force, in the affairs of another nation.