Moving to Belize: When Philadelphia Refinement Met Rustic Living in Belize
S. Tyson Gardner works for Fairmount Park in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A guide for Laurel Hill Mansion, one of the historic 18th-Century summer villas in the city's sprawling 4,000 acre Fairmount Park, he also lectures on park related history and is involved with the America Institute of Architects and Preservation Alliance architectural tours.  Reared and educated in Atlanta, Georgia, the cultural switch to what he now regards as his adopted northern home informs his mid-life move to Belize as something even more out-of-character and challenging for a wayward Southerner.