This story by former News-Press reporter Annabelle Tometich was originally published on July 13, 2021. The version below has been edited to remove information about mango events and festivals that have since passed.
I stood outside my childhood home in Fort Myers late last month, wielding a 30-foot-long fruit-picking apparatus fashioned from PVC pipe, an old pool skimmer and the base of a pole saw.
I heard my mom yelling and my daughter laughing…