OKEECHOBEE — Large crowds gathered across the country Saturday for the latest round of demonstrations against President Donald Trump.

Millions gathered among some 2,600, pre-planned No Kings locations. In Boston, Chicago, New York protesters spread for as far as the eye could see.

But in the rural Okeechobee, a soon-to-be 76-year-old grandmother stood all alone on a busy corner.

Linda Winner came of age in the tumult of the civil rights and anti-Viet Nam War movements. Not once did she take the streets as so many others her age did.

But on Saturday that all changed when she sought out her own spot to take a stand in defense of democracy. But first she needed to make a phone call, informing her son in North Carolina of her decision.

"I called him to confirm that he knew that his mother

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