[Music] um now Sandy thurow has been my role model and inspiration ever since I started working with the Martin County historic preservation board back in 2012 and Sandy was a major player in Saving and restoring the captain Su house from demolition she obtained the county and private funds to restore the house she then gave personal tours of the captain su's house for many years how many of you have been to the captain su's house great okay um so Bruce and I have had the honor of portraying captain and Abby Su in Period dress while giving tours at the house for the past six years we have shared sy's PowerPoint presentation and given tours to hundreds of people eager to learn about the Su family history and Martin County Pioneer history Sandy has written numerous pictorial books on su's point steart on the St Lucy Jensen Beach the House of Refuge and the life-saving services of Florida and is now working on the history of a palm of Palm City book in fact her books um are on that back table to peruse you could purchase them at the steuart Heritage Museum downtown the feed store or you can check them out the library here in these books she showcases I'm sorry I hit I hit the button I'm sorry can I go back there sorry um in these books she showcases photographs collected from Pioneer families and Community leaders painstaking research augments information obtained from personal interviews Sandy late husband Tom was a steart attorney who also wrote a book on the history of early attorneys of Stewart I have had the honor of working with her daughter Jackie thuro lipus through the rivers Coalition and River kids her son Todd is on the also an attorney is on the board of the rivers Coalition and provides realtime data on the lake okachobee in St Lucy water quality at the Rivers Coalition monthly meetings and her third child Jenny is married to Mike flow the uh landscape architect and her granddaughter was one of the original e was one of the original River kids that started that program now in 2011 Sandy was given the very first Martin County preservationist of the Year Award presented by the Martin County historic preservation board in January of this year Sandy was giving the Kiplinger literary literacy award by Knight Kiplinger from the library Foundation of Martin County s's extensive Collections and photos of Stuart and Martin County are being digitized through the Martin County library system thank you georan she's our archist if you have any great family pictures bring them up and give them to her we she'll put them on and anybody can access it then so I want to thank Sandy for being here and you're you're my role model I just got so excited because it's been a year since I gave a program for the gy society and they advertise these uh enough that I do get a crowd and I was able to have people in the crowd that brought photographs and were connected with old families and it was totally thrilling with for me and then I've had a lot of uh activity as a result of the connections that I made that last year and I just wanted to share you some of the just a couple of them a lady was sitting right up front her name was uh Mar Mary Lee Reese and she was the granddaughter here this shines doesn't it on that yeah the granddaughter of Frank Coventry and this little guy Frank Coventry had such a background and her mother gave me photographs that I've used in my books and and when I met Mary Lee I said well uh May Axel was and that was her mother so Mary Lee last year had like a cigar box full of old photographs and I got so excited because I was afraid they'd get away from me and so she followed me home and I copied them so and then later she gave them to our Martin digital history but this is and and uh georan will know about this is uh Edith Coventry and she was a photographer in the early days and many of the photographs that uh the family shares with us and now we have been Martin digital history uh came from her and she was quite a woman but this lovely portrait you can tell they were a a a very comfortable family and then they came here and they built these buildings first the covantry hotel and then covantry apartments and what is so wonderful is that they still stand and they're now the the old color hen complex of buildings and I have to say that Joe I he got this early and he said uh Sandy you have some misspellings and wrong dates in that and I had Steve's name misspelled and somehow he corrected it even though it was already packaged for PowerPoint so I really appreciate that but this if you read it you will see uh why it's so important and this is a picture that that Mary Lee had and these pictures uh the people had never we hadn't seen a picture of her uncle and this is a picture of him and he's in the he worked for at at the railroad station and there he is look at the oldfashioned way we had to communicate he was a the Telegraph and then there was a man in the crowd that was a mcferon this in the corner where it says ferson we have used this picture to invite people to Old Timer's day and it was of the children that were here in 1926 and they marched in the parade celebrating the Martin County which was 100 years ago just about so this guy right here is the dad of the guy that was in the audience and here he is I was so he I had never met him or his dad Dad but he had a book that I had inscribed to his dad who the dad lived in Orlando at the time and a neighbor heard that he was from an old family but just it was so exciting to me to meet him and have him bring that book and he said the book meant so much to his father and that's why I do this I really love it and then in the audience that day you know my program was on the stepman and I have always just loved this picture and the sment he adopted a girl named Amanda from his wife had already been married and this is Amanda and this boy was Esther hair's father and she lives in okobi and she and her son came all the way to my program and so I just thought that was wonderful so now we'll get to pump City I got started on this while my husband was still alive and needing my attention all the time but this woman who uh she has a a hard to pronounce last name uh her husband is aranan but it's kabas Lucy kavez lovely woman and she has this company that's art and culture group but she's in West Palm and she got hard hired by Martin County to do the ripples project and she wanted pictures of Palm City to put on this gazebo and uh she she came to my house and she went to the Historical Society of Martin County she went to the St Heritage Museum and then she got what I had and used them for this exhibit that just was installed about 2 months ago and it is lovely and some of the same pictures I am using my book but she was a catalyst and I thought H I have all this stuff I need to get it into a book because I am the go-to person because I'm so old now and I know all these people so this particular and I could talk and bore you on each picture has a story of how you acquired it but my husband had a client named Ted catherton whose Grandparents were Palm City Pioneers their name was OLS and then they moved to Stewart like a lot of people from Mom City ended up in Stewart and had a very old house on St Lucy Crescent and so uh he had these photographs and he allowed us to make copies when he was settling the estate unfortunately that old house got into a big controversy because of aition and it had to be demolished so that part is sad but this is a really great photograph and I wanted to go back to get a better copy when I decided to do a book but he has passed away and his wife had no uh you know didn't know where they were so I had to use what I had and but look at this you can see an old car and the people were taken around pump City in a in a buggy with a kind of like a Sur kind of thing and uh then that building is a post office I have a big interest in the seol Indian story especially the ones that were the Cal Creek Indians that are in our region and I collect postcards and Tom did too we had so much fun collecting all this stuff we had a wonderful Journey but I had this photograph of Chief TOM tiger and I am not an academic and um but I get all the academic writings and I have thought they fell short and they kind of got the story wrong so this gives me a chance to kind of uh make a real U resource that I have that nobody else seems to have so I I have a chapter on TOM tiger and he became quite uh a celebrity and he was killed by lightning and his son was dooda tiger who was killed by John Ashley or supposedly Kill by so his the Ashley story goes on and dooda tiger is mentioned but I just like having a chapter on the simol Indians this picture is John vanor I had a friend who did a book just on John Danforth and it was called chasing Danforth and he lives in Maine now now now uh uh he's in Canada but Tom and I went up and we visited the uh Camp Caribou but this is Camp Caribou still stands and it's in near Yardley Maine and uh even President Eisenhower went there this was very popular and uh so that was uh d Force clientele and he was a a guide he we think that suicide divorce vandalism shootings that it's happening now it's been happening all along and so John danforce brings that big house boat which is floating Hotel made in bath main he brought it down and of course the Waterway which my daughter and her husband are doing now was not so dredged and they had a terrible time getting here and practically missed the season so they had to go back to Maine but they left the house booat here and it was vandalized and sunk somebody like bored holes in it and sunk it so he and his wife and his son come back the next season and they find out to hire someone would just be astronomical so they did it themselves with their friend the wife wife the son John Danforth and they brought it up and cleaned out all the you know the wet mess and they took the cabin of it and put it over in Palm City on the shore and so this is the super structure of that floating hotel and Mrs Murphy lived in it Helen Murphy and she if you I had my designer Heidi rich and Heidi are you here no she's too busy but I had her darken it says the cabin up there and I want did to be able to read it in my book so she kind of doctored that a little bit but isn't it amazing that this was somebody's house and it goes back to the vandalized uh floating Hotel so just a refresher that uh we were in Dade County uh at first and then we were in Palm Beach County but when Chillingworth who founded Palm City came we were in pal Beach County when he was platting Palm City but when he uh came to Florida Juno was the county seat of Dade County and uh he came down from he he had just passed the bar he studied bar when he was like a school teacher uh on Meritt Island and and another funny thing he was from Liverpool New York which is where my husband's from Liverpool New York outside of Syracuse so love these coincidences so um let's see what do I have there about you know that's just the the the county of uh Palm Beach County was created in 1909 but when Chillingworth came down he was taking advantage of the Florida East Coast railroad it wasn't called that right at first but that opened up South Florida and he was in the law business and getting all the abstracts of title would you believe that this is the only picture of the Dade County Courthouse when it was in Judo but we have that picture when it was under construction and that's it that's the only one one and that's where uh chillingworth's office was opened and when he came down in the 1890s this is Chillingworth now uh a famous murder of Judge Chillingworth and his wife that is his son that was murdered but this is our the one with the rectangular around it is Charles Chillingworth who had this dream of really making money in pal City and I thought that Palm City was unique but it wasn't they were doing this all over Florida and uh what they were doing is taking the land that all the Canal builders and railroad Builders got and they would get a deal on a big piece of land and then they would hope to establish a town and make a lot of money but poor Chillingworth had a terrible time and he looked back on it and regretted it another thing I had because I had a wonderful friend in the J Society in West Palm and Tom and I were there and she said well here this is this unpublished Memoir of Charles Chillingworth and it was time to close but she at least ran off the part that was about Palm city in Florida for me and so I've had that to refer to and to have chillingworth's own words is really valuable this is a uh historical marker and notice it's a d one thank goodness for those ladies and it was U put up a year before I was born that was a long time ago and um but it tells about the Dade County courthouse and being in Juno and isn't it hard to believe with the way Miami is now that the north part of day County had more power than Miami area and for 10 years from 19 1890 to 1900 the county seat was in Juno which doesn't even exist that Juno doesn't exist anymore there's a j Juno Beach okay here's uh Charles Chillingworth and it tells how much land he bought and then this is the way they would plat it and uh so all those little lots and Palm City farm still exist today and we have Mary Dawson here who has the Palm City farms at the corner of 714 in Citrus and there she is former County Commissioner and uh she is in Palm City farms and it goes all the way out to I95 it's huge this was in his little brochure which is not very slick as you can tell but Tom and I collected his own little brochure about had pictures of packing Citrus and this and that and on the back it had the contract and in it was an exclusion clause which land often had then so maybe you notice that and I look at this audience that pal city is very white even today so I have a chapter on uh racial exclusion and the way a few people got it the hold there and um Vicky Davis's husband just told me about knowing Pistol Pete so I have a lot about pisto Pete who was uh Bill mat's beloved Foreman and uh so we have a section on that and he is buried in pump City the Simmons family now because I've so focused on the houses of refuge I've been focused on the Simmons for many years they were coming from Willoughby Ohio and the name Willoughby is just a coincidence it's not our Willoughby because um Mr Simmons was not doing well he needed better climate and almost so many people came to Florida because of that and they were going to Miami he was with his step wife I mean his new wife and and his three daughters and their stepmother and they got out on Captain Su and we have Bruce here who portrays Captain Su I wish I had him dress up he they stopped at Captain su's dock where all the Riverbats stopped at that time and uh Mr Simmons got out to stretch his legs I'm sure the girls got out and so Captain Bessie was a keeper of the House of Refuge then so of course he's like bored over there and anytime the boat would come in and the mail would come in he's over there lucky to split in his sailboat and so when he met Mr Simmons and he said he was going to Miami he said oh don't go to Miami come over to the house of refuge and live with me and uh helped me build boats because he was a boat builder and he did it while he was at the House of Refuge as their keeper so they got out of the riverbat and they came here and boy have they changed our history because even Ross with them and are with them of our uh uh airport they are descendants of of the Simmons and this is uh Howard uh schaer was I uh I asked him to paint the House of Refuge I had photographs of the side and but not of the whole house before those upper windows were put on those upper windows were added about 1911 and we so they uh Howard made this wonderful watercolor which we have gotten a lot of mileage out of to show what it looked like when the Simmons went over there uh this shows the ditching for pal City farms and how empty it was and how uh you know they really were pioneers and they had a terrible time trying to make a go of it because there was either too much water or too little water and in that contract that Chillingworth gave everyone he guaranteed that it would be well drained so that almost drove him crazy cuz he just couldn't accomplish that did I go to yeah this building and have you notice some buildings uh like in Stuart right there the it's a law office right at the corner of St Lucy and on Flagler that buildings made with these old blocks they were met you would order maybe a lot of you know this but you would order these forms from Sears and roadbook and make the blocks to at a time and like our school that got knocked down when we built the our new courthouse uh was made out of those blocks they are indestructible they are very heavy like concrete blocks on steroids and you can have different designs on them you can you know have different finishes but most of ours look like this and this was a hotel and it was three stories and people in Stewart went over there was really everybody's pride and joy and it had uh uh Mrs Corin was English and she knew how to put on a tea and and make a good meal okay here are the latens and uh I know Georgian is oh I'm sorry this is very uh the lon and the lon name has survived more than any of the other Pioneers because there are two parks name for the lens and then their descendants are still around too so uh this shows them planting Citrus and so for as the JY Society I was trying to figure out things and I'm not as skillful as you genealogist you know I'm I I used to uh rely on Alice luckart for the fine tuning and boy do I miss her but I was in the den room getting help and uh it was Mr Lauren Jones that was in there helping me uh figure out uh the latent things going back and forth and he had the Naturalization papers and it said what he did and it said he was a puddler does anyone know what a puddler is I certainly didn't I don't even think Lauren you but what it is it is in the the furnaces in Steel making that they stood in front of the open furnace to make iron seal you know you've seen the pictures of what that is like an inferno and it said that people usually only lasted into their 30s it was such BR brutal hard work and so that's what Mr Leighton did up there no wonder he wanted to come down here but when things got bad he had to go back to make money in the steel mills so that was very interesting and I wouldn't have known that piece of very interesting information if it hadn't been for the genen society am I going backwards yeah okay here's that post office and this it's a copy negative that I got from ear Dio who's one of our local photographers and I thought it was so wonderful that I used it I republished a book on uh uh the chronology Florida post offices that a lady uh in Jairo and her husband had done and it's so valuable and I didn't dare change it it's like remember when we used to do like memograph and you know cut stencils that's the kind of printing it has in it but the information is what they did by shining a projector onto a sheet and trans typing it so now things are a lot easier for us aren't they but that's still Val valuable information and nobody's quite replicated it it's still handy and it has a picture the reprint I made has a picture of our little Palm City Post Office on the front now there are only like three professional photo uh postcards that I know of of Hump City and they CPO with red print that's a certain kind of postard and so uh my designer Heidi rich is putting them on the D jacket cuz you can't see that red if it's inside and there's so few and one says near steart oh two say you're Stewart another one is steart and this one is steart because they the pumy ferry is coming over to the First Street dock that is over like where Sailor's Return is now still you know and uh they're getting off the Palm City Ferry here's the old bridge the bridge over the St Lucy was a concrete bridge and it was completed in 1918 the one in pal city was completed in the next year and it was wooden and they were made according to Alice luckart and Greg uh by the same person the was the contractor you see that the little church was made out of those same concrete blocks and like the Woman's Club and they collected money for each block you know like we have tiles that you put somewhere to uh and put your name on it if you've been a donor so the Pioneers you know they built that church and Mr coffin the same person that built a hotel he was a Mason a real Mason Stone Mason uh he uh built the first little church but it got blown over in the hurricane and they built this bigger church this church was the soul of pump City everybody got married there b baptized there went to Sunday school there went to meetings there and it was just so important to them and then in 2012 it couldn't exist anymore because of debt and it was sold and now it's the coastal living church and the big beautiful wooden uh Sanctuary inside the sanctuary now has like a a it's like a a climbing a kitty Wonderland and like at the Children's Museum it is quite different but it's very popular with those who attend but it's not the pump City history anymore this Photograph came from uh this is Martin Highway and Mary Dawson who preserved uh Martin Highway the the beautiful lineal Cathedral Park of it uh she used these photographs but they were taken by Edith centry who was the Grand Aunt of the lady that came to the last meeting and I've used those photographs and like Mary has other people have uh we have in at uh the Elliot Museum we have the uh uh the seal apparatus to make these seals when we had several PE towns that incorporated during the boom palum city was even Incorporated before the boom boomed but we had uh Port Su and we had Salo and we had Jensen that once Incorporated but they backed out pretty soon it was too hard and then almost 100 years ago uh Governor Martin uh signed uh the U the bill creating Martin County and by August 5th we were underway but uh and next year we'll have our Centennial right uh Joad hope we can celebrate it but that Highway was in named after him and they planned to bring it right over to close to where Sailor's Return is where that dock was that would have been a nightmare now notice these photographers they're taking a picture of a a dredge on the canal and this is no doubt Hill photographers and they were uh that you know like the seals are passion you know the House of Refuge passion for me and the hill Brothers the Florida photographic concern is another thing that just needs so much more attention and is so important uh history-wise locally uh but they're taking pictures of the canal and the first water came through in 192 23 and just out of the blue on Facebook these photographs started appearing that this woman tusy kinberg uh who lives in pump City had all along and she never scanned them because she just forgot about them maybe but now she scanned them and put him on Facebook I could not believe them and she had them all together and there were 75 of them and there were Hill photographs and what it was is that the people that love that Canal the the the uh uh Commercial Club is what they call the uh Chamber of Commerce at the in that day and it was Stanley kitchen but they were so anxious they were so thrilled with that canal and they thought we have more than anybody else we have deep water we have this big St Lucy River and we want to big port and uh Bruce has and he when he pretends he's Captain su he tells about how Captain su he was in on it he pictured oceangoing vessels coming past su's point and being and we were almost uh uh for Everglades we almost were they H they didn't have a way to have a PowerPoint like I'm having you know they just had a stack of pictures and all the important people and what we call the core of engineers they just said the the United States Engineers met at The Lyric Theater before we even had the lyric that we know it was another lyric uh and they met to plead please dig our Inlet deeper and please we want this this port and they even dug the Turning Basin and if you know what srit park is that is the sand they dug out for the Turning Basin for this giant Port that thank goodness we never got I mean the best things that ever happened to us were the things that didn't happen and that's why we are like we are today and do you know I mean they were all in it and it was like Ernie lines's father Harry he was a big booster for getting the new County and getting this big port and you know this Arch and is Julie priest in the yes Julie priest is here she has seen that this has been restored to look just like this because it's the a lot of towns had these arches but only ours was more or less there and she had it restored and she and Doug Smith commissioner Smith accomplished this and do you see what it says and and my friend glor Fike said she didn't really ever understand that's what it meant Atlantic gateway to the Gulf of Mexico we had that Canal across our state and we were so proud that we were the Atlantic gateway to the Gulf of Mexico how many of you have gone on that trip across the state I haven't wasn't it kind of boring I don't so so here we are and uh the locks and they got uh improved and those little houses were there and I get into all of this in the book because uh you know they're all important and this is this is Mary's accomplishment Mary stand up it is the scenic highway and just like Julie when I said Julie you know that that Arch you know it says Stuart didn't say Rio it says Jensen Stewart I mean she did what was right and and I said Mary those trees aren't as old as you think look at these pictures they are just like bare sand in 1945 but they became because they were neglected when you neglect things they grow and it was just it's so beautiful and she made sure they didn't widen it and make a Thor there and it's just a wonderful thing thank you Mary and people in this room I I mean uh and Vicki's husband's first name is tell me your first name Joe Joe okay I I thought it was Tom but I just didn't Joe Davis said he knew uh Bill mat personally and he had a career he just told me today before the meeting in Florida Power and Light and he Saidi really think that I owe that career because I mean he probably would have gotten it anyway but he did get a an interview with John Law who was the big boss at that time and recommended by Bill mat and that was his career which is certainly a good career with Florida Power and Light but Bill matth now in Miami you know key bis gang you know mat hammock crom Park all of that is the mat uh family uh Logan body key I'm probably seeing it wrong they own that I think I and we don't have buo Lowry in the audience do we oh there's boo yeah yeah anything I'm missing that that bill owned buo was Bill's stepson and boy is he a valuable person when you're doing a book on uh on Palm City so uh but they they are such a fine important family and uh and then thank goodness that bill came up here and he bought land like his grandfather who also was William Manon and so he bought a lot of what pum City and this is a picture of his feels and do you recognize anything that's still there I mean that Tower is still there it's right in the middle of the go and today is the day I've been hearing it advertised they're having like a fundraiser I think it's a day for the college and they're going to have breakfast lunch and dinner and golf all day for the benefit of the college and his right at the base of that Tower but there's a lot of development around it and then this is another big thing and to people who know it so they went to this school and uh it was first in Coconut Grove she wanted to have an outdoor school with nature and she applied in in uh St augus in Miami and she's about ready to leave but then uh the um Monro thank Ralph Monroe's family and his children first went to uh Miss Harris's school she stayed there and taught them and then uh it got so uh congested in Miami and she was on Bickle Avenue so she sold that land and her mother had owned land in pal City because she was a relative of Katherine bakus and that's another another uh chapter in the book because it's about flower growing in the very early days but she came up here and built this and this was done by Armstrong and prior they designed these buildings and uh she ran it for a few years when uh she as you see she was quite elderly and she wanted to turn it over to some people that were teachers there I think and they ended up uh Le leing in the night and just leaving you know cuz they I guess they couldn't make it work and uh so Bill Bill was always doing good things for people and bailing them out he um he paid the teachers for the rest of the year and then uh when Chapman's School of seamanship was just on a on like a a Coast Guard Cutter and it needed a place to stay he said well you can have he bought Mrs Miss Harris's land you can stay here so that's where Chapman School of seamanship got a leg up and became what it is today so uh I don't even know if I put the weight okay this I think I I just wanted to say there's so much that is Dredge and fill in Palm City but that could be done in a certain era and cannot be done again that was one of the earlier ones before Lighthouse Point and Seagate Harbor and see we have so many of these Aerials that came from uh uh art ranky and ear di Rico and then also uh Kut Roger conut when he bought the bicko business and his son Darcy like organize them all so have so many Aerials for our book so this shows the the c23 canal and Bessie Creek and Buu knows all this stuff about the controversy with the bridge and Ed Miller owning the land and then they had to reroute the the traffic from Murphy Road to map road and but that's in the book and here's the when we finally got a highrise bridge in pal City and what's funny we always have these celebrations with Bridges but we didn't with this one when they finished it they just took the saw horses away and started knocking the old bridge down and so then they finally had a high rde bridge I think that's where I said about the seamanship the Chapman School of seamanship King okay this is a lovely area you have to agree but this is pendarvis Cove and this is a mat residence in some ranches and I Jackie my daughter just flew back from Annapolis because they're on a journey with in their boat and uh gave a talk at at San hill cove and that's where San Hill Cove is now and uh what a wonderful place to be but this is called Capri and this is an interesting and it's a part has a chapter in it see these canals and buo told me about it he said you know he wanted to con connect those to the river and he didn't get County permit to do that and so at this time uh they said well you know why don't you just make them water features and he got permission to do uh a cemetery and so that was the beginning of uh fourth Memorial Force Hills Memorial Garden but they and the and the water the canals to Nowhere are very lovely and make it a very lovely place okay to have this picture now you're talking about how the hugenots and you can't get myths away from stories and all so there was an urban myth about Bill Watson and how he worked at a fil station and he bought all this land and he made all this money and then other people in our our community wanted to do that and they didn't quite pull it off like Bill did but as fate would have it I had this friend from Nashville who had this party and her friend came and brought this big folder of aerial photographs that had been the M andw presentation piece of all the land that they had so this is a story and it's all verifiable and he didn't realize because of connections I had a friend that lived in Wisconsin next to a house he was selling they gave me the number off the sign I called it and surprised him and he talked before he thought about it and I got the whole scoop before he decided you know I don't know if I want you to write about this or something cuz he's cuz he's still doing land deals locally I think but he came was a young man from Wisconsin and he said his father didn't want to be rich but he wanted to be rich his father would be happy with just retiring on Social Security and living just a normal life but Bill wanted to be rich and he would have these breakfast is with his heavy rollers is that what you call them and uh so one of them like even owned a sports team and he really admired him and one of them owned a bunch of film stations down here so they made bill uh the manager of one right at the corner of Colorado in US1 and so he would talk to the people that would come in and one of them was a guy from General development and he said you know how do you develop how do you do this and he said well you're sitting right in front of the best attorney for that sort of thing Evans crer is Right In The Bank building behind you so Evans query really made it possible for Bill to do what he did and this man that was a friend of my friend Mr Weber said that he came here and saw all these signs that said this land for sale all in Hutchinson Island everywhere it said this land is for sale contact Bill Watson and so he asked Randy Tilton he said well who is this guy that has all this property he said well he doesn't really have an office but if you stay still his car will probably come by and it did and when Mr Weber saw what Bill Watson had in his trunk all the options to buy he knew he had friends in Nashville that had money his good friend had just sold Kentucky Fried Chicken and he was just needing to do something with that money and so it that myth or I thought it was a myth it was true so and this is the guy that had all the money and that's what m and W is it was mat and uh Watson and maty and you know when I was just growing up here I thought it was matth I that M I didn't know it was Massie so this is out of one of the pages out of the book and you see how he had the you know how you do those little plastic things and put the letters in them that's how he did the serial photo and that's the land he had to sell in Palm City and most but see you can re always recognize that because that's Lighthouse Point but look at all of this that's mostly Madison and he wasn't really uh a developer he was a Speculator and he said that so but he and Massie started to get all the permits and the way he got this am I taking too much time I'm gossiping really so the way he got the money for all these options is that his neighbors had um the hearts had like holiday um mobile home park near the bank and so he went and got do you know where uh Leisure Village is at the Circle right there on Monterey Road and caner it's got It's a mobile home behind the he got the opt he got it to change their uh you know the permits permitting so it could be a mobile home park and by the time he walked out of the commission meeting somebody wanted to buy it and so he got $400,000 himself out of that so then he had enough money to to put down on all the options that's how he did it so they developed Bill mat's original uh Ranch as Crane Creek and uh then when they uh that was Bill and Mr Massie but they did didn't really really want to develop it all they wanted to turn it over and then it was just at a time when planning came in and Mary knows all about this but when they had comprehensive plan and they were trying to plan uh realistically and uh wisely uh then uh K Peter Cummings came and he wanted to develop it and he had to go through all of the regulations we had the Treasure Coast planning Council then and uh so then he was able to have deep enough Pockets to wait until he got all the permits and at first the only thing he had to sell was grean Creek because that was the only thing permanent so then to tie it all together it just too weird when I was a young mother and I'd take my children over for piano lessons from Mrs Reinhardt and she had this husband that was like he's like always like um he he was just wearing flipflops and he was overweight a little and he was Gruff and it turns out that he was the man that really saved and I I wonder if Mary Mary was going to save it too they even got like a a coffin to say don't let pal City die cuz she moves here like everybody and didn't want it to change she wanted to save farms and so did everybody else but it wasn't practical so Mr Reinhardt thought hm I want a funeral home I want a bank I want it to be a nice town I think I'm going to start working with Peter Cummings so he got as much as he could from Peter they become became really good friends and so this is so the little house that Mr Reinhardt lived in where it came and there is Mrs Reinhardt and they had this very famous daughter they had the whole wall of pictures of her she had gone to the University of Miami on a scholarship and she was like a world renown is trumpet player and she lives in Austria and so I had thought I had enough on Mr Reinhardt but Carol said no Sandra you have to have daddy's book' you know he had like an album of all his his articles his letters to the editor he was prolific he became Chums with Ernie Lions even he got all kinds of Articles and so Stuart would have swallowed pump City if it hadn't been for Mr Reinhardt I guarantee you I mean he uh he was the one that pretended that it had such a community there that they didn't want to have it a branch post office from uh Palm City so they wanted to have their own ZIP code their own post office and you know have a big post office and at that time the people lived in Lighthouse Point and all they didn't even want to be in Palm City they wanted to have a steward address but things got changed and worked out and so Palm City now is a place to be proud of and it is growing and it is quite wonderful and so uh let's see I think that's it oh these are the pictures that Mary Dawson Mary Dawson lives has property right at the end of map road and I she said Sandy the last property that belonged to the maps just sold and I didn't want to bother she said look Sandy her phone number is right on the property record here it is and so I contacted her and it has been so heartwarming and so and Ed map was so important and he was one of the first people aware of the degradation of our waterways and they founded the the uh the Christian sze church in their house I mean so many wonderful things and I wouldn't have these if it wasn't for Mary Dawson and so then we're about ready we had the book designed and then I hear from Josh ler will you stand up so we were at a Jackie and I were at a h archaeology meeting and Josh was next to us and then the next morning he says Sandy there's some Pon cidal photographs on uh eBay and so there were I mean this is look down at the bottom look what it says the reason this person knew what it was was somebody wrote on the pictures and it had Palm City and so when he posted them Josh got an alert because they also had a picture of the Royal Pon Siana uh hotel in Palm Beach and he gets alerts for that but he turned it over to me and it's very wonderful that I got them and so they're so pretty pretty we just added full bleed pictures for a book here's one of them can you believe that everybody in Stuart would go over there and have a picnic look at all that food and that is when there was nothing in Palm City it was just an impertinence to St it and this is my uh uh Barbara mentioned my son Todd and his propensity to do maps and Aerials and everything on it and but he this is 1940 aial pinned together as Todd only Todd can do and we're spending so much on this book much more than we could ever get out of it because the the end Pages usually people just leave blank end pages but for a book our size you know that's 24 in of long picture you can have so this is Bessie Creek in 1940 it looks like an oak tree and the back one will be the South Fork and all but this is our project and and the front the the dust jacket we don't have a pretty colored postcard like the other books so this is a painting by Jerry rhods a very renowned artist that gets thousands and thousands for his paintings but he had he happened to live right there in Palm City and these Palms are Palms in Palm City and he gave it he bought the land from Val Martin and so he gave Val Martin this picture as a thank you for the real deal he got on this beautiful property in Palm City and uh his former wife lives here today Annie pots so that's it [Applause]