Profiles
A tale of two soldiers … Walter Tatko and John Bourgoin
May 22, 2015
BY JACK SHORT – To anyone who happened upon a scene in the kitchen of the Palmetto Inn recently, two men pouring over maps with their wives and siblings, sandwiches and soup cooking on the other s…
Profile: Willy Townsend
May 15, 2015
BY JACK SHORT – Willy Townsend is proof of a lot of things, not the least of which among them is that you can get up to a little mischief and still turn out alright.
Profile: Louise du Pont Crowninshield, fairy godmother of Boca Grande
May 11, 2015
In honor of Mother’s Day this past Sunday, we wanted to do something special for our profile. After much consideration the only path we found suitable was to pursue a profile about Louise du Pont …
Profile: Nancy McBean, a bridge-playing machine
April 10, 2015
BY JACK SHORT – If you happen to wander into a meeting of the most prominent bridge club on the island, they might strike you as a pretty homogenous group, quietly pouring over what seems, to the …
Profile: Oschter Haws
April 3, 2015
BY M KURZHAUS – Woe, had he had it in his genetics to lead the simple life of a normal lepus curpaeum. He, instead, is cursed – yet he is blessed – to have been given the gift of becoming wha…
A man who wore every hat in Boca Grande: Darrell Polk
March 30, 2015
BY MARCY SHORTUSE – Another piece of Boca Grande’s heart was lost this week, as Darrell Polk passed away at the age of 84.
He now joins his wife, Margaret, who passed away in June of last year….
Profile: Pastor Brian Brightly
March 20, 2015
BY JACK SHORT – Pastor Brian Brightly is a remarkably energetic speaker and a progressive thinker. I confess I’ve never attended a sermon given by the pastor – but I spent a week in Cuba with…
Profile: Peter Roberts
March 13, 2015
BY JACK SHORT – Peter Roberts has a small town sensibility, tempered by southern hospitality.
There’s also some Texan straight-shooting in there, literally and figuratively, which is something …