Profiles
Profile: Mary Smedley
August 7, 2015
BY JACK SHORT – Three years ago, I wrote my first profile. The subject was a former ambassador to Morocco and an undersecretary general of the United Nations. I could barely fit his resume on any nu…
PROFILE: Gene Glidden
July 24, 2015
BY JACK SHORT – Gene Glidden is soft-spoken, ruddy-cheeked man whose cheerful demeanor belies the ruthlessness of the man who sits atop a commercial and residential painting empire.
Just kidding…
Profile: Christine Stites
July 17, 2015
BY JACK SHORT – She’s Chrissy to most, but only if you knew her after she moved here. Or before she became a professional. It’s a little confusing. She had switched to Christine in order to be taken…
Profile: Joshua Karl
July 10, 2015
BY JACK SHORT – Joshua Karl would have had to try pretty hard to end up in a place more different than Boca Grande. When he grew up here on the island, he went by Joshua Johnson, of the “harbor pilo…
Profile: Scott O’Connor
July 3, 2015
BY JACK SHORT – To put it simply, Scott O’Connor is living the good life. He and his wife, Kristin, aren’t cruising the seas in luxury yachts or gambling in Monte Carlo, but he lives in a tropical p…
Profile: Nancy Lynne Hyde
June 26, 2015
BY JACK SHORT – For Nancy Lynne Hyde, family is everything. When asked what inspires her, innervates her, she didn’t hesitate to say that she loves working with kids and spending time with her famil…
Profile: Jeremy (Chino) Chamathorn
June 12, 2015
BY MARCY SHORTUSE – When Jeremy Chamathorn (a.k.a. Jeremy Chino) first came to Boca Grande, he was astounded by the island’s beauty. His cousin, Patrick Vollmer, had enticed him here with the promis…
Profile: The new minister in town, Matthew Williams
May 29, 2015
BY JACK SHORT
Sometimes it takes a few knocks at the door before someone finally answers. For Rev. Matthew Morgan Williams, the new pastor at the United Methodist Church of Boca Grande, the call…
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 si…
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.