Profiles
Profile: Jennifer Burdette Campbell
August 14, 2015
BY MARCY SHORTUSE
Busy. It’s the word that comes to mind when thinking of Jennifer Burdette Campbell, a work-at-home mom to three children who calls Boca Grande her home. She and her husband, Da…
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 n…
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…
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 pil…
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…
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 fami…
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 promi…
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…