Profiles
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 u…
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 what all…
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 the m…
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 y…