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PROFILE: Dr. Bruce Rougraff

BY MARCY SHORTUSE – Bruce Rougraff is a self-proclaimed beach bum from way back. When he was a child, living in Houston, his family would head to the Galveston Bay beach almost every weekend, and some of his fondest memories are of those trips. Those memories, and those of going to the beaches of Southwest […]

Posh, 31, easy on the eyes and fearless: Meet Lynne Olson

BY MARY COOK – In 1941 she took over the staggering work of running Alliance, France’s largest spy network, a corps of 3,000 agents.  She described herself as merely “the wife of an officer, mother of a family, member of no political party, and a Catholic.”  In reality, however, Marie-Madeleine Fourcade thought like a man. Lynne […]

‘Dawson’s Fall’ author to speak at Fust on Tuesday

STAFF REPORT – The Library Foundation is honored to once again welcome Roxana Robinson to speak in the library loggia.  Her most recent novel, “Dawson’s Fall,” takes place in stormy, post-Civil War Charleston during 1889. It is a time and place fraught with division, both social and political, and racial conflict. The main character, Francis Dawson, […]

An artist of the island: Susan Michod revives feminism in painting

BY OLIVIA CAMERON – The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles is currently displaying the artwork a Boca Grande resident and woman of history. Susan Michod is part of the show called “With Pleasure: Pattern and Decoration in American Art 1972-1985.” Michod has led the “pattern and decoration” movement since 1969. This movement surfaced […]

OBITUARY: Allen C. ‘Bud’ Boucher

Allen C. “Bud” Boucher of Pittsford, N.Y. and Boca Grande passed away on February 5, 2020. He was born in Rochester, N.Y. on February 12, 1922 to Alberta and Clarence Boucher. Allen was a graduate of Deerfield Academy and Amherst College, and served in the Navy during World War II. He began his career as […]

PROFILE: John Paul Turner

BY SUE ERWIN – John Paul Turner may have been born in Sarasota, but he’s a true Boca Grande local. “I think as soon as I could leave the hospital we were headed toward the bridges back to the island,” John Paul said. He was one of the first students to attend kindergarten through fifth grade […]