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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 […]

Chowder for everyone! Courtesy of The Island School

STAFF REPORT – If you are a fan of chowdery goodness, enchanting auction items and our island’s children, you need to make plans to stop by the 6th annual “Chowder, everyone!” PTO fundraiser dinner held by The Island School on Saturday, Feb. 29. This event will be held at the Crowninshield Community House, at the same […]

(You don’t read this headline every day) History Bytes begins the season with a stripping Pilgrim

BY MARCY SHORTUSE – Not one, but two, speakers were at the first installment of the History Bytes program held on Wednesday, Feb. 5 at the Johann Fust Community Library, and both were mesmerizing. Particularly because they were actually just one person. What was advertised as a 35- to 40-minute discussion of Mayflower facts and figures […]

Take your ‘Leading Lady’ to RPP production for Valentine’s weekend

STAFF REPORT – Tickets are selling quickly for the next Royal Palm Players’ production, “Leading Ladies.” Starring some of the most beautiful, brilliant and not-so-bashful ladies on the island, performances are scheduled for Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, February 12 through the 15 at 7 p.m., and on Sunday, Feb. 16 at 5 p.m. in the […]