Star of Easter
Community gathered at sunrise Easter Sunday for worship. More photos here
Photo by Dusty
Tag: Easter Sunday
Let’s meet more often. Ham or lamb?
On a beautiful Easter weekend, there are family visits, decisions about seating and the ultimate choice, ham or lamb?
To be honest, this editor is in both camps on that one. The key is to...
Holy Week services slated
The most solemn week of the Christian year is next week, known as Holy Week. It is really not a full week, but the number of special services and remembrances make five days seem much longer and...
Easter is late this year, but it will come
The long, long April is heightened by the day of Easter in A.D. 2025. Often, we hear the expression, “Easter is late this year, isn’t it?” Already, it was a bit quieter this week in terms of...
Island churches make plans for Easter services, worship
Easter is almost a month away, but plans are under way among Boca Grande churches to honor the religious foundations of this holiday by holding special services on Easter Sunday and the week...
Pascua Florida, or Feast of Flowers
Of the two big religious holidays, it is Easter that is the one that makes the most sense, culturally to Florida. In the imagination, Christmas is a cold weather holiday, and a “too hot” Christmas...
Island pastors meet to plan Easter
The leaders of the Boca Grande churches met this week to begin planning for the 2024 Holy Week and Easter services available to the public. With two of the four churches having new leadership this...
Here is your island Easter in a pastel nutshell
■ STAFF REPORT
Good Friday begins the final weekend of “season” on the island, and it begins with the annual Palm on Park sale and the Walk of the Cross.
Lilly Pulitzer fans, this is your chance to...
Easter brings egg hunts, Lilly P. and sunrise service
There aren’t many places that celebrate Easter as seriously as Gasparilla Island does, and this year is no exception.
On Saturday at 10 a.m. the annual Boca Grande Easter Egg Hunt will take...
Profile: Oschter Haws
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...