Tag: History Bytes

Letters: History Byte program appreciates support

To the Editor: It will be hard to top this past February History Byte program! We were blessed with beautiful weather each week, a lovely garden setting and a fantastic group of “Byte Lovers”,...

History Bytes: Viola Dyer recalls Boca Rico, the Pass Marina and sea rescues

Closing out the season’s History Bytes series was a lively hour of story-telling by jack-of-many- trades and master of all of them, Viola Dyer. She came to the island in the 1980s and established the...

History Bytes: Leslie Porter Joiner on ‘Effie’

February 22, 2024
Staff Report
Community History

Memories of Effie Sapp Joiner, 1900-96 Artist Leslie Porter Joiner shared stories about Effie Sapp Joiner at a talk at the Fust Library as part of the Boca Grande Historical Society’s History Bytes...

History Bytes: A ‘true Southern lady’ Mary Ellen Vickers Parkinson

February 15, 2024
Anna Ridilla
Community History

The second History Bytes program for 2024 featured Boca Grande native Carolyn Parkinson Nabers sharing about her mother’s life on the island. Mary Ellen Vickers Parkinson was “a true Southern lady,”...

History Bytes looks at book, towns of the island

February 9, 2024
Sheila Evans
Community History

Despite the chill in the air, close to 100 people showed up for the season’s first History Bytes program at the loggia of the Johann Fust Library. The topic was the History Center’s new exhibit, based...

February History Bytes topics include Mary Ellen Parkinson, Grandma Effie

Each Wednesday this February will be an opportunity to relive some of the most interesting aspects of Boca Grande history. This year there is a twist, as three of the four presentations are being...

BGHS creates ‘the mother of all timelines’ for island history buffs

BY MARCY SHORTUSE- The Boca Grande Historical Society has done some timelines in the past, but primarily ones put together for specific times or events in history. Now, though, historians can browse...

The story of a beautiful little library: History Bytes and the Johann Fust

February 21, 2020
Marcy Shortuse
Featured News, News

BY MARCY SHORTUSE – The most recent History Byte of the 2020 season was more about a community and less about a place where books are kept. The Johann Fust Community Library and its 70-year celebration...

Thanks for another vibrant and fun History Bytes season

To the Editor, A special ‘thank you’ to the U.S. Trust/Bank of America team of Paul Hudson, Kim and Scott for their great sponsorship of the History Bytes 2016-17 season. It is great to have their...

History Bytes: Fun with fishing through the ages

February 26, 2016
Marcy Shortuse
News

BY SUE ERWIN – Frank Koffend, fisherman and collector, gave an interesting presentation on the history of fishing on Wednesday, Feb. 24 at the Johann Fust Community Library. Koffend opened the...