Tag: History Bytes

Letters: Thank you to History Bytes participants

To the Editor: The Boca Grande Historical Society History Bytes for this season is in the “Books!” I can’t say enough about what a wonderful group of speakers shared a “Byte”! A special...

History Bytes: Capt. Van Hubbard talks of marine habitat and blessings

Laughter and tears mixed freely as Capt. Van Hubbard recalled the fishing life of Boca Grande in the days gone by, especially throughout the 1980s, when the fishing was plentiful and the community...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...