Where Time Stands Still: A Century of Family, Fishing & Memories

BY BETSY JOINER Whidden’s Marina is the longest-running family-owned business on Gasparilla Island. Its story began with founder Sam Whidden in the early 1920s, his home and the marina building completed in 1926. Following Sam Whidden’s death, his daughter, Isabelle Whidden Joiner, continued the family legacy when she moved to Whidden’s with her 3-year-old daughter […]