Read more about the article Events offer respite and fun from months spent indoors
A Port St. Lucie couple watches holiday fireworks during last year’s celebration. The holidays this year promise a stress-free day or evening and a break from COVID-19 worries. Social distancing and other CDC guidelines will be in effect at all holiday events. CITY OF PSL

Events offer respite and fun from months spent indoors

Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, Treasure Coast festival-goers have plenty to pick from this season.

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Read more about the article Mirroring an illusion
The work of renowned light artist Chul Hyun Ahn is on exhibit at the Vero Beach Museum of Art through April 30. Using lights and mirrors and ordinary objects, Ahn creates Zen-inspired works that are windows into infinity and space, such as this work, entitled Five Squares, from 2016. VBMA PHOTOS

Mirroring an illusion

VBMA exhibit invites viewers to explore space through their own perspectives

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Read more about the article Humble beginnings
One of photographer Jon Kral’s first published photographs was an essay he did on Fort Pierce crop duster Harold Williams, whom he nicknamed “Happy.” The photo is part of Kral’s exhibition, Insight: Photography of Jon Kral, that runs Nov. 20-Jan. 3. Kral, Jon. Happy, 1970. Archival pigment print, 13x19. JON KRAL

Humble beginnings

Photographer started his career in Fort Pierce and perfected it around the world

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Read more about the article Backus turns 60
Celebrating its 60th season, the A.E. Backus Museum and Gallery was first envisioned as a building with an open air atrium. Backus painted this as an artist’s rendering in 1959. A.E. Backus [American, 1906-1990] Fort Pierce Art Gallery, 1959. Oil on board, 15x30 inches. Gift of Dorothy Shapiro Manello.

Backus turns 60

Community support has helped the museum survive difficult times including the pandemic

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Read more about the article Merry Makeovers
Heathcote Botanical Gardens in Fort Pierce creates knock-out dazzling light displays each year, all done by volunteers who work on them for months. It’s a fantastic holiday experience. HEATHCOTE BOTANICAL GARDENS

Merry Makeovers

The holidays are a welcome distraction from the coronavirus pandemic. While not all of our favorites are on this year, many are.

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To my No. 1 fan

In the 15 years since we launched this magazine, one reader has shared her opinion about how we are doing or what we should be doing more than any other. That would be my mother, Katie Enns, who has always been quick to suggest a good story, note who might be a good advertiser or critique our latest issue.

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