Bright Future
Fort Pierce’s landmark Sunrise Theatre has celebrated glitzy nights and endured dark days. Its 101-year history even included a period, during the 1980s, when its doors were shut and its future uncertain.
Display items for the new Port St. Lucie History Museum and Education Center are being cataloged and sorted by Port St. Lucie Historical Society members Rachel Heid and Patricia Christensen, society board chairwoman, as they prepare for the fall opening. RUSTY DURHAM
Colorful Characters
The city of Port St. Lucie sprang up in 1961, seemingly out of nowhere. From jungle-like riverbanks, swarms of giant mosquitos and no residents, its population zoomed from zero to 240,000 in 63 years.
The world’s tallest heart, a public sculpture commissioned by Mattamy Homes in Port St. Lucie, will tower over the Tradition community and I-95 when installation is completed in October. This rendering shows the silver heart and the small park around it.
Big, big love
The heart of Port St. Lucie will soon be impossible to miss: The world’s tallest sculpture of a heart is being assembled in Tradition by Mattamy Homes.
The Headwaters Heritage & Cultural Center coming to Fellsmere will showcase Florida’s food history with displays of cooking tools from pioneer homes. Note the flour sifter once found in nearly every kitchen, essential for baking without benefit of mixes. GREG RODGERS
PAST FORWARD
While citrus groves, pastures, oaks and tall pines disappear around us, a group of history enthusiasts — with deep roots in Florida — plan to build a museum that will showcase the state’s fascinating past.
A visitor studies Edwin Longsden Long’s, Love’s Labour Lost, at the Vero Beach Museum of Art. VBMA
EGYPTIAN DELIGHTS
Ancient Egypt remained a mystery to most of Western Europe for centuries. While the magical civilization with its pyramids, temples, pharaohs and hieroglyphics had fascinated the world since the Greek and Roman periods.
Uriel Natero, a classical pianist who has performed for royalty with rock stars worldwide, resides in Port St. Lucie while working on a rock opera. KERRY FIRTH
The PIANIST
Uriel Natero is a world-class pianist currently residing in Port St. Lucie. He spent most of his illustrious career in Europe, headlining venues in Switzerland, Sweden, Italy, France, Germany, Austria and Monte Carlo.
Trumpet Flowers, an interactive light and sound piece of art installed at the MIDFLORIDA Event Center in December and January played different musical instrument sounds based on the button a person hit while walking through them. Every few minutes, all of the flowers lit up and a jazz song emanated from the sculpture, on loan from Amigo & Amigo in Australia as part of the city’s Art in Public Places initiative funded by developers and grants. RUSTY DURHAM
Sculpting Change
Port St. Lucie boasts two vibrant new pieces of public art: one at city hall and the other at the botanical gardens. Along with more than 28 graceful and colorful pieces installed in previous years, they help foster a sense of community and a shared place.
Fort Pierce commercial fisherman, Capt. Terry Howard, fishes solo most days. He makes an exception for his friend and part-time first
mate, Fort Pierce native John Rohm. On a good day the pair may return with upwards of 700 pounds of king or Spanish mackerel. WHITNEY JOSEPH
HOOKED
It takes a special kind of discipline to wake up in time to watch the sun come up over that lucky spot on the water. Lucky for the fisherman, that is, not for the fish. But that’s exactly what countless men and women in Fort Pierce have been doing for generations.
When the new Highwaymen Museum is completed in the fall it will look similar to this rendering, with a mural on the east wall of the Jackie L. Caynon Sr. Building at 1234 Avenue D. A security fence will enclose the property after renovations are completed. HIGHWAYMEN FOUNDATION
A LONG ROAD
Doretha Hair Truesdell’s dream of a beautiful museum filled with vibrant paintings by the 26 African American landscape artists known as the Highwaymen began in 2004, when the group was inducted into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame.
Brightline high-speed passenger railway service connects Orlando to Miami. KINGS LANDING
In the News
Fort Pierce is now two steps closer to becoming the only Treasure Coast stop for the Brightline high-speed passenger railway service connecting Orlando to Miami.
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