MUSIC
STRINGS ATTACHED
Three generations of the Enyart family often get together for musical afternoons following services at Morningside Church in Port St. Lucie. In the front row
from left are: Kathryn Adams, Bobby McCoy, Meghan Enyart, Dr. John Enyart, Lindsay Enyart and Melissa Enyart. In the middle row from left are: Janie
Enyart McCoy, Jana Enyart Adams, Benjamin Enyart , John Enyart II and Amanda Enyart. In the back row from left are: John Adams III, Thomas Enyart and
John Enyart III.
The playing of string instruments is a trademark
of the Enyart family, from patriarch John to
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SEASON OF THE ARTS
his children and grandchildren
BY WILLI MILLER
PHOTOS BY ED DRONDOSKI
movie could have been made about John Enyart’s
youth. His parents were Quaker missionaries,
serving in the tropics of Bolivia in Coroico, at the
foot of Illimani, a snow-capped mountain in the
Andes chain. Enyart, 69, recalls, “After auto roads
were cut into the mountain, we could travel from orange
blossoms to snow in eight hours. Our house was made of
adobe, the roof was tile … the toilet was out toward the
garden … beyond the patio. My father took time to make the
commode of cement … to make the home more livable.”
John, the father of five, says, “My father was definitely a
family man. Our schedule consisted of schoolwork from 8 until
noon year around, then many times after lunch he would
take his entire family with him to various places where he
was sure there was a dire need (for his services).”
As patriarch of the very musical Port St. Lucie Enyart family,
John thanks his parents for his love of music. They were
amateur musicians, but in what John calls “one of the most
unbelievable chains of events, which attests to my mother’s
great faith, my father was able to buy a piano from two brothers
who inherited the instrument from their … father and
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