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GregoryEnns
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Allen Osteen
Content Editor
Judith Collins
Design Editor
Michelle Moore-Burney
Writers
Janie Gould, Jerry Shaw,
Gloria Taylor Weinberg, Donna Crary,
Willi Miller, Susan Burgess,
Sandra Thurlow, Rick Crary,
Catherine Enns Grigas,
L.L. Angell, Greg Gardner,
Christina Tascon
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Ed Drondoski, Bob Dobens,
Rob Downey, John Biondo
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Jay Goley, Pattie Durham
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A TREASURE TO READ
Join us at History Festival on Jan. 14
To help us celebrate our
10th anniversary as a
magazine, we hope you
will join us for the Treasure
Coast History Festival we are
producing in downtown Fort
Pierce on Saturday, Jan. 14.
The festival, co-sponsored
by Main Street Fort Pierce
and the Sunrise Theatre, will
feature presentations that were
suggested by readers who
recently cast ballots for their
favorite stories appearing in
Indian River Magazine over the
last 10 years. They include:
• An appearance of
members from the Seminole
Tommie family, descendants
of Seminole royalty and one
of the oldest families on the
Treasure Coast.
• A discussion of the
Binney, Putnam and Chapman
families of Fort Pierce by author Sally Putnam Chapman. Her family members include: Edwin
Binney, inventor of Crayola Crayons who later retired to Fort Pierce and was the driving force behind
the dredging of the Fort Pierce Inlet and the construction of the Port of Fort Pierce; Binney’s daughter,
Dorothy Binney Putnam, who became one of the region’s leading philanthropists; and Binney’s son-inlaw,
the famous New York publisher George Putnam who would later marry aviatrix Amelia Earhart.
Earhart’s secret flight to Fort Pierce in the 1930s will also be discussed.
• A presentation by private investigator Warren Sonne, who retraced the steps of the famed Ashley
Gang that roamed the Treasure Coast in the early 1900s, robbing banks and leaving lawlessness in its wake.
• A gathering of students of famed author Zora Neale Hurston. The author of Their Eyes Were
Watching God and an inspiration to The Color Purple author Alice Walker, Hurston spent her final days
in Fort Pierce working various jobs, including teaching English at Lincoln Park Academy in 1958.
• A talk by Vero Beach’s Al Grover, who will recall the trip he made across the Atlantic Ocean in
1985 in a small outboard-powered boat he designed. The feat made him the first and only person to
ever cross the Atlantic in an outboard motorboat.
• Research into early 20th-century circus performer Lucia Zora. An animal trainer once billed as “the
bravest woman in the world,’’ Zora now lies buried in an unmarked grave in a Fort Pierce cemetery.
The festival will also include ghost walking tours hosted by Tom Adams, a Fort Pierce native and
owner of Vero Beach Walking Tours. Main Street Fort Pierce will provide trolley rides to historical sites in
Fort Pierce at 1 and 2:30 p.m. Historical re-enactor Jim Odell will portray Col. Benjamin Pierce, the brother
of President Franklin Pierce and founder of the fort that gave the city its name. Storyteller and rancher
Joyce Teague will set up a genuine early Florida cattle camp and will recall the days of the free range.
We are especially excited about the Authors Alley we are featuring in the historical St. Lucie County
Bank Building, since visitors will have a chance to meet with many of our own writers. Indian River
Magazine writers attending who will have their books available for sale and signings include Rick
Crary, author of A Treasure We Call Home; Sandra Thurlow, author of books on the histories of Stuart,
Sewall’s Point, Jensen Beach and the House of Refuge; Catherine Enns Grigas, author of Journey of
the Highwaymen; Janie Gould, author of Floridays, Stories of Florida Under the Sun; and Gloria Taylor
Weinberg, author of A Homicide in Hooker’s Point. Terry Howard, who has written a trio of books about
commercial fishing in the region, will also be featured, as well as many other local authors.
Besides being able to purchase books from local authors and have them signed, the Authors Alley
will also feature rare access to the collections of the Florida Classics Library, which specializes in the
sale of out-of-print books. Florida Classics founder Val Martin, featured on these pages in our first
year, will also be on hand to share his extensive knowledge about early Treasure Coast history.
If you have any questions about the festival or would like to be featured in it, please don’t hesitate
to call us at 772.940.9005 or email us at staff@indianvermag.com For times and the latest updates, follow
Indian River Magazine’s Facebook page or visit our Web site at www.indianrivermag.com We look
forward to seeing you at the festival!
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The festival will be held in downtown Fort Pierce from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Jan. 14.
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