old - News - The Coastal Star2024-03-29T05:13:31Zhttps://thecoastalstar.com/profiles/blogs/feed/tag/oldGreen Markets: Stroll slowly for best enjoyment at Lake Worth Beach markethttps://thecoastalstar.com/profiles/blogs/green-markets-stroll-slowly-for-best-enjoyment-at-lake-worth-beac2020-01-28T20:44:35.000Z2020-01-28T20:44:35.000ZThe Coastal Starhttps://thecoastalstar.com/members/TheCoastalStar<div><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}7960933652,original{{/staticFileLink}}" target="_blank"><img src="{{#staticFileLink}}7960933652,original{{/staticFileLink}}" class="align-center" alt="7960933652?profile=original" /></a><em>Despite their small size, microgreens, like these sold at the Lake Worth Beach Farmer's Market, pack a nutritional punch, often containing higher nutrient levels than more mature vegetable greens. <strong>Linda Haase/The Coastal Star</strong></em></p>
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<p><strong>By Linda Haase</strong><br /> <br />“Even when it rains we shine.”</p>
<p><br /> With a motto like that it’s no wonder the Lake Worth Beach Farmer’s Market — now in its 14th year — is so popular. But there are plenty of other reasons people make this market part of their Saturday ritual.</p>
<p><br /> “We are literally on a peninsula with water views almost everywhere you look. We offer free parking, but we also love to see people walk, bike or drive their golf carts here. There is also a beach to dock your kayak and a boat dock,” says Emily Theodossakos, the bustling market’s former manager, who took over the helm after founder Peter Robinson retired this season.</p>
<p><br /> The pet-friendly market at Old Bridge Park at the corner of A1A and Lake Avenue is shady, compact and easy to navigate. And with nearly 60 vendors, there’s plenty to experience.</p>
<p><br /> Truffle cheese? Check. S’mores cupcakes? Absolutely. Artisan jewelry, clothes, notecards and more? It’s all here. Live music? Check it out, along with quiches, microgreens, keto desserts, organic pickles, seafood, lush plants, glass art, brisket or octopus tacos — and even a chiropractor. The list is nearly endless.</p>
<p><br /> “Our market is more than just a place to shop and go. Those who really get the best out of it are the ones who stroll through slowly, check out all the different vendors, and just relax and have a coffee, juice or meal by the waterfront,” says Theodossakos.</p>
<p><br /> You’ll meet some extraordinary vendors, like Nathalie Cormouls Verre, whose one-of-a-kind Blu Nomad attire is not only immensely wearable, it’s making an impact across the world. She designs the clothes but they’re handcrafted by widows in India.</p>
<p><br /> “I am happy to support them and their kids, and proud to allow them to walk on their path to independence and dignity,” she explains on her Facebook page.</p>
<p><br /> Alicia Falcone, whose Shogo Zen Art booth beckons with her unique hand-dyed scarves, towels, bags and other creative endeavors, often studies abroad learning crafts like rice-paper lamps and indigo shibori from the masters. Falcone, a feng shui consultant and Zen painter, is imaginative down to the very last detail.</p>
<p><br /> Whether you go home with seafood, clothes or other goods, it all makes a difference, says Theodossakos. “Shopping helps the local economy and helps to support many small businesses and their families more than people know. Many of our vendors either live in Lake Worth Beach or have small businesses there or nearby. So the market really is the epitome of ‘shopping local.’”</p>
<p><br /> It often serves as a business incubator, she explains, giving entrepreneurs who don’t have money to open a restaurant or store front a start: “The market gives them the opportunity to build up their business and a regular customer base, which often leads to the opportunity to open a store or restaurant.”</p>
<p><br /> It also brings residents from neighboring towns together, she says. “Many of our customers come from South Palm Beach and we love that we provide an opportunity for people from both sides of the bridge to meet, interact and get to know each other.”</p>
<p><br /> Theodossakos loves the vibe of the market, but wants to mix things up a bit. So she created the Lunar Market, a monthly evening event at the same locale (the next one is Feb. 13, 6-10 p.m.) with boutiques, creative chefs, entertainment, libations — and a full moon.</p>
<p><br /> What can visitors expect?</p>
<p><br /> “Same great location, totally different experience.”</p>
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<p><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong>GREEN MARKETS</strong></span></p>
<p>Boca Raton Greenmarket every Saturday at City Hall (north side), 201 W Palmetto Park Rd. 8 am-1 pm. Free. downtownboca.org; 299-8684 elilly707@aol.com</p>
<p>Delray Beach Greenmarket every Saturday at Old School Square Park, 50 NE 2nd Ave, one block north of Atlantic Ave. Fresh local produce, baked goods, gourmet food items, plants, live music, children’s activities. 9am-2pm. 276-7511; delraycra.org</p>
<p>Lantana Greenmarket every Sunday at Bicentennial Park, 321 E Ocean Ave. 10 am-2 pm. 515-9919; shorelinegreenmarkets.com</p>
<p>Lake Worth Farmers Market every Saturday by the bridge at A1A. 1873 Lake Ave, Lake Worth. 9 am-1 pm. Free. 547-3100; lakeworthfarmersmarket.com</p></div>Celebrations: Food Bank VIP reception — Old School Square, Delray Beach — Nov. 5https://thecoastalstar.com/profiles/blogs/celebrations-food-bank-vip-reception-old-school-square-delray-bea2019-12-03T22:11:30.000Z2019-12-03T22:11:30.000ZThe Coastal Starhttps://thecoastalstar.com/members/TheCoastalStar<div><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}7960912853,original{{/staticFileLink}}" target="_blank"><img src="{{#staticFileLink}}7960912853,original{{/staticFileLink}}" class="align-full" alt="7960912853?profile=original" /></a><em>Brenda Medore, Patty Jones and Leanne Adair. <strong>Photos provided</strong></em></p>
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<p>Supporters of the Palm Beach County Food Bank gathered to celebrate the 4th annual Empty Bowls Delray Beach event, set for Dec. 8, and reminded each other how important it is to bring awareness to the almost 200,000 hungry residents in Palm Beach County. Hosts Craig and Shelley Menin, along with Chairwomen Stephanie Dodge and Marla Garchik, welcomed the crowd of more than 100 for an evening of cocktails and light bites. A silent auction of hand-painted bowls raised funds for hunger relief.</p>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}7960912656,original{{/staticFileLink}}" target="_blank"><img src="{{#staticFileLink}}7960912656,original{{/staticFileLink}}" class="align-full" alt="7960912656?profile=original" /></a><em>Kate and Josh Littlefield.</em></p>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}7960912686,original{{/staticFileLink}}" target="_blank"><img src="{{#staticFileLink}}7960912686,original{{/staticFileLink}}" class="align-full" alt="7960912686?profile=original" /></a><em>Garchik, Food Bank Executive Director Karen Erren and Dodge.</em></p></div>The Plate: Shrimp & Grits — They’re what’s for brunchhttps://thecoastalstar.com/profiles/blogs/dining-shrimp-grits-they-re-what-s-for-brunch2019-07-02T18:30:00.000Z2019-07-02T18:30:00.000ZThe Coastal Starhttps://thecoastalstar.com/members/TheCoastalStar<div><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}7960883862,original{{/staticFileLink}}" target="_blank"><img src="{{#staticFileLink}}7960883862,original{{/staticFileLink}}" class="align-center" alt="7960883862?profile=original" /></a>The Plate: Shrimp & Grits<br /> The Place: The Old Key Lime House, 300 E. Ocean Ave., Lantana; 582-1889 or <a href="http://www.oldkeylimehouse.com">www.oldkeylimehouse.com</a>.<br /> The Price: $11.99<br /> The Skinny: The view is so pretty at Lantana’s Old Key Lime House that the food could be beside the point at the waterfront restaurant.<br /> But the team does one better than that, serving up fresh seafood that’s decent regardless of the view.<br /> This order of shrimp and grits, served at brunch on Sundays, had five large shrimp served in a savory sauce atop creamy grits. <br /> The five shrimp were plump and tender and the bits of bacon lent a decadent crunch to the savory sauce.<br /> The Maryland-style crab cake was a hit with my companion, who said the patty was loaded with large lumps of sweet crab meat.<br /> <em>— Scott Simmons</em></p></div>Ocean Ridge: Workshop scuttles promenade plan, raises worries about Boyntonhttps://thecoastalstar.com/profiles/blogs/ocean-ridge-workshop-scuttles-promenade-plan-raises-worries-about2016-02-04T15:00:00.000Z2016-02-04T15:00:00.000ZChris Felkerhttps://thecoastalstar.com/members/ChrisFelker<div><p><strong>By Dan Moffett</strong><br /> <br /> Ocean Ridge residents turned out in droves to complain about Mayor Geoff Pugh’s ideas for overhauling Old Ocean Boulevard.<br /> Pugh didn’t mind that at all. He said the main thing he wanted was for them to turn out in droves.<br /> “It just goes to show, when it’s controversial, everyone shows up,” the mayor said, and told a packed Town Hall he was trying to use “an idea that’s so out there that people will turn out.”<br /> The turnout for the Jan. 26 workshop on Pugh’s proposal to change Old Ocean into a promenade showed how much residents care about their town’s future and dealing with growing neighbors, the mayor said, and that’s the conversation he wants to start.<br /> What will Ocean Ridge do to deal with robust development in Boynton Beach that is sure to bring more people to the town and its beaches?<br /> “Let’s face it. The town to our west is leaning on us,” Pugh said, and cited published calls from Boynton Beach Mayor Jerry Taylor to “bring on the development” and the city’s recent approval of two large residential projects on Federal Highway.<br /> “They call themselves a coastal community,” Pugh said. “They are not a coastal community. They’re an Intracoastal community. We are a coastal community.”<br /> He said he was committed to doing what he could to “keep the town the same quiet sanctuary that it is, but accommodate the traffic” that mainland growth will bring. Pugh showed the audience a snapshot of himself as a child growing up in Ocean Ridge during the 1960s.<br /> “My idea is not to change things,” he said, “but to keep them as they were in 1969.”<br /> His idea for an Old Ocean Boulevard promenade was dead on arrival. Of the 26 residents who spoke during the workshop, 22 spoke against the proposal, one supported it and three expressed no opinion. A sampling:<br /> “This is not a controversial issue,” said Bob Weisblut, who lives on Sailfish Lane. “I think people want everything left like it is.”<br /> Rosemarie Peterson of Harbour Drive concurred: “I think if we took a vote here tonight, everybody would say to leave it alone.”<br /> Earl Jones of Sailfish Lane said blocking off side streets would create problems. “Any of you who think dead-end streets are neat, you’re nuts,” he said.<br /> Tropical Drive residents said they worried about the high volume of traffic the plan would funnel onto their street. Chris Currie said he’s traveled on Old Ocean for 45 years and never had a problem. He said the mayor’s idea would give Old Ocean “quasi-private status” at the expense of Tropical Drive. “It’s not going to fly,” he said.<br /> Said Chuck McIntyre, who lives on Old Ocean: “Forget this whole idea.”<br /> The only resident willing to support the plan outright was Barbara Souther, who lives on North Ocean. “I’m in the minority here,” she said. “I’m with Geoff on this.” Souther said one-way traffic would make it easier for people to enjoy the beach.<br /> Gary Kosinski of Old Ocean gave the town a detailed plan for overhauling the street that he said is “exactly the opposite of Mayor Pugh’s idea.” Kosinski proposes blocking off no side streets and making no streets one-way. “What we do is stop people from driving the whole distance of Old Ocean,” he said. He proposes dividing the road into three sections. The town put the plan on its website.<br /> “I think Gary Kosinski’s plan is worth looking at,” said Commissioner Richard Lucibella. “I don’t think we should take it off the table.”<br /> Other ideas from the workshop that commissioners said they would consider in upcoming meetings include improving beach signage, installing traffic calming devices, exploring shuttle service from Boynton Beach to Boynton Beach Oceanfront Park, and improving the lighting on Old Ocean.<br /> Commissioner James Bonfiglio said residents’ overwhelming support for the status quo shows that the town has had sound leadership for decades.<br /> “You’re not saying we want change,” Bonfiglio said. “You’re saying we want things to stay the same. We’ve done things right for about 20 to 25 years to get to this point where everybody that’s here likes living here and likes the quality of life here.”</p></div>Clues in the Crumbling Albumhttps://thecoastalstar.com/profiles/blogs/clues-in-the-crumbling-album2014-07-30T15:30:00.000Z2014-07-30T15:30:00.000ZMary Kate Leminghttps://thecoastalstar.com/members/MaryKateLeming769<div><p style="text-align:center;"><strong><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}7960522867,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}7960522867,original{{/staticFileLink}}" width="450" alt="7960522867?profile=original" /></a></strong><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}7960523452,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}7960523452,original{{/staticFileLink}}" width="534" alt="7960523452?profile=original" /></a>Researcher Janet DeVries channels her inner Nancy Drew to unearth the roots of a photo collection that portrays a Florida lost to time. <strong>Photos by Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star</strong></p>
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<p><strong>By Mary Thurwachter</strong><br /> <br /> In her search to learn the provenance of a century-old photo album, Janet DeVries uncovered stories of shipwrecks, sailors, suicide and a whole lot of coconut palm trees.<br /> DeVries — a historical researcher, author and president of the Boynton Beach Historical Society — calls her latest project “Clues in the Crumbling Album,” a takeoff of an old Nancy Drew title. <br /> Indeed, she found several clues on the fragile pages of the old photo book she discovered on eBay. The photographs were taken between Palm Beach and the Hillsboro Inlet and most were shot in Manalapan. <br /> “Since the images were most interesting, I hoped to learn more about the provenance,” she said. “The album is truly a gem and seems to be one of the earliest and most compelling illustrative accounts of coastal central Palm Beach County. The images portray a Florida lost to time and development and provide a glimpse into the flora and fauna of coastal Palm Beach County pre-1926 and 1928 hurricanes.” <br /> The book came to her wrapped in tissue.<br /> “It is literally falling apart,” she said. Each time she turns a page to look at a picture, paper fragments fall into her hand. She already has scanned each photo for preservation. <br /> Texas archaeologist Bob Wishoff, who grew up in Florida and sold the album to DeVries, found the photographs at an estate auction in Texas several years ago.<br /> “I realized they were pretty historically relevant and I wanted to find out who the people were,” he said. “I didn’t think I would be able to find out myself and it was important to me to sell them to someone who would appreciate their value.”</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}7960523478,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}7960523478,original{{/staticFileLink}}" width="538" alt="7960523478?profile=original" /></a><em>This photo is one of two known images of the old Boynton Beach Hotel cottages. <strong>Photos courtesy of Janet DeVries</strong></em></p>
<p><br /> What initially piqued DeVries’ interest in Wishoff’s find was an image of the old Boynton Beach Hotel. That photograph, which actually was of some cottages connected to the hotel, was part of another, smaller album. While talking with Wishoff about those pages, she learned of a larger “crumbling” album and another collection of old pictures taken in Florida and other states. <br /> “The Boynton Beach Historical Society does not purchase artifacts,” she said. “The organization relies on donations. Occasionally, I purchase postcards and other ephemera with my own money to share with our (Historic Boynton Beach) Facebook fans. I like to think of it as ‘bringing these items home.’ ”<br /> The purchase was a splurge for her ($150), but her friend and fellow researcher, Ginger Pederson, encouraged DeVries to buy the book as a birthday gift to herself.<br /> “When the artifact was delivered and I touched the delicate paper, I could barely bring myself to open it,” DeVries said. <br /> “What I found inside delighted and amazed me,” she said. “Not only does it illustrate the tropical beauty of coastal Palm Beach County prior to development, it portrays aviation pioneer Glenn Curtiss in Palm Beach with his seaplane. (He would come to Florida every winter and give those who could afford it plane rides to Cuba, Bimini or just for a short trip into the wild blue yonder). There also are references to President Theodore Roosevelt and World War I.” <br /> By sharing images on Facebook, DeVries has been helped by viewers familiar with some of the locations portrayed. Eventually, she plans to donate the book to the Historical Society of Palm Beach County.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}7960522901,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}7960522901,original{{/staticFileLink}}" width="490" alt="7960522901?profile=original" /></a><em>Aviation pioneer Glenn Curtiss would fly people to Bimini and beyond in his seaplane.</em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><br /> <strong>What the clues revealed</strong><br /> But who are the people in the pictures? Who were the crumbling album’s original owners?<br /> DeVries, a researcher at Palm Beach State College who is working on a master’s degree in library science from Florida State University, called upon her sleuth skills to find answers.<br /> “I’ve always liked solving mysteries,” she said. “I read all the Nancy Drew books growing up. I guess it’s in my blood, too, because my great-great-grandfather was the house detective for the biggest hotel in Cleveland in the 1880s.” <br /> She has written five local history books.<br /> In the course of her research, DeVries searched historical databases and land records and spent countless hours online. She made trips to the Palm Beach County Historical Society headquarters in West Palm Beach and tapped into community knowledge via Facebook. <br /> Her initial clue was on the four pages of the first of three albums, she said. It included a photo labeled Boynton Beach Hotel Cottages. <br /> “This piqued my interest,” she said, “because I’ve only seen one other image of the cottages at the Boynton Hotel in all my time as archivist for the city of Boynton Beach and as president of the Boynton Beach Historical Society and in all my research and collecting. The hotel was torn down in 1925, though some of the cottages remained.”<br /> Other images labeled “Manalapan” followed by notations such as “walk to dock” and “boat house” and “lake side view” led her to believe the home was located between the ocean and Lake Worth, which now is part of the Intracoastal Waterway. <br /> A few images — labeled “Hillsboro Light,” “Canal to Delray” and “Dinner Stop at Lake Worth” — convinced her these were local images and that the people in the pictures lived here.<br /> The names appearing on the pages were unusual — Madeleine, Romey and Leila, DeVries said.<br /> “This combined with the term Manalapan cemented the deal that the family was the Piersons, and the home pictured within the crumbling albums was the 1894 structure built by Elnathan T. Field of Manalapan, N.J.” <br /> She noted pictures of a coconut grove and read about pioneer George Charter (one of the barefoot mailmen) planting the coconuts. <br /> “The story really became enchanting,” she said.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}7960523091,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}7960523091,original{{/staticFileLink}}" width="517" alt="7960523091?profile=original" /></a><em>The Pierson family bought this house north of Boynton Inlet in Manalapan in 1912. It was torn down by developers in 2000.</em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><br /> “Some of the images were mystifying,” DeVries said, “especially the one of the house with what appeared to be a cistern. <br /> “Fans of our Facebook page, Historic Boynton Beach, provided additional clues as I posted images. Several people said the water tower in the picture was along A1A north of the inlet. This confirmed what I already suspected. With each photo I posted, more fans chimed in with memories of the old A1A (mostly washed out in 1947) and even the stretch of the beach that is north of the Boynton Inlet.”<br /> DeVries tracked down the entire line of Pierson descendants, including granddaughter Nancy Pierson Sands Tilton, who died around 2000. There is a great-grandson living in Texas.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}7960523680,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}7960523680,original{{/staticFileLink}}" width="210" alt="7960523680?profile=original" /></a><em>A woman, likely Leila Pierson, leans against a coconut palm in this photograph from the album Janet DeVries purchased.</em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><br /> <strong>Shipwrecks, sailors</strong> <br /> <strong>and suicide</strong><br /> The Piersons, of New York and New Jersey, bought the house at 1780 S. Ocean Ave. in Manalapan in 1912, according to a 1933 story in which Leila Pierson was interviewed in <em>The Palm Beach Post</em>.<br /> There were two known owners before them. One of them was George Charter, a barefoot mailman. He and his brother built a hunting shack on the property, then 126 acres along 2 1/2 miles of ocean ridge in what now is Manalapan), with timber — the remains of a shipwreck — they scavenged on the beach.<br /> “Charter planted all those (several thousand) coconuts after the wreck of the Providencia,” DeVries said.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}7960524083,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}7960524083,original{{/staticFileLink}}" width="202" alt="7960524083?profile=original" /></a><em>Palms were planted from coconuts that spilled from the wreck of the Providencia.</em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><br /> But besides coconuts, the bodies of two sailors washed ashore from the wreck. The Charters buried them beside the sea, according to Leila Pierson’s account. <br /> Between Charter and the Piersons, the property belonged to Elnathan T. Field, who built the house on a bluff 15-25 feet above the ocean. Field came from Manalapan, N.J., and named the house on stilts “Manalapan Cottage” after a New Jersey Indian tribe. Manalapan is an Indian word for “pleasant waters.”<br /> The Piersons weren’t immune to tragedy.<br /> “A. Romeyn Pierson Sr. and his daughter, Dorothy, both died of the deadly 1918-19 fever,” DeVries found. “And the son, A. Romeyn Pierson, died of alcoholism in 1929.” The Piersons left the property to their granddaughter, Nancy Tilton, who sold it off gradually. In 2000, after Tilton’s death, a developer razed the house.<br /> But while Mrs. Tilton was still living in the house, one of her houseguests made headlines when, in 1977, he killed himself with a 20-gauge shotgun. The man, a Russian-born French teacher, was an associate of Lee Harvey Oswald and a crucial witness in the congressional investigation of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}7960524097,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}7960524097,original{{/staticFileLink}}" width="213" alt="7960524097?profile=original" /></a><em>State Road A1A ran directly along the beach in the early part of the 20th century. It mostly washed out in 1947.</em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><br /> <strong>Every picture tells a story</strong><br /> “The discovery of this old album was a little like paradise found for me,” DeVries said. “I encourage people to keep or donate old photos rather than tossing them. Every picture tells a story.” <br /> DeVries, a newlywed who lives in Lantana, is still uncovering stories. That’s what happens when you’re a historical researcher, after all. The more you dig, the more you find. <br /> In this case, she found a historical treasure. ;<br /> <em> To reach DeVries, email boyntonhistory@gmail.com. Her history blog is found at <a href="http://www.boyntonhistory.org/author/jdevries/">www.boyntonhistory.org/author/jdevries/</a>.</em></p></div>