A couple poses outside the Seacrest Hotel, where the Delray Beach Marriott now stands, on Atlantic Avenue just west of Ocean Boulevard in the 1940s. Delray Beach Historical Society
By Jane Smith
Delray was once a farming mecca, shipping pineapples a
Jackie, Tommy and Eva Tyghem, 5, watch Biscuit, a yellow Labrador retriever,
fetch her ball under the light of the full moon in the ocean near the Colony Cabana Club in Delray Beach.
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Members and guests at the Colony Hotel
Caryn Foltz has sketched images of the area
and paired them with her thoughts that day in a book she calls SandScript.
Bruce Borich/The Coastal Star
The cover of Caryn Foltz’s book of drawings
and essays is derived from her first sketch.
By Ron Ha
Jestena Boughton, owner of the landmark downtown hotel, continued a family tradition that began more than eight decades ago by giving back – this year, to the Delray Beach Historical Society. Boughton presented a $10,000 gift that will help the socie
Jestena Boughton, with her dog, Lucy,
in front of the Colony Hotel on Atlantic Avenue in Delray Beach.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Tim Pallesen
The size for future buildings on Atlantic Avenue is suddenly up for debate after a plea to city c
Winston Aarons of Delray Beach set his new novel, Jasmine,
in southern Palm Beach County. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Ron Hayes
Sunday morning strollers along Atlantic Avenue in Delray Beach may have noticed a professorial gentleman seated a
By Mary Thurwachter
On a sunny afternoon in May, Jestena Boughton and Hilary Roche converse in a long narrow office at the Colony Hotel. Lucy, the beagle-corgi mix Jestena recently
adopted, keeps an eye on things between snoozes.
The women are
