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River Weekly News Fort Myers September 19 FREE Take Me Read Us Online at Home IslandSunNews.com VOL. 13, NO. 37 From the Beaches to the River District downtown Fort Myers SEPTEMBER 19, 2014 Freedom & Family Weekend Car Show To Benefit American Veterans The Haunted Hayride is a highlight of the Field of Screams Village at JetBlue Park Village and Hayride,” said organizers. Field Of Screams The highlight of the event is a hayride through the haunted reaches of JetBlue Coming Soon Park. In the village itself, there will be sev- outhwest Floridians in search of eral shows and attractions including a live spine-tingling, ghoulish fun will no execution, bizarre sideshow entertainment, Slonger have to travel to Tampa or the Spider Girl from the far reaches of the earth, the mind-blowing Vortex amuse- JetBlue Park in Fort Myers will host a classic car community event on September 27 Orlando in order to celebrate Halloween. The new Field of Screams Village and ment ride and vendors with food and Haunted Hayride will be held weekends merchandise. f you’re a hot rod or classic car or truck enthusiast, JetBlue Park will be the place to from October 3 to 26 and Wednesday Admission to the Village and Hayride be on Saturday and Sunday, September 27 and 28. through Friday, October 29 to 31 at is $15 per person if purchased in advance I The Southwest Military Museum & Library of Cape Coral and Roadhouse JetBlue Park, located at 11500 Fenway online at www.fearatfenwaysouth.com, Promotions are teaming up for a Saturday show as part of Freedom & Family South Drive in Fort Myers. The Field of and all entertainment is included with Weekend, a two-day celebration highlighting our United States military history and hon- Screams Village opens at sundown each admission. Gate admission at the door will oring our veterans. The weekend will feature quality entertainment, military vehicles and night and hayrides run until 11:30 p.m. be $25 per person. reenactments, JROTC competitions and museum displays. “We have searched the world to bring Vendor space and sponsorships are still Saturday’s attractions will include a fine collection of hot rods and classic cars and trucks. the horrifying, the bizarre and the incred- available. ible to Fort Myers for Field of Screams For more information and session continued on page 16 times, visit www.fearatfenwaysouth.com. focus will be on conservation of butterflies Butterfly as important pollinators and conserving Songwriter Fest butterfly populations in decline. Conservatory Butterflies you can expect to see (and Next Weekend who are already finding the larval host he first Island Hopper Songwriter To Reopen plants) are monarch, queen, zebra long- Fest announces a strong line-up of n Saturday, October 4 at 11 wing (Florida’s state butterfly), sulphurs Ttalent on Captiva Island and Fort a.m., Michael Orchin from the (cloudless, orange barred), polydamus or Myers Beach. The festival will take place OCape Coral Friends of Wildlife will gold rimmed swallowtails, eastern black over two consecutive weekends and offers cut the red ribbon and officially open the swallowtails, cassius and ceraunus blues. a range of star-studded performers. door of the Butterfly Conservatory at the This collaboration shows how com- The kick-off is on Captiva September Calusa Nature Center & Planetarium. mitted Southwest Florida residents are to 26 to 28 and the festival wraps up CNCP board members, staff, volun- wildlife and wild spaces. Three different October 3 to 5 on Fort Myers Beach. teers and CCFW members and staff from groups on two sides of the “pond” work- It will feature free performances from Rotary Park in Cape Coral plan to attend. for a common cause – creating a special such hit-makers as Kristian Bush, who place for everyone. This gift to the residents of Southwest Monarch butterfly built his reputation as one half of the Florida was made possible by monetary To celebrate, the Calusa Nature Center multi-platinum, Grammy-winning coun- donations from the Cape Coral Friends & Planetarium will offer buy one admis- For more information, contact CCFW try duo Sugarland, and wrote dozens of of Wildlife and Michael Orchin as well as sion at the regular price, get one of equal member Michael Orchin at morchin@ hits including Stuck Like Glue. Scotty staff experience, knowledge and butterfly or lesser value free, all day on October 4. comcast.net or at 574-6318 or CNCP Emerick has had more than 50 songs caterpillars and chrysalises from Rotary Also, it is giving away three one-year fam- Director Mary Rawl at mrawl@calusana- recorded by Toby Keith, including six No. Park in Cape Coral. ily memberships. ture.org or at 275-3435. 1’s and four top 5’s. Three songs, I Love The renovated butterfly house will Donations are welcome as are volun- The Calusa Nature Center & This Bar, Beer For My Horses and As house mostly Florida native plants with teers for maintenance and tours. Memorial Planetarium is at 3450 Ortiz Avenue in Good As I Once Was, spent six weeks in only a few exceptions and will include bricks to be part of the pathway through Fort Myers. nectar producers for adult butterflies, and the aviary are available for a donation of continued on page 18 larval host plants for the caterpillars. The $100 or more. 2 THE RIVER - SEPTEMBER 19, 2014 Historic Downtown Fort Myers, Then And Now: Capt. WF And Katie Gwynne House by Gerri Reaves, PhD hown in this circa 1915 postcard image is the First Street home of Capt. William F. and Katie Lloyd Gwynne. It was Slocated next door to the historic Murphy-Burroughs home, which still stands on the northeast corner at Fowler Street. The Gwynne house was completed in December 1899 by Daniel A.G. Floweree. He and John T. Murphy, both wealthy Montanan cattlemen, came to Fort Myers in winter of 1898 to 1899 to check out the cattle industry and became enamored with the budding town. They stayed the season, bought lots and simultaneously built luxurious homes. Floweree’s cost $20,000, $5,000 more than Murphy’s. Named Hunter’s Rest, the Floweree house had a widow’s walk, two second-floor porches and a wrap-around veranda. Locals recall it as not only larger, but grander, than its neighbor, which is today on the National Register of Historic Places. Fort Myers native Charlie Powell remembers the house well because a classmate of his lived there in the 1950s and he attended parties at what he feels was the most outstanding home of its day. In the early 1960s, the house was demolished and apartments were built on the site The second-floor corner bedrooms with rounded corners made it stand above all photo by Gerri Reaves other First Street structures, he says. “It should still be standing.” Although he died the following summer, his widow, Eliza, and his son honored the The Capt. Gwynnes, who had married in 1910 in Fort Myers, apparently moved colonel’s promise, and their funds, along with the town’s fundraising, made possible into the house not long after Floweree died in 1912. the modern Gwynne Institute, opened in 1911. Capt. Gwynne was the son of Col. Andrew D. Gwynne, one of Fort Myers’s most Katie Gwynne was very active in the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC). important benefactors. While visiting the town in 1909, the wealthy Memphis cotton Several postcards in the archives of the Southwest Florida Historical Society document broker and wholesale grocer observed severe over-crowding in the public schools and tidbits of her business correspondence regarding state and national conventions in vari- pledged to financially help solve the problem if the town ever resolved to tackle it. ous U.S. cities. Her interest in that organization is not surprising, since she was related to John C. Calhoun, a prominent South Carolina legislator and 7th Vice President of the U.S. under both John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson. She and Capt. Gwynne (and later, her second husband) were involved in many organizations related to the Confederacy and the Spanish-American War. The Capt. Gwynnes lived in the former Floweree house for only a few years. Around 1919, after Capt. Gwynne’s mother died, the couple moved to her house just across First Street between Fowler and Hough – the house in which they had been married. (That house was moved decades ago.) The Gwynne house was subsequently owned by Edwin A. Richard and others over the years, and in the 1950s it became a tourist home. In the 1960s, it was demolished and apartments were built on the riverfront property. Take a stroll down First Street to the former site of one of the most notable homes that ever existed in downtown Fort Myers. Then, walk the short distance to the Southwest Florida Museum of History at 2031 Jackson Street, where you can learn more about the Gwynne house, one of many that earned East First Street the nickname “Millionaires Row.” For information, call 321-7430 or go to www.museumofhistory.org. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday. See more photos of downtown’s lost elegant homes at the Southwest Florida Historical Society, located at 10091 McGregor Boulevard on the campus of the Lee County Alliance for the Arts. The all-volunteer non-profit organization’s hours are Wednesday or Saturday between 9 a.m. and noon or Wednesday 4 to 7 p.m. Call them at 939-4044. Circa 1915, Capt. William F. and Katie L. Gwynne lived in the house built by Daniel A.G.
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