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INSIDE WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 15-21, 2016 www.FloridaWeekly.com Vol. VI, No. 48 • FREE “I’m just your regular Florida boy.” —Jett Beres, Sister Hazel bassist and real estate agent Norton restoration Rock ’n’ roll Project stabilizes gardens’ realtor monumental works. B1 $25 million gift Jupiter Medical Center receives its largest single donation ever. A13 ADAM BARON / FLORIDA WEEKLY New stores at Gardens Sister Hazel bassist Jett Beres strums his bass during his day job at Singer Island Realty. Jo Malone, A Pea in the Pod open at mall; Chico’s remodels. A14 BY AMY WOODS reef and played volleyball on hot sand Sister Hazel bassist awoods@fl oridaweekly.com across from the Ocean Mall as a youth. “I’m just your regular Florida boy,” the Jett Beres sets sights CASUALLY CLAD IN FLIP-FLOPS, SHORTS AND A 45-year-old said. golf shirt, Singer Island Realty’s newest Not really. He is Jett Beres, a Cardi- on Singer Island agent gestures from his third-story office nal Newman High School graduate who on Ocean Drive toward the line of condo- presciently earned “Senior Standout” sta- real-estate sales miniums visible through the wide window tus from his Crusader classmates in 1989: behind him. “Who knows what fame and fortune has in “I grew up going to the beach right here,” store for this talented musician?” reads the he said. yearbook entry about the president of the The West Palm Beach transplant by way student music club, who four years later of Fort Myers surfed the legendary pump SEE BERES, A8 house, snorkeled the Anastasia-limestone BumbleFest buzz Stargazer Lilies headline the West Palm Beach festival. Turtles breaking statewide nesting records B10 BY AMY WOODS rash of nesting to the shores of Palm Beach awoods@fl oridaweekly.com County, and with six weeks left in the sea- son, which ends Oct. 31, the year already Download They look like little crime scenes on has seen a record number of incidents. The our FREE the beach — bands of yellow police tape culprits? Loggerheads. wrapped around wooden stakes stuck in Adrienne McCracken, field operations App today small patches of sand where sea turtles laid manager at the Loggerhead Marinelife Cen- COURTESY PHOTO Available on their eggs. ter in Juno Beach, said more than 15,000 A female loggerhead digs a nest, using all four the iTunes and The summer months have brought a flippers. After digging a chamber with her back Android App Store. SEE TURTLES, A12 flippers, she lays about 110 eggs. PRSRT STD LESLIE LILLY A2 BUSINESS A14 COLLECTORS B2 U.S. POSTAGE PAID OPINION A4 MOVING ON UP A15 EVENTS B4-5 FORT MYERS, FL PETS A6 REAL ESTATE A16 PUZZLES B9 PERMIT NO. 715 SOCIETY A10-11, B6-7 ARTS B1 CUISINE B10-11 A2 NEWS WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 15-21, 2016 www.FloridaWeekly.com GARDENS/JUPITER FLORIDA WEEKLY COMMENTARY I am woman She wasn’t deterred. She understood of women’s movement business remains a feminist plot to undermine women’s the importance of the history unfolding unfinished: The Equal Rights Amend- status as social and economic append- and its implications for her gender. She ment, guaranteeing equal rights for all ages to men. leslieLILLY meant to seal her part in telling it with women. Ah, the memories. It all came back, [email protected] zeal in the extreme. After writing Antho- Suffragettes Alice Paul and Crystal prompted by the announcement Phyllis ny’s biography, she burned thousands of Eastman drafted the amendment, and Schlafly had died at 92. She is undoubt- archival documents, eliminating access it was first introduced in Congress in edly the individual most responsible for She probably never was a household to original source materials by future 1923. Though Paul and Eastman thought the failure of the ERA three states shy of name in her own time nor is she accord- historians. women’s enfranchisement essential, they ratification. An arch-conservative, she ed the deference often paid to others The deed hinted of an almost ruth- did not believe securing it would end championed women’s subservience to who shared her cause. Yet Ida Husted less determination to dominate the ver- gender discrimination against women. husband, hearth and home, glorifying Harper was not a minor figure in Ameri- sion of the story she felt compelled to Their proposed amendment failed. It procreation as women’s true destiny. can history. She probably is best known tell and to protect its authenticity from languished thereafter for decades, its She founded the Eagle Forum, and as the biographer of Susan B. Anthony. future edits. But her life’s mission was momentum grown cold in the saucer of Stop ERA to organize the opposition, In 1852, Anthony joined and led with to support and spread the ideas of the the populism that gave it its rise using tactics of fear and exaggeration — Elizabeth Cady Stanton the women’s women’s movement and to document in With 90 years of hindsight, the judg- male predators stalking women in unisex rights movement in the United States. exquisite detail the breadth of the chal- ment of Paul and Eastman is confirmed. “potties,” a government ban on all-girls Their efforts became the genesis of the lenges faced by those supporting the Female victims of rape, wage discrimina- schools, a military draft of teenage girls modern women’s rights movement. cause. This fight was about the country tion, and/or discrimination because of and male and female inmates sharing Harper was born in 1851 and lived until living up to its democratic values and it pregnancy don’t get the same standard jail cells. And the ultimate threat? The 1931. She came of age in the early stages was being fought from the state house to of judicial review afforded other forms country would be overrun by liberated, of the women’s movement and lived long the White House. of discrimination, and women are consis- independent women fully possessed of enough to witness its success in secur- A significant milestone in Harper’s tently paid less than men working in jobs dreams, minds, and capability all their ing women’s right to vote. Congress early efforts was her collaboration with of comparable value. own. approved the 19th Amendment to the Anthony and others in the writing and In 1967, the National Organization for And the country couldn’t have that, U.S. Constitution and it was ratified in editing of the early volumes of “The His- Women resurrected the ERA, lobbying could it? ■ 1920 by the majority of the states. tory of Women’s Suffrage.” She outlived Congress to pass it. Surprisingly, in 1972, During the long era of this constitu- Anthony by more than a decade, continu- it did. The states had seven years to ratify. — Leslie Lilly is a native Florid- tional fight, Harper devoted herself to ing to document the efforts to win wom- Twenty-one states did so promptly. The ian. Her professional career spans more the cause of women’s equality, became en’s suffrage, adding and editing in 1922 a women’s movement was in full throttle. than 25 years leading major philan- a suffragette, befriended Miss Anthony, fifth and sixth volume to the four tomes We were singing, “I am woman, hear me thropic institutions in the South and and became one of the movement’s self- published earlier. The six-volume series roar.” But then the politics changed. Appalachia. She writes frequently on appointed, de facto historians. take up two feet of shelf space. Each vol- Feminist demands were blunt and pur- issues of politics, public policy and She was an author and journalist. Her ume numbers close to a thousand pages. poseful: We own and celebrate wom- philanthropy, earning national recogni- essays and columns appeared regularly “The History of Women’s Suffrage” en’s sexuality; women have the right to tion for her leadership in the charitable in various publications. She sometimes is a monumental work. It is a historical control their own bodies; and women’s sector. She resides with her family and used a male pseudonym to hoodwink treasure and its relevance sustained by rights are human rights. Within a year, a pugs in Jupiter. Email her at llilly@flori- editors who refused to consider content current events. Ninety years after Harper backlash erupted. The ERA was branded daweekly.com and read past blog posts submitted by women writers. finished the last chapter, a major piece a threat to traditional family values and on Tumblr at llilly15.Tumblr.com We heal for Terry. Ali R. Malek, MD oke Survivor 2015 Terry Tipple – Str Medical Director, SMMC Comprehensive Stroke Center 8 Years The Comprehensive Stroke Center at St. Mary’s Medical Center. Dr. Malek and our team heal for stroke patient Terry Tipple. 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