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FREE Take Me Read Us Online at Home Islandsunnews.Com FREE Take Me Read Us Online at Home IslandSunNews.com VOL. 12, NO. 7 From the Beaches to the River District downtown Fort Myers FEBRUARY 22, 2013 History Of Native Plants Exhibit he Fort Myers Garden Council presents La Florida The First 500 TYears on March 1 and 2. The pub- lic is invited to this historical presentation of native Florida plants. The exhibit is the only one of its kind south of Sarasota. What has happened to native plants and people during the past 500 years of Southwest Florida’s history? Find out by attending the historical presentation of plant evolution from the Calusa Indians through today. The presentation will depict the area’s history from the Calusa Indians through the European discoverers, settlers, scien- tists and entrepreneurs like Edison, Ford and Collier. Railroads, resorts, vegetable and flower production, space travel and sports all added to the economy, and This is an illustration of what a Greater Fort Myers Beach Area Chamber of Commerce people continue to arrive from all over “Bambi” might look like. A fundraiser is being held on March 19 to assist with the comple- the world, both to work and to play. The tion of the converted 16-foot Airstream, which will be used to provide tourist information on show will tell Florida’s story through these the beach events and individuals, emphasizing the Tournament on Tuesday, March 19 to importance of plants. Mini Masters benefit Buy A Bambi for the Greater Members of the garden council are Fort Myers Area Chamber of Commerce. hosting the show of displays, designs, Fundraiser Tee-time is at 4:30 p.m. at Jungle Golf, plants and other educational exhibits. The eservations are being accepted for 17710 San Carlos Boulevard in Fort various designs and horticulture exhibits individuals and teams to play in Myers Beach. Participants will report continued on page 16 Version of the bird of paradise flower Rthe inaugural Mini Masters Golf continued on page 26 Paiting by Lennie Jones Arts For ACT Gallery Exhibit oin Arts for ACT Gallery in down- town Fort Myers, on Friday, March J1 from 6 to 10 p.m. for the March Lennie Jones with a guitar he painted opening reception and Art Walk. This old dark wood coffee table, no easel. “No The Burroughs Home month, ACT Gallery will feature artists studio for me; art is a lifestyle and a joyous Lennie Jones, Michael Pohlman and BA part of my simple life, every day,” he said. Mintz. Jones was selected as the event artist Tour The Historic Burroughs Home Art has always been a joyous part of for the Telluride Blues & Brews Festival ne-hour living history tours of the historic Georgian Revival Burroughs Home Lennie Jones’ daily life. Alongside music, for fall of 2013. He was recently com- Mansion, located at 2505 First Street in Fort Myers, are available Monday it has continually filled his need for soulful missioned to create a portrait of Grammy Othrough Friday at both 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. expression and redemption. Jones typical- Award-winning blues guitarist/songwriter Reservations are requested but not required. Adult tickets are $12; seniors are $10; ly begins his creativity time around 3 a.m. Anders Osborne and was also commis- children six to 12 are $5; and those five and under are free. Lunches can be arranged If studying or working on a specific musi- sioned to paint a portrait of country for groups of 10 or more. Free parking is available. The Burroughs Home is under the cians’ portrait or a song-themed piece, he music’s legendary musician, historian and management of the Uncommon Friends Foundation. prefers to listen to those particular inspira- TV host Marty Stuart for the new Museum Check the Burroughs Home website at http://burroughshome.com/events.cfm for tions while painting. Jones paints on an continued on page 27 additional information or call 337-0706 to make tour reservations. 2 THE RIVER - FEBRUARY 22, 2013 Historic Downtown Fort Myers, Then And Now: Fishtail Palm At Harvie Heitman House by Gerri Reaves ot only people and places – but plant speci- mens, too – have their place in Fort Myers Nhistory. This towering fishtail palm was impressive enough to be featured on more than one postcard in Fort Myers’ pioneer days. Such specimens touted the beauty and exoticism of the new subtropical frontier. Vintage postcards, personal writings and even newspaper articles document the respect and affec- tion early citizens felt for the town’s trees: the huge, and somewhat rare, pecan tree felled to build the Bradford Hotel in 1905; the Royal Poinciana at First and Fowler that locals protested to save when a gas station was proposed in 1930; the date palm planted at the U.S. Army Fort Myers by Captain Winfield Scott Hancock in 1858. And, the live oak at the Lee County Courthouse, recently deceased. Plants were more than tropical curiosities. Many people bought land in this area for agricultural or horticultural enterprises, among them citrus The Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center now stands where tropical landscaping once reigned. The 1898 and mango groves, pineapple plantations and tropical nurseries. Heitman Building still stands on northwest corner at First and Jackson (left). photo by Gerri Reaves Most famously, Thomas A. Edison chose Fort Myers for his research specifically because of the unique climate and botanical possibilities. The tree pictured circa 1911 stood on the Harvie E. Heitman property at the northeast corner of First and Jackson Streets. Judging from its size, the tree might have been alive when Heitman’s yard was still part of the U.S. Army Fort Myers – pre-1865, in other words. The property was known for its lush landscape. The awning and balcony of Heitman’s 1898 store across Jackson Street is visible on the far left. Note the balcony sign advertising insurance and the unpaved streets in the heart of town. A glimpse of the house is visible to the right of the palm’s trunk. At the time of the photo, that house was the old- est structure in town. Built in the 1850s during the Third Seminole War, it had served as officers’ quarters at the fort and subsequently as a residence for a roster of early settlers. Heitman was the last. After Heitman died in 1922, his estate planned to build a luxury hotel on the site, but the economic fallout from the hurricane of 1926 and the 1929 stock market crash inter- vened. Instead, the land was sold and the historic house was moved back toward the river, across Bay Street, to become the public library. The property was cleared and the Works Project Administration built one of downtown’s architectural trea- sures, which opened in 1933, the post office that today is A fishtail palm on the Harvie E. Heitman property advertised Fort Myers’ tropical beauty on a postcard circa 1911 the Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center. courtesy of Southwest Florida Historical Society, Sara Nell Hendry Gran Collection continued on page 4 Read Us Online: www.IslandSunNews.com Contributing Writers Click on The River Jennifer Basey Joan Hooper Kimberley Berisford Audrey Krienen Advertising Sales Graphic Arts/Production Photographer Suzy Cohen Scott Martell Isabel Rasi Ann Ziehl Michael Heider Ed Frank Capt. Matt Mitchell George Beleslin Sarah Crooks Writers Max Friedersdorf Patricia Molloy Co-Publishers Kris See Gerri Reaves, Ph D Priscilla Friedersdorf Laura Zocki Puerto Lorin Arundel Office Coordinator Anne Mitchell Jim George Di Saggau and Ken Rasi Patricia Molloy Jeff Lysiak Dr. Dave Hepburn Scott White The River Weekly News will correct factual errors or matters of emphasis and interpretation that appear in news stories. Readers with news, tips, comments or questions, please call (239) 415-7732 or write to: The River Weekly News, 1609 Hendry Street, Suite 15, Fort Myers, FL 33901. Fax number: (239) 415-7702. E-mail: [email protected]. The River Weekly News reserves the right to refuse, alter or edit any editorial or advertisement. PRINTED ON RECYCLED Independently Owned And Operated • COPYRIGHT 2013 The River Weekly News • LORKEN Publications, Inc. PAPER THE RIVER - FEBRUARY 22, 2013 3 Fort Myers Public Art Barbara Jo Revelle Mural by Tom Hall veryone knows that EFort Myers got its start as an actual fort more than a century ago. But did you know that Fort Myers instigated the war that led to the deportation of Chief Billy Bowlegs and his Seminole tribe to a reservation in Oklahoma? Or that Fort Myers was a Union stronghold in the Civil War that played a key role The Barbara Jo Revelle mural is located in the federal courthouse/Hotel Indigo courtyard in hastening Lee’s surrender to Grant at Appomattox? Or that a small but gallant courthouse and stretches an astonishing the surface. Then they applied a thin both longtime residents and newcomers, regiment of African American soldiers 100 feet along the courtyard the federal layer of skim coat before bedding the tiles who are equally eager to know more repelled an attack by a Confederate building shares with Hotel Indigo, HOWL in thin-set latex-enriched Portland cement about the people and events that helped force twice its size in the southernmost Gallery, Starbucks and Lush Bakery. Even to prevent cracking in southwest Florida’s build Fort Myers into the city it is today. battle of the Civil War? more astounding, the mural consists of torrid temperatures. “Fort Myers is so much more than If not, you’re not alone, and it’s the tiny one-inch-square ceramic tiles onto “Unfortunately, they applied it all Thomas Edison, Henry Ford and Harvey reason that University of Florida photog- which Revelle printed an amalgama- over the compression joints built into the Firestone,” insists True Tours’ Gina raphy professor Barbara Jo Revelle chose tion of old photographs she unearthed walls,” notes Public Art Committee mem- Taylor, who regularly shares fascinating to shine a light on Fort Myers’ early his- and digitized during nearly two years of ber William Taylor, who is taking stock of stories like the ones embedded in the tory when the federal government chose research into the town’s beginnings in the the condition of all of the city’s public art- sepia-toned ceramic tiles of the Barbara her to make a mural in 1997 for the fed- mid-19th century.
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