Stuart’s 75th Anniversary Celebration, May 6, 1989

community of several hundred people then and life was not as it is today there was no electricity there were no movies there was no television there was no radios there was no airport what's going on there was no Roosevelt Bridge but they did have clean rivers good hunting picnics parties dances and most importantly neighborliness friendship had a feeling of sense of space story has lived up to its projected future our citizens today are proud of our past and hopeful for our future and we have studied our past and our future in Stuart for several years and this this formula has been Blended successfully by architect Andreas gowani who has taken the foundation of the planning

that we have done to give us the tools to provide a better future we have begun the implementation of the quality plan we have resisted the monetization of confusion corner we have budgeted funds to paint the water tower to unify our new Martin County Courthouse and we've worked with the state to obtain a grant to reserve and preserve our old Martin County Courthouse we've also budgeted adopted an architectural code that will regulate the colors and the materials that are used in Downtown Stuart on behalf of the county I would like to thank very very much the people who organized this tremendous events one that I think we should all keep in mind and thank you

from the county and from the County Commission in addition I would be remiss if I did not mention to people that made this possible and I learned last night at the concert where we honored the people who Pioneer people they call themselves family let me tell you something they really are family and they're the people that are responsible for us being here today so thank you very much and I hope we all remain a family in Stuart and Martin County to make this absolutely the best place to live not on the Treasure Coast but in the United States your dad is getting a great place start manager I'm sorry I didn't mix up with counties

sometimes anyway sir as uh Joan Jefferson has told you we can look back and we can see that this town was started with uh 58 people that's reported and they met and they voted uh apparently quite spirited debate which is something we have kept the tradition of up to the present and I'd like to ask you to pause just for a second and think why are we doing this why are we making an effort to remember Stewart's humble beginnings Stewart is not Philadelphia obviously and it's not Charleston and it's not even Tallahassee uh it's not the Cradle of great historical moments it was a place where people simple people came here and homesteaded and worked

hard endured mosquitoes and humidity and heat and hurricanes without any warnings and they shared a very important thing they shared the love of each other and this small town spirit and their small town values and I I was thinking of the the Great American play of Death of a Salesman you might remember that play where at the end Willie loman's Widow eulogizes her husband to an unimpressed son and she says about her husband who worked so hard and dreamed much but really was not a famous man or anybody important she said attention must be paid attention must be paid and that's what we're doing today we're respecting those people who founded this town and what

we're really looking at is ourselves you're looking at what our values are um um okay that's enough foreign foreign what size do you have left large here and small all right extra large but um they'll be you need to get one Jennifer to work 25 years doesn't have a spree written on it 25 years for today she would hi foreign so we have his number 41.00 all right Bob I can't even see I've got so much grease on my glasses that's not what you're supposed to say when you're working around food birthday ideas