Stuart’s German Heritage: It Was Once Potsdam

welcome to the steart Heritage Museum uh monthly presentation before we bring Sandra up I've got a couple little announcements to do uh I want to of course recognize some of our Este guests bua Clark are one of our one of our friends Council uh Barbara Osborne with the preservation well Martin County gen society and Captain's House yes and many many dear friends who been a part of our museum for years uh part of the community even longer so I appreciate everyone turning out today one of my responsibilities has been to to honor Mary Jones Mary had been the executive director for the museum for over 12 years she and her family uh were an integral part of keeping the museum doors open when uh when things were difficult um she can't be with us today she's her Mobility is somewhat limited but I wanted to recognize her and all the efforts that she and her family have provided to us over the years I have a plaque which will be delivered to her and we'll one will be displayed in the museum uh going forward yes good we've we've been blessed to have Sandy with us tonight we had uh Phil Harvey with us last month uh we're really trying to take keep these on throughout the season we've got speakers lined up uh pretty much through February uh next next month we're going to have Thomas Glidden he's a treasure hunter uh both locally and around the State of Florida uh I don't think we've got him convinced to bring in a gold de Bloon as a giveaway but we're working on it we're working on it yeah if I if I spread that rumor I'll get a bigger turnout uh we also have uh Winnie Thompson from the port serno community and along with several others from down there we'd like to have a round table uh type discussion about the old times down in Port serno of course Port cerno is getting a lot of publicity these days over development but uh that's not what we're here to talk about uh and come February we'll have uh Lloyd Jones as our presenter Lloyd Jones is the current uh preservationist of the Year between that and now come December 2nd Saturday we'll be having an open house at the uh Museum uh we anticipate having music Refreshments raffle uh tours of the museum and we're anticipating having uh the trolley do some local community tour uh we hope you all come out they'll be refreshment uh we're working with the our usual donuts and coffee crew along with perhaps some uh Ur from some of our local restaurants so we're going to try and bump it up a little bit for you and make it interesting who who Santa Claus don't let me forget that we've got Santa Claus coming this year uh and we'll have uh trinkets or giveaways to the uh to the children and me uh just prior to the um our open house the city has their Christmas parade on Friday December 1 so if you remember that remember we're the next day anything maybe Sandy I'm going to turn this over to Sandy in just a moment and I know you all know Sandy much better than I do but I did a little research very little uh she's a fifth generation Floridian as I am wow but you're not a local girl Tom Tom but brought you down from Gainesville Tom was a local boy right no he's a Yankee he's a Yankee well you fixing uh Sand's been involved in so much in the community she's such an asset to the museum as far as history and what has happened just add that to the whole community in that regard and we thank you for all you give to us but I think there's one part of your life that means more to me it's not what you taught me or taught the folks out here but the influence you've had on your own family that they are all socially environmentally conscious and you pass you pass that on you know from you and Tom to the children and I'm confident they will carry it on in many years to come take over from me thank you Gary and it's so important that steuart Heritage that means so much to this community is still carrying on and I told Gary that I did uh arrange for programs for years and it was much more nerve-wracking to worry about about someone presenting than I feel tonight because I feel so comfortable with everyone so thank you st Heritage for inviting me because I really haven't spoken to St Heritage that many times so I here and Mary bomb I has already seen this program more or less but of course I never say the same thing twice so uh it'll be a little different but Gloria attended uh a program that I gave to the J soci society and she said Sandy would you give that for steuart Heritage and I thought well boy that's great I don't have to do a whole lot of new work but this subject is so important and so it's it's things that I really think everybody in steart Heritage should at least be aware of this is a g uh is a map that Don Armstrong who uh created steart Heritage he do one and when I did my steart book I put it inside uh and uh uh chaffy young of uh the surveyor paid for it because it was a very special thing to put it in the book over a map that had the present day Steward on it but I just want to see all of this this is Ernest stepman he had to buy that and he had 33 Acres and that's right where we are right now now and then his when his brother Otto bought the rest at a joint and it goes all the way to Krueger Creek so every place where the hospital is where so many important things is on their land and the way I came about and I have a cue later this is the house of aot stman and it still stands it's in the program later too but it was originally named pot Stam and people get a little confused that it didn't say pot Stam after Flagler came it was uh practically it was 1895 it became stored so uh when we say it was pot d p down remember it was long ago where is that house I'll tell you right next to to Liz oh so um this is a map of for the Florida East Coast and it you can see potam is on it this is probably just going to drive you crazy Rick I'm so sorry but see uh we have Waveland but we have poan so it was pan long enough to be on the map and it was because it was a pan post office this is Charles stepman and he is a descendant of uh Henry stepman who was the youngest boy who he was a boy and came with the auto stepman he was 7even years old when he came so he was the first white kid here and uh Charles started to become a genealogist uh after he was older and retired and if you look in the history of Martin County you will see a letter to him and it was J Heidi's uh her her relative I think it it was to Um Myrtle Myrtle Dy and and uh there's quite a bit that he contributed to the history of Martin County and because of him I had things that I was able to get and these will all go to our new process that we have Martin digital history so all of this will be scanned so everybody will have it online if you happen to want want it for some reason or to just look at it but these are the names of the German who founded our town really so you're probably all familiar with Krueger cuz we have that beautiful house on East Ocean Boulevard with grass around it near next to Krueger Creek and it's so good I wonder why I'm shaking so uh and then Aus hars was also but you'll hear more about him but the schroer name is a nephew of the Stans and he came here and I'll tell you more about him he's appears a lot a lot in the slides here are some things I got from David stepman he had things from his his grandmother and he sent them to me and I connected with him because oh it was years ago before the you know uh you know it was like 35 years ago and it was before we had the internet or anything like that and I was thinking well there's a way you can well I think I you could get somebody on the tel phone you know by information remember they would get them for you and I and stepman it's the only name stepman that has two ends on the end there were only three in the United States so I call one it was David stepman who was the grandson who sent me all this stuff he's a antique dealer I hope he's still alive in New York City but this is a picture of Ernest and he was the one that was a surveyor and he was on the survey boat the steadfast and he was uh looked going down and they came into the St Lucy River and this land was just a Wilderness and he saw this River and this beautiful land with its nice trees and he thought gosh this is wonderful I going tell my brothers he could not Homestead because he had already homesteaded up near um it was called Duck Point near Sebastian so uh he couldn't hestad it and that's why he only had the was it 33 Acres he had to buy his and here's a map and Todd knows this map has been on my wall and I tried to give him a hard copy and he just likes things in the computer but this is 1883 geodetic survey map and the dates kind of match up that I wonder if maybe the steadfast was doing this surveying that resulted in this map I like to think so and this this is Otto and we don't have many pictures of these and these are in the history of Martin County and uh but that's the picture we have of aotto and uh and this is the picture we have a Mary and both of these are in the history of Martin County and Mary was an envelope and this is the application for the Post Office for fan and you see down in the end Barbara Osborne do you see who signs it Henry St captain Su did yes he did and I read it recently you know I usually hardly remember to read these things again and I think it says about 50 people would be using this this post office and one of the very I maybe you know who Frank Pitman he was a longtime teacher at the Environmental Center I know somebody in this room does because Nancy and well good my kids yeah my kid out there yeah so he was so wonderful but he was an old-timer and he said you know you me knew I was from gain you have to interview this woman she's hundred and she has this beautiful handwriting she makes all her clothes and she lives in gainville with her kids so that was just about my first interview I recorded her name was Fanny Baker and as a young girl she was fascinated with the stepman graves and they weren't there in Fern Hill they were right there kind of on the river by Behind The Lyric Theater where Ernest St lived and they're very very sad stories and I probably will uh be talking about them in a different way than just looking at these uh tombstones I have this in here because another wonderful thing happened we got the grandson of Homer Heim Stewart whose name is on our town because we had Stewart Heritage Museum he came into the steart Heritage Museum years and years ago this grandson and he dropped some things off and at the time I've never been on the board of steart Heritage or any the people that really took the responsibility for steart Heritage always kind of alerted me when something came in and Shirley Bland who also worked out at the LA Museum she said uh would you like she they'd like me to make photoc copies or with a camera that kind of photocopy of some pictures that were given I said my gosh this is says it's Homer Stewart brought this in and nobody put it together that it was our Steward and I contacted him and got more things we became good friends and uh they they didn't really give the letters to St heritage but when Homer Heim Stewart Jr lived here he wrote letters to his fiance and then won this letter here I'm really going astray but he tells about the first girl child born here and he said poor baby and her name was aldu stepman and she was a poor baby I'll tell you the rest of the story I think as I go along she ended up uh drowning in the river after her mother died in childb birth and her big sister was watching her and so she really was a poor baby this is the best picture we have of Albert stman and it just happened to be in a photo copies that Charles stepman the first guy I showed you and his genealogy compis he compiled it and uh it was in there but that's all we have of Albert and he homesteaded in Rio but he went away and left his wife here and uh this guy who was our first lawyer here and his he's just completely in all documents that his name was Thomas D stubin and he had he um I don't know if the lady U lenss and I asked her to research to see if all the things he said about himself were true and they weren't but uh the lady again Clara D stubin came into the feed store and because of that and I was told I got in contact with her and I got this dear type is that what it is uh from copying it and when my husband did the little book on lawyers he was able to include the first lawyer Thomas Stupen in it that of course he was very young in this picture and this is an older picture of and he married a stepman Mary stepman the daughter of Albert stepman and Jane stepman who lived in Rio on the other side it wasn't called Rio then and uh but he was here and his family was raised here and uh Duke mwin told me they were really smart they Duke mwin was the one that Eden La Plantation but this is his uh his business uh advertisement for Thomas d juen okay this is U Ernest and I think I've already told you that all of his he want his brothers to come here and Homestead and so that's how Albert and Otto got their homesteads here and I have a little star where the Germans were and where Kurt is we're the the mo Cemetery for the black community that's right there on the corner of montere and uh and caner I mean that was Kurt scher's Homestead and if it says HS that means it was a homestead and then I've already told you where uh Otto and Ernest were but then over here is where where August hars was and Albert Q Krueger so I'll tell you more about AUST hars so what they did for a living there wasn't much to do here you can't send fish in a sailboat anywhere so uh turtling was what they did and they would get the turtles and theyd put them in a crawl which is like a wooden cage or something underneath the dock so you could save them they could swim around stay alive and then when the Sailing Boat went up to Charleston or wherever they would put the turtles on it turn them over upside down and put a little pillow under their head and uh they'd stay alive and they would that's the way they would ship them so that was their industry and Aus harus was one of the guys that would turtle with Earnest and he got caught in his turtl net and my daughter Jackie who doesn't want anything to die you know like an animal he she uh said had it coming to him but he got he drowned in his turtl and he was like our our first fatality of our County and we were in Dade County at the time and he was buried first he was buried in uh St Luci States and some of the people that like ghosts and things like that they wanted me to tell them where he was buried you know because they kind of had these vibrations but he uh I don't know exactly where he was buried there but he was reinterred in allain cemetery and he that's his um Stone and it's a Woodman of the world Stone if you know anything about that this is a very faint photograph but you have to realize old photos are very old and uh this shows uh a Krueger you could always tell who Rudolph Krueger is because he was always wearing a derby hat they called him dude he always kind of had a stiff collar on and a Derpy hat and in there uh in the picture is AUST hars and then uh there's uh no it's Henry hars after August died he came to settled this state and it had Mars Johnson there too I should have mentioned that but this is one of the photographs the Krueger's have and it's of when Mr Krueger went up to uh to prove his land he had uh proved that he had uh you know lived on and improved it in order order to get the deal that he had uh and here Ern in Auto Group pineapples and they shipped them by failboat which was not uh you know ideal and if you had other people's pineapples with them they kind of get mixed up with the if the Tilt and there's a word for tilt itself uh U you know they get mixed up this photograph is really from the Florida memory sometimes I have to stoop and get a generic one to make a point but uh did that one say about him building yeah he built they built it amazes me that our Pioneers could build boats just like it was easy and this one was a 7 and2 ton boat and it was our first big boat that was built here so they're another reason they're important this Photograph you've seen before and when I showed it before it was not of a good quality and little uh Olga Hamilton from Siberia who lives in the first church she is very good with photography and she insisted to take it and improve it and I think this is her improved version maybe not but I do have a print that was better than the one I showed her when you it tells about how many acres were covered they started covering the pineapples to keep the the elements from damaging them keeping the freezing away and here is they have a big talk they love you know when people take out guns and have arguments and get drunk but that's the the story that goes when Flagler wanted to go across Ernest hitman's pineapple fields Kurt schroer his nephew you got a shotgun to say you dare come on this land you guys so they just went around and continued the uh rail be on an other side and then they got a I think they called him an Irishman and he could drink liquor better than uh the stepman could and Mr Schroeder and they got um he got the price down and they went across his property and you notice how the the train goes at an Ang go right across the Ern diman property here's the train it came through it wasn't named Florida East Coast then and now we have the little bright line going by with they would first when the pl when the train came they could ship the pineapples on the train and this is actual one of our photographs and uh if they are loading pineapples at our little station our freight station and you can still see the pilings of the freight station right in the Water by the bridge and then they had a way to ship the fish they just would ship Carlo to fish and that would require ice so they had uh ice factories by then this is a pot Stam uh and see it was this is why people get confused about pot Stam and you know how long it lasted and well was pot Stam and then the uh Woodman of the world uh Woodman Hall had pot Stam 1914 on the front of it for years so that confused people even more um but this is the pot Stam plat and you see but here I put it there 1897 that's a pretty early subdivision and uh it was in Dave County then imagine that this Photograph at the St at at the Historical Society of Martin County they were preparing for a hurricane and they came across this album of old photos that had no information on it and uh this was in the album and uh you see I have it on there that it was called I call it the cogil album and then a lady came into steart Heritage named Esther hair and she had this picture and I don't know if you can tell that the boy has grown up and he's the one on the right hand side but the woman that's Amanda and she was the one that was watching little adua when she drowned she was the stepdaughter of Ernie stepman his his wife Francis had been married before and brought this daughter into their family and uh so she ended up living uh in okobi and then Henry the first boy that was here he was just he uh married Clara Bailey and the bailees came because the big freeze of 94 and the Bailey came they lived in pman County but they came here after the freeze and he met their daughter and got married and then Otto gave them some waterfront Land and I cannot be sure that this is the house but it's in the family uh it's in their collection uh one of The stepman Descendants Helen uh Beach yeah helina Beach gave uh the quite quite a few photographs to steart Heritage and that's in there belongs to steuart Heritage okay here is where Ernest dipman lived and that's where those Graves were it was right on the waterfront behind where the lyric was built but then in later years I think it was a Cantera who built a house on the water and they moved ernest's form a home over to the other side you see where the arrow is and it became an abstract agency Mr Kennedy's abstract agency and here's a is that the same a different picture of AO that was in the newspaper okay we're getting close Patty's friend lives lives right near this in a little house that is called lime Cottage and one time we had it on a his historic home tour and I still have a sign in my garage it says this way to pot Dam cuz I walked up and down the road and it told everybody we weren't inside this building but told them that was where the F Stam post office was and uh when we had Carl krer as a commissioner uh it was decided that we should be a sister city toot stand and I think I have here's and these are we're taking quite a while back it's on Riverside Drive but this is this is the mayor of poam who came and actually spent the night at our house and Charlie Foster who was the mayor of uh of Stewart at the time and then these are the people from potam that came and visited and I have many other pictures of them inside the steuart heritage of Museum and you know of course you know our little Museum and if you know Pam is like this Grand Grand uh magnificent with BR buildings in here we we're showing them our little town and uh we have someone would you like to stand up Linda and tell them that you went to pot Stam on the exchange from here stand up madow so I didn't know she was coming but I was so glad she did and I didn't have these pictures for the other program cuz I had lost them but I found them you want to say something yeah I was invited to meet the mayor of Po in pot stamp and uh we were driven right up to the front and it turned out that the mayor had an appointment with us at 300 p.m. and exactly at 300 p.m. the doors opened we were ushered in I was visiting a dear friend and the dear friend we were offered coffee we only had 10 minutes we were going to give them a key Stewart and so forth and had a nice little chat with him and he offered coffee to my friend oh yeah it was coffee drinking and so I'm trying to get her to finish her coffee but and we were ushered out after a few minutes but it was quite an experience to be within the uh the the Hall of of the beautiful city really was fun day it has a lot of water like we do you know it has a lot of waterways and um it kind of came about because we had people from poan uh practicing rowing for the Olympics here in the South Fork and it kind of got happened okay here I'm showing this is uh OT sitman subdivided he became a developer early on and uh this shows that he gave that big piece of property l 10 to the city of Stewart and there was even a memorial for a boy that was died in World War I in it but when there needed to be a place for the hospital uh judge caner was the City attorney and somehow he must have said I know where there is some land and that's where Martin Memorial is on that given by OT stepman so see why we need to know about him and here's Otto he was in the commercial club and this was the Forerunner of the uh the Chamber of Commerce and Kurt schroer I my family thinks it looks like Doug Smith that's the way he looked what no here did I already change it he looked when he was young and but it's so amazing that he came here not speaking a word of English and he came into New York City and then he tried to work in a bookstore there and he he didn't like it so then he decided to go join his uncles in the South and he came in and he he has he wrote down everything that happened to him his experience Thomas D stubin took him across and then he came to that house I showed you that's on Riverside Drive where the post office was and he didn't know who was who which was Uncle Otto which was Uncle Earnest and then he ended up and he was heavy set but it didn't take long for him the the pounds just disappear as he was working in the pineapple fields and rubbing pet and that sort of thing and he made boxes to ship P pineapple Fin and then everybody in this town is related to a kitchen and even the Germans merged with the kitchen family and his wife was one of so San's kitchen's daughters and he went up with a St Stanley kitchen was already here he was became like Mr Stewart and but he went up they sailed up to Sebastian where the uh uh the kitchings lived and that was the post office and they had all these kids and that era shows Emma and that's who became Mrs uh Mrs schroer and can you remember Mabel's fancy the big house that was their house so this was their first first house and later it became the house of uh uh the Johnson's and before the you know I should well it was Wy here I shouldn't hall Hall I'm sorry it was the Hall's house and then this was Mrs Hall I think and she and this is Mrs Hall's mother Mrs Wy and where is that it got knocked down and it was a very big office well a kind of mediumsized office building there it was on U aola and this is Emily kitchen schroer and this was their big house and everybody in town would move out of their homes if they had a nice one when it was tourist season and stay in something little or the attic and rent it out cuz you know a lot of people wanted to come down here just like they want to now and this is Kirk uh he didn't stay looking like Doug Smith he that's and he was uh this picture is in the Masonic Hall if you go in the Masonic Hall which is just right there by uh you know like the statue of abundance it's right there on aola that uh they're just the pictures portraits of all the big shots in town through history and and the reason I have those is because Alice and Greg lart went in there and took a picture of each picture on the wall they're just so many things we have because they took the initiative and did that and uh C rer was so important um I should ask my friend Charlotte read Charlene to read it I always make her read things because I can't read anything well and but uh it would be that he did so many things he was um like uh the mayor he was an alderman he was a city manager and a taxer and he died in 46 but right before that he had written the whole history of the town in these long long articles and really the history of mar county is based on it and every Joe crankshaw the luck Hearts everything you know we use his material for everything cuz since he was an abstractor and S helped his surveying and did all these things and was just so darn smart he uh he really recorded everything very well and there he is with his daughter Helena and Helena was born in 1900 and these are her brothers and I'm using we're using uh some of the the pictures of the brothers hunting out in Palm City for our project now but Helena married a very um you know charismatic man that at the marriage didn't last but she um she had this one child uh Emily and uh Emily was the one that gave me the things that you're seeing now I I might how we doing time she okay well I'll keep battling um because this is kind of this is Eric Scher it was uh the the C roer's brother who came to Soul's point at first and uh through his daughter Margaret who was born on Souls point I got some more stuff and the reason I got all that stuff is because of the friends my friends of Christies they knew everybody on Soul's point and if I just use their name they just melted and they would just cooperate and share and so Margaret schroer who lived in California I never met her um she was like that because she had so many fond memories of the Christie family who were caretakers on Souls point but this is a picture that I have in Souls Point book because he was uh uh like uh a manager of a lot of things on Souls point and this this pineapple packing house was kind of where the out rer is and here was writing about he was in charge of the property that became the high point Rod and Gun Club on Souls point we have many wonderful photographs that we're now putting online that came here through the luck Hearts connections and uh there will be on line for all of us but I thought that was pretty cool with them on the horse there at uh it's now Heritage Place and there's the house on it was on the river and it was where Mr tendle lived at first but then when they built the high point Run Gun Club Sam Matthews rolled it uh to another place on the property and uh that's where Margaret Pon was born when she was schroer then when she was born and here was her dad and not too long ago they found this old survey map at the Town Hall and uh on sus point and it had belonged to Mr Schroeder and it was it's really a great map it was 1925 I believe and it was really this house being demolished that got me hooked and I started doing the history stuff and that was you could see it as you walk went over the bridge to S point and then they went it it was the haunted house all the kids were going there and uh they were going to burn it to get rid of it and then but they did uh dism it and use the wonderful wood and some of the P the windows are even used on a house on Riverside Drive what's amazing is Clara stman who married the young boy and I showed you the house and I wasn't sure if that was really their house but they moved to West Palm because uh OT stman had been in charge of Elections and everything he was like the Kingpin of politics in our little town of maybe you know 50 people and so his uh nephew was giving the award of being the tax collector in uh pal Beach County I think it was tax collector and um he became very ill he died very young but that's why they lived in West Palm and here she had to run his his uh physician he she had to do a lot of the work since he was so ill but then she ran for school board in 1920 do you know when women got the vote 1920 I mean isn't that quite remarkable and not only did she become on the school board at the first election that had a woman in it there were two women that ran in that that uh at that time not for school board I think the other one was something else but uh oh that's the other lady so that's that was in the paper and they've made a big deal out of that now that we're talking about women and successful things but here she is and now they're trying to preserve the older at high school and if you that's the Cornerstone and if you look at it it says chairman of the school board Clara stman Now isn't that wonderful and uh so and these are things that I got because I call that number and got David Avid stepman and he just sent them to me so I have them in a box and I will get them to uh uh Georgian K who is uh scanning everything for the county let's see oh so that tells about Claire and how her grandson got them uh because she lived with them and she lived till she was 96 and this is a connection you might know corki Hudson and the SEO bank and all that's in the tieing is this is that Emily Beach and Helen work for the bank for their careers but here uh that's Elena and you know how I bug everybody about giveing information do you have any pictures and she just like I thought she really didn't like me cuz I bugged her and she was very lowkey and quiet and but when she died she uh gave me that table that had been in that house because she thought I would appreciate it it's been in my foyer ever since and she gave me uh all these papers and photographs that are now being scanned for our digital project and things are always ongoing it's things keep coming and uh I I just wanted to share that story but I have a little bit more that's not the end so when I gave this program in May I believe uh this guy was there and he said that he was um a mcferson and of course that is one of the pioner names and uh so he he had a book that my neighbor across the street had given to his father and his father moved away he was the one mcferson George mcferson moved away and he was in the military and they lived all over but he said my my dad just loved that book and he brought it to show me that he had it now and he has an apartment even though he's a professor in California he has an apartment locally now and he said my dad is the one in somero and and you know how we've used this picture out you know we have but the Pam has and I you know she used it for uh invitation and then besides that you know I got so excited this lady who came up and she said you know I have ties with Stuart and it dawned on me after she told me that her mother was May Axel the daughter of Frank cenry who was killed you know in a barroom in 1925 but who owned and his parents own Coventry apartment that have all been you know that's the old Colorado in that uh Steve aali has preserved so well and this is the first time this Photograph came to our area it will all be turned over I asked her if I could show them tonight she lives in West Palm but this is Mrs cry and Mr cry and they came from Minnesota and the little boy is Frank and one things he did was ride the steamroller across the new bridge because nobody trusted it and he got and R the steam roll over so people would realize it would fall down and then he was he drove the getaway car for the Ashley's but he he was made to do that evidently he wasn't a part of the gang and then Edith was the photographer and now they are scanning hundreds of photographs that are at the Elliott and then may Axel who was Frank's daughter and gave me many photographs that I gave to steuart Heritage so they're being scanned so it just goes on and on and I hope I'm not boring you too much but these were also were in and her name is Mary Lee Reese was the the lady that gave me these pictures she didn't really give them to me she came to my house so I could quick uh scan them and uh but this was her grandmother Estelle who married Frank centry and this is the brother they were balls and balls is another thing like MC Pearson an old important Pioneer but their son when was killed in the line of service in 1913 and so he was a law enforcement officer who lost his life and they've made a big big deal his name is on a monument in Washington I believe but it they never had a picture of him ever and so he's young in this picture he was like that's a telegraph he was a telegraph delivery boy so but those Charming pictures just came just when I gave this program the last time so thank you for bearing with me and uh that's him and this I wanted I I told uh Gary I would plug this Martin digital history project the commission you know Martin County is going to be 100 years old in 2025 and so the Martin County Commission really Doug Smith uh said okay we will try to get hire someone to to uh scan things so they can be like the Florida memory project so this is one of the the photographs that they just scanned and I was looking at it and look here is a little train where the bright line goes now when when we were so mad about that happening uh the city uh Paul nicoletti said we're going to tell them we are going to let them go across our RightWay and I said I'm sorry but the RightWay was you know they let us go up the railroad track it was their first and so uh here is the Coventry apartment and this is the first Lyric Theater we had three lyrics Alice lart wrote a lot about that and I have a picture of it right there and then that's the view that our our videographer our our Tech man Rick Miller who's done so much for us through the years he looks out right in that direction from his office right so I hope you will just go on your computer and all you have to put is Martin digital history and see what they're doing there here I guess I didn't need to tell you all that before y'all Escape tny bers you know I don't know how thank you I don't know how she retains all that information I can't remember remember who where I was yesterday and she can talk about people 100 years ago keep doing it we need to hear it we need to hear it over and over again because we want to be able to tell those stories 100 years from now have someone be able to tell their stor I don't want to do it I don't want to do it 100 years from now but I want someone to be able to um there will be a tour of All Saints Cemetery Friday October 27th in the evening and it's a fundraiser for All Saints fence which is falling down after 65 years and it's $25 a person but and they want you to come in costume so Bruce and I will be coming as Henry and Abby Su and we're going to be at our Graves um lying down on our Graves but um above above the grave um but um it's uh it's Friday uh October 27th and I think it's I'm not sure the time but is it 6:00 600 okay you're supposed to get tickets ahead of time but I'm sure Joyce Fletcher will take cash at the door C cash always counts would you like to plug the uh this St history Captain Henry it says got one it says it has all the information okay go to T T man first for CH seemed like there was something else remember yeah really uh the only thing I have other that you don't know I'm an old acok funter home employee I'm Associated therefore with Fernhill Memorial Gardens and Saturday the 14th this Saturday 10 till 1:00 they're going to do history tours of the cemetery some of the old uh Pioneer Family interments and share that with you they'll have light refreshments and hey ride type thing so you're welcome to attend that uh what time is that 10 till 1:00 on Saturday at the cemetery at the at Fernhill memorial garden cemetery on tner Highway where in the cemetery uh I would say go to where the office is and they will get you to the part they're going to do it uh a tour with a hay with a hay wagon or something um folks do appreciate everybody turning out it's wonderful seeing this crowd uh we are trying to grow uh our influence in the community and we will be having things coming up in the future that we'll be asking for support in not monetary support but your vote so pay attention to us you don't know what's going to happen till we bring it up anyone tell me what I forgot you didn't forget Sandy did I had a connection to that Francis Hunter who married Ernest diman was my aunt so Alena is my cousin so did you yeah did you know that Esther hair is still alive and she came she came you know I just interacted with her again I thought she was gone she's your cousin too then s you didn't you started with potum but you didn't really talk about Homer hind Stewart and the change of the name from potom to Stewart you want to tell us I have AER here and I just lost overing and kind of stumbled sorry thanks folks thanks for turning out