The Whiticar Family

director of historic Heritage Museum last month we re-elected our board and unfortunately we lost our board member during that month following Johns passed away as of yesterday his niece Suzanne Johns Campbell is taking his place at the Museum as a volunteer and as the treasurer Lee's Funeral was last Thursday unfortunately the newsletter went to um bid on Monday and he died on Tuesday so it didn't get in last month's newsletter and I apologize for that a lot of you may not know that well I won't I have so many of them tonight this is not on my list but I'd like for them to stand up all the board members these girls and guys are

incredible Mac I think is the only guy here okay when you girls stand up Linda come back foreign they are our fantastic board and they were very very hard and we thank you thank you for tonight I would like to introduce a special family to Martin County the Whitakers have been in here a long time and I'm so glad that they decided to do this program tonight as you can see their paintings are here and their books are for sale out there if you want one of them this is over I'll be at the desk out there ten dollars a piece which is a deal they're usually 18.95 um okay Joanne Laura hey I know

you're here some money where'd you go oh and John and we are going to give the program to us tonight so that's welcome and we're going to start with a walk back thank you hi my brother John has a wonderful slideshow that shows everything from you know a long time ago up until now so I'm just going to mention a little bit about the paintings as you know Dad did a lot of paintings um he did he was on his 1900 and 15. and a few of them that he did before that are not numbered like the hobo over there it's not even numbered so we're not sure how many he did some we like

better than others I'll have to admit but he did some wonderful wonderful paintings and there are some here tonight just kind of a little bit of of this and then there are also if you're interested in other paintings for sale Molly's house has a wonderful display three floors of his paintings if you haven't been there you can go look I will warn you some of them are not for sale and they will be a lot of the ones and he'll say oh I smile that those are family ones the veterans and things like that but they have great paintings for sale at Milan's house then also the House of Refuge Museum I don't know if

you've been there that's one of Jim over on the ocean and there's a room there that has 10 or 12 of his paintings they are historical things and they they belong to the museum but they are wonderful and it tells kind of story of Martin County over there the Eliot has three or four paintings on display and then I'm sure I'll have you been to the Heritage Museum but there are a number of his historical paintings there again not for sale but they're all around the wall also they have a display downstairs of Whitaker paraphernalia finding chair and some other things so if you haven't been through that you really need to check that out

also um so anybody have any questions about the paintings before I turn it over to John okay yeah thank you can you hear me without the mic or is it better with the bike okay um I was asked uh a while ago to put together some pictures from uh our family and I had the pictures sort of loosely in a folder from something I did a while ago and I wanted to updated and then yesterday I found out that I had to do a PowerPoint program which I've ever used before so I've struggled with that a little bit and I got a lot of time in doing this so things aren't perfect dude haven't had

a chance to really double check dates and names and things and some things you know how to order and but it'll give you some pictures of some of the good old days up to some of the newer times but we call it I call the Florida traditions and the four generations of Whitakers from starting with my grandfather who uh half an ad Whitaker uh it was actually considered him first generation and he came to Stuart in 19 1717 and dad was six years old so this was a little over a hundred years ago this this man came to Steward and that's where we're starting and uh back to the title The Traditions is it's interesting

when we look through the slides that there are things that that he did not so much my grandfather because he was really interesting fisherman and my grandfather but if you look at things my dad did the things that we all like as a family and and things that we still do today that have carried on through the four different generations and that's one of the things we're going to so that's my dad my uh Kurt Whitaker our fathers and mothers or their father's parents and that's Kate on the right and Catman on the left and one other things we go back into here and if you notice down here you see the dog now I

I actually have a picture where I photoshopped out the dog because the dog's facing the wrong way but I love it I left the dog in this one because just to show you that picture of them with the dog and later on there's another picture of him and he's got a little Scotty so uh we've always had dogs in our family up to up to down my wife and I thought he was in the eyes we just recently purchased our first dog and there's a little bit of a story about that cup that we'll talk to later on but we've always been a dog family uh this is a picture of uh Kurt Nelson mom

and dad in 1938 it's just a lot of these pictures don't really associate with other pitchers they're just kind of fun pictures and just they just nice pictures so I threw them in there this is one of my all-time favorite pictures is that my grandfather here oops my grandfather that's cat mad dad that Kurt Whitaker Johnson and Jack and okay yeah Johnson and Jack and Johnson was the youngest but he actually died first he had some bad habits and it kind of got him and then the second was Jack and dad lived the longest but I always just thought this was the best picture that we had of all four of them they said it

oops what happened there we go there's the names a little closer up okay uh I don't have a date on this picture but this is the three of them again uh this is Jack I believe that's Johnson and his dad is a demographic company and something in common again that you'll see throughout the show are these things they call they call them and they called them jewfish or groupers but now they call them Goliath groupers to be I guess more politically correct and I've gotten those shut up for Generations as well it's kind of neat um it's just a picture of our family back in 1957 uh this is arcade you ran myself Walking Dead

uh this is another really great picture this is uh one of dad's first big boats that he builds he builds a lot of smaller boats when he was as early as 12 but this is actually on the river at Willoughby Creek and I think this is the lot where the houses is houses now before the house was built and he built this uh this kind of shack up here and built the boat under the shack and built this sort of makeshift Railway to launch it and uh this is back in 1927 so it's kind of been that's a that's a neat picture and that's what the vote turned out like and I was always thought

it was you know it doesn't look like at all like the newer boats or whatever but I always thought it was a very classic looking boat I like the the the tumble hum in the back and just everything about us but I wish I could bring that one back someday boats let's back up a little bit okay this is organic two that Dad built for his father in 1958 and that boat's still around today it's sort of mothball uh we're in a situation where and then the expense of putting it back together is so much and we're in a real diploma now as to what to do about it but it's still around uh this

was the original Whitaker Fleet back in 1940 and this was later on I don't have a real date on this was probably in the early 50s maybe but uh the Northwestern and the Gulf Stream were dad's boats and uh the hobo right here is Uncle Jack's Gannon here was my grandfather's Skipper was Uncle Johnson and I can't remember the dead howdy was Grandpa it was Grandpa's boat yeah uh this Gulf Stream here is uh is kind of a neat story on this uh I didn't have any pictures that has a a really nice painting of this Rescue of these people with this boat out in the inlet and uh Elizabeth uh this is just some

more fishy picture if you don't see people catching fish like that anymore um again there's grandpa with a little some kind of a terrier or something uh that's my dad had a Catch of the Day there's a sailfish and these look like mostly Kingfish so it's a good good catch another nice picture of mom and dad 1957 I don't know what the event was but oh also the back up here if you look at the drapes those were the drapes in the living room they were great we had this for the longest time I think they even came back oh yeah a period for a little bit in the arcade maybe that's something you should

think marketing and I'm living in Dad's house so okay this is the the families and the and the a big part of the family is the draxxas family this is John draxa Anderson's doe drag shows we call her and go that was over here tonight Santa of course my dad Kurt and Nelson my mom and dad and um this is Bob and Marge there and Marge was a dragster which is a Norwegian name did I did that right yeah yeah I was worried about this picture so that's good uh back in 1947 46 is after the war there's a big story about this building that we don't have time to go into tonight but my

dad and some other people went down well first of all they bid on the Kent Murphy Donald Trump the Dixon State Park was a army base I think and it was on private property and part of the deal was they had to remove the base but the war was over so the war was over and people were giving bids on building so my dad went down and put a bid on this big building Chief Building for like seven or eight hundred dollars got the bid and he had 30 days to bring it back up so he and some guys and a couple of trucks went down took the whole thing apart brought it back up

and put it back together here and that was the main building that Whitaker boat worked for quite a few years and that's also when he started building boats and build a whole bunch of boats in that facility uh oops back up a little bit we added on this building here became the new boat shop and this was the offices this I can't remember what day that was at and I just like this picture because of the ixoras and the Periwinkles and these are those little blue flowers that you used to be able to grow and uh and this picture is pretty neat because just look at those absorbs I mean have you ever seen anything

like that and that's right next to our office this this guy's name here was OV and between the boat yard and my grandfather's property and my dad's property he was a full-time employee and all he did was take care of all the all the grounds and he had the knack for citrus he knew when to fertilize them and when the when the pesticide and we had the best Citrus that you know I kind of we all just took it for granted because everybody had one of them Citrus but this is the guy responsible for it and I just like the lawnmower too and it's kind of another picture of the Guyana this is the hobo

uh two I think and I like this picture because I first came apart and it looked really weird and then later on I found out it was a bottle and you can see the Boatyard in the background there's a guy holding up the model but I know nothing I know nothing about where when or whatever when that's the hobo uh and uh 1954 and of course the bright red color was Jack's trademark color with larkay and Joanne and I were growing up the sunrise in which is kind of the end of Indian Street um was a place that we used to spend a lot of time they had a pool you could get a membership

you could play tennis there and so we we as boys we would just come in and out of there like if we as part of our you know like we own the place almost that it also hosted the steward selfish Club tournament this is pictures of 1958 and it was a real sort of a culture center for the community and unfortunately it it didn't survive it would have been nice if somebody could have saved that and kept it as an end but it didn't happen um that to uh one of the other themes that happens is children in water and pools and things like this so this is at the sunrise in pool and and

that's me doing a flip the sunrise went cool also the Shannon clear would come over for the fishing tournaments and Francis Langford knew Uncle Jack's wife house and also some other people in the community and they would come over and Alice would run the microphone through the tournament and they would just become part of the tournament and had the boat kept there and it was another little kind of neat part of the street along with the tournament and a lot of you have probably already seen this but my dad uh and some other people they developed as sailfish pen and what they would do is you people could get the pen if you would catch

a sailfish and release it so he was one of the early people in our community to start thinking about conservation and and saving things for the future and and it became a really big thing I uh you can find these on eBay every now and then I think I've got six or seven of them now I can sort of collect them but it's pretty pretty neat this is a postcard I originally thought this in a set of times but but RK my sister said that could be the coutons property at seven times yeah well anyway it's on this this little Lake there by the Boatyard called North Lake you know set up as a postcard

and this is Robert Dawson and Mary Johnson this is their daughter yeah yeah Carolyn and I think that's me down there I'm not sure um and then see there's a dog again uh back to the water and the pools this is this is our son Eddie over here and just his friends in the pool it's another just kind of goofy picture that I've always liked that doesn't happen and this is our other son David and his friends on the bicycles again it doesn't really relate to that much but um the Whitaker Fleet evolved into basically what was there when I was growing up and it was these four boats it has again at the hobo

probably one of those is the Northwestern I don't know where the where the skipper is but that's the Whitaker Fleet in 1969 against more of the fishing patches this is John drags at the doting his husband we have very few pictures of him smiling this one he's not smiling he should have been smiling with all this fish I don't know why he wasn't smiling but anyway uh another big catch I think I think this is me down here and it was just like hey that is yeah yeah and I don't know who these other people are but these are all Kingfish this is I think an amberjack a couple of amberjack up here but those

are the good old days for fishing I told you that the Goliath grouper would come back up again this is a picture of me when I was five standing next to the one that was caught I have no idea where it was caught or whatever they used to back back when the Jensen Beach Bridge first went up in Jensen Beach after a few years with everything kind of acclimated it was a big spot for fishing and I think the Colorado and big fish off that bridge that could come from there or they might have caught it on the bridge uh here's another grouper caught that's that's a gym and that's me 1959 this is 1967.

and this is just me uh this is John stadley who lived in Inland Tides down the street and he and I got these groupers out scuba diving and this was in high school I don't remember exactly when but it's the kind of before when I developed an empathy for wildlife and for marine life and we did a lot of things that that later on would be going to college and you'd become a little bit more sensitive to things and I've always I haven't actually been showing this Vision to anybody over the years because then I was a little bit embarrassed about it you know that we went out and did this sort of thing but

the bright side now is the glass groupers has had to come back because it was put on the endangered species list and there's they're almost to the point of taking it off the list because it's becoming the nuisance and you can go out almost any day to the Bull Shark Bar barge and see people catch and release these fish so there's lots of band down I feel a lot better oops this is again a generational thing this is the guy in the middle is our son David and his friends and we went out fishing one day and caught Kingfish we didn't catch 30 of them we thought at five and they're a little smaller but

we had a good time uh back in the old days uh uh and then I'll show you a picture of why they did this now I think they didn't realize at first how bad the Hurricanes could be but um this I love to be about was eight years old man because I think so that'd be 58 well at 49 which would be nine years before this we had a category 5 hurricane come through Stuart and ever since that hurricane I've got some pictures of it totally destroyed the Boatyard they started to bring the boats of this crew for all the Hurricanes and of course a lot of time we never got the hurricane so it

was a lot of you know just like today it's putting up your shutters for nothing but you had to do it but I thought this was kind of and this street is now filled in with the mangroves and they've grown in where I don't think he could even do that anymore um anyway this is Whitaker Boatworks in around 1948. that's the camp Murphy building that I told you about that that he brought up from Jonathan Dixon Park this is a three-stall Boathouse that was there um at the time this property that I don't know if that is I don't know if you had the house at 48 you know yeah yeah so this house will

be over here okay and this is where the railway eventually goes through here but in 1949 we had a hurricane and it came through the eye came through somewhere north of Palm Beach so we got that Northern port or the storm and it was considered to be a category five or a four-star and it just it was bad so anyhow this uh that's the three-story Boathouse right there this is a boat that's just washed up and toppled over uh this is more damage you can see the the truck here just boats a lot of this is The Boathouse and I thought this was interested we have the cat sitting out here just taking it easy

in the middle of all this garbage okay this is the north of Northwestern or the Northwestern and going back to us we're talking about before is that when Dad was chartered about the machine they had a party that went out in the inlet nobody else wanted to go out and this party went out the inlet and they got swamped and the boat flipped over it wasn't a little bit it wasn't a Whittaker by the house go out there so they would have gone they would go so I'm going out and they tried to Warner they went out and it's a really good story too bad then we probably have it on several recordings and it's

in the book so I won't get into it but they ended up rescuing all the people I think that one person died and my dad ended up with the boat and the boat was the Northwest tree called the Northwestern it became one of the charter police so this boat sank in the inlet whatever that happened in the 1949 storm and suck it again so Fort Worth and then slept twice um I told the my sisters tonight that I might get employment you have talked about faster but this is a picture I came across them redirecting the canal approximately 1949 and um I just got to read this the same use the canal c44 was originally

completed in 1924. as part of the auditory Waterway and that was deep into 49 to 18 increasing water flowing 5 000 to 9 000 cubic feet per minute now I you know my my sisters were born and raised in this community and we've been through bouts of the discharges from the throughout the canal and we've heard stories and we've lived what's been happening and this this is my personal opinion is not not anything to do with the company with family members but you know a lot of people talk about septic tanks and it's my opinion as well as a lot of other people that live around here on the water that the subjects are maybe

a small part of the problem but they're really not the big problem and uh so I just hope when we go forward depending on who's running for office or who's being influenced by what department we don't over focus on that the uh the more recent things have been the blue green algae and the red tide and they've taken a lot of attention too but again those are a more recent problems and in the past we didn't have those and we still had issues so the big issue is the runoff from the lake is it's the the the nutrients from the fertilizers from Agriculture and the of the farmlands and things like that and now we

have all these kind of new chemicals that are out there the roundups the the bug sprays and all this kind of stuff and you just don't know what's in the water and I think that everybody needs needs to focus on all those things going forward realize it's not just the green allergies not just the red tide it's a very complicated situation and on top of that is sludge that comes out of there they used to call it who's made it in the rivers and that settles in on everything I live up in the Indian River and it's probably the bottom of the Indian River it's covering the reefs Out on the Ocean and it's really

gotten bad uh another thing too is is that I find really disturbing that that we've had really bad reviews over the years but something happened between night and between 2012 2016. so that's six years ago uh this is an area in front of I live in Jensen Beach kind of right in this area and I'm very familiar with this area I've been in these grass bins I've fed them I fish them and you can see here's two 2016. they're gone okay and why after 75 years or whatever this charges did this happen in the last four years and this does somebody know why and they're not telling us you know are they keeping records of

what's in this water or what's going on I don't know pretty sad uh this is the same period this is this is pre-2012 oops didn't make this pointer about the consumers hey I appreciative this is the selfish Flats not by selfish Point seals point pre-2012 now I this is the area we go as a family I still go there today to take the dogs out very familiar with area and in 2012 it did look like this 2017 2018 it's gone all his grass beds and they're the nursery for marine life in in the Indian River once said to be the most biodiverse ecosystem world and something really bad is happening and they're not telling us

what it is and it's pretty scary I think so that's the end of my political talk about it you know and if you know one of the people all they talk about is the blue green algae and Riptide and you know you know this could be something completely different this could be they had a training Army rail on a canal full around them and now and they covered it up and it all rushed out and rounded up the whole river you know I don't know you don't know what happened so uh back to tradition I'll try to speed things up again if it's starting to drag here this is the Northwestern one of dad's modes

and we would go out on the weekends and certain days and go to The Sandbar and diving off the boat so we had a great great childhood oops uh this guy right here is my son David and his buddy so again traditionally we're still doing the same thing we've got different kind we got Outboards now but uh we're doing the same things this is one of my one of my favorite pictures too because this is out at Seminole Shores and it was now selfish point and you can see the SandBar and the dredge that they were using to dredge and feel selfish summer and they had to bring these two bigger cranes to pull it

off the bottom and fix it and so we're out here swimming around having fun while they're spending all this money back here trying to fix this cramps uh again this is the modern day version of going out to The Sandbar we take more people on smaller boats again you can see the dog the star here here is uh and his daddy had a bunch of other friends this is our two boys uh this is a pretty funny picture I hope you like guys like this but this is uh this is uh myself this is my friend Tom these are his two kids and this is Eddie that's David and our kids and we're in this

little Canal is that we're now become official members of the Hat Club and it'd be in the Hat Club was to take bathing suit off oops this is a classic because it shows myself Jim oops oops that's awesome Jim draxa and Joanne again I know they're one of her fancy bathing suits and look at those glasses they're great uh later on with with me and and David again this is one of those sort of out of sequence pictures that I just found to throw into uh that we used to go out at the beach and walk around on the rocks and imagine can't do that because they worry about the worm leaf and everything but

we didn't know anything about it and we're looking for a little fish to put in the buckets and so forth uh again another day at the beach again you see the uh the dog Jim that's me larkay Duran Alice I guess Sue probably yeah uh this is uh 1955 Broadway when somebody just went out and swimming and found a lobster which I thought was pretty cool and another again as their dog is Gemini and I just looked how kind of cool mom looked back then I didn't remember Mom had that sort of sexy look like that do you remember Mom having that sort of sexy girl yeah yeah another family picture with his arm we

had boxers for a while mostly for boxers this is a neat picture it shows the baby boxers and the parent this parent's name was Eddie ballad yeah this is May I had an officer and another one of our dogs and I didn't have a mustache that was from the mask that I got old people wearing off on my face got lots of dog pictures this is our son Eddie and uh Buster who is one of one of the best dogs we ever had oops put it back afterwards anyway that's this dog I called the blonde hair and his name was idiomat and he would talk and he'd say hello and people came to the door

it was pretty deep here and and we found out later on that he was blind and so we didn't worry too much about him flying away I remember one day baby dad took him out and put them on a tree and he chew up chewed off the wrong side of the branch on the crashing it okay this is uh we've had an interesting 13 years last 13 years we've this was right after the Hurricanes I went by the humane society and and we found this cute little dog this precious little dog that we named Kona and uh has kind of started to grow up we didn't realize it at the time but you see this

black and red tongue so conehead Chow in her and as she matured she became a little ornery but by that time he'd already bought him to her so we had this kind of love-hate relationship she was a great boating dog for me and fishy who loved to fish frisbee everything that I couldn't take him near other dogs couldn't couldn't worried about other children being around and we'd have people over we'd have to put her in the bedroom and things like an apple but so it was kind of different so anyhow this is a picture of me this Kona probably a month or two before she passed away so you see options got a little bit

of gray but a really good dog but very very weird we called her schizo and I don't remember that but so anyway so we decided that we were probably good for one more dog and so I started when Dakota started getting older I said okay I gotta find the dog that is going to like children they don't like other dogs it's kind of like people it's going to be a good water dog we have had people get dogs that dogs wouldn't go in the water and so we I did a lot of research and that's a long story too that I'm going to cut off and I finally decided that to get a lavender and

the big deal with the labradoodles is that they're kind of big but I found a place and uh Minnesota where they've read a lab with a small food and you get a smaller version of the Labradoodle so I've been up to Minnesota and we purchased our first dog we've we've been at the adopting our whole lives and so this is our this is a Phoebe bar current dog it was absolutely great I mean it's so nice to be able to not ever attack anybody or or kind of like other dogs it's just really wonderful so they get a continuation of the dogs through four generations uh this is not a sequence oops but but oops

this dog's name mom and dad are going to went on vacation and uh I think they felt guilty because they left me home so they brought this dog back there's a beagle and the Beagle was sort of sick it took us a while to get it get it unsick I had to step or something but I built her this little cardboard doghouse and she ended up sleeping on top of the doghouse smoothie and uh Snoopy like the water I'd also like to go howling out through the community and the phone and bring my dad and have to go chase it down and he was very observed about that so Snoopy overall wasn't wasn't the best

dog and it was the only vehicle we ever had she decided one day to swim out in the river and and try to catch up with an alligator and the alligator's daughter when she validated her daughter she cowed so bad we think this is serious that she put out such a god-awful how to scare the crap out of the alligator damaged dog they're still alive then we got back and we had to wire up her mouth and get her look at the food for her a month or two and very aggravating and then a week or two later she just disappeared I don't know if she decided to try another alligator or not this is

just my first boat and at the end of the boxer this is Sue and Tim our cousins again I just like the picture that was another one of my boats there that had uh this is a good story this this this house is uh was Mom and Dad's house it's the house of arcados now and we had this huge uh call it a rubber tree in his and larkay and Duran used to play Blind Man Of Love in the tree and wanted to give off so anyhow the tree started to grow rooms underneath the house and get into the setup tank and they finally had to cut it down but it was huge there you

can see the Frog and my family Greg said with my mother and mother planted all these trees around here and another thing good about this that's my very first car and that's a Plymouth Barracuda then I'm from King of Uncle Jack s what's that oh yeah this is a Assurance Cottage over there and and that's the cottage that John and Dave drags up lived in when they first moved in Florida to that Cottage and it also came in can't hurt so uh yeah okay I'm just about down here I promise okay this is the houses it is today another sort of historical part of the house is this is that my dad's house this is

the Boatyard but right over here is a house that um supposed to go there for kids and homes yes yes and after that the people at the motel shop what part of the shop the shops okay but this used to be the um the house at the end of Source Point that sold the house that was also a post office and where Dad's house is when we were growing up the house was there during the prohibition they used that for for rum running and they were bringing in cars into the back and loading around out of Broad and things like that so it's pretty neat to have that building next door to where we grew

up grew up later on it was put on a somebody else bought the property and they had to put on a hard in Riverside Park where it is today that's kind of neat I get out of order this was one of our first station wagons I thought it was really neat we might have taken that all the way to we might have taken that all the way to South Dakota one year because I remember we did this really long trip at a state of America South Dakota it's really hot one of the other things family traditions is mom and dad used to take us over to Sanibel and at that time they didn't have a

bridge they just had a ferry so yeah and it was one of my favorite times growing up was going over there this is a picture taken there uh another thing that happened when I was growing up in 62 was they said the Ash Wednesday storm at March 1962 formed the New England Texas leg and you can see how it washed away all these trees down here and Washington and I looked up the storm and most of what you find on the storm is it and you think it will Mark what what's that on the Storm was it was a Northeastern off of New England and it was category five Northeastern storm in March so there's

this huge sort of never before like a storm and I guess it generated big enough wage for long enough time to where it broke through it was down here and I got more recommend that these are just some pictures of Now text Lake it's a pretty neat place this is Joanne and myself the construction standard period bridge in 1955. I do have a couple of things on Bridges uh this is the dedication the new high Rising Prairie Bridge Jensen Beach Bridge the Roosevelt Bridge the new Roosevelt Bridge I don't know if you remember the big controversy out of the building the new Lions Bridge because some of people wanted it to be a drawbridge and

I set this picture to the Stuart news and they published it and they got a bunch of people excited and made enough of things happen to where they turned it back around into a into a higher on the bridge so it's one of my contributions to uh community they didn't make it like it was but it does have a pretty new curve to it uh this was a trip to New Jersey 2005 with Mom was still around and uh we found some old Grapes of glitter on them that's the three the three of us having a good time to act again out of the river uh put a little bit about Dad's pain he used

to try to paint all the boats that were built and they were a big uh it was one of the things that people liked this was his next the last painting that I actually have gave it to me and he was 106 of this picture and it's number 1914 37. it's 1912 or something yeah and these are just some of the pictures that was done over the years and if I do this again I'll go down and learn some Speedy pictures here's some times I did where I was sailing for a few years after college I worked for Mr Walgreens at Walgreens drug stores for a while and this was just this is kind of

a cool picture this is that's myself that's Randy Swearingen and that's about him Todd rovin a lot of you that Randy myself that was just another that's what I'm going to ask the Statue of Liberty this is our family early on we adopted both of those two boys that's again buster this is one of my favorite pictures to call it Whitakers and wheat we did we did a Christmas postcard his Buster again uh we heard Bobble heading Riverside Park and then I started to work with Dad at the boat yard doing boats this is one of the newer boats called the staff Hall of Never Enough it's called the the buckle up this was some

of the high-end work we've got to do with the some of the boats there were boats this is the second the largest boat we ever built and that's the largest boat and this is Dad's 106 year old birthday party that we had in Joanna's house and uh so that would be February 13th 2017 so about a week about a week later we drive down to Fort Lauderdale and he gets an award for the ifga legendary Catholics and Peru which was pretty pretty amazing and he traveled down there with us and we had the award show later on we had a dinner uh I'll go through the people here real quick that's Jim Drax I think

it's my partner the Boatyard he's like do you uh um Tara to Scott Tara's larkay's daughter dad larkay Jill and Joanne myself and Dottie uh these are in the last pitchers usually decide to make me feel good about why we live in Martin County fun ction oops let's go back once you pay too much yeah there we go I guess this takes a little while that that dock there is is one of the Dottie and I now own on the Indian River that kind of goes into doing some property that we own so we go out there at the end of that dock probably once a week and then Bay Tree Lodge which is one

of my favorite places and that's that's the end of the Mount Everest thank you I don't know if anybody has any questions like I said I think next time off Whittle down some of the slides but they've had a whole lot of time to prepare for this but that was what it was like growing up around here for us and going up around here for my parents and our kids and we all love the water we love dogs and it's been a great life until things have started to get really polluted and being told not to go out in the water because we could kill your dog and for the dog with me but it's

nice again now and it only takes a couple of weeks that wants to turn off the canals that's another thing that people don't realize if it was other things and it wouldn't happen that quick but it's looking good all right thank you very much thank you thank you