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Old polo site hosted Musicarnival performing arts center
Last week’s column mentioned the old polo grounds on Military Trail, south of Palm Beach International Airport. The site served the arts as well. Music and performance form an unlikely link between...
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The history of Pleasant City’s cheery road names
Recently, a feature in the local section of the Post profiled Everee Jamison Clark, the unofficial historian of Pleasant City. The area – the city’s oldest historically black neighborhood – has...
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Saturday Evening Post edition featured The Hut
Jimmy Williams is a Palm Beach High graduate and a longtime reader, and sometime contributor, to Post Time. Recently he dropped off an original copy of The Saturday Evening Post from June 22, 1946. Of...
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West Palm Beach man discovers boxing arena photo
Our Dec. 13, 2012, column described the boxing matches the American Legion Post 12 held in an indoor arena, with bleachers for about 2,000 built in the late 1920s on the north side of Clematis Street,...
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Anti-Catholic retiree planned to kill JFK
This is the second of three columns detailing local connections to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, 50 years ago next week. Richard Paul Pavlick, 73, a retired postal worker, came to...
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Four trekked from Fort Myers to Palm Beach in 1893
While much of southern Florida’s interior remains uninhabited swamp and scrub, most of us enjoy the luxuries of 21st century living, including traversing paved roads in air-conditioned vehicles. Not...
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Group had mostly wet slog through the Everglades
Last week we began A.F. Gonzalez’s memoir of his 1893 trip, as a 19-year-old, across the wilderness of southern Florida, from Fort Myers to Palm Beach. Gonzalez and three others — William G. Rew, L. C....
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Four thought to have perished in Glades
This is the third column on A.F. Gonzalez’ memoir of his 1893 journey, with three others — William G. Rew, L. C. Stewart and Joe Henley — across wilderness South Florida from Fort Myers to Palm Beach....
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Return ends ‘trip I never want to make again’
This is the fourth and last column on A.F. Gonzalez’ memoir of his 1893 journey, with three others (William G. Rew, L. C. Stewart and Joe Henley), across the wilderness of South Florida from Fort Myers...
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How the city of Stuart got its name, and why we don’t call it Potsdam
Stuart celebrates its centennial this week; Martin County’s county seat and most important city was incorporated May 7, 1914. But “Stuart” wasn’t its original name, and there’s a humorous story behind...
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