Issue 47 • September 1-7, 2015
Available every week in Indian River County
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PAM COOPER’S PATHWAYS: Blue Cypress Lake has colorful history Research of Blue Cypress Lake took me to in New Granada when he was 36 years old. South American gold mines, the development His widow later married in Memphis where of the bicycle playing cards and Macy’s of their daughter Florence married Elias Leubrie. They New York. In 1895, Anthony O. Russell of moved to New York. Florence became a European the United States Playing Card Company buyer of woman’s clothing for Stern Brothers, which purchased 112,000 acres that included the lake became Macy’s in 2001. he called Wilmington and the business he called Why all this research? It was only to verify the Pam Cooper Cincinnatus Farm. connection of Lake Wilmington to J.W. WilmWho was Wilmington? Mr. Russell was from ington. It was hoped family could be contacted and later Cincinnati. James “Willis” Wilmington lived with the confirm the reason for the name. Russell died in 1900 and Russell family. They started a printing business together the property went to his son “Willis” Russell. Later it was that evolved into the playing card company, which is still sold to the Fell family and the rest of the story is Fellsmere in business today. Both James and Anthony went off to history. the Civil War together. Afterward, Anthony continued An interesting note: The Leubrie family married into the card business and Wilmington went to California to the Maas family. Anyone remember Maas Brothers of be a San Francisco newspaper reporter. He was assigned Tampa? Another connection? Researching history is fun the gold mines of “New Granada,” which today are areas and a lot can be learned. We are all connected. in northwest South America. Upon his return, he went to Pam Cooper is supervisor of the Archive Center & Genealogy Department at the Indian River County main library. Nevada to mine for gold and died of a fever he contracted
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JUST WONDERING: What are the extremes for September precipitation in Vero Beach? The 10 wettest Septembers on record (since 1942), based on inches of precipitation: 1) 2004: 23.01 inches 2) 1960: 20.29 inches 3) 1979: 17.42 inches 4) 1948: 16.54 inches 5) 1963: 15.38 inches 6) 1947: 13.95 inches 7) 1953: 12.77 inches 8) 2001: 12.20 inches 9) 1994: 11.34 inches 10) 1969: 10.87 inches
The 10 driest Septembers on record (since 1942), based on inches of precipitation: 1) 1988: 1.67 2) 2002: 1.84 3) 1955: 2.55 4) 2008: 2.62 5) 1972: 2.98 6) 1961: 3.01 7) 1991: 3.09 8) 1983: 3.20 9) 1978: 3.27 10) 1996: 3.29 – Source: National Weather Service
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the situation as this: Would we receive $6,000 damage if Erika turned into a Category1 hurricane? We’d have to pay someone to put the shutters up, and then pay someone to take them down.) Ultimately, I prevailed. So, by the time you read this, you’ll know if the right decision was made. (I wrote this column on Russ Lemmon Friday morning, about 72 hours before Erika was supposed to arrive in the area.) Of course, if Erika strengthened significantly and hit our area, I’ll look like a real doofus. Disclaimer: If Erika intensifies and it’s looking really, really bad, I’ll do my best handyman impression and try to put up the shutters! Still, I’m glad my wife and I had “The Talk.” It was a good
exercise and will help us the next time we’re in the path of a destructive storm. A few weeks ago, I said I had a bone to pick with Piper. Someone showed me a Piper ad in an aviation magazine, and nowhere did it say Vero Beach or even Florida. You’d think with all of the tax incentives Piper has been given that it would at least mention Florida in the ad. Richard Granata came to Piper’s defense. He gave me a Piper Cub lapel pin that says “Vero Beach” at the bottom. Thanks to Ben B. Stockton, Jr., a Vista Royale snowbird who spends the summer months in Evansville, Ind., for mailing me an article from Kentucky Magazine about people who always dine at the same table when they’re at a particular restaurant. Ben says he thought of me because of my history with Table 51 at Bob Evans. Hey, I could relate to everything in that article! Paul Hargraves made me laugh with his comment about
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the Top 500 song countdown on page 7. “At this rate I may be dead by the time you get down to single digits, so indulge me,” he wrote in an email. “Where in your ranking is probably the greatest love song of the era: ‘If’ by David Gates/Bread?” Well, Paul, I’m thinking you’re going to be disappointed. I mean, if we put the “Greatest Love Song of the 1970s” up for a vote, I doubt “If” would even make the Top 10. (For me, it probably would be a coin-flip between two wedding-song staples of the era, “We’ve Only Just Begun” and “Colour My World.”) My favorite message on a church sign in recent months: “There are some questions that can’t be Googled.” Thanks for the smile, Sebastian United Methodist Church. Reality check: 40 years ago, I was beginning my senior year of high school. Sigh. Where did the time go? Where did my hair go?
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Meet me at Table 51 Some trivia: Whether at Bob Evans or C.J. Cannon’s, Russ and his wife usually eat breakfast at Table 51. In what will be an occasional feature, Russ breaks bread with someone you may or may not know.
decades there. They owned Planner Pads – a company that sells time-management tools such as daily organizers. While in Omaha, Gary dabbled in stand-up comedy at open-mic nights. His routine impressed a representative of Gary Parker has brought a sense of an advertising agency who was in the audience professionalism to the weekend comedy shows for one of the shows. Gary became the TV Gary Parker at Riverside Theatre. spokesperson for a Toyota dealer in Omaha. Before he became emcee of The Comedy “That was when I had hair and a suit,” he said. Zone, the various people who introduced the featured He stopped going to open-mic nights in 1984 because comic and headliner often failed to engage the audience. he needed to focus on running Planner Pads. Gary commands your attention from the moment you In 2001, Gary and Barbara moved to Indian River hear his voice. County. Last year, he finally got up enough nerve to If he sounds like a former radio guy, that’s because he is. approach The Comedy Zone about becoming the emcee. He was once an on-air personality in California. “It had been 30 years since I stood in front of a group,” He and his wife, Barbara (a volunteer at the Used Book he said. Depot), eventually moved to Nebraska and spent three Apparently, it’s just like riding a bicycle.
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Russ Lemmon, who loves music (and lists), spent a lot of time putting together his Top 500 favorite songs of all-time. For the next few years, Lemmon Lines will be counting ‘em down. 362. “Hot Stuff ” (1979) Donna Summer Memory: A pretty good “rock” debut for someone known as the Queen of Disco. 361. “O-o-h Child” (1970) Five Stairsteps Memory: Such an uplifting song. You can’t help but sing along by the end.
September temperature extremes in Vero Beach … All-time high temperature in September: 97 (set Sept. 13, 1947, and Sept. 17, 1996). All-time low temperature in September: 61 (Sept. 29, 2006). – Source: National Weather Service
360. “Hella Good” (2002) No Doubt Memory: As Whitney Houston said in one of her songs, “I don’t know why I like it. I just do.” All the songs thus far in the countdown can be found on LemmonLines.com.
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