Monthly Archives: November 2024

Behind the Palm City Scene, Jenny

Jenny and Mom, Sewall’s Point Park, 2024.

Prior to Thursday’s Palm City book launch, I wanted to feature my younger sister Jenny. For my mother she is like that secretary that skillfully, behind the scenes, runs the school (not really the principal.) 🙂 Jenny holds it all together. Jenny helps not only her family but the community as Director, Physician and APP Recruitment, Cleveland Clinic Florida at Cleveland Clinic.

Jenny and her husband Mike Flaugh live next door to Mom and help everyday with organizing, logistics, and most of all bringing high spirts to the book campaign. We could not have written or planned a successful-launch of “A Pictorial History of Palm City, Florida,” without Jenny’s constant support and direction.

My mother published her first local history book in 1992. Others followed. At the time of “Sewall’s Point, The History of a Community on Florida’s Treasure Coast.” I was 28 years old, Jenny was 24, and Todd was 22.

I am now 60.

It has been a life time of books. And though the good times and the hard times Jenny has really been the glue, the spine of the book, holding the pages together.

Jenny, Todd, and all my family look forward to seeing everyone and to supporting my mother and now book partner, Sandra Henderson Thurlow, Martin County’s premier local historian.

A Pictorial History of Palm City, Florida

Thursday, November 21, 4-7pm “Book Launch/Celebration Party” at Palm City Social, 3168 SW Martin Downs Blvd., Palm City, FL 34990. Pre-signed books and unopened wrapped books will be available for purchase.

Saturday, December 7, 10am-3pm “Book Signing” at Stuart Heritage Museum, 161 SW Flagler Avenue, Stuart, FL 34994. Sandra and Jacqui will be available to inscribe a book or books as gifts or other.

Saturday, December 14, 1-4pm, “Book Signing” at Peter and Julie Cummings Library, 2551 SW Matheson, Ave. Palm City, FL 34990. Sandra and Jacqui will be available to inscribe a book or books as gifts or other.

Books run $39.95 for a single book and $399.50 for a box of ten book. Plus tax. 🙂

“A History of Palm City’s” Inside Cover, by Nature’s Design

Perhaps the most wonderful part of my mom and my new book, “A Pictorial History of Palm City, Florida,” are the end papers, or inside cover.

In my option, nothing is more important than knowing the “original lay of the land.” We must never forget Nature’s handprint upon which we stand.

My brother, Todd – attorney and expert technology leader of EYEONLAKEO.com – created the images on the inside cover. They remind us of what Palm City looked like before it was developed- a veritable wildlife and fishing paradise (with maybe a few mosquitoes) 🙂

It’s beauty amazing!

We can see that Bessey Creek, Danforth Creek, wetlands, ponds and prairies dominate the landscape even years after development, farming and channelizing of waterways began: (basis -1940s+/- USDA/University of Florida Collection images/Todd Thurlow).

Click on image for a closer look at “pre-development” Palm City, this beautiful place we call home.

Todd, Jenny, Mom and my father in heaven, to whom this book is dedicated, hope to see you at next Thursday’s book launch and/or events listed below. Thank you for helping us make history!

Back inside cover featuring Bessey Creek. Photographs created by Todd Thurlow, Images from USDA/University of Florida Collection.

Front cover featuring St. Luice River near today’s Palm City Bridge.

A Pictorial History of Palm City, Florida

Books run $39.95 for a single book and $399.50 for a box of ten book. Plus tax. 🙂

Holiday Book Launch & Book Signings “A Pictorial History of Palm City, Florida”

Jacqui Thurlow Lippisch & Sandra Henderson Thurlow, 2024. Photo Todd Thurlow.

My entire family invites the you to attend! Happy Holidays & cheers to a Celebration of Local History!

A Pictorial History of Palm City, Florida

“Meet the authors who will share bits of their incredible journey compiling their recently published book which contains rare photographs and maps that tell the story of Palm City’s land and water. A chance to drop by, purchase books and visit with the authors! A Pictorial History of Palm City, Florida focuses on water, its gifts of beauty and sustenance as well as attempts at its management. It honors pioneer families as well as early developers and helps new residents understand and appreciate the place they call home. Sandra Henderson Thurlow has-been collection and sharing regional history of decades and has been joined by her daughter, Jacqui Thurlow-Lippisch to produce this book. Jacqui is a political activist for better water management and has become an expert on water issues. Together they know that the environment and history are not separate.”

Books run $39.95 for a single book and $399.50 for a box of ten book. Plus tax. 🙂

Boat to Books, Taking a break from America’s Great Loop

Ed and I in the locks, one of over 100 along America’s Great Loop.

If there is a calling one must always answer to, it is the calling of one’s mother… 🙂

Ed and I are taking a temporary break from our Great Loop adventure to be home for Thanksgiving and for the November 21st book launch of “A Pictorial History of Palm City, Florida,” a book created by my mother and me.

To my blog readers, I apologize that I have not written since September 11th. Believe it or not, I went incognito by choice. Some of my old enemies were after me…

So now, I’m back, and trying to share where I have been and all that I have seen is impossible. All I can say is that I am more than the person I was when I left. There are so many stories to tell; and so many rivers in need. I will be telling these stories…