Features

To many of us, the word “retirement” evokes thoughts of long and leisurely afternoons spent on the golf course or poolside.

Carmen, La Boheme and Madame Butterfly are world-famous operas and familiar favorites of area audiences thanks to members of the Vero Beach Opera Guild.

For a man destined to become one of the world’s great hurricane experts, Max Mayfield was born in an unlikely place: Oklahoma City.

One hundred years ago a woman named Henrietta Gattle had an idea.

Women, it is said, treasure gifts that come in small packages.

Cheri Rodolfo is one of the luckiest women in Vero Beach.

It is a place filled with architectural beauty, contagious kindness, unexpected laughter and quiet goodbyes.

Eugene Lyon doesn’t think of himself as a detective, yet he played a major role in one of the most intriguing real-life detective stories of the 20th century.

For as long as he can remember, Bob Weems dreamed of building a boat – one just like the wooden Chris-Crafts he saw every summer as a young boy when he and his family visited his grandparents on Shelter Island in New York.

Standing over six feet tall, with a great belly, full white beard, hearty laugh and twinkling blue-green eyes, 67-year-old George Blythe looks and sounds like Santa Claus without even trying.

A very talented group of young people will be representing Vero Beach in May 2005, when they travel to New York City to appear at Carnegie Hall.

Leonard Edwards considers himself a lucky man.

"Of no particular importance except as “a convenient place of resort for pirates.”

Quiet walks along Vero’s beaches and the gentle rhythms of the Indian River make the passions and disorder of life in the Middle East seem pretty remote.

The city of Sarasota within the county of Sarasota is a sophisticated, casually elegant cosmopolitan cultural center, offering top-drawer entertainment, an outstanding art museum and thriving art community, a long list of gourmet dining opportunities, a vibrant social season, fashionable shopping and first-class accommodations.

What is it about growing up in Indian River County that spurred two Vero Beach High School varsity soccer players – one from the class of 1993, the other from the class of 2001 – to pull up stakes with their families and head to Uganda as missionaries?

'Tis the season for glad tidings of musical joy as singers and instrumentalists tune their talents to celebrate this beautiful time of the year.

God Jul! It’s a Merry Christmas at Hallstrom House where the halls have been decked, the tree trimmed and the table set.