Lemmon Lines #206

Issue 206 • Sept. 18-24, 2018

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REARVIEW MIRROR: A look at the history of Sebastian

Sebastian’s first settlers came from Germany. The area planted the first orange grove in Indian River County.
began as one of the oldest trading posts and fishing villages The village centered around a post office established in
on the East Coast.
1882 by Thomas New, a retired Methodist preacher.
August Park from Danzig, Germany, was He named the community Newhaven and
the first to arrive in the area now known as became postmaster.
Sebastian, in the late 1860s. He was contracted English immigrant Sylvanus Kitching
by the Florida Canning Company of New replaced him in 1884 and renamed it Sebastian.
York to pack fish for northern markets. He set up a general store that had living and
guest quarters and built a 1,100-foot dock on
He built a house on Barker’s Bluff, a 100- the river for steamboats.
foot tall Ais Indian shell mound, where he
operated a turtle fishery and trading post. The bluff in south Dixie Highway entered Sebastian around 1914. It went
Sebastian along the Indian River no longer exists – it was past the Sebastian Town Hall building, built in 1913, and
sold in 1908 to help surface roads between Stuart and Micco. the residences of Bamma Vickers Lawson and Stephen
Vickers. These buildings still exist south of Main Street on
Attracted by the beauty and wildlife in the area, the U.S. 1 and are on the National Register of Historic Places.
Kroegel family made Sebastian their home in 1881. Charles
Freidrich Gottlob Kroegel bought 143 acres on Barker’s Bluff Sebastian was incorporated as a town in the 1920s.
from Park. He built a house and planted vegetables and orange
trees around it, and raised bees. The family was said to have – Source: A History of Indian River County,” by Sidney P. Johnston

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3) “Murder on the Orient Express”
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6) “American Made”
7) “Suburbicon”
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LEMMON DROPS: Former Patisserie site to become Sun Market Sauce Company

Seven bite-size Lemmon Drops to nibble on while “I think the chef tables are going to
keeping a close eye on the active tropics: be fun,” she said.
I do too. Michele’s personality is
• Michele Hennessey, a former winner of Vero’s Top Chef perfect for it.
Fridays and Saturdays will be the big
competition, is getting back in the game. days for catering. Michele did catering
After 5 years as a stay-at-home mom, she is going to be in Manhattan for 10 years, so she’ll be
able to hit the ground running.
opening a cooking and catering business at the site of the Michele and her husband, Gus Russ Lemmon
former Patisserie in downtown Vero Beach (1910 Old Dixie
Highway). Rivera, operate the Italian Cousin restaurant in Sebastian.
• Previously, they ran the River Grille.
She hopes to have the Sun Market Sauce Company open Brian Heady, a perennial candidate for the Vero Beach
by the end of October. City Council, likes to joke that it’s not an official election
unless he’s on the ballot.
It’ll be open during lunch hours. She’ll offer a variety Well, it appears the joke’s on him this year, as his name has
of soups. been removed from the Nov. 6 ballot. All because a signature
was missing from the official paperwork he submitted.
“It’s not going to be fancy,” she said. During my 12 years here, the only city election in which
She said the inside will have an “old-school New England
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Heady’s name wasn’t on the ballot was 2016. (He ran for far away as Miami and Bradenton.
A special thanks to Will Collins and Robin Miller for
• County Commission that year.)
Bob Woodward’s new book about the Trump White making sure they had a pleasant experience.
House – “Fear” – is a big hit at the Vero Beach Book Center. A good time was had by all, and these guys (and their
On the first day it went on sale (Sept. 11), the independent
families) did their part to stimulate the local economy.
• book store sold 78 copies. Too bad Capt. Hiram’s couldn’t do anything about my
Completion of the $8.5 million Star Suites by Riverside
Theatre – 60 one-bedroom suites located at Aviation • 7-13 record in the tournament.
Boulevard and the east entrance to Historic Dodgertown – A few weeks ago, my wife couldn’t find her credit card
has been delayed by a few months because of the weather. and went into panic mode. Retracing her steps, she realized
However, marketing director Oscar Sales says the goal is to she left it at Sammy’s Mediterranean Café, where she had
have the cast and crew of “Evita” (Jan. 8-27) housed there. lunch the previous day.

Riverside Theatre spends about $750,000 per year on Owner Sammy Boksmati assured her it was no big deal –

• lodging for stage personnel, he said. • about a dozen people leave their cards behind each week.
Just want to give a shout-out to Capt. Hiram’s in Sebastian From 8-year-old Halee Doud, this week’s “Meet me at
for rolling out the welcome mat for the Strat-O-Matic Table 51” guest (see next page):
baseball tournament that I hosted earlier this month. Ten
guys participated in the tournament, and they came from as “Did you hear about the fight between the lipstick and
the eyeliner?”

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Meet me at Table 51

Some trivia: Whether at Bob Evans or C.J. Cannon’s, She blew me away by rapidly reciting the significant
Russ and his wife usually eat breakfast at Table 51. In what dates in the life of Martin Luther King Jr.
is a regular feature, Russ breaks bread with someone you
may or may not know. Sadly, Halee has had more than her share of physical
ailments.
I had been searching for a way to describe 8-year-old “She’s a medically complex child,” Halee’s mother said.
Halee Doud, and it came to me in a follow-up phone call On Sept. 24, she’ll be at Nicklaus Children’s
with the person who pointed me in her direction. Hospital in Miami for a cardiac procedure.
“Isn’t she adorable?” said Sharon Letts, who runs a Halee Doud She has an “undiagnosed genetic condition,”

summer reading program for kids age 5 to 13. according to her mother. (Five months after her premature
“Yes, she is,” I said. “Absolutely adorable.” birth, a lesion was discovered on her brain.)
Halee read 30 books in six weeks to claim the top prize in “Halee has beat the odds,” her mother said. “They said
the reading program, which Sharon runs out of her family’s she wasn’t going to be here.”
business, Treasure Coast Jewelers & Music. As an adult, here’s what I find maddening: She was
“I really enjoy books with facts – and the reason is, I like to learn constantly bullied at school. So much so that her mother
something new,” Halee said during our conversation at Bob Evans. decided to homeschool her.
Halee’s mother, Tabitha, calls her daughter “a sponge.” Halee, who is autistic, has such a positive attitude and is
For example, Halee learned the alphabet at age 3 and knows extraordinarily kind.
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The longest day of the month is
591. “Hold On Loosely” Sept. 1, with 12 hours, 42 minutes
(1981) 38 Special of daylight.
592. “Addicted to Love”
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