Janie Gould

Alma Lee Loy tells the story.

Carlin White, a former mayor of Jupiter,  was 104 when he spoke to Janie Gould in 1911. 

A Victorian globe-trotter from New Zealand named Nelson Fell bought marshland in 1911 that became the town of Fellsmere. Local history enthusiast Richard Votapka, who portrays Fell in re-enactments, discusses the life of this remarkable man. 

An Air Force base in Florida's Panhandle is named for Frank Tyndall, who was born in what is now Martin County in 1894.  Alice Luckhardt of Stuart, a writer and retired teacher, has profiled the life of this remarkable man.  

Parker reportedly jumped ship rather than move to Oklahoma, and lived out her days in Florida. Rancher Bud Adams remembers seeing her on his family's ranch in the late 1930s. She was more than 100 years old.

The house, originally west of the Indian River, now sits on the South Beach site of the St. Lucie County Historical Society and is open for tours.

Charles Gollnick  made hundreds of rescues during his long career at Humiston Beach in Vero Beach. Many were children of inattentive parents.   

After the fish camp closed, one of the old cabins became a bureau for the Fort Pierce News-Tribune. Reporter Nina Baransky remembers working without air-conditioning and finding "creepy crawlies" in desk drawers. 

He says he defused racial tension by playing a song  people thought was made popular by a white singer.