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DESTIN HISTORY & FISHING MUSEUM

108 STAHLMAN AVE. DESTIN, FL 32541

Preserving the Heritage of the World’s Luckiest Fishing Village

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Destin History & Fishing Museum Foundation Museum Board of Directors

Executive Board President: Dr. Tim Holcomb Exec. Vice President: Rick Lowry

Treasurer: Helen Donaldson Vice President: Mike Long Secretary: Frances Thomas-Montalvo

General Board Reddin Brunson Rick Derek Sam Seevers

David Gates Joyce Modica John Paton Lloyd Taylor John Lefler Sid Braunstien

Dave Steele Edd Hogeboom Lark Tringas Bostick

Museum Staff

Executive Director Jean Melvin Associate Director Janet Chapman

Newsletter writer and Editor Janet Chapman

DHFM P.O. Box 548 Destin, FL 32540-0548

Destin History and Fishing Museum Foundation Inc. is a non profit organization whose members are dedicated to preserving, documenting, and sharing the complete history of Destin. There are limitless ways you, your friends, and associates can be part of realizing these efforts. Now more than ever we can use your support. Your donation or membership is tax deductible. Please fill out the form below and mail it to the museum with your check.

Yes, I Give My Support! Name___________________________________________________________________ Address________________________________________________________________ Phone________________________________________ E-Mail ____________________________________ Membership/Amount $20_______ $ 50________ $ 100 ________ $250 _________ $ other ___________ Mail to: Destin History and Fishing Museum P.O. Box 548 Destin, Florida 32541 Thank you. Without your faithful and generous donations and efforts, the museum would not exist today.

Join or Renew Your Membership Today

November 9, 2007 marks the one year anniversary of Janet Chapman’s employment at the Museum. That was truly a great day for the Museum. Janet is not only very intelli-gent, she is gifted when it comes to working with chil-dren. Her background in education compliments her position here perfectly. Janet has made contributions in every area of the Museum. I sincerely hope Janet’s tenure with the Museum is long. We are fortunate to have someone with her personal-ity and capabilities working with us. Thank you, Janet. -Jean

Director’s Line

New Exhibit Opening a Big Success

Members and guests whom at-tended the August 2nd grand opening of ,“Paradise Found- Pages From a Family Album” were treated to a special performance by International Recording Artist, Patrice Djerejian. Her most re-cent performances include Carne-gie Hall, Chicago’s Orchestra Hall & Millennium Park and Harris theatre. Patrice resides in New York and was at the opening with her Uncle Jerry Najarian, who lives in Destin. We were hon-ored when she accepted our invi-

tation to sing. The evening’s quests were treated to an out-standing and most memorable appearance. Included in the performance was a special piece written as a tribute to honor special guest, Ida Calhoun Scott. Other special guests of the eve-ning included, Captain “Salty” Reddin Brunson, and Miss Des-tin 2007, Emily Kaltz. The evening’s visitors entered the Museum, were greeted by a photo of 5 year old Ida Calhoun, and guided thru the museum with photos and oral histories of Destin spanning the years of 1931 thru 1970. Photo & oral history videos played throughout the evening

and copies were made available to purchase. It was an enjoyable and informative evening for all. The special exhibit was on display through October. If you missed the main exhibit please stop by the museum and view the condensed version, now a permanent exhibit at the Museum. You will be taken back in time to experience the “Paradise” which convinced many to make Destin their home.

October 2007 Newsletter Volume 2, Issue 4

Destin History & Fishing Museum

Here’s What’s Been Happening at YOUR Museum!

• Museum float to be in City parade December 8th, 2007. Call if you would like to volunteer on the decorating com-mittee.

• Holiday on the Harbor and Festival of Choirs December 9, 2007. Choirs start at 5pm and boat parade at 6. Sign up your boat or choir at the museum.

• Volunteers always needed to help with fundraisers and on Tues., Wed., and Fri. at the museum. Please call 837-6611 if you can help.

• New search engine Good-search.com helps the museum generate dona-tions.

• The DHFM is a member of the Panhandle Preserva-tion Alliance you may check us out on their website…...

panhandlehistoricalliance.org

Inside this issue:

Children’s Day Camp

2

Visit by County Commissioners

2

Captain & Mates Meeting

2

Capt. Salty 3

Volunteer of the Quarter

3

Thank you to our sponsors: Digital Imaging of Destin, Xerox, AJ’s Restaurant, Target, Jim’s Color Printing, Ida Calhoun, Carolyn Cox, Mike & Terry Long & Life’s a Beach. Please thank our sponsors by visiting their establishments too.

Our Director, Jean Melvin, attended the Florida Associa-tion of Museums (FAM) Con-ference in September and returned with fresh ideas and information. The conference provided a wonderful opportu-nity for her to network and bounce ideas off other mu-seum directors. We are busy carrying through some new ideas. Our goal is to continu-ally improve your museum experience. Stop in for a visit.

Tetra Tech, an architectural firm hired by the city, unveiled new proposed plans for the city park land and the locations for the new Museum building. The CRA board will vote on the plans this Oct. 30th at 6pm, during a meeting at city hall, the public is wel-come. We will try to keep you updated as we acquire more infor-mation on where the future location of the new building will be.

Jean attends FAM Conference

Commissioners toured Destin History & Fishing Museum and shared lunch with it’s board of directors. All in attendance were impressed with the facilities and the beneficial experiences this historic museum has to offer the community.

On a beautiful Saturday morning the museum was filled with inquisitive children. They were conducting experiments and playing games all while learning about the water cycle, conserva-tion, ecosystems, estuaries, and treatment proc-esses. The camp was conducted by Associate Director, Janet Chapman, who enjoyed getting back to her teaching roots. The children had a great time and so did Janet. The museum hopes to be able to offer another camp December 1st please call for more information. 850-837-6611

Okaloosa County Commissioners Visit Museum and meet Board Members

Magnificent Children at Museum’s Day Camp

Your Membership Renewal will help fund the following projects….

Many of our annual memberships expired in September. We are asking you to renew your membership today. Your membership helps

support vital museum programming . A few of the programs you will support are listed below.

• Children’s Day Camp

• Guest Speakers for workshops

• Building up our historic reference library

• Cataloging our collections and updating our website so you may view artifacts online and reference information

• Wheelhouse and artifact restoration

• Display case for growing captains wall display

• Supplying wiring and lights for display cases

• Touch tide pool for children’s exhibit & Aquarium for Gulf of Mexico bait fish exhibit

• Daily operating expenses such as insurance and utilities

Please Renew Your Membership Your Support Is Needed & Appreciated

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Captain and Mates Fishing Rodeo Meeting & Captain William Frank Davis’s Birthday Party were held at the Museum.

This October The Destin Fishing Rodeo is partici-pating in its 59th annual tournament. On September 27th the Captain and Mates meeting was held at the museum. All the participants toured the museum and were treated to barbeque dinner provided by the Charter Boat Association. It was a perfect op-portunity for the fishing crews to view their history. The evening culminated with a special presentation honoring William Frank Davis Senior who cele-brated his birthday. Capt. “Salty” Brunson, Capt. Tommy Browning and many captains who started their fishing careers working with Capt. William Frank shared their fond memories and expressed their thanks for all he had given to the fishing com-munity. Thank you to The Charter Boat Association for

providing dinner and to “Fat Daddy’s Barbeque” Dan Wilson and Dave Steele for

cooking the dinner.

GUMBO CONTEST Scheduled

for Jan.5th,

2008 Start your

recipe tweaking

A Special Thank You

to all the people who donated

artifacts and

displays and

Volunteered their time

without whom there would be an

empty building.

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DESTIN HISTORY & FISHING MUSEUM

108 STAHLMAN AVE. DESTIN, FL 32541

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