Welcome Class of '66 !

Welcome to my web log! For those of you visiting from my Stephen F. Austin High School Class, I am going to recommend that you scroll down and start from the bottom. I notice that I haven’t made an addition since last October but that was when hurricane season ended and I have been so busy since then. Hurricane Wilma put 70% of the island under water so 9000 cars have been replaced along with hundreds of tons of sheetrock. My office got 4 inches of really dirty sea water. When I opened up the next day the place smelled like an earthworm factory. We replaced all the sheetrock from the hips down. Even so, life on this island is very satisfying. The official motto of the City is “One Human Family.” In daily life it really shows. This is the most tolerant community in America. It is an adult playground (leave your kids in Orlando) and folks can be found partying somewhere on the island at any time of the night or day. The cruise ships come up to Mallory Square to dock and they loom over all the buildings in the village. When they blow their horn to notify the passengers to return to the ship it echoes all over the island. I am always inspired to call my Mama in landlocked Tennessee and shout, “Mama, I live on an island!”