MUSEUM HOURS Monday – Friday 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm 1 st Saturday 10:00 am – 2:00 pm CURATOR Richard “Ted” Waterfall TRUSTEES Jim Gillies, Chairman Charlie Bagg Louise Carter Melanie Blankenship Kim Nesbitt Winn OFFICERS Timothy Totten President Bob Marks Vice-President Cindy Satur 2 nd Vice-President Danyel Moulden Recording Secretary Anita Ezelle Corresponding Secretary John Blankenship Treasurer APPOINTED Louise Carter - Historian Regina Heffington - Website Ethel Ryan - Refreshments Eustis Reflections A Monthly Publication of the Eustis Historical Museum & Preservation Society, Inc. Volume VII, Number 8 – August 2011 www.eustishistoricalmuseum.com EVENTS CALENDAR Aug 25 “Images of America: Eustis” Book Signing Thursday at 7:00 pm at The Eustis Memorial Library Monthly Membership Meeting to follow Sept 2 First Friday Street Party 6:00 – 10:00 pm Downtown Eustis Authors will be in a booth selling/signing books Sept 3 “Images of America: Eustis” Book Discussion Group 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Discussion with the authors at the Clifford House Friends, After more than a year of work, the book, “Images of America: Eustis” is ready for publication! Books will be available at the museum starting next week. Cover price ($21.99) plus tax equals $23.53, but members get a 15% discount, making the member price just $20.00! Ruth Akright and Betty Ann McClellan have worked hard to make this a success, so we appreciate all their dedication. Check you the event calendar below for book signing times. Timothy Totten, President
The August 2011 newsletter for the Eustis Historical Museum & Preservation Society, based in Eustis, Florida.
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MUSEUM HOURS
Monday – Friday
1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
1st Saturday
10:00 am – 2:00 pm
CURATOR
Richard “Ted” Waterfall
TRUSTEES
Jim Gillies, Chairman
Charlie Bagg
Louise Carter
Melanie Blankenship
Kim Nesbitt Winn
OFFICERS
Timothy Totten
President
Bob Marks
Vice-President
Cindy Satur
2nd Vice-President
Danyel Moulden
Recording Secretary
Anita Ezelle
Corresponding Secretary
John Blankenship
Treasurer
APPOINTED
Louise Carter - Historian
Regina Heffington - Website
Ethel Ryan - Refreshments
Eustis Reflections
A Monthly Publication of the
Eustis Historical Museum & Preservation Society, Inc.
Volume VII, Number 8 – August 2011 www.eustishistoricalmuseum.com
EVENTS CALENDAR
Aug 25 “Images of America: Eustis” Book Signing
Thursday at 7:00 pm at The Eustis Memorial Library
Monthly Membership Meeting to follow
Sept 2 First Friday Street Party
6:00 – 10:00 pm
Downtown Eustis
Authors will be in a booth selling/signing books
Sept 3 “Images of America: Eustis” Book Discussion Group
10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Discussion with the authors at the Clifford House
Friends,
After more than a year of work, the book, “Images of America: Eustis” is ready for publication!
Books will be available at the museum starting next week. Cover price ($21.99) plus tax equals $23.53, but members get a 15% discount, making the member price just $20.00!
Ruth Akright and Betty Ann McClellan have worked hard to make this a success, so we appreciate all their dedication. Check you the event calendar below for book signing times.
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Yeah, we weren’t supposed to be there. Let’s say the year was 1951, and the old gymnasium on the corner of Bay Street and Woodward Avenue was off limits to everybody except when being used for sporting events. That being said, it was very easy to circumvent the locked doors in that ancient structure and many a youngster had been inside clandestinely.
Likewise, a group of us had gone in to play a little basketball. I reckon that in itself would have been harmless enough. However, one of us had brought a football in there with him this time. Soon our attention turned to trying a new game with the football. We would try to place-kick the football the length of the basketball court in the slightest of chances that it might go through the basketball goal net.
Important in this episode is a rather attractive scoreboard hanging high on the wall at the far end of the gym. I remember during basketball games that as the hands counted down the minutes, the face of the clock would change colors. That scoreboard was probably the nicest thing in the old place.
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Well, there we were with one of us holding the football at one end of the floor and each taking a turn place-kicking it toward the other end. Most of the kicks were going pretty much in the direction of the goal down there, although no one had put it through the net. Well, folks, it was my turn.
Football was not my sport and I was rather proud as my kick sent the ball soaring quite long and high! And … it was going straight at it … it looked like it would be a direct hit! And it was! Only it wasn’t the basketball net at the other end. It was that scoreboard clock, folks. My kick was at a 45 degree angle to the goal! I could have kicked footballs the remainder of that afternoon and all the next day and not come near that clock!
We all watched in transfixed horror as that football slammed into the face of the clock with a sickening KABLAMPF! And the beautiful plastic face was now broken. Badly broken! I had made the bad kick and it had been witnessed by probably 4 or 5 other boys.
Well, it didn’t take long to clear out of that place! This confession of my guilt is the first time it’s been made known in these 55 years. But I was terrified all the next basketball season that one of my friends, if put under pressure, might divulge my secret. All the games I do not recall much ever being said about the broken clock face, and shortly thereafter they tore the old gymnasium down.
If this confession on my part causes me trouble after all these years, I will fight extradition to Florida.