Often when poring through the archives, you find interesting little tidbits that don’t warrant a full article. But this past couple of weeks I’ve found enough of them to combine into one read. I hope you enjoy.
59 YEARS AGO: November 11, 1965
Astronaut John Glenn visited Naples at the Naples Yacht Club, guest of Mr. and Mrs. Edward L. Norton of Birmingham, Alabama. Norton is chairman of the board of the Royal Crown Cola Company, which Glenn is also a member.
Glenn was an American astronaut, U.S. Marine Corps veteran, and U.S. Senator from Ohio. In 1962, just three years earlier, he became the first American to orbit the Earth in his spacecraft, “Friendship 7.”
Glenn passed away on December 8, 2016.
56 YEARS AGO: November 15, 1968
The Big Cypress Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution was organized in Naples with Joy Butts Carter of Immokalee as regent.
Charter member Katherine “Penny” Collier Sapp shared a little early history.
“This was a time of limited roads and transportation in South Florida. There were no computers or cell phones. Actually snail mail, telephone land lines and just getting together for lunch was the best way of communicating.”