Museum - Southwest Florida Historical Society in Fort Myers, Florida

Visitors today at the historical society. Seth Ford and Liston Bochette

This wonderful couple (the Creelmans) came in to the LYH today to donate this beautiful quilt made by Dorothy Higbie. Maggie Higbie Creelman told us that her mother was a master quilter and spent many hours on this painstakingly detailed quilt. Maggie also gave us the magazine article showing the quilt as it was displayed on the banyan tree at Edison's laboratory.

Donated by Johnny Jones. His father had the barber shop on Broadway between First St and Main St. Thank you Ralph Ireland for dropping this off and Larry Johnston for hanging it up.

Florida Memory

Very sadly the Pioneer Picnic this year has been cancelled. Thank you Cyndi L. Hendry for keeping us informed.

After going thru boxes of photos, letters and papers from Arcadia, historical society members Larry Johnson and Genevieve Bowen came across this old Fort Myers photo! Jim & Jerry Saloon was owned by J W Sewell. By 1908 the newspaper reported: A H Billings has opened a shooting gallery and cool drink stand in the building formerly occupied by Jim and Jerry Saloon. J W Sewell was married to Virgie Sewell and it appears they did not stay in Fort Myers long after that.

Look who stopped in the historical society today! Todd Truax candidate for Lee County

Our speaker series for this month is still on for 7 p.m. today at the Southwest Florida Community Foundation. The Foundation remains open. Tonight's speaker is FGCU management professor Eric Dent, who has been researching one of the area's most fabled couples - Jim and Ellie Newton. He will talk about the Newtons. The event is free and open to members and non-members. \

Thank you Susan for taking such fabulous photos

Nice crowd at the Cracker Dinner

This beautiful old pine needle basket was donated to the historical society today.

These 2 lovely ladies are researching the history of the Fort Myers Lions Club.

Gina Sabiston of the Lee Trust for Historic Preservation will be the January speaker at the Southwest Florida Historical Society's monthly general meeting. The event is scheduled for 7 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 9 at the Southwest Florida Community Foundation in downtown Fort Myers. The event is free and open to members and non-members. Sabiston, who has been with Lee Trust since 1997, is also chairperson of the City of Fort Myers Historic Preservation Commission.