Dear Friends,
I was going to tell you about other things today, but this evening I saw that Eve Samples, an impressive Florida journalist and daughter of my friend Teresa, posted on Facebook a beautiful experience she had at Cabbage Key, Florida. I had to respond, and this is it.
Eve Samples Clark and his first wife Janet were students at Antioch College in Ohio. Soon after they married ( still in college) they had a work-study at Cabbage Key, which was then an island owned by Larry & Jan Stults. He had been an art director in Chicago and punctured a lung and when he thought he would die they decided to leave the rat race and go to heaven in Florida. They bought the island from (I think) the estate of writer Mary Rogers Rinehart. They had a few cottages and main house and became a hideaway for politicians and writers etc. Clark and Janet lived in one of the cottages and did all kinds of work for the Stults enterprise. The Stults kids went to school in a boat. Clark learned to fly a seaplane. He got to love boats. Then the work-study was over. Clark and Janet settled in Yellow Springs, Ohio, & went to Cabbage Key for vacations. They divorced. When I met Clark in Dayton, Ohio, he had a small Sunfish sailboat. We sailed a lot. Ohio was too cold. Cabbage Key & Florida called and we moved -- no good jobs on West Coast then so we moved to Miami. We kept sailing and eventually went whenever we could to that same area, preferring Captiva to Cabbage Key because at the time it was more "real." There the Jensen brothers have kept up a historically-preserved (I think) collection of fishing cottages and some beachfront units. Captiva has changed but Jensens' is mostly the same. Clark and I and Patrick have gone there a zillion times, and if Clark's ashes are "interred" anywhere, it will be in Pine Island Sound near Captiva Island and Cabbage Key.
Love,
k
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| Captiva beach, November 2014 |
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