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W
e’ve all heard them—those legendary, all-too-
incredible-to-be-real stories of catching monstrous
fish or encountering harrowing seas on a fishing
expedition. But sometimes those stories are true and
sometimes they become the very fabric of a community, as is the
case with The Luckiest Little Fishing Village that has come to be
called Destin.
Stories themselves can change over the course of time as they are
told and retold generation after generation; but the facts remain,
documented in remnants of the past—those physical pieces of
evidence that become weathered and worn with age, that bear the
patina of history and whisper their tales to those who are willing
to listen. These are the things that become treasures, things to be
saved and preserved so that their stories can live on to teach us
lessons and remind us all of the people who have shaped the world
to become what it is now.
Preservation is the idea behind any museum and for the Destin
History and Fishing Museum its driving mission is to ensure
that the history of Destin weathers the seas of time. For such a
small town, its life has certainly been a full one; one full of color
story by
Liesel Schmidt
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photos by
Steve Barber
Fish Stories
“I once caught a fi sh THIS big…”
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