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Destin’s Founding Father …
What Happened to Leonard Destin
After His Shipwreck
The Destin Library will host a presentation
entitled DESTIN’S Founding Father – What
Happened to Leonard Destin After His
Shipwreck, on Tuesday, February 6, 2017, at
5:30 PM. The presentation is free and open to
the public.
Seats will be limited for this presentation
and interested individuals are encouraged
arrive early for this program.
Destin historian Hank Klein will explain
what prompted him to research the Destin
family for over fi ve years to learn the truth
about why Leonard Destin left New London,
Connecticut, and where he was going when a
hurricane spared him, but took the life of his
father and older brother in 1835.
Learn where Leonard went after he left
Key West, and why he didn’t stay in Florida.
Hear about when Destin became the master
of his fi rst vessel, and when he actually settled
permanently at East Pass.
Klein’s newest
book, Destin’s
Founding Father
… The Untold
Story of Leonard
Destin: What
Happened to
Leonard Destin
After His
Shipwreck will
be available for
sale following the
presentation.
Also available at this time will be Tony
Mennillo’s book Salty memories…along
the Coastal Highway – Historical Stories of
Destin and the Emerald Coast.
For more information, call the Destin
Library at 837-8572.
Winter 2018 Live@TheREP Concert
Series
The REP Theatre of Seaside, Florida is
proud to announce its Winter 2018 Live@
TheREP Concert Series line up with
an incredibly talented group of singer-
songwriters from throughout the U.S.
February 23rd singer-songwriter Amy
Black performs on The REP stage. Amy
has always been drawn to soul singers. But
it wasn’t until she began exploring her own
southern soul roots for her last album, The
Muscle Shoals Sessions, that she found her
musical sweet spot — and knew her next
stop had to be the place where blues and soul
converge. Where Al Green, Otis Redding and
so many others turned grit and groove into
some of the world’s most beloved tunes.
March 14th and 15th brings the return
of sell-out sensations, Harpeth Rising.
Three classically trained musicians playing
original music, as intricately arranged as a
string quartet, lyrically rooted in the singer/
songwriter tradition, and wrapped in three-
part vocal harmonies reminiscent of both
Appalachia and Medieval Europe.
Tickets and more information available at
www.LoveTheREP.com
The Winter 2018 performance schedule is:
February: 8 - 7:30pm - Anthony Green
13 - 7:30pm - Kim Richey
22 - 8:00pm - Taylor & Jabares-Pita
23 - 7:30pm - Live @ The REP- Amy Black
27 - 7:30pm - Kevin Doyle Playwright
March: 14 & 15 - 7:30pm Live @ The REP
Harpeth Rising
Children In Crisis to Cut Ribbon on
Kay’s Cupboard Food Pantry
Children In Crisis is pleased to announce
the opening of Kay’s Cupboard food
pantry and donation center in the CIC
Neighborhood on Hurlburt Road.
Kay’s Cupboard food pantry and donation
center will help CIC better utilize food drives
and other donations for the over 100 children
that call the CIC Neighborhood home each
year. Funding for Kay’s Cupboard was made
possible by M/Gen (Ret.) Don Litke and
family in honor and memory of Don’s wife
Kay.
According to Ken Hair, CIC President
and CEO, “We opened the fi rst family foster
home of the CIC Neighborhood in 2008 and
since then we’ve provided a home, love and
care to almost 800 children while keeping all
of the brother/sister sibling families together.
That works out to over 95,000 days/nights of
a safe, loving home for an at-risk foster child.
Opening Kay’s Cupboard will help us reduce
cost for feeding and clothing our children
thanks to the Litke family and our very
supportive community.”
CIC is a 501, (c)(3) non-profi t local charity
of caring people providing homes and
establishing hope to the abused, neglected
and abandoned children of our community.
Together we can make a difference in the life
of a child. To learn more about CIC, visit
www.childrenincrisisfl .org, or call 850-864-
4242.
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