April 2011

CALENDAR

Farmer's Market On Canal St.

every Sat. 9 am - 1pm

this unique Farmers' Market has been a faithful mainstay of the City. Supporting local family farmers and growers of fresh fruits, vegetables, herbs, flowers, plants, juices, dairy products, eggs and seafood. We also offer a diverse selection of non commercial speciality foods, baked goods, art and high quality handcrafted items both local and global

www.canalstreetnsb.com

 

Gallery Walk On Canal St.

every 1st Saturday 4 pm - 8 pm

www.canalstreetnsb.com

 

East Coast Cruisers On Canal St. every 2nd Saturday 4 pm - 8 pm

The city closes off the street to all vehicle traffic with the exception of the Classic Cars themselves. This is an awesome event for the whole family to enjoy, there is food, a D.J. and most of the merchants are open for business during the event.

www.eastcoastcruisersnsb.com

 

Art Walk/ 10am - 5pm

Wine Walk 1pm - 6pm

On Flagler Ave. April 23, 2011

For more information about Art Walk, call 386.428.1770 or visit

www.flaglergallerygroup.com.

 

Downtown Arts District  Gallery Walk is the “go-to” event in New Smyrna Beach !  The galleries located on Douglas and Canal Streets feature monthly solo and group exhibitions, artist talks and live music.  The Gallery Walk has become a community gathering spot for a discerning mix of art lovers, patrons and artists for over 10 years.  Join us every 1st Saturday of the month from 3-7pm for this fabulous free event.

 

New Smyrna Beach Museum of History -Special Exhibit

The War Between The States
Feb 1  - May 31, 2011
View artifacts of the Civil War (1861 to 1865) at an extensive exhibit at the New Smyrna Beach Museum of History.  This exhibit will be held from February through May, 2011 in the North Room of the Museum located at 120 Sams Avenue in New Smyrna Beach.

 

Horsin' Around Auction

Apr 3, 2011 11am – 4pm

Join us on Sunday, April 3, 2011 for the most talked about auction in Central Florida!

Atlantic Center for the Arts' annual auction, Horsin' Around, has a 28-year history of offering an afternoon in support of the arts that is unparalleled in Central Florida. This important fundraiser raises 15% of Atlantic Center's operating budget, allowing us to provide arts-related programming to under served youth, writing residencies for teens, opportunities for working artists to create new work through our acclaimed residency programs, and educational lectures and performances for the greater Central Florida community, serving 50,000 yearly. Enjoy an afternoon with friends!

Silent Auction 11 AM
Live Auction 1 PM
New Smyrna Beach Municipal Airport,

on U.S. 1
Food and drink all day, catered by Tim Webber, The Coordinator

For more information or to make a donation, contact Co-Director Nancy Lowden Norman at nlowden@atlanticcenterforthearts.org; or phone 386-427-6975 ext. 11

For tickets or to host a table, email Jimmy Zock at jzock@atlanticcenterforthearts.org; or phone 386-427-6975 ext. 10

Tickets:

$100 admits one to auction (70% tax-deductible), $1,000 host table for eight - Includes gourmet food and drink

THANK YOU TO OUR GENEROUS DONORS!

New Smyrna Speedway

located at the intersection of SR 44 & SR  415.

Saturday April 2, 2011     Limited Late Models / Sportsman / E-Modifieds / Super Stocks /

Strictly Stocks

Saturday, April 9, 2011     LIMITED LATE MODELS 50

Modifieds / Pro-Trucks / Mini-Stocks / Strictly Stocks

Friday, April 15, 2011    OPEN PRACTICE 5:00pm-9:00PM

Pit Gates Open at 4:00pm

Saturday, April 16, 2011    4th ANNUAL BILLIE HARVEY MEMORIAL

SUPER LATE MODELS 100

Sportsman / E-Modifieds / Super Stocks / Strictly Stocks

Thursday, April 21, 2011    OPEN PRACTICE 6-10PM

Saturday

April 23, 2011    Limited Late Models / Modifieds / Pro-Trucks / Mini-Stocks /

Strictly Stocks

Saturday

April 30, 2011    Limited Late Models / Sportsman / E-Modifieds / Super Stocks /

Strictly Stocks / DAARA

OFFICE PHONE: (386)427-4129 WEBSITE:

www.newsmyrnaspeedway.org

 

 

The Little Theatre

726 Third Avenue New Smyrna Beach

Apr 8 - Apr 9, 2011 8pm

2pm Matinee Sunday March 10

 

"Foxfire"

Drama by Susan Cooper and Hume Cronyn, Music by Jonathan Holtzman

Lyrics by Susan Cooper and Hume Cronyn

Annie Nations, an indomitable Appalachian widow of 79, lives on her mountain farm with the acerbic ghost of her husband, Hector.  Her tranquility is threatened by a brash real estate developer who wants to turn her land into a vacation resort and by concern over her son, Dillard, a country singer who has come home with two stranded children because his wife has run away.  Annie's battle to decide her future takes her through some funny, touching and magical flashbacks to her life with Hector.  Can Dillard woo his mother away from the recalcitrant ghost?  Will development swallow up the family farm?  Only Annie can decide.  Played on Broadway by Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy, this play offers a staunchly affirmative tribute to mountain folk.

The Little Theatre is located at 726 Third Avenue in New Smyrna Beach.  For more information call: 386.423.1246 or visit our website at

www.NsbPlayers.org

 

NSB Food Festival

Apr 21, 2011 5 - 9pm

Join us for an evening of live entertainment and sampling the best from Volusia County restaurants.  Flagler Avenue will have street closures.

JAMMIN' IN THE PARK 2nd Annual Jammin' in the Park Apr 9, 2011 10am - 5pm Jammin' in the Park will be at the Hawkes Park Pavillion located at 1108 S. Ridgewood Avenue in Edgewater, FL. Free continous live music, vendors, food, games! Donations appreciated.

The Stingray 5k Run/Walk Saturday, April 30, 2011  8am New Smyrna Beach City Gym 3rd Street and Live Oak Registration Closing Date Saturday, April 30, 2011  11:59pm The Stingray 5k Run/Walk will start and finish at the New Smyrna Beach Parks and Recreation Department in New Smyrna Beach. The course runs through tree lined local neighborhoods, and along the intercoastal waterway. The large 5k out and back is fast, flat, and paved throughout. It is a great course for the recreational jogger and the avid runner. Awards will be presented to the First Male and Female Overall, First Male and Female Masters, First Male and Female Grandmasters, and the top three Male and Female finishers in each age division.   WORLD Tai Chi and Qigong Day Apr 30, 2011 10am - 10:30 am No experience needed!  Learn how this gentle moving exercise can enhance your life.  Join the world wide movement of healing Qi! There will also be a FREE Tai Chi Class, followed by Tai Chi Weapons demonstrations at 9am. For more information contact Rhonda at Tai Chi By The Sea at 386.423.0083, or visit www.taichibythesea.com or www.worldtaichiday.org.   Florida Lighthouse Day Apr 16, 2011 10am - 2pm There will be family oriented activities, and several workshops designed specifically for kids.  See new lighthouse exhibits and learn about Florida's many lighthouses.  Visit our lighthouse keeper (in living  history mode) as he describes his duties at the Ponce Inlet Lighthouse.  Then join him as he talks about the history of the Cape Canaveral Lighthouse, and demonstrates the maintenance duties on the First Order Fresnel Lens.  Included in the cost of the regular admission, no advance reservations required.  Regular admission to the lighthouse museum is $5 for adutes (12 years and older), and $1.50 for children.  The Ponce Inlet Lighthouse is located at 4931 South Peninsula Drive, Ponce Inlet.  Open from 10am with the last admission to the grounds at 5pm.  Call 386.761.1821, extension 18 for more information.

Sea Coast Owners and Guests

 Beautiful day at the condo - taken March 16, 2011

Newly re-surfaced Shuffleboard Court

Our winter guests had a wonderful farewell dinner and dance and some have requested I add some photos and comments. I have not recieved these yet so I will be adding this info to our next newsletter.

-editor

Guests — 

We welcome your comments, suggestions, recommendations  and commendations to the management and don't forget, if you have a guest book

in your unit please leave a note.

Thank you

3rd annual

New Smyrna Beach Balloon & Skyfest presented by Bright House Networks!

April 8 - 10

New Smyrna Beach Municipal Airport

WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO A HUGE 2011 event....lots of food and fun, hundreds of vendors,

....WITH HOT-AIR BALLOONS, SKYDIVING, RIDES IN BALLOONS, PLANES, AND HELICOPTERS, CLASSIC AIRCRAFT ON DISPLAY, 60 VENDORS, AMAZING BALLOON GLOWS AFTER SUNSET, US AIR FORCE JAZZ BAND, US NAVY BAND ROCK BAND OF THE SOUTHEAST, 16-PIECE FRANK VARDAROS JAZZ ORCHESTRA, and much more....SMILES EVERYWHERE !!

AMAZING BALLOON GLOWS AFTER SUNSET, ...AND FULL AFTERNOON AIR SHOWS...APRIL 8-10....PUT THIS ON YOUR CALENDAR !!

AND, ONCE AGAIN, WE PLAN NO ADMISSION PER PERSON CHARGE, BUT JUST a small $5 charge PER VEHICLE (car-pooling is recommended)!

For the first time ever, the exciting new Education Zone will be coming to the New Smyrna Beach Balloon & Sky Fest, and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University has thrown their full support behind the project. Thank you, ERAU !
With one eye of the Fest focused on helping area youth in 2011, the Education Zone is a perfect opportunity for the young people and the young-at-heart to have fun while seeing and learning about a wide variety of aviation related items and projects.
From the NASA Manned Flight program to the Embry-Riddle jet dragster to the planes and helicopters on display to the paper airplane contests....this huge tent has something for everyone! Informal Q & A sessions will take place all weekend with numerous experts regarding careers such as air show pilot, air traffic controller, NASA engineer, flight instructor, and many more.
"Everything in the big tent is fun....and it's a learning experience at the same time!" said Sally Mackay, the Education Zone sub-committee chairwoman. "Everyone who sees what we'll be doing in the Zone says 'Wow!'"

So, cars pay a little to park, BUT ALL THE PEOPLE ARE FREE!

Call 386.424.2199 to reserve a hot air balloon ride.  Visit www.seasideballoonfest.com for more information.

This type of event does not happen without the hard work of many volunteers, and the support and help of many sponsors. We're SO GRATEFUL for their help and support!

MANY THANKS TO OUR 2011 SPONSORS: The New Smyrna Beach Municipal Airport, Bright House Networks, Halifax Health, Halifax Health Hospice of Volusia/Flagler, Andy's Web Tools, Ocean Properties, Friends Of New Smyrna Beach Airport Inc, Timeless Wings & Wheels Military Museum, Bert Fish Medical Center, MH Audio, Southeast Volusia Advertising Authority, MIX 105.1 Radio, Tru Gas, 105.9 Sunny FM, Waste Pro, WSBB 1230 AM Radio, Mersino Dewatering, New Smyrna Chevrolet, The Daytona Beach News-Journal, Mullinax Ford, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, SR Perrott.

From Our Resident Feature Writer...

The Price of Sugar

Friday was a beautiful day and perfect for part two of my swim in the history of this little beach town sixty-eight miles south of St Augustine, Florida, America’s oldest settlement. The February newsletter included my impressions of New Smyrna’s historical museum, a small but richly endowed re-creation of the city’s past. While visiting the museum I learned about the ruins of an old sugar mill only a couple of miles away and made a note to visit the site. What a find that turned out to be.

On his second voyage to the New World Christopher Columbus carried sugarcane from Europe, introducing it to the island just south of Florida, which they called Hispaniola and we call the Dominican Republic and Haiti. Not long after that it was shipped to Florida for cultivation. Sugar is a work heavy crop and the need for labor is a big reason slavery became important on Florida plantations. To produce just one ton of sugar a plantation had to grow and crush seven tons of sugarcane. The labor involved required large work crews.

From the latter years of the eighteenth century until 1835, Florida’s sugar industry was concentrated in east Florida, on land between the St Johns River and the Atlantic. By the 1830s there were no fewer than twenty-two sugar plantations along the coastline producing sugar, molasses, and rum. The sugar industry brought prosperity to the region, employing the skills of farmhands, architects, stonemasons, riverboat crews, shopkeepers, and traders. Of course, African slaves provided the backbreaking labor, and that too was another form of economy. It all ended with the outbreak of the Second Seminole War in 1835. The Indians were revolting against US policies that would remove them from their homelands to land in the Oklahoma territories. They had a devastating effect on the plantations.

In 1830, Henry Cruger and William dePeyster purchased 600 acres to build a sugar mill. The land had originally been part of the Turnbull grant which led to the planting of a 1,255 strong Smyrnéa colony. Using the land as collateral, Cruger and dePeyster secured a $10,000 loan for the purchase of steam equipment from a New York foundry. But their venture was ill timed. After only five years the sugar mill was destroyed by the warring Seminole Indians. Today the beautiful arched walls remain to give a glimpse of early American industry and the struggles two pioneering businessmen faced.

The ruins in New Smyrna are surrounded by lush green that includes oak, palmetto and tangerine trees. One historical marker on the site explains, “The mill had little time to produce sugar or repay investors before it was wrecked by the Seminoles. In December 1835, the Indians ran off the overseer, burned the complex, and destroyed other plantations throughout the region. Helping the Indians stage the raids were Cruger-dePeyster slaves.”

William Leet

March 19, 2011

Nestled upon six acres between the Halifax River and the Atlantic Ocean, this quiet spot south of New Smyrna Beach features a boardwalk on the oceanside and a fishing pier on the riverside -- where visitors often catch a glimpse of manatees. Amenities abound, with beach access for swimmers and basketball and tennis courts for the athletes. A community building complements the overall setting. The children's playground is near the pavilion, barbecue grills, picnic tables and restrooms.

Some people have nicknamed this park as "Manatee Park" as they often frequent the little inlet pictured in the top photo of this article.