Tyndall base historian talks on Ben Franklin
The St. Joseph Bay Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution held its October meeting at St. Joseph Bay Golf Club on Wednesday, Oct 23. The meeting was jam packed with numerous events.
First, members brought in canned food for our local food bank which was delivered to Two Fish in Port St. Joe, filling a huge need in our community. Fran Walters, chaplain, initiated our newest member, Susan Ivey into our chapter. Davida Carnahan, regent, presented Shirley Young with her certificate and pin for having been a member of DAR for 10 years.
Guest speaker Peter Coffman is from Tyndall Air Force Base and is the base historian. He gave a well-informed and excellent presentation about Benjamin Franklin, statesman, inventor, newspaper owner, and one of the most outstanding Founding Fathers. His presentation was full of interesting anecdotes and information about Franklin.
The St. Joseph Chapter of DAR will be selling Split the Pot tickets to help fund the many projects they have locally involving veterans and servicemen and women and their families. Tickets are $5 each, or five for $20. If you want to help us help veterans, please consider participating. Email Davida Carnahan at darportstjoe@gmail.com and she will arrange to get some tickets to you. Drawing will be Veterans Day, Nov. 11. The St. Joseph Chapter of DAR meets once a month, and we invite anyone who is in DAR and moved here, or who can trace their ancestry back to the Revolutionary War, to join us. For more information about the St. Joseph Bay Chapter, email darportstjoe@gmail.com. To learn more about the DAR, visit dar.org.
Meet the Editor
David Adlerstein, The Apalachicola Times’ digital editor, started with the news outlet in January 2002 as a reporter.
Prior to then, David Adlerstein began as a newspaperman with a small Boston weekly, after graduating magna cum laude from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. He later edited the weekly Bellville Times, and as business reporter for the daily Marion Star, both not far from his hometown of Columbus, Ohio.
In 1995, he moved to South Florida, and worked as a business reporter and editor of Medical Business newspaper. In Jan. 2002, he began with the Apalachicola Times, first as reporter and later as editor, and in Oct. 2020, also began editing the Port St. Joe Star.