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Folk Lore, Pioneers, Stories, and Memories

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Town Times Features:

Short stories selected for Town Times editions

The Ancient Indians: exerpted from a submission by Richard Procyk

Folk-Lore:

A group of colorful stories

Prohibition in Jupiter: A short story about Al Capone
Ashley Gang and Frontier Justice: the Jesse James of Florida
Early 1970's - A candid story about early Jupiter
Unlikely Friends - Trapper Nelson and Judge Chillingsworth
What's in a Name?
The Story of Jupiter and its Neighbors
Did You Know?

Police Stories:

Shared by active and retired Jupiter police officers

Major E. K. Humphrey: A true hero who died in the line of duty
Florida Panther Patrols Jupiter Park of Commerce
K-9 Lion?
Pursuit in Salhaven
Collision in Chief's Police Unit
History of the Jupiter Police Cadets (Explorer Post 712)
Jupiter Police Cadet gets English Welcome.
Jr. Police Cadet Program begins 1972

Memories:

As shared by some Jupiter Pioneers

H. D. (Eddie) Bivens: Remembering Jupiter
Bob "Nik" Nahikian: Jupiter and Jupiter Again - USCG LorSta Jupiter, FL December 1971
Wilson Horne: My Supernatural Jupiter Experience - Presented at the Pioneer Coffee on 27 Apr 2005
Kelly Oglesby: Remembered by Wilson Horne - Presented at the Pioneer Coffee on 28 Apr 2004
Edward Moseley: Jupiter High School's first football team - submitted Historical Document on-line
Early Jupiter memories by David Rousseau
Trapper Nelson, A Remembrance by James Carr

Pioneer Stories:

Stories of local Pioneers and their families.

Archaeologist shows proof of early explorers at Dubois Park
Charles H. Coe (Historian, Author, Entrepreneur, Newspaper man, Photographer and much more)
Dora Doster Utz (with permission of Historical Association of South Florida)
Roy S. Rood
A Tribute to the Rood Family a story by Betty Bush Beacon News 1966
W. H. Gleason

Town tid-bits:

Information you want to know about Jupiter.