Susan Salisbury
Special to the Daily News
Henry Morrison Flagler was a visionary, but even he probably could not have imagined what The Breakers, now a premier resort known worldwide, would become when he founded it 125 years ago.
Flagler, who made his fortune as a partner in the Standard Oil company and as a developer and railroad pioneer, opened the Palm Beach Inn on Jan. 16, 1896. It was the only oceanfront hotel south of Daytona Beach and attracted the famous people of its day including the Astors, Rockefellers, Carnegies and Vanderbilts.
Regular guests from his other nearby hotel, the 1,100-room Royal Poinciana, asked for rooms “down by the breakers.” When Flagler doubled the size of the inn for the 1901 season, he renamed the oceanfront resort The Breakers.
An amendment to the town s Planning and Zoning code, could make it easier for property owners to lease their underground parking spaces to other businesses.
Kim Frisbie
Special to the Daily News
Botanical subjects have long inspired artists, with illustrations of plants dating back to 1465 BC in ancient Egypt.
Specific plants used for medicinal purposes were compiled into herbals as early as 512 AD. John Gerard’s 1,484-page illustrated Herbal, or Generall Historie of Plantes, was first published in 1597 and was standard medicinal plant reference for more than a century.
In 1613, Basilius Besler, a noted apothecary and botanist in Nuremburg, Germany, published the incomparable
Florilegium: Hortus Eystettensis, compiling 373 full-color plates of more than 1,000 accurate illustrations of flowers into possibly the best record of plants grown in European gardens in the 16th century. Still regarded as one of the most important botanical books ever written, this was the first time flowering plants were portrayed as objects of beauty, changing the emphasis from medicinal herbs toward more aesthetic artistry.
Although the Tampa Bay Buccaneers will play in this year s Super Bowl on their home turf, the team’s ownership the Glazer family has deep ties on the opposite coast of Florida in Palm Beach.
With their 31-26 win Sunday over the Green Bay Packers, the Bucs will face the Kansas City Chiefs on Feb. 7 at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, the first time a Super Bowl team will compete on its home turf.
The Bucs last won the Super Bowl in 2003, eight years after the late billionaire Malcolm Glazer, the family’s patriarch, paid $192 million for the NFL franchise in Tampa. Along with serving as president and CEO of the Bucs, Glazer acquired England’s Manchester United soccer team by buying out its shareholders between 2003 and 2005.
Susan Salisbury
Special to the Daily News
With Palm Beach Mayor Gail Coniglio announcing Dec. 30 she will not be seeking a sixth term after serving as mayor since 2011, it’s time to look back at some of the people who occupied that office before her.
Coniglio is the 16th mayor of the town, which was incorporated in 1911. While the mayor only has the right to vote to break a tie vote on any ordinance, resolution or ordinance, the mayor also has veto powers. The mayor is recognized as the head of the town government for ceremonial and other purposes and acts as an ombudsman to investigate and report the residents’ concerns to the council.