Tequesta : Number - 50/1990 - FIU Digital Collections

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14 TEQUESTA wouldn't know what he was looking at. No, you can't buy a true palmetto green in a paint store. Decide on the brand of paint you're going to use and bring me a gallon - white. We'll start from there." The completed pond became a wildlife center. I bought fifty gallons of white paint, in five-gallon cans, and one five-gallon can of rich brown paint. I took a can of white to Bachelor, along with a palmetto frond. From a shelf of paint colors he found chrome yellow medium, ultramarine blue, and burnt umber. First he tinted a gallon of white paint, working in the yellow and blue that he had dissolved in a little turpentine. The result was a raw bright green. Then he added burnt umber, winding up with a gray-green tone that matched the color of the palmetto leaf I had brought. Satisfied, Bachelor tinted the remaining four gallons. I took the paint home and painted over the store-bought palmetto green. The new color went with our woods perfectly. We couldn't have been more pleased. Since I had my job to go to five days a week, Evelyn wound up doing most of the painting, especially the exterior walls, as well as the eaves and trim. Karl cleaned up about the premises, and on my days off he and
Pioneering in Suburbia 15 I hauled soil in a trailer from the swale to grade about the house. As the work was completed, Karl sprigged centipede grass. Despite the quantity of work, we found time to clear an area ofjumbee trees in the swale that fall and plant a garden, growing more tomatoes, pole beans, sweetcorn and other vegetables that we could eat or give away. Looking back, it seems like a lot of work, especially with my job as a reporter on The Herald and getting out a Sunday gardening section, but we were young, healthy and enthusiastic. Furnishing our new house was a major problem. We previously had lived in a much smaller place on Biscayne Drive. Our furniture hardly made a show when we moved into the larger house. Moreover we discovered that just any furniture wouldn't do. Danish style furniture fit well, but we couldn't afford it. We were several years furnishing the house in a way that pleased us. Much of the furniture we had specially made, at half the price of Danish. A few pieces we bought at the Ramble, an annual benefit sponsored by the Fairchild Tropical Garden Association. Well-to-do persons often used the Ramble to get rid of furniture they had tired of, or which was no longer stylish, so we picked up some good pieces at prices we could afford. One of our best breaks was in the acquiring of art. We already had bought several paintings by Jean Jacques Pfister, a Swiss artist, whose unsold works were liquidated by court order after his death in order to settle his estate. Piled unframed on tables in a dusty room in a Coconut Grove building, the paintings proved difficult to sell, and finally the prices were reduced to five dollars and less. It was the steal of a lifetime and very uncomplimentary to an able artist. The experience in buying these pictures I recount in On the Beat and Offbeat, as I do how we acquired a favorite painting by Beanie Backus. The Backus picture, of an old house in picturesque decay, hung unsold for several years in the artist's studio because it didn't "look" like a Backus. We acquired the painting in 1951. It occupied a prominent place in our living room during the twenty-six years we lived at Montgomery Drive. The development of the grounds was a never-ending job. Our basic landscape design was accomplished through the removal of unwanted palmettos and the preservation of palmetto islands. Much care had to be exercised, for once palmettos were removed they could not be replanted. Karl and I, sometimes with the help of John Wesley, a black man raised in the Georgia cotton belt, did most of the work with the aid of a grubbing hoe. Only once did we employ a small bulldozer, but the careless operator did so much damage to the pines that we were fearful
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LIST OF MEMBERS Members of the Hist
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