Janie Gould

The Toni Robinson Waterfront Trail includes a "green edge" of mangroves lining the Indian River lagoon.

The Kennedy Bunker was built to accommodate President John F. Kennedy and his family and staff if they had been in Palm Beach during a nuclear attack.  The fallout shelter, buried 12 feet underground, was just minutes away from the Kennedy compound. It's on Peanut Island, near the Port of Palm Beach. 

Several years ago, three military veterans talked with Janie Gould about how close the world came to nuclear war in October 1962.

Judah & Sons is on the Indian River, which proprietor Bobby Judah says has changed dramatically since his father and grandfather started the business.  

One was expected to be dangerous, and did little damage locally; the other was unexpected, and did a great deal of damage. Warren Winchester, a former mayor of Vero Beach, remembers both.

A decorated soldier who fought in the Pacific during World War II, Hamner reminisced about the war in an interview with Janie Gould in 2010,  on the 65th anniversary of the war's end.  

The Captain Henry Sewall Home originally sat at water's edge, at the tip of Sewall's Point. Now at Martin County's Indian Riverside Park in Jensen Beach, it's being restored, with much of the original cypress and sturdy Dade County pine.  

But when Mary Owen moved to Vero Beach in the mid-1940s, she found locally grown onions that were almost as good as Vidalias.

The early attraction had alligators, monkeys and a large bear named Alice. Janice Johnson's father, Ivy Cato, took care of the park and the zoo animals.  

Leona Law Carlsward, who came to Vero Beach in a covered wagon in 1921, also hasn't forgotten her parents' advice about thrift.