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North StreetLakeland (FL) 1914 To-my-Sweetheart (Dedicated to Marguerite.)now my wife God’s truest artist wrought your formWith subtle graces in its curves,And strength and beauty to adornA Goddess such as you deserveTo make you divine, “My Sweetheart.” Your guardian angel at your birth, Brought down from out the skies Two wide blue townships in the earth,…
Below follows an article written by my grandmother, Mary Vogt Duval. I never new I had ancestors from Hamilton, Ontario! A kind, loving, thoughtful, caring lady with a wonderfulsense of humor are the words to describe our grandmother, allfive feet, three inches of her. She was a brunette with veryfair skin and bright, clear blue eyes,…
How fitting it is, after so many years, for our families to meet hereduring Dunnellon’s celebration of its past, to which our Vogt family mademajor contributions. How important is our history to us? The followingquotations put this question in good perspective: “Let the dead past bury its dead”,Longfellow wrote. That’s bad advicebased on bad information. The Pastis not dead. Another…
I don’t know whether to call this a plaque or a surfing tray, but this hung in my grandparents house for many years. I can see at the bottom of the artist is named H. Wein and the inscription says: Mr. and Mrs. William Vassie Vogt request the honor of your presence at the marriage…
Copy ofNewspaper Clipping, dated June 28, 1889 LIFE IN FLORIDA by ALBERTUS VOGT THE WITHLACOOCHEE “The water-lily dips its vase of snowOn many a shallow cove along whose graceful edge the purple flowers grow And dappled river beds and tufted sedge,And in the stream beneath their image liesMirrored like beauty in a lover’s eyes.” Almost immediately on…