coming i'm so very happy to have you here with me today and as we prepare ourselves for the one hundred years of newtown and you have a collective of photographs of persons that we grew up knowing in the last seventy as so years just how are we going to present seen some ups and downs and i've seen some positives and i've seen some negatives so i like to talk about a lot of the positives and hopefully in the in the future we'll be able to correct the negatives to make them  those individuals who are well into the ninety's in that we still have even older to get the story of newtown how we come in with that oh i think we the take so we are still in the process of documented a lot of the scenes and to get the true history of that community and getting from the people that live that history and we are fortunate to players like son copeland new all of those for assumes that we see in some of the pictures that you brought with this huge again and can describe them and the play that they made so what other activities i know that you were talking of the taste of nutella and the event that you put on several years ago that was very very very good with both talent and food stuffs here we are in the process of doing the taste a new town again it was such a success when we done it about two years ago in fact we had entertainment we had vendors on the street in fact we had over fifty vendors on the street and the beautiful part about the taste of new town we were able to include sorry sort of people from other parts of this community as sarasota had the experience of sharing food in our history of our community and one of the things that i've always kind of advocated for the newtown community has been a diverse community where people from every part of life feeling comfortable and free to come into their community because everything kind of spins around that economic foundation when people be able to come into community and i know that there are many families here when i think of the waters and others that my family worked with and worked for through this time that have stories that would also be beneficial to this history it's more than just a a black story our story is a one that that bears the inclusiveness of this intere sarasota county so i totally agree because it's not just the history of the community it's a lot of the back stories of the community there was a lot of people that necessarily was part of the  visual history but they were contributors to that community to help the community to prosper because during the period that the late forty's and the fifty's in the sixty's that was a very prosperous community we had over seventy businesses in that community and they were successful i mean you know we will agree and one of the things when we say this is that many of the persons who came to they were valets made chauffeurs that lived in the properties of the person that they work for who came to this area during the season and changed this quaint quiet village live here but built quite a residence for others jimmy carter and his wife and others who came to this area and stayed we have the period of our history circus we have so very very much of the fabric making of this community that should be shared by all during this year's celebration and  we're asking those persons to outside of the newtown community who have photos of things that took place during this time to please come and feel  sarasota where you are coordinating the stories the pictures and preparing the landscape for this year of celebration definitely let's go you know and you mentioned the pits and a lot of the people that came here and during the seventy's and we had the first wave of african americans was able to retire that came to sarasota and that was very important because they brought a skill level that really raised the community to another level and they became very active in the community and still are and and really you still have a very large pool of african americans are coming to sarasota and involved in a lot of the activities in the newtown community has been a very positive and contributing to the welfare of the community and some of them a second generation many of the people here who can give an oral history of what newtown was and what newtown yet is and what newtown will get in the future you national fame you know that was born here in this community here so we just have so much history you know from from that newtown community that need to be shared with the world and i am one of those that feel that that important i think that the sooner this story gets out that it or it will be for all understanding what we have in town so we have so much here to bring about in this coming year i'm looking forward to those times when we can get together i know that as you go about your meetings community members are asked to come be a part bring you photos they will be scanned at the greater newtown redevelopment corporation collage is a being made you have an oral history being done and those i don't know just how deep we're going yet but there's still a lot of history within the  its residents of this historical point and time in our history and invite you to yet again join me the next time for the very next commissioners cooler until