From the archives: This Week in History

March 7, 1974
Frank Hopper, an internationally renowned artist, moved into a home on Whitehall Road with his wife, Marjorie. They remodeled part of the home to make room for a studio. Hopper rented a small space in Siesta Key Village to work on a mural of an Andorran landscape — a small town between France and Spain.

FUN FACT
Hopper painted a portrait of Richard Nixon, commissioned by an Illinois committee to re-elect him, and the painting hung in the White House.

March 7, 1996
The Sarasota Model Yacht Club held its inaugural regatta at Twin Lakes. Twenty-one sailboats started the race, however, only 15 made it to the finish line. A few of the remote-controlled boats broke down. The founder of the club, Milton Thrasher, said several boats suffered from mismasting and “other carnage on the race course.”

March 3, 1983
This cartoon ran in the editorial page of the Pelican Press. The driver is stuck at the stoplight at the intersection of Stickney Point Road and U.S. 41 because of a high volume of traffic.
This heavily trafficked intersection is still a contentious issue today, more than 30 years later.