Cookie House marks Englewood history
SUN PHOTO BY STEVE REILLY, reilly@sun-herald.com
Charlotte County historian Linda Roberts shares the history of the Cookie House, now located at Cedar Point Environmental Park. The structure is the only surviving building from the historic Bass Biological Laboratory.
SUN PHOTO BY STEVE REILLY, reilly@sun-herald.com
Grove City resident Kathy Schley photographs the unique "stove wood" wall of the historic Cookie House at Cedar Point Environmental Park Tuesday.
SUN PHOTO BY STEVE REILLY, reilly@sun-herald.com
More than 70 people turned out Tuesday to learn more about the Cookie House at Cedar Point Environmental Park, and its original home at the Bass Marine Laboratory. The house was opened to the public for the 11th Annual Lemon Bay Fest.
ENGLEWOOD — A standing-room-only crowd of 70-plus proved Tuesday at Cedar Point Environmental Park that local residents have a real hunger for the history of the Cookie House and the Bass Biological Lab.
They listened as Mote Marine Laboratory archivist Erin Mahaney and John Bass IV recounted the history of Bass Lab, once located on New Comfort Road. The talk was a program of the 11th Annual Lemon Bay Fest — History With Zest.