Flashback

Photo: Bird Key Yacht Club, 1960

Joseph Janney Steinmetz captures the tropical midcentury glamour of the club, which was founded in 1959.

11/01/2026 By Megan McDonald

The Women Behind the Art

The Untold Stories of Sarasota's Women Artists

From the earliest days of Sarasota’s vaunted arts history, women were painting, drawing, sculpting and otherwise creating.

07/01/2026 By Kay Kipling

Flashback

Photo: Sarasota Sun-Debs, 1949

Photographer Joseph Janney Steinmetz captured this scene that year, which shows a ballet instructor giving the Sun-Debs a movement lesson on the sunny shores of Lido Beach.

07/03/2025 By Megan McDonald

Flashback

Photo: Renowned Clown Emmett Kelly as 'Weary Willie,' Circa 1955

Who remembers this iconic photo?

06/23/2023 By Bethany Ritz

Flashback

Photo: An Aerial View of the John Ringling Causeway, 1946

A look back on a bridge that changed Sarasota's keys—and has been rebuilt twice since its first construction in 1926.

06/09/2023 By Bethany Ritz