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The devil’s in the details. So’s the duck. Hammock resident Bart LaRose can spend 300 hours carving life-like birds out of wood. PAGE 4
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Q&A WITH STEPHEN SCHOEMBS So where does a world-traveled chef go to eat? “I like local, off-the-beaten-path places. I love street vendors and mom-and-pop places. I think you get a real sense of where you are. In Thailand and the Philippines, you can go to their seafood market, buy fish and right across the street you can have it cooked for you.” What restaurants are on your bucket list? “I really want to go to the French Laundry in Napa, and Nobu.” What is the ultimate bucket list restaurant? Sukiyabashi Jiro, a 10-seat, sushi-only restaurant located in a Tokyo subway station. “He is a master at his craft and guides you through the meal.” What is the best meal you have ever had? L’Atelier in Vegas, Joel Robuchon Photo by Jacque Estes
Stephen Schoembs grew up in Flagler and has come home to be the executive chef for Hammock Dunes.
Stephen Schoembs has worked in Flagler County restaurants since he was 13. JACQUE ESTES COMMUNITY EDITOR
When Stephen Schoembs was 6 years old, his parents moved from New York to Flagler County. He remembers the ferry that traveled between the welcome center and the barrier island, and he remembers the Sheraton, located where he is now the executive chef: Hammock Dunes Country Club. “I tell people I am so old that I went to Buddy Taylor Middle School when Buddy Taylor was the principal,” Schoembs said. (At that time it was Belle Terre Middle School and renamed for Buddy
Taylor after his death.) Schoembs returned to Flagler earlier this summer, to visit his mother. While he was on vacation, he was considering two job offers, one in Dubai and the other in Nairobi. Lucky for the diners at the country club, a third option developed as executive chef at their country club, and the last week of July he officially came home to work. He inherited his love of cooking. His parents owned a gourmet deli in West New York, before they moved their family to Florida and opened Boppers in Daytona Beach. His father was also one of a group who opened the Denny’s in Palm Coast, and it was there that Schoembs started his first paying job: washing dishes. “I graduated from FPC and
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went to Daytona State and then the Culinary School of America in New York,” Schoembs said. “I had an internship with Roger Verget in a small town above Cannes in France.” He has cooked his way around the world, including Germany, Hawaii, Saudi Arabia, and of course, Flagler Beach. “I started a catering company with Bug Mahoney who owned Market Place Deli, and worked at Canatella’s and Hammock Beach.” Schoembs began his job at Hammock Dunes the last week in July and has already started updating menus, and in September planned to introduce a special event, “Cooking with Chef Steve.” “It’s a cooking class where we
show them how to prepare three courses and then they get to eat it,” he said. “We want to do fun dining, we want to create a fun experience and for everyone to have a good time.” Fresh food attractively presented is a goal for Schoembs and his staff. “I am really blessed with the fact that my staff is so eager to learn and see new things. They enjoy coming to work every day, and that makes it exciting for me too.” Fresh food from local sources is important to Schoembs. “Most of our seafood is locally sourced out of Jacksonville and Orlando,” Schoembs said. “Our goal is to eventually become as organic and farm-to-table as possible.”
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Bart LaRose works on a Steller’s eider drake in his home shop.
A Steller’s eider drake sits quietly in Bart LaRose’s workshop. It can’t make noise — it doesn’t have a head. LaRose hasn’t carved it yet. Throughout the LaRose home there is a bird sanctuary of sorts. Ducks are perched on shelves – one is stretching a leg out from under ruffled feathers. A pileated woodpecker is poised to drill a hole in a tree branch in the kitchen, and a bluebird and cardinal quietly watch the household from a bookshelf. “Everybody seems to like the pileated woodpecker,” LaRose said. “To me it’s just a black bird. It’s whatever people relate to.” The birds are all very different, but all have one with thing in common – they are made of wood painstakingly carved by LaRose. Feathers aren’t just painted on as they would be for a decoy; they are individually crafted, painted and layered. Real birds have more than one feather texture from the down (closest to their skin), to flight wings, and tail feathers — and so do LaRose’s creations. The retired production man-
ager from the ladies garment district in New York City carved his first duck in 1996. “I’ve been building things all of my life,” LaRose said gesturing to a wooden ship in the dining room. “I got into this because I got tired of building and flying model airplanes.” LaRose has learned his craft through research and magazines, and guidance from fellow carver and neighbor, Bob Roberts. “I use a combination of patterns and pictures,” he said. “I go online.” When asked how many birds he has carved, he says, “Lots.” He doesn’t actively sell his creations, but does have a website and has created birds on commission. He made one of his smaller birds for a silent auction to benefit The First Tee fundraiser for Flagler Palm Coast High School. His largest project was a halfsized bald eagle, commissioned by a man who initially asked for a full-size eagle to be carved. Even the half-size eagle, which was created from an 8-by-8-by-22inch piece of wood was 20 inches tall and very life-like when it was completed. While he orders the basswood
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or tupelo wood he uses to carve his birds, the material for the stands some birds are displayed on is often as close as his own backyard. “The stands often come from branches that have fallen from my trees,” he said. “I try to pick pieces that match the bird.” His current project, the Steller’s eider drake will take about 300 hours to complete. “I usually work a couple of hours a day, because I play tennis and golf, and tend the garden,” LaRose said. “In the afternoon, before dinner I usually have time to sit down and do a little. I’m not in a hurry, because I am running out of space.”
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MUSIC IN A CIGAR BOX Orthopedic surgeon, cigar box guitar and ukulele maker, and performer — this Hammock Dunes resident seems to do it all. JACQUE ESTES COMMUNITY EDITOR
It started a couple of years ago, almost as a dare. Dempsey Springfield was in New Smyrna Beach with his wife and one of his brothers, when his wife spotted two cigar boxes in the trash. “I said, ‘You know you can make guitars out of those,’” Springfield said. They didn’t believe him, which left him only one choice: to prove them wrong. “I made a couple and then I got hooked,” Springfield said. “Now I have cigar boxes all over the place.” No two cigar boxes are alike. He picks up a wooden box with hinges that he has lacquered and electrified, and strums the three steel
strings. A rich melodic sound fills the room. “All are a little bit different; some are cardboard, others wood, and it depends on the size of the cigar box,” he said. “I make mainly three-string as opposed to the regular guitar which is sixstring.” He also made a four-string ukulele for his sister-in-law, Patty. “I give them a lot as gifts,” Springfield said. “I will have to get rid of some before I make any more. I have a little stash down stairs.” The boxes come from a variety of sources, including family and friends. One of his favorite places to buy the boxes is a cigar store in St. Augustine. “Every tobacco store has cigar boxes for sale,” he said. “The real-
ly nice ones are sent back to the (cigar) company. There’s a little tobacco shop in St. Augustine owned by a husband and wife, and they send the money they get for the cigar boxes to a school in Honduras.” The leftover bones from a roast beef dinner at a restaurant are dried and bleached and used for the bridge and nut of the instrument. “Real guitars use bone; it’s the best material,” he said. “I add frets on mine. Some people don’t; they play it with a slide.” Springfield likes to experiment with his music and creations. He had made single-string guitars out of cans, but his wife said they were too ugly to be shown. On a vacation to Hawaii he discovered a stick bass, a single-string electric instrument that produces a rich sound. The retired orthopedic surgeon has taken his love of music, although not the cigar box guitars, to the stage, playing in Hogtown Creek, a band made up of his family: his brothers and sisterin-law. Growing up in Gainesville, the group was named for the Hogtown Creek, which was near where the family lived. Hogtown Creek performed at the 450th anniversary of St. Augustine, First Fridays in St. Augustine and the Barberville
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Since 1981, Hammock Hardware has carried everything imaginable for the “honey-do” list — including the honey: Mason jars of local honey line the shelves behind the front counter. “We sat around one night, after living here for three years, and asked ourselves, ‘What does The Hammock need?’” Margaret Russell said. The answer was a hardware store. In the 1980s there were no big box stores, and only a Jiffy gas station and convenience store and the Delores Motel in The Hammock. John and Margaret Russell both grew up in Daytona Beach. When they moved to The Hammock, they not only found a place to raise their children and start a nostalgic hardware store, they also found their roots. BEFORE ITT ...
“I was a member of the DAR and brought John’s sister into the DAR,” Margaret Russell said. “She started researching the Russells.” They discovered that they were related to another John Russell who owned much of what is now Flagler County and sold some of the land to John Bulow. “She had it proven through DNA that they are related,” Mar-
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Alexander Russell, Tinsley, Robin Jennings, John and Margaret Russell, inside Hammock Hardware.
when a French Canadian visitor came into the shop in the 1980s. “I could hardly understand a word he said,” Margaret Russell recalled. “But I finally figured out that he needed a wire for a toaster, the heater wire. I saw one and pulled it out and sold it to him. Never had another request for one.” John Russell knew exactly where that piece had come from. “We bought that piece six weeks earlier in Georgia, in a basement sale,” he said. “I thought, ‘We’ll never sell it,’ but it was cheap.” The store has had a few wouldbe burglars in its day. “When Bennett was sheriff, a guy broke the window by the cash register. We had an intercom system then so we heard it and called 9-1-1,” Margaret Russell said.
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“That guy literally jumped out of his shoes and ran away. John wore his shoes for months.” The Russells don’t rely on an intercom system anymore; they have several cameras inside and outside the store. “In the last couple of years, quite often the sheriff’s officers will come by to see if a vehicle passed by here. We have a good view of the road,” John Russell said.
WHAT’S A MOTTO WITH YOU? The couple gave different answers when asked what the store motto would be. “Our motto has always been, ‘If we don’t have it, you don’t need it,’” John Russell said. “‘If we don’t have it, we will get it for you,’” Margaret Russell responded.
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house in Island Estates was the top real estate sales transaction in Hammock Beach for the past two months. Joseph and Carolyn Lee, of Palm Coast, sold 130 Island Estates Parkway to Samuel and Denise Jenkins, of Stuart, for $1,380,000. Built in 2000, the house has four bedrooms, four baths, three halfbaths, a boat house, boat dock, swimming pool, fireplace and 6,048 square feet. It sold in 2009 for $2,400,000.
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The top-selling house has four bathrooms and three half-baths.
Hammock Dunes Robert and Brenda Haley, of McKinney, Texas, sold 9 Montilla Place to Timothy and Eileen McClean, of Deerfield, Illinois, for $560,000. Built in 2000, the house has four bedrooms, four baths and 4,044 square feet.
Frank and Louise Paratore, of Palm Coast, sold 14 Via Roma to Doug and Claire Egem, of Palm Coast, for $425,000. Built in 1991, the house has three bedrooms, 2.5 baths, a fireplace, swimming pool and 2,662 square feet. It sold in 2005 for $480,000.
Andrew and Isabel Sheeter, of Windemere, sold 554 Cinnamon Beach Lane to Richard Dees III, of Miami, for $790,000. Built in 2012, the house has four bedrooms, 3.5 baths, a fireplace, swimming pool, elevator and 3,418 square feet.
William and Ronnie Puckhaber, of Granite Springs, New York, sold 24 Marbella Court to Troy and Pakchira Shearouse, of Palm Coast, for $427,500. Built in 1995, the house has three bedrooms, three baths, two half-baths, swimming pool, fireplace and 2,648 square feet. It sold in 1995 for $365,500.
Ocean Hammock Bank of America sold 34 Ocean Ridge Blvd. N. to Sam Silverberg, of Palm Coast, for $1,200,050. Built in 2001, the house has five bedrooms, 5.5 baths, a swimming pool, shared dune walk and 5,477 square feet. It sold 2007 for $2,300,000.
Louis and Corina Hatzis, of Troy, Michigan, sold 5 Driftwood Lane to Raymond Peter and Kathryn Tiero-Peter, of Palm Coast, for $480,000. Built in 2002, the house has four bedrooms, three baths, a fireplace and 2,969 square feet. It sold in 2010 for $575,000.
Preferred Management Services, Inc. (PMSI) announced the hiring of Mary McGowan as the administrative assistant to the onsite community association manager of LaGrande Provence, located within the Hammock Dunes. LaGrande Provence includes 92 oceanfront condominiums. “Mary’s level of professionalism and attention to detail are a perfect fit for this position,” PMSI President Lea Stokes said. “She offers excellent organizational, administrative and interpersonal skills.” Working closely with Karen Hopkins, the licensed community association manager at LaGrande Provence Condominium Association, McGowan will assist with overseeing the day to day operation of the property. This includes supervising property appearances, attending board meetings and performing administrative duties for the site manager.
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