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Sarasota News Leader February 8, 2013 Page 59 ARTS/CRAFTS/AUTHORS EVENT PLANNED FOR FARMHOUSE MARKET On Wednesday, Feb. 13, the Farmhouse at Phillippi Estate Park will host the Arts/Crafts and Authors Event, featuring more than 25 artisans and authors to satisfy every person's desire for one-of-a-kind items, event organizers have announced. People will be able to choose from a wide selection of books, for every age level by local authors, many of whom will be on hand for autographing their work, a news release says. The Sarasota Humane Society also will be on site "with adorable adoptable pets and a Smooch a Pooch Booth!" the release notes. Additionally, Theresa Wilcox from Soho Downtown hair salon will be on hand to snip braids at least 10 inches long and pony tails to donate to Locks of Love. The Market, which is open every Wednesday at 5500 S. Tamiami Trail in Sarasota, runs from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. It regularly features 50 vendors who sell locally grown produce, seafood, breads and pastries, oils, soaps and craft creations of all kinds, and it offers music and free parking. For details, visit www.farmhousemarket.org. LEARN HOW SARASOTA BECAME A REAL ESTATE DESTINATION Sarasota officially became a real estate destination in 1885 when 60 men, women and children from Scotland (called the Ormiston Colony), who had purchased land in the area from the Edinburgh-based Florida Mortgage and Investment Co., arrived on an uncharacteristically chilly December day at what is now lower Main Street. "They were mightily unimpressed with the mud and wood huts they saw. They thought they were coming to sunny Florida to become gentlemen farmers. Then it snowed," a Historical Society of Sarasota County news release says. The discussion will be about "those who were deceived by promises of paradise but also about key developers and visionaries who created a specific kind of paradise," the release notes. The event is free to Historical Society members and $10 for members of the general public. The moderator of the panel will be Bob Plunket, who has been writing about Sarasota's people and places for more than 30 years. His articles appear regularly in Sarasota Magazine, plus national publications such as BarWant to know what happened next? Then be ron's. For several years he also appeared on sure to be in the audience at the Crocker Me- ABC 7 as The Real Estate Junkie, the release morial Church (1260 12th St., Pioneer Park, notes. Sarasota) on Tuesday, Feb. 12, at 7 p.m. "for "After owning eight different houses in Saraan entertaining and illuminating panel dis- sota over the years," he says in the release, cussion called Pay Dirt: How Sarasota Be- "I'm as obsessed as ever about all the amazing came a Real Estate Destination," the release places you can own, rent, and be foreclosed points out. in." Joining him will be author/historian Jeff