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Sarasota News Leader May 3, 2013 Page 75 ories of life in this city that she has seen trans- my) to fish off its dock. He would come home from work and pick her up first. "I was the formed over the decades. official bait-getter," she adds. "I lived at the edge of the sea [as a child]," she says. The waterfront was only about 30 feet in "I was allowed to scamper down and scare the front of her home, The Halton, on Gulfstream [smaller] fish into the net," Stieff continues. Then those fish were used for bait. "In those Avenue. days, there were a lot of fish in the bay," she "That end of town was my playground," she points out. adds. Her dad's favorite was red fish. And while her Like her dad, she loved to fish. "In those days, mother "loved fish," Stieff points out, "she you could just lean over and pick a big snail didn't like 'em five days a week," nor did she off the [sea] wall," put it on a hook, "and you enjoy having to clean them. were good for the morning." Stieff recalls her mother standing on the back In the summers, Stieff continues, her father porch as Stieff and her dad were leaving, with had permission from what was then The Out- Vernona calling out to them, "Don't bring of-Door School (now The Out-of-Door Acade- home any fish!" The Burns' home, The Halton, in the 1910s. Photo courtesy Sarasota County Department of Historical Resources