September 13, 2024 - 6:30 pm -8:30 pm
The Beaches Museum will host its 44th gala Beach Legends on Friday, September 13, 2024, at the TPC Sawgrass clubhouse. Recognizing that tomorrow’s history is being made today, the highlight of the evening is our annual awards presentation honoring well-known, contemporary individuals as Beach Legends.
These Legends have made and continue to make significant contributions to the history of Mayport, Atlantic Beach, Neptune Beach, Jacksonville Beach, Ponte Vedra Beach and Palm Valley.
The fun begins at 6:30 P.M. with cocktail hour and silent auction, followed by a seated dinner to recognize our 2024 honorees as well as to conduct our live auction. This annual gala is our largest fundraising event. We need your sponsorship to ensure the success of this year’s gala! Proceeds will go toward the Museum’s educational programs and operational needs.
Since our first meeting on February 22, 1978, the Beaches Museum has worked to ensure that we “build a future for our past,” thanks to the support of individuals and organizations, including you! We would deeply appreciate your generosity to help us fulfill our mission.
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MEET THE HONOREES
The Adeeb Family: For generations, the name Adeeb has been synonymous with great food and hospitality. The Adeeb family has left its imprint on our region’s restaurant business, and now they’ve brought this family tradition to states as far away as Colorado! Growing from a single Green Turtle restaurant started by Joe Adeeb in 1947, and later opening the iconic Joe Adeeb’s Sea Turtle restaurant in Atlantic Beach, the family today operates twenty Bono’s Pit Bar-B-Q restaurant franchises, seventeen Willie Jewell’s Old School Bar-B-Q restaurants, four locations of Beach Diners, and a Strings Brewery (with another on the way). Plus new concept restaurants in NC, Colorado and Georgia. Generations of diners have enjoyed what one man started and his family built upon with hard work, commitment to quality, and deep ties to the local community. A remarkable recipe for success for this family of Beach Legends.
Mitch Kaufmann: By turns a historian, documentarian, and leader of the Beaches surfing scene, Mitch Kaufmann has turned his passion into a mission. With his camera he’s documented our surfing heroes, and with his passion he’s promoted, taught, and shared the sport of surfing. Mitch Kaufmann has contributed to the local and national surf and skate culture as a surf contest director, filmmaker, and promoter of life in the water. From his Radical Side TV series to running the Eastern Surfing Association, and even curating an exhibit on female surfers at the Beaches Museum, Mitch has lived the life of a Beach Legend.
Lori Moffett: Some issues affecting the Beaches community seem so overwhelming that we can only shake our heads. Then there are people like Lori Moffett who not only recognizes the need but works tirelessly to correct it. As the founder of the non-profit, Save Ponte Vedra Beach, Lori has lobbied state and local officials, addressed community groups, and written countless letters, all in an effort to save Ponte Vedra Beach from the devastating effects of tropical hurricanes. Under her leadership, the Save Ponte Vedra Beach organization helped secure the necessary funding for dune rebuilding and beach renourishment to preserve the future of the Ponte Vedra Beach coastline.
