THE STORTER COLLECTION

"History Through Folk Art"

Rob Storter (1894-1987) was a son of Robert Bembery Storter, one of the early settlers in the village of Everglade. As a child, Rob sailed with his father to Key West to sell produce and buy supplies. As an adult, he fished commercially and guided sportsmen.

Rob was a talented artist and enjoyed sketching pictures of the places he knew. He annotated them with little stories, often bemoaning the natural wilderness that had been lost to development. He also carved and made wooden models.

His memoirs were captured by his grandaughter in a popular book "Crackers in the Glade", published in 2000.

A collection of over 300 of Rob's sketches and artifacts was acquired in 2004 by the Friends who loaned some of the items for traveling exhibits to the Bonita Springs Historical Society and the Historical Museum of Southern Florida.

The Friends donated the Storter Collection to Collier County Museums in 2007.