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Palms, and developing the area known as Albee-Nash subdivision.

The new house was in-tended for the family’s win-ter use. Albee’s practice was still in New York. People in the medical field and other elite visitors from across the eastern seaboard gathered at the Nokomis house for parties on its lawns. By 1921, Fred’s brother Stephen, moved with his wife, Isabel, and their son, Stephen Jr., from California, to help oversee the Albee holdings in the Venice area.

Dr. Albee’s nephew, Stephen Jr., attended Kentucky Military Institute and was developing an interest in flying. Dr. Albee paid for Stephen’s flying lessons and bought a

Stinson Reliant aircraft. In this town of about 500 people, Stephen Jr. and his best friend, James “Jimmy” Cousins (whose father served as mayor in 1944-45) started the Venice Flying Club. Its first president was James Darby. Other members included Elizabeth “Betty” Hauser Arnall (who would become the city’s first

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The entrance to the Venice Army Air Base, circa 1942.

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