This painting by Karen Wood was part of Charlotte County's Centennial Art Show in 2021. 18 x 28 inches, oval. Oil on canvas. Chess and Pineapples on Charlotte Harbor brings together several themes from the first volume of Williams and Cleveland's Our Fascinating Past. Punta Gorda founding father Colonel Isaac Trabue, who bought 30 acres on the south shore of Charlotte Harbor and filed a town plat in 1885, recognized the agricultural potential of the area. He set aside Block 28 in trust for the growing of pineapples, lemons, oranges, and “other profitable fruits”—the profits of which would go toward the first and second place winners of an annual chess tournament. Trabue himself was an avid chess player and one of the most well-known photographs of him depicts Trabue and his wife Virginia playing chess in front of their cabin. The pineapple boom in 1902–1917 coincided with the beginning of the area's commercial fishing industry, in which Trabue also played a part. His construction of an ice factory in 1893, combined with a Florida Southern Railway terminal in Punta Gorda, allowed for the shipment of fresh fish and heralded the beginning of the modern fishing industry in what is now Charlotte County. Local artists were invited to submit original works of art to Charlotte County's Centennial Art Show. Pieces were based on the book 'Our Fascinating Past: Charlotte Harbor' by Lindsey Williams and U.S. Cleveland. Submissions were accepted in Fall 2020 and were displayed at the Mid-County Regional Library on February 27, 2021.