Fun and Games
If a holiday came, we’d ask everybody on the lake to go on a big schooner or whatever we were goin' on. What one did, they all did. We’d go up to the inlet to hunt bear. We came home one night, two or three bears on the deck. We kids would go bathing, y’know, and those things. We’d go down to the foot of the lake and go over to the beach there. Anything to go somewhere. Go up to Jupiter, where the lighthouse is. [T]hey were regular community picnics. And if there were any Indians here, we’d ask 'em to eat with us.
During the early years on Lake Worth, music often brought the small but growing community together, and many talented musicians were found among its population. The Dimick family, who arrived in 1876, brought the first organ, on which daughter Belle developed her skills. The Brelsford family entertained their neighbors on violin, cello, and piano, inspiring Charles Pierce and others.
Henry Sanders led and played tuba in the Lake Worth Coronet Band, which entertained both seasonal and year-round residents with weekly open-air concerts in City Park, West Palm Beach. A Professor Kaufmann also served as leader of the Lake Worth Band for many years and provided members with free musical training.