Sebring’s historian moving to California

As Carole Goad heads to California she will be remembered as the friendly and most helpful people-per- son who worked for the Sebring Historical Society and Highlands News-Sun.

Goad was born in Albion, Mich. where she grew up. She and her husband, Bill, moved to Florida in 1979 and to Sebring in 2001. Starting in 2002, she worked as an archivist and manager at the Se- bring Historical Society for 14 years. During that time, she served as writer and editor of the quarterly historical journal, “The Historian,” and wrote the majority of the Sebring Centennial Book, “The 100 Years of Sebring.”

“I met a lot of interesting people,” she said. “When you work like that in a place like that and you get to talking to people you find out that you’ve got connections all over the place. It was just amazing.

“A lot of times I was privileged to do special things for people,” Goad said.

One day a woman who was quite well known in Sebring came in. She never knew who her real father was. The woman provided some information that proved to be enough for Goad to start looking up things.

“Just based on what she told me, what her mother told her, I came up with a name and address right here in town,” Goad said.

About a week or two later, the woman came back to see Goad at the Historical Society.