John Ehrenreich

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Pensacola Beach, Fla.

Since the spill, Ehrenreich has had a lot more time to read his favorite books, such as The Outline of History by H.G. Wells and Cosmos by Carl Sagan. It’s Friday night, there’s no one on his mini-golf course, and the parking lot is empty. He started Bonifay Water Sports in 1976 with one umbrella and a Jet Ski that nobody knew how to use. Later he added mini-golf, go-carts, and a snack bar. Ehrenreich believes that sooner or later people will come back. “It is the desire of boys to meet girls, and girls to meet boys,” he explains. “There’s always going to be need for a place like this.”