Attending anything where Dr. Paul George is speaking is always a tremendous pleasure, but last night’s Sip of Science on the Miami Science Barge was particularly fun and informative. Dr. George (mostly) limited his talk to the history of the Biscayne Bay area of Downtown Miami and Brickell with riveting stories of the famous and […]
National Park Service is 100 Years Old Today
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there is hereby created in the Department of the Interior a service to be called the National Park Service… 100 years ago today the National Park Service was born. The new federal bureau took over the […]
Happy Birthday to Virginia Key Beach Park
On this day in 1945, Virginia Key Beach was established as a “colored-only” beach in response to growing pressures against the “whites-only” policies at the rest of South Florida’s beaches. Local businessmen and government officials had privately conceded something had to be done about the race problem. The economy was – and is – heavily reliant upon […]
Happy 120th Birthday Miami!
The City of Miami is still a youngster as cities go. Saint Augustine, a little over 300 miles up the Florida east coast, for instance, was officially founded in 1565 and is the oldest continuously settled city in the United States. But as Dr. Paul George writes for HistoryMiami: Few cities of such youth can […]
Ransom Everglades Buys La Brisa For $34.6 Million
Coconut Grove’s Ransom Everglades has purchased its neighbor property, La Brisa, for $36.6 million. “We can’t pass up the opportunity to buy this beautiful property,” said Ransom Everglades Head of School Penny Townsend. “The purchase will allow us to improve our facilities, add vital greenspace and continue our long tradition of respecting, protecting and learning from […]
The Little House That Marjory Built
Tomorrow, April 7, is Marjory Stoneman Douglas’ birthday. In a lot of ways, she is my idol – conservationist, writer, feminist, activist for environmentally sustainable urban planning and civil rights. She is perhaps best known for her 1947 book The Everglades: River of Grass and her tireless preservation work for the Everglades. Throughout most of her […]