Welcome to another edition of HMM on Demand. October is American Archives Month, and we have a special virtual tour of our Archives and Research Center for you to enjoy! Also, we have an amazing lineup of virtual programs that you won't want to miss. Check them out later in this newsletter.
Have a great weekend!
HistoryMiami Museum
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Urban Tranquility: Photographs by C.W. Griffin
HistoryMiami Virtual Opening
HistoryMiami Museum hosted a virtual opening reception on December 2, featuring interviews with photographer C.W. Griffin and curator Carl Juste. Missed our Facebook Live? Watch it here!
Read This:
Miami's Christmastime Fire of 1896
In the early morning hours of December 26, 1896, a fire broke out at E.L. Brady’s store, a purveyor of groceries, grain, hay and garden seed, located on the northwest corner of Avenue D and 14th Street, today’s South Miami Avenue and Second Street. Read about how this fire affected the lives of impacted this neighborhood and its inhabitants. Read
Here's some more interesting reads:
- Greater Miami & World War II → Read
- Without Everyone's Voice, History is an Incomplete Story → Read
- The Drake Lumber Company → Part II
- The Life and Death of the "Gulfstream Pirate" → Part I | Part II
- A Big Fish Story → Part I | Part II
- Roddey Burdine, "Merchant Prince, Civic Leader → Part I | Part II
- Miami's Jesuit Missions → Read
- Al Capone and Greater Miami → Part I | Part II
- Smith's Casino: Miami Beach's First Tourist Facility → Part I
Miami Stories: Story of the Week
"My mother fled Cuba in 1969 when she was 19 with her sister and my grandmother; my grandfather, a political prisoner, joined them five years later. She met my father after he arrived here in 1979, after 20 years as a political prisoner in Cuba. I belonged to two worlds. I was an American, but at the same time, I was Cuban. I didn’t quite fit either group. In many ways, my story is the story of the city in which I was born: Hialeah is part of South Florida; yet, it feels totally different from Tallahassee, or Tampa, or Titusville, and worlds away from “the South."" - Neyda Borges
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