We would love to hear your Miami Story, the tale of how your family found its way to South Florida.
Email your stories and photos to Neighbors@MiamiHerald.com. We'll post your stories on this page and print a sampling in Sunday's Neighbors. You'll find more Miami Stories on the Newsmakers program on Comcast Channel 29 and on WLRN/Herald Radio.
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ABOUT THIS PROJECTMiami Stories is part of Make Miami History Now, a project of the Historical Museum of South Florida and The Miami Herald, author/historian Arva Moore Parks, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, National Conference on Citizenship Chaiman Michael Weiser, and Comcast.
I was born in 1924 on Flagler Street and 57th Court. The house I was born in still stands.
My father was born in upstate New York in 1878. He went to school in New York, moved to Virginia, went to engineering school and then moved to Palatka, in northern Florida, in the early 1900s.
The list could go on forever: The Treniers, Pickin' Chicken, Sleepy Time Gal, Parhams, Club Calvert, Bible Joe, The Rockin' MB, Chary's, Silver Dollar Jake, Fun Fair, The Miami News, Embers, Riverside Military Academy, My Dad.
When Miami was known for drugs and violence, longtime residents envisioned a book fair uniting a disparate community.
Josie Smith came to Miami in 1925 from New York City. Today, she enjoys her life as a South Miami resident.
Angela Albaisa Santos came to the U.S. at 16 on a Pedro Pan flight. She's now a longtime South Florida resi...
My maternal grandfather, Henry E.S. Reeves, arrived in Miami in the spring of 1919 on his way to New York t...
Her family's journey from Cuba was a study in sacrifice but led to great opportunities for an educator.
In 1955, a 21-year-old Swiss woman, Margrith Lübke, traveled to North America to satisfy a childhood fantas...
Every day I wake up with a spirit of excitement and anticipation of what the day may bring, in large part b...
My maternal grandparents, Sam D. and Ida Ellen Roberts Johnson, were born in Harbour Island, Bahamas. It is...
Somewhere in the middle of 1951, my father, Cpl. Norman Segermeister, emerged from his commitment to the U....
For me, the most important journeys have led to South Florida. The journey that started in December 1959 in...
I was in the right place at the right time. I graduated from school with a business administration degree i...
One man made his rise and fall in the depths of Miami's bars, racetracks, restaurants and more
My father, Ernest Peyton Jones, worked for President Franklin D. Roosevelt as his campaign manager for the ...
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