http://www.miamiherald.com/miamihistory/index.html http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/miamihistory/index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2009 MiamiHerald.com Make Miami History Now 60 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:10:44 EST http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/miamihistory/story/1331006.html http://www.miamiherald.com/miamihistory/story/1331006.html Sun, 15 Nov 2009 09:36 EST 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/miamihistory/story/1319526.html http://www.miamiherald.com/miamihistory/story/1319526.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:56 EST In the early '80s, Miami had the national reputation of a cultural wasteland, fueled in large part by films and television shows that glamorized the local crime scene. http://www.miamiherald.com/miamihistory/story/1307689.html http://www.miamiherald.com/miamihistory/story/1307689.html Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:03 EST This is the story of Josephine Louise Carnevale Smith of South Miami, born in 1920 in New York, as told to her niece, Gina Guilford, of High Pines. http://www.miamiherald.com/miamihistory/story/1343257.html http://www.miamiherald.com/miamihistory/story/1343257.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:39 EST I was born in 1924 on Flagler Street and 57th Court. The house I was born in still stands. <p/> 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/miamihistory/story/1296266.html http://www.miamiherald.com/miamihistory/story/1296266.html Sun, 25 Oct 2009 12:38 EDT Angela Albaisa Santos came to the U.S. at 16 on a Pedro Pan flight. She's now a longtime South Florida resident. http://www.miamiherald.com/miamihistory/story/1287526.html http://www.miamiherald.com/miamihistory/story/1287526.html Sun, 18 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT My maternal grandfather, Henry E.S. Reeves, arrived in Miami in the spring of 1919 on his way to New York to purchase printing presses for a newspaper he intended to establish in theBahamas. While here, friends asked him to consider Miami as the site for his newspaper. http://www.miamiherald.com/miamihistory/story/1273876.html http://www.miamiherald.com/miamihistory/story/1273876.html Sun, 11 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT When I arrived in Miami in the early 1970s, I never could imagine that I would end up calling Miami home.<p/> Nor could I imagine that, years later, I would be one of eight individuals in this great nation tapped to create a new examination for immigrants applying to become U.S. citizens. http://www.miamiherald.com/miamihistory/story/1262531.html http://www.miamiherald.com/miamihistory/story/1262531.html Sun, 04 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT In 1955, a 21-year-old Swiss woman, Margrith Lübke, traveled to North America to satisfy a childhood fantasy of living and working in New York City. http://www.miamiherald.com/miamihistory/story/1250913.html http://www.miamiherald.com/miamihistory/story/1250913.html Sun, 27 Sep 2009 01:00 EDT Every day I wake up with a spirit of excitement and anticipation of what the day may bring, in large part because of the incredible community that has become my adopted home, Miami. http://www.miamiherald.com/miamihistory/story/1116433.html http://www.miamiherald.com/miamihistory/story/1116433.html Sun, 28 Jun 2009 03:01 EDT My maternal grandparents, Sam D. and Ida Ellen Roberts Johnson, were born in Harbour Island, Bahamas. It is believed that their ancestors were among the millions of black slaves forced from West Africa and sold in the West Indies. http://www.miamiherald.com/miamihistory/story/1114784.html http://www.miamiherald.com/miamihistory/story/1114784.html Sun, 28 Jun 2009 03:01 EDT Somewhere in the middle of 1951, my father, Cpl. Norman Segermeister, emerged from his commitment to the U.S. Army. After he was discharged, he met up with his parents, who had moved temporarily from Long Island to Miami Beach so his mother could escape the winter months and nurse her health. http://www.miamiherald.com/miamihistory/story/1095303.html http://www.miamiherald.com/miamihistory/story/1095303.html Sun, 14 Jun 2009 03:01 EDT For me, the most important journeys have led to South Florida. The journey that started in December 1959 involved a move from Cuba, north to freedom. Forty-two years later, in July 1992, a return trip from Virginia with our 4-year-old son Peter completed a cycle that molded several generations of our family. http://www.miamiherald.com/miamihistory/story/1082611.html http://www.miamiherald.com/miamihistory/story/1082611.html Sun, 07 Jun 2009 03:01 EDT I was in the right place at the right time. I graduated from school with a business administration degree in Spain and I wanted to come to the United States for an master of business administration degree. http://www.miamiherald.com/miamihistory/story/1072936.html http://www.miamiherald.com/miamihistory/story/1072936.html Sun, 31 May 2009 03:01 EDT I can imagine my dad's excitement leaving gritty Newark behind him and hitting the highway in his old Studebaker bound for paradise . . . Miami Beach. I can see the bathing suit postcards guiding his way and hear the ocean calling his name: M-I-L-T-O-N B-R-A-N-D, come on down! http://www.miamiherald.com/miamihistory/story/1060031.html http://www.miamiherald.com/miamihistory/story/1060031.html Mon, 25 May 2009 03:11 EDT My father, Ernest Peyton Jones, worked for President Franklin D. Roosevelt as his campaign manager for the southeastern United States and later the associate commissioner of the Federal Housing Administration. My mother, Betty Schwab Jones, was the secretary for Sen. George Norris of Nebraska. http://www.miamiherald.com/miamihistory/story/1062166.html http://www.miamiherald.com/miamihistory/story/1062166.html Sun, 24 May 2009 03:01 EDT 'Twas the fall of 1945 A joyful time to be alive. The war was won and now we could Get back to living as we should. But our family had a way to go -- I was suffering from polio, And my mother's brother had not come home -- He was 'missing in action,' his survival unknown. http://www.miamiherald.com/miamihistory/story/1050857.html http://www.miamiherald.com/miamihistory/story/1050857.html Sun, 17 May 2009 03:01 EDT Our family came from Havana, a beautiful city that some have called a tropical paradise. My brothers and I came to Miami on a Pan American flight and were taken to a campground that the Pedro Pan organizers had set up in Kendall, near where Town & Country Mall now stands. We were there for about two weeks before being sent to Albuquerque, N.M., where we were taken in by the family of Dr. Eugene Purtell. http://www.miamiherald.com/miamihistory/story/1037991.html http://www.miamiherald.com/miamihistory/story/1037991.html Sun, 10 May 2009 03:01 EDT I was born Martha Anne Peters in Victoria Hospital on Dec. 20, 1937, a second generation native-born Miamian. My daddy, Hugh Peters Jr., was born in the family home, on the corner of 75th Street and Northeast Second Avenue. http://www.miamiherald.com/miamihistory/story/1028083.html http://www.miamiherald.com/miamihistory/story/1028083.html Fri, 01 May 2009 03:01 EDT My life began because of the union of two individuals from distant parts of the world. My mother was of Scotch Irish ancestry whose family settled in the small town of Richwood, Ohio. Her father was a carpenter.