John Dolen

James A. Dallas Sr. – Jimmie to his friends – loved music, valued education and built community. If you’ve had occasion to take the Brightline train and use the adjacent…

Not long after we on the southeast coast of Florida were breathing a sigh of relief as Hurricane Ian missed us, our reprieve turned to horror as destruction on the…

Today’s Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show is a multi-day spectacle. Its earliest iterations were distinctly more humble affairs. The first year that Fort Lauderdale and the term “boat show” were…

After starting out a river town, Fort Lauderdale became a beach town – but it didn’t happen overnight. It’s not good when a man invests in a Fort Lauderdale Beach…

It might surprise current residents to know that in the early days of Fort Lauderdale, the beaches – our prized treasure – had little appeal to settlers. The beaches were…

Fort Lauderdale was not yet a town, and what would become Miami barely existed, but Mary Brickell saw the potential for her own vast landholdings and the rest of the…

Fort Lauderdale wasn’t always a big city; in earlier times, we offered simpler delights. If there were a competition for “Latest-Blooming Metropolis in the World,” Fort Lauderdale would certainly be…

Red Crise’s Hacienda Village sounds like something out of a Hiaasen novel. It wasn’t. Slow Down. Pull Over. You’re in Hacienda Village. A deliciously fitting headline told the story for…