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Ancient Snowbirds

  • March 21, 2022
  • John Dolen
The Tequestas, Southeast Florida’s first residents, were great fishermen who built a complex society – and got out of town every summer. It’s march, that time when all the snowbirds…
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Major Lauderdale’s Fort

  • February 1, 2022
  • John Dolen
William Lauderdale beat the British, battled the Red-Stick Creeks and, in his final act, brought a battalion from the Smokies into the Southeast Florida swamps. William Lauderdale gave our city…
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Up the Creek With a Bottle

  • December 28, 2021
  • John Dolen
Today it’s part of a family-friendly state park, but Whiskey Creek earned its name through a colorful history. In the 1920s, distilleries in Eng­land couldn’t believe their luck. Prohibition was…
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Guns, Muck & Yellow Fever

  • December 9, 2021
  • John Dolen
Napoleon Bonaparte Broward was a gunrunner, sheriff, governor, and a man who held views both progressive and vile. We look at the county’s colorful namesake. In the 1880s, he ran…
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Swamped With Offers

  • October 27, 2021
  • John Dolen
Buy property in the Everglades? In the early 20th century, many Northerners thought that sounded great. One of my first memories of Florida was formed decades ago on a road…
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Shirttail Charlie, Myth & Man

  • October 11, 2021
  • John Dolen
Lurid details surround the legend of Shirttail Charlie, but the true story is a quieter, sadder tale. A letter written by Fort Lauderdale citizen August Burghard, dated Dec. 12, 1938,…
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The Long Road to the Port

  • September 10, 2021
  • John Dolen
Local farmers demanded it, the 1926 hurricane postponed it, and President Coolidge forgot about it. But eventually, Fort Lauderdale got a port. President to open port bay mabel screamed the…
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Mother Lauderdale

  • August 18, 2021
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In our community issue, we dig into the life of the woman who was a kind of founding mother to our community. At age 19, Ivy Cromartie Stranahan became our…
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Troubles, Then Triumph

  • July 21, 2021
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Fort Lauderdale’s first Jews faced anti‑Semitism, infighting and the 1926 hurricane. They endured. You don’t need to look far to find hostility toward Jews in Fort Lauderdale’s history. The attitude…
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The Sky and Fogg

  • June 2, 2021
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The pioneer aviator who gave our airport its first name. Merle Fogg wouldn’t recognize the international airport that began as a swampy municipal airport bearing his name. Tens of millions…

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