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Patriarch to Excellence

  • May 3, 2019
  • John Dolen
From Isadore Mizell’s family tree spring some of Fort Lauderdale’s most important and accomplished people. When historians recount our early days, certain families are central to the story: the Stranahans…
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A People Divided

  • December 3, 2018
  • John Dolen
In early Fort Lauderdale, there was no enforced racial segregation. It was only when the town grew and tourism dollars began to flow that that moral stain of the south…
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Sky Pioneer

  • September 1, 2018
  • John Dolen
Adventuring businessman Joseph C. Mackey’s air travel legacy is still felt today in Fort Lauderdale. Joseph C. Mackey, an early pioneer in aviation and founder of Fort Lauderdale’s first air…
Photography: Equal Justice Initiative / Human Pictures.
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His Name Was Rubin Stacy

  • August 1, 2018
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A new national memorial includes a tribute to the victim of one of the darkest days in Fort Lauderdale history. * Editor’s note: This column contains descriptions of a lynching.…
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The First Party Boat

  • June 28, 2018
  • John Dolen
Long before the first dinner cruise or water taxi, two sons of 19th-century high society arrived on the New River in style, and with friends. River before the turn of…
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The Miccosukees’ Men in Havana

  • June 1, 2018
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As the story goes, when the Miccosukees needed help convincing the Federal government they were a tribe distinct from the Seminoles, they got help from an unlikely source. When the…
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When Broward Rocked Before Woodstock

  • May 14, 2018
  • John Dolen
Just over a year before he produced Woodstock, a Coconut Grove head shop owner brought another influential rock festival to Gulfstream Park. History was made in 1969 at the Woodstock…
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Modello Behavior

  • April 1, 2018
  • John Dolen
Modello was an early settlement that went on to be a crucial part of the area’s development. Whaddya mean you’ve never heard of it? Fort Lauderdale was named for a…
Guy Metcalf of the Tropical Sun. Photography: State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory.
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Under the Sun

  • March 1, 2018
  • John Dolen
Before the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Palm Beach Post and Miami Herald, The Tropical Sun brought the news – as well as poetry and some good recipes – to South Florida.…
Photography: State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory.
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Old-Time Religion

  • February 1, 2018
  • John Dolen
The area’s first religious gathering places were often humble affairs. But they had a profound effect on the community. The first known church built in Broward County was a lean-to…

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