Tag Archive | "Homestead"

Searching for lost grave sites

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

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Familes unable to find the resting place of their loved ones now have an online tool to help them search for forgotten plots. This tool would have been a godsend for the Manlangit family featured in an Under the Sun piece by Robert Samuels. They lost their 2-year-old daughter to pneumonia, moved away and when they returned to Miami couldn't find her grave site.

A child’s grave, lost in a shifting city

Thursday, April 8, 2010

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A son-in-law with a passion for solving mysteries goes looking for the lost grave of a small child, in a city that never stops shifting.

South Florida Photo of the Week 7/14/09

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

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Homestead motorcycle race

Louise Harris, next-door neighbor to Alabama Jack’s

Monday, June 29, 2009

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Louise Harris was a pioneering South Florida woman on the seas. She ran a fishing camp next door to Alabama Jack's in the 1950's and 1960's. Harris chartered boats, caught fish and lobster and built furniture. Her granddaughter, Sandra Salinas, shares her recollections of this determined woman.

Catch of the Day: Vintage Miami in Postcards

Friday, April 10, 2009

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Larry Wiggins tells the history of Miami through vintage travel postcards.

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