A year in the making, the Miami Beach Visual Memoirs project opens its exhibit at the Welcome Center at 10th and Ocean, this week. The exhibit is a series of information panels that highlight the history and people that tell the…

We’ve created a tease for a new television show that aims to inform and help homeowners deal with the housing crisis. How do you qualify for a new home? Should you should keep an “underwater” property — or cut and…

Kathy joins the Association of Personal Historians as we take our commitment to oral history and story telling to the next level. The Association of Personal Historians is a national organization that has codified the oral history tradition. Bringing our technical expertise…

The other big name in Miami Beach art deco architecture, L. Murray Dixon L. Murray Dixon was the other big name in Miami Beach’s Art Deco architecture (Henry Hohauser being the first), credited with designing more than three hundred hotels,…

On a shoot for the BBC to the West Coast of Florida, met up with Paul Easton, a record producer with a studio in Bonita Springs. His father had been the agent for a long-dead performer of the 60s, and…

We celebrated finishing our first set of interviews for the Miami Beach Visual Memoirs Project at the Betsy Hotel last week. The Betsy let us use this great venue to show off some of the interviews on  Hi-def screens in…

On the job you run into anomalies. Several months apart, I find myself covering the real “43,”former president “W” Bush — later the poseur, who also comes complete with “secret service” protection.

Russell Galbut talks about working as a teenager at the Fountainbleu, an experience which lead him to a career in hotel restoration and residential conversion. He is the Managing Principal of Crescent Heights real estate investment firm and the third…

We produced this brief video from the materials we are gathering to give brief look at what we are doing with the Miami Beach Visual Memoirs Project. This promo for the project is posted on-line as we raise funds to…

Shooting our first set of interviews for the Miami Beach Visual Memoirs project at the headquarters of the Miami Design Preservation League, our partners, right on Ocean Drive. Fascinating stories of growing up as part of the beach scene —…