Update

Update, the predecessor of South Florida History magazine, was published by the Historical Museum of Southern Florida from 1973 through 1988. Issues are available for browsing at the museum’s Research Center and local public libraries. To purchase back issues, contact the museum store at 305.375.1492 or museumstore@hmsf.org. To receive South Florida History and Tequesta regularly, become a museum member today.

Tables of Contents

Vol. 1, no. 1 (October 1973)
Heraldry, Shorthand of History, by David T. Alexander
Marking Time, by India Sue Barbee. [HASF's marker program]
Florida and the Caribbean: An Overview, by Kenneth N. Sellati.
Guns of Mystery, by William L. Ganong III.
Miami—What it Was Yesterday, by Patsy West.
History's a Mystery, by Dr. Thelma Peters (crossword puzzle)

Vol. 1, no. 2 (December 1973)
The First County Road: From Lantana to Lemon City, by Dr. Thelma Peters.
Sugar Comes to Florida, by Ken Sellati.
Miami's Pioneer Radio Stations, by Gene Rider.
Hurricane Sunset—Great Clouds for Mourning, by Jane Wood Reno. [1926 hurricane]
History’s a Mystery, by Dr. Thelma Peters (crossword puzzle)
Winter Program Series, by Dr. Charlton Tebeau.
Miss Harris's Alumni, by Garlin Wood Lewis.

Vol. 1, no. 3 (February 1974)
Message From the President, by Arva Moore Parks.
Ransom School, by Giulio Blanc.
Uncle Billy, Early Miami Booster, by Adam G. Adams.
Miami's First School, by Thelma Peters.
Florida and the Caribbean: A Mosquito in Paradise, by Ken Sellati.
Florida’s Role in Historic Preservation, by Charlton Tebeau.
History's a Mystery, by Thelma Peters. (crossword puzzle)

Vol. 1, no.4 (April 1974)
Audubon At Key West, excerpted from Key West-The Old and the New (1912), by Jefferson Browne.
12 Hours of Sebring, by Walter Hill.
Picturing Our Past, by S. J. Boldrick. [Romer photo collection]
The First Audubon Societies in Miami, by Jo Cameron.
New Town Recalls Old, by Arva Moore Parks. [Miami Lakes street names]
Miss Harris Has a Birthday, by G. L.
Program Meetings: Dr. Tebeau and the Seminoles, by G. M. K.
Our Marjory Conquers the United States Navy, by Leonard G. Pardue. [Marjory Stoneman Douglas]
History's a Mystery, by Thelma Peters. (crossword puzzle)

Vol. 1, no. 5 (June 1974)
Annual Report 1973-74, by Arva Moore Parks.
Digging Miami’s Past, by Patsy West.
Our Perambulating Courthouse, by Thelma Peters.
The Street Railways of Miami, by Edward Ridolph.
Hail to the Inchworm, by Woodrow W. Wilkins
Marking Time, by Wayne E. Withers.
History's a Mystery, by Thelma Peters. (crossword puzzle)

Vol. 1, no. 6 (August 1974) Pioneer Aviation Days in South Florida
Miami’s First Plane, by Thelma Peters.
Picturing Our Past, by S. J. Boldrick. [Miami All American Air Races]
Early Airports and Aviation Near Miami, by Karl E. Voelter.
Henry T “Dick” Merrill, by Walter Hill
Aviation and the Hurricane, by Gordon E. Dunn.
Street Railways of Miami—Part Two, by Edward Ridolph
Early History of Some Plant Immigrants of Southern Florida, by Dr. Margaret J. Mustard.
History’s a Mystery, by Thelma Peters. (crossword puzzle)

Vol. 2, no 1 (October 1974) Downtown Miami
Marking Time, by Wayne E. Withers. [first telephone exchange]
Picturing Our Past, by S. J. Boldrick. [Miami Avenue and Flagler Street]
Pioneer Pictures, by Dorothy Dean Davidson
Burdine’s, by Gene Rider.
How Guavonia Became Coral Gables, by Mary C. Dorsey.
New in the Library, by Thelma Peters.
House Built to Last Centuries, by Hampton Dunn. [Villa Serena]
History’s a Mystery, by Thelma Peters. (crossword puzzle)

Vol. 2, no. 2 (December, 1974) That's Entertainment
Director’s Desk, by Randy Nimnicht.
Picturing Our Past, by S. J. Boldrick. [Cinderella Ballroom]
Ladies, Kindly Remove Your Hats or Miami’s Pre-boom Theatres, by Thelma Peters.
Those Were the Days, by Peppy Fields
Twenty-five Years of Television Pioneering, by G. S. Nyne.
Miami Night Life, 1944-1950: End of an Era, [by] George Bourke [and] Leslie Turner.
Opera in the Swimming Pool, by Mary C. Dorsey.
Black Entertainment 1908-1919, by Dorothy Fields.
History’s a Mystery, by Thelma Peters. (crossword puzzle)
Marking Time, by Wayne E. Withers. [Julia Tuttle]
Munroe Over Miami, by Kirk Munroe

Vol. 2, no. 3 (February 1975) The Rumrunners
Reflections on Local Black History, by Dorothy Fields. [Black Archives]
Picturing Our Past, by S. J. Boldrick. [prohibition]
The Story From the Other Side, as told to Jerry Pardue.
Another Boom in the Nineteen Twenties, condensed from Tequesta by Dr. Charlton Tebeau.
The Rumrunning Era, by Capt. Victor Bullock (as told to Thelma Peters)
History’s a Mystery, by Thelma Peters. (crossword puzzle)

Vol. 2, no. 4 (April, 1975) The Grand Openings
Picturing Our Past, by S. J. Boldrick. [Seaboard Railway]
Opening Night at the Capitol Theatre, by Dick Lehman.
Pomp and Circumstance—The Royal Palm Hotel, by Thelma Peters.
The Wooden Way to Miami Beach, by Marty Grafton. [Collins Bridge]
The Opening of Rail Service to Miami and Key West, by Seth Bramson.
The Biltmore Debuts, by Prunella Wood.
Opening Day at Hialeah Race Course, by Jerry Pardue.

Vol. 2, no. 5 (June 1975) Miami's Marine Scene
Director’s Desk, by Randy F. Nimnicht.
The Port of Miami, by RAdm I. J. Stephens
The Biscayne House of Refuge, by Thelma Peters.
Marking Time [Biscayne House of Refuge]
The United States Naval Station at Key West, by John R. Hope.
The Ship That Stopped the Boom, by Samuel J. Boldrick.
Reflections on Local Black History: Stevedores, by Dorothy J. Fields.
Picturing Our Past, by S. J. Boldrick. [ships]
History’s a Mystery, by Larry Winebrenner. (crossword puzzle)

Vol. 2, no. 6 (August 1975) Hurricane
Director’s Desk, by Randy F. Nimnicht.
Hurricanes—I Hate Them!, By Jack Roberts.
Mister Hurricane, by E. V. W. Jones.
Picturing Our Past, by S. J. Boldrick.
Hurricane Honeymoon, by Thelma Peters.
The Hurricane in Florida Fiction, by Stuart B. McIver.
The Disastrous 1928 Lake Okeechobee Hurricane, by Patsy West.
Last Train to Key West, by Jerry Pardue.

Vol. 3, no.1 (October 1975) Miami at War
Director’s Desk, by Randy F. Nimnicht.
This Happened at Fort Dallas, 1840, as told by Col. Loomis Langdon.
Fort Brickell and the Battle, by Arva Moore Parks.
Dinner Key at War, by Marie Anderson.
Jubilation—The War’s Over!, by Thelma Peters.
Reflections on Black History, by Dorothy Jenkins Fields. [African Americans during World War I]
Crossword Puzzle.
Picturing Our Past, by S. J. Boldrick. [Bombers]

Vol. 3, no. 2 (December 1975) Coconut Grove
Reflections on Black History: Coconut Grove 1880-1903, by Dorothy Jenkins Fields.
Kirk Munroe: Adventurer For the Children, by Erling E. Ayars.
Coconut Grove Before the Railroad, by Arva Moore Parks
Picturing Our Past, by S. J. Boldrick. [Coconut Grove]
Holiday Greenery, by Patsy West.
History’s a Mystery. (crossword puzzle)
Book reviewed: The Good Little Ship, by Vincent Gilpin, reviewed by Patty Munroe Catlow.

Vol. 3, no. 3 (February 1976) Early Tourism
Indian Key: Dade’s Most Colorful Twelve Acres, by Zee Shipley.
The First Child at the Tuttles, by Stella Tuttle Chapman.
Florida House.
My Father Did the Driving, by Daly Highleyman.
Marking Time: Peacock Inn, by Ellen Kanner.
Budget Fun-in-the-Sun-Circa 1905, by Thelma Peters.
History’s a Mystery (crossword puzzle)
Reflections on Black History: Miami’s First Newspaper, by Dorothy Jenkins Fields.
Picturing Our Past, by S. J. Boldrick [tourist camps]

Vol. 3, no. 4 (April 1976) Potpourri
A Picture History of U. M., by Zee Shipley.
It All Began With Flagler, by Seth Bramson.
Halissee Hall, by Valerie Fisher Lassman.
Picturing Our Past, by S. J. Boldrick. [golf]
From One Boom-Time Theatre to a Miami Entertainment Empire: A Reminiscence with Mitchell Wolfson.
Sawmills in South Dade, by Jean C. Taylor
Steamboats From Florida, by Zee Shipley.
Greynolds Park and the Junkpile Mountain, by Ida Perdue Myers.

Vol. 3, no. 5 (June 1976) Bicentennial
The Historical Association of Southern Florida, Part I: Origin and Early Years, by Charlton W. Tebeau
Early Man in South Florida, by Dan Laxson.
East Florida: The Logic of Loyalism, by Linda K. Williams.
South Dade's Black Pioneers, by Jean C. Taylor.
The Development of the Florida Court System, by Hugh Wood.
They Gathered for Worship, by Thelma Peters.
History is Where You Find It, by Charlton W. Tebeau
Depression Canning, by Louie R. Hamilton
History is a Mystery, (crossword puzzle)

Vol. 3, no.6 (August 1976) Early Industry
Director’s Desk, by Randy F. Nimnicht.
Early Rock Houses, by Joseph H. Chaille.
“The Industrial Reporter”—Miami’s Early Black Newspaper, by Dorothy Fields.
Gifts of the Land, by Thelma Peters.
South Dade’s Last Commercial Starch Mill, by Jean C. Taylor.
Tannin for Tanners.
My Thirty-six Years With Burdine’s, by Nelle Coates.
Reflections on Black History: Miami’s Incorporation, by Dorothy Jenkins Fields.
Castor Oil Helped to Win the War.
History is a Mystery (crossword puzzle)

Vol. 4, no. 1 (October 1976) Come to the Fair
Baseball in Early Miami, by Art Simon
Redland District Fruit Festivals, by Jean C. Taylor.
The Battle of Santiago, by Thelma Peters. [Dade County Fair]
How Come Cocoa, by Charles W. Skelly and Donna Sheriff.
Picturing Our Past, by S. J. Boldrick. [Florida Exposition train]
History is a Mystery (crossword puzzle)

Vol. 4, no. 2 (December 1976) They Called Miami Home
Lecture Series, by Arva M. Parks & Zee Shipley. [naming of Tebeau Library]
Robert Frost and the University of Miami, by George W. Rosner.
My Neighbor Mr. Frost, by Nettle Bell Hjort Robinson.
Villa Serena, by Valerie Fisher Lassman.
Remembering Charles Deering, by Mary Warren Hudson Leary.
The Saga of Lake Worth Creek, by Gordon L. Williams.
Famous Miami Visitors, Romer Collection Miami-Dade Public Library.

Vol. 4, no. 3 (February 1977) Miami's Postal Service
South Dade Postal Service, by Jean Taylor.
In the Days of the Two-cent Stamp, by Thelma Peters.
I Remember the Post Office When ..., as told to Robert C. Stafford by A. V. Phillips.
New Deal Murals in Florida Post Offices, by Fran Rowin.
Off the Beaten Path: Travel in South Florida, Part I, by Mary C. Napier.
History is a Mystery (crossword puzzle)
Picturing Our Past, by S. J. Boldrick. [post office railroad car]

Vol. 4, no. 4 (April 1977) For Our Mutual Benefit
The Woman’s Relief Association, by Margaret Pace Burton.
Sociedad Cuba, by Wright Langley.
A Home for the Working Girl [YWCA]
The Housekeepers' Club of Coconut Grove, by Gertrude M. Kent.
Off the Beaten Path: Travel in South Florida, Part II, by Mary C. Napier.
Early Charity Not so Sweet, by Thelma Peters.
I Remember the Red Cross When, as told to Robert C. Stafford, by Mary Massey.

Vol. 4, no 5 (June 1977) The Barnacle
The Commodore, by Arva Moore Parks.
Growing up at the Barnacle, by Patty Munroe Catlow as told to Jean C. Taylor.
Ned Beasley and Coconut Grove, by Arva Moore Parks.
The B. B. Y. C. and the Barnacle, by William M. Straight, M. D.
The Good Ship Micco, by Arva Moore Parks.

Vol. 4, no. 6 (August 1977) Summertime
Save our Alamo, by Valerie Fisher Lassman.
The Mosquito Menace, by Jean C. Taylor.
Miamians in Summer—Up and Away, by Thelma Peters.
Reflections on Black History: Fun and Games Overtown, by Dr. S. H. Johnson as told to Dorothy Jenkins Fields.
A Day at the Beach, excerpted from Annie Mayhew Fitzpatrick’s book, Lest We Forget.
The Belvedere Bungalow, by Thelma Peters.
Picturing Our Past, by S. J. Boldrick. [bathing casinos]

Vol. 5, no. 1 (October 1977) Agriculture
South Florida’s Prickly Pineries, by Thelma Peters. [pineapples]
Scarifying South Dade, by Jean C. Taylor.
I Remember the Demise of Old Juno, by Gordon L. Williams.
The Citrus Canker, by Jean C. Taylor.

Vol. 5, no.2 (December, 1977) Potpourri
James M. Jackson, Jr. by Victoria Schmaltz.
The Holsum Bakery Building, by Jean C. Taylor.
The Homestead Depot Comes Home, by Jean C. Taylor.
The Biltmore, by Suzanne Brodeur.
Henry Flagler, by Robert Bricks.

Vol. 5, no. 3 (February 1978) The Season
The Cross-Bay Swimming Race, By Thelma Peters.
Put Yourself in Touch With Florida's Past, by Jack Roberts. [HMSF exhibits]
The Tequesta Mound Excavation, courtesy of the Miami-Metro Dept. of Publicity and Tourism.
Camp Biscayne, by Jean C. Taylor.
Reflections on Black History: The Season, by Dorothy Fields.
Belvederes Updated

Vol. 5, no. 4 (April 1978) Miami High School
MIAHI Highlights Miami High, by Zee Shipley.
The Early Years, by Thelma Peters.
Miami High Sports, by Howard Kleinberg, ‘51.
Memorable Teachers, by Lamar Louise Curry.

Vol. 5, no. 5 (June 1978) Newspapers
A Presidential Message, by R. Layton Mank.
Newspapers of America’s Last Frontier, by Jeanne Bellamy.
Why Write for Newspapers? by Jane Wood Reno.
The News Tower, by Nancy Hoffman.
The Origin of the Miami Times, by Garth C. Reeves, Sr. as told to Dorothy Jenkins Fields.
Ben Archer and the Homestead Tender, by Jean C. Taylor.

Vol. 5, no. 6 (August-October 1978) Hurricanes
A Presidential Message, by R. Layton Bank.
The Harvest: A Country Fair, by Zee Shipley.
And I Knew Hurricanes, by Mispah Otto de Boe.
The 1926 Hurricane in the Grove, by Erling Ayars.
The 1928 Hurricane Meets the Jupiter Light, by Gordon L. Williams.

Vol. 6, no. 1 (December 1978) Schools
A Presidential Message, by R. Layton Mank.
Impact of the Hispanic Migration on Miami and its Surroundings, by Eduardo A. Garcia.
The Redland Farmlife School, by Jean C. Taylor.
Aggie High Remembered, by Thelma Peters.
Perrine Elementary School, by Jean C. Taylor.
The Last Complete Style: Art Deco, by Alexander Feinberg.
Richmond Naval Air Station Marker

Vol. 6, no. 2 (February, 1979)
George Merrick, Poet, by Thelma Peters.
The Ox Woman, by Jean C. Taylor.
The Chaille Plan, by Peggy Newman Montague.
The Peacock House, by Valerie Fisher Lassman.

Vol. 6, no. 3 (October 1979) 1929: Fifty Years Ago
Black Tuesday: October 29, 1929, by Earl Dehart.
Doug Barnes: Creator of Dade’s Parks, by Jeanne Bellamy.
Fifty Years on the Miami River, by Suzanne Curry Jones.
Perspective: The More Things Change ... the More They Remain the Same, by Elizabeth Rothra.
Researchers Love to Get Postcards, by Rebecca A. Smith

Vol. 7, no. 1 (February 1980)
Sewell, The Chamber, and the Marketing of Miami, by Jeanne Bellamy
Memories of the Marion, by Elizabeth P. Breeze.
Bloodshed at Bayfront: The Zangara Attack, by Richard D. Simpson.
Historic Survey: Serving the Present by Seeking the Past, by Mary Jane Tucker.

Vol. 7, no. 2 (May 1980) Special Energy Section
Mystery at Carysfort, by Charles Brookfield.
Learning to be Kind to Our Mother Earth, by Lawrence Mahoney.
Pros and Cons of Sub-Tropic Houses, by Beverly Wilson.
Back to Basics After $600 Bill, by Marilyn Lane Gadinsky.

Vol. 7, no. 3 (August 1980) Summer: See it Like a Native
Summer: See it Like a Native, by Jaquelin Mason.
Cigar Rolling ... a Craft Fading into History, by Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr. and Concepcion N. Garcia.
Counting Noses, by Sam Boldrick and Marie Anderson. [census]

Vol. 7, no. 4 (November 1980)
The Burdine Heritage, by A. Tillman Jones.
The Presidential Preference for South Florida, by Raymond Lang.
Ransom Christmas 1902, by Paul Carlton Ransom.
Why an Artifact Collection? by Linda K. Williams.

Vol. 8, no. 1 (February 1981)
Will the Real Henry Flagler Please Stand Up, by Jaquelin Duggan Mason.
Let's Hear it Once More: “Hurray for Booker T.,” by Michael N. Kessleman.
No One Was Keeping Black Memorabilia, by Bea L. Hines.

Vol. 8, no. 2 (May 1981) The Water, the Land, the People
The Water, The Land, The People, by Jeanne Bellamy. [water management]
The Water, The Land, The People, by Raymond Lang. [Brickell Avenue archaeology]
The Water, The Land, The People, by Ida P. Myers. [A 1915 trip to the beach]
Number 231: A Tale of a Trolley, by Marie Anderson.

Vol. 8, no. 3 (August 1981)
Mid-season for Hurricanes
A Letter to Mother, by George Hubert Cooper. [1926 hurricane in Goulds]
1941-1950 Decade: Hurricane, by Michael N. Kesselman.
The City in Broad Brushstrokes, by Jack Kassewitz. [1930s-1940s prostitutes]
This is History? Wow! This is Neat! by Pam Lowell. [HASF education programs]

Vol. 8, no. 4 (November 1981) World War II
Miami, 1941-1945: From VIP Suites to GI Barracks, by Daniel Markus.
From an Old Diary, by Thelma Peters.
The Day Horse Racing Became Legal, by Everett Clay.

Vol. 9, no.1 (February 1982)
As My Father Told It..., by Dean Miller.
Booming Sounds, by Billie Peeler Pearce.
A Violation of the Law, by Charles M. Brookfield.
Restoring Old Photographs, by Steven Brooke.

Vol. 9, no. 2 (May 1982) John James Audubon
The Florida Keys (I) and The Florida Keys (II), extracts from Ornithological Biography, by John James Audubon and William MacGillivray.
Retracing Audubon on Cape Sable, Sandy Key, by Kathryn Hall Proby.
Lost in the Everglades, by Earl DeHart.

Vol. 9, no. 3 (August 1982) Everglades
“FIU in ‘72” Comes True, by Phyllis Spinelli.
Snithsonians Tour ‘Glades with HASF, by Pam Lowell.
20th Century Environmentalists, by Michael Kesselman.
Ernest Graham’s Seedlings Flourished, by M. W. Anderson. [F. I. U.]

Vol. 9, no. 4 (November 1982) Museum Moves
What Hath Johnson Wrought?, by Beth Dunlop.
Preview Tour No. 1 Now Starting, by Zannie May Shipley.
Re-Creating Good Old Days Takes Nuts, Nails and Numbers, by Nancy Taylor.
Ephemera Is What Fits in a Folder, by Rebecca Smith.
Book review [exhibit research].
Out of the Trunk [HMSF, 1960s]

Vol. 10, no. 1 (February 1983) New Museum
Museum I: A Birthing, by Zannie May Shipley.
Museum II: A Moving Experience, by Thelma Peters.
Museum II: A Dress Rehearsal, by Linda Williams.
Museum III: Tracking the Cultural Complex Track, by Margot Ammidown.

Vol. 10, no. 2 (May 1983) Beginnings
We Went Through Quite an Ordeal, by Helen Frank. [1926 hurricane]
A Different Church, A Different Drummer, by Agneta Heldt. [Unitarian Church]
Civic TLC for Fragile Minds, by Patricia McIntosh. [Mental Health Society]
Miamians Trace Ancestors to 1600s, by Eleanor Ratelle. [Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America]

Vol. 10, no. 3 (August 1983) Caribbean Connections
A Home for Cuban Roots, by Cristing Lamadriz. [Cuban Museum]
An Exile from Nassau, by Jeanne Bellamy. [Etienne Dupuch]
A Paper Chase for Haitian Cannons, by Dan Markus
A Barbados Root Revisited, by Jeanne Bellamy
The Scoop on “Biscayne Bilin’s,” by Thelma Peters

Vol. 10, no. 4 (November 1983) The Three Rs
Recognition: A 1919 Atlantic Flight, by B. Hiram Blakely
Remembrances: 3 Young Boys’ Boom Days
His Priceless Memories, by Walter Norman.
‘Gator Joins the Outing, by Frederick Harrington
Does George Know W. Flagler St.!, by George Wolpert.
Reminder: Why Is It Called Dinner Key?, by Wellborn Phillips.

Vol. 11, no. 1 (February 1984) Building a New Era
Fantasies in Concrete, by Margot Ammidown. [Walter DeGarmo]
They Don’t Build Them Like That Now, by Charles Edwin Chase. [Coral Gables architecture]
The Biltmore: Memories that Linger, by Maylen Newby Pierce.
Why is It Called LeJeune Road?, by Wellborn Phillips.
A Reporter Remembers those Days, by Norma Davis True. [Miami News Tower]

Vol. 11, no. 2 (May 1984) Guide to the Museum
HASF History, by Arva Moore Parks.
An Interpretive Guide to the Exhibits:
Land and Sea
First Arrivals
International Rivalry
Southward Expansion
New People, New Technology
The Black Experience, by Dorothy J. Fields.
Gateway to the New World
Research Collections, by Rebecca Smith.
Artifact Collection, by Daniel O. Markus.
Audubon’s Birds of America

Vol. 11, no. 3 (August 1984) Magical Plans
Planners and Dreamers, by Elizabeth Peeler. [unfulfilled planning]
The Long Gone Dreams, by Thelma Peters. [agriculture]
Exotics: Assets or Menances?, by Zannie May Shipley.
Prophesies: Some Came True, Some Did Not, Most Were Ignored, by Jeanne Bellamy.
Just This Once, by Zannie May Shipley. [deliberate train collision and Fulford Speedway]
Why is it Named That? : Merrie Christmas Park, by Wellborn Phillips.

Vol. 11, no. 4 (November, 1984) Writing History
Ingredients Count when You Recreate History, by Thelma Peters.
Island Research Needs Dogged Determination, by Sandra Riley.
1824 Storm Search Is Rewarding, by Donald C. Gaby.
Storm Power Scale Designed by Miamians, by Jeanne Bellamy. [the Saffir-Simpson scale]
Cleo’s Twentieth Birthday, by Michael Kesselman. [Hurricane Cleo, 1964]
Life Among Alligators, by Patsy West. [Freeman-West family encounter with alligators]
Why Is It Called That?: Tigertail Avenue, by Wellborn Phillips.

Vol. 12, no. 1 (February 1985) Brushes with Celebrities
Fishing with Hemingway, by Oliver Griswold
Was it Really Hemingway?, by Frederick Harrington
A Home for Robert Frost, by Lee Aberman
Revisiting Wylie’s Vipers, by Lee Aberman
The Knight Clan Migrates to Miami, by Jewell Woodard Alderman.
Time Capsule [chronology]

Vol. 12, no. 2 (May 1985)
Lone “Company House” Fights for Survival, by Valerie Fisher Lassman. [Flagler Cottage]
John Seybold: the Baker, by Connie Prunty.
Laura Cushman: The Teacher, by Joan Drody Lutton.
Carolyn Pearce: The Clubwoman, by Carolyn L. Pearce.
The Road to Nowhere, by Wellborn Phillips. [Kendall Drive]

Vol. 12, no. 3 (August 1985) Three Looks at Hurricanes
An Eye-Witness Account, by Elizabeth Dutcher Bradford [1935 hurricane]
Labor Day Storm 50 Years Ago, by Dr. Michael Kesselman [1935 hurricane]
The Miami Satellite Field Services Station, by Donald Gaby
Mariel Boatlift: a Failed Mission, by J. Allison DeFoor II

Vol. 12, no. 4 (November 1985) Wings Over Miami
Miami’s First Plane, by Dr. Thelma Peters, Ph. D
The School For Famous Flyers, by Linda K. Williams. [Curtiss Flying School]
Wings over Miami, By Amanda S. Ridings.
The First U. S. - Cuba Passenger Flight, by Marjorie and Thomas O. Otto.
Lighter-Than-Air Craft, by Amanda Ridings

Vol. 13, no. 1 (February 1986) In Search of Dade
A Gallant Soldier, by Harriet Stiger Liles [Francis Langhorne Dade]
A March of Death, by Willard S. Steele [Dade Massacre]
County Seat in the Keys, by Irving R. Eyster [Indian Key]
Interlude in Juno, by Charles W. Pierce [Dade County seat]
Marti’s Voice Still Strong, by Jeanne Bellamy
An Ancient Kinship, by Jeanne Bellamy [Cuba and Florida]

Vol. 13, no. 2 (May 1986)
A Gracious Neighbor, by Rose Connett Richards. [Marion Deering]
A Rundown on South Florida Storms, by Donald C. Gaby
A Service Is Created, by Jean T. Bradfisch. [Visiting Nurse Association]
A Hoosier Learns Miami Magic, by Nixon Smiley. [Frank Shutts]

Vol. 13, no.3 (August 1986) The Civil War
Blockade Runners and Lighthouses, by Rodney E. Dillon, Jr.
Deserters, Evaders, Refugees, by Rodney E. Dillon, Jr.
A Famous Fugitive, by Rodney E. Dillon, Jr. [John C. Breckinridge]
In the Land of Cotton, by Elizabeth DuBose Price Breeze. [Henry Choice Price during the Civil War]
Shutts and Flagler, by Nixon Smiley

Vol. 13, no. 4 (November l986)
Motoring from Ohio to Miami, by Frederick H. Harrington
The Biscayne Study Club
Everglades Camping Memories: Hunting With Six Small Boys, by Maylen Newby Pierce
The Battleship Maine Is Raised and Resunk, by Thelma Peters

Vol. 14, no. 1 (February 1987)
Palm Beach’s First Resident, by Mary Collar Linehan. [A. O. Lang]
Shaper of South Florida, by William R. Clark. [Clark dredges]
The Wooden Track Era, by Al Powell. [Fulford Speedway]
Silver Palm: First School in South Dade, by Emily Perry Deiterich

Vol. 14, no. 2 (May 1987)
A Woman who Did It All, by Rose Richards [Aviatrix Annette Gipson Way]
Miami History in 227 Scrapbooks, by Zannie May Shipley. [the Agnew Welsh Collection]
In 1925 George Fell for Miami and Gussie, by George Wolpert
A Toast to the Happy Couple, by Jean Bradfisch Perry. [punch bowl used at 87 Miami weddings]
Commodore Perry Fights Mosquitoes, Pirates in Key West, by T. W. Black

Vol. 14, no. 3 (August 1987)
Artistry shaped Federal Building, by Susan Hale Freeman. [Miami’s 1933 Federal
Courthouse and Post Office]
Guide to Southernmost State, by David Kaufelt. [WPA guide to Florida]
Biltmore Water Baby, by Susan Peterson. [Jackie Ott performances at the Biltmore pool]
Hurricanes through the Years, by Jewel Alderman

Vol. 14, no. 4 (November 1987)
Miss Harris’ School, by Jean Bradfisch.
The Adirondack-Florida School.
A Boom Promotion: Built-in-a-day House, by Emily Perry Dieterich
Fifty-Year-Old Play Stirs Memories, by Elizabeth Peeler. [The Women]
The Carpenter Clan Become Florida Pioneers, By Hattie Carpenter

Vol. 15, no. 1 (February 1988)
A Day at the Races, by Everett A. Clay. [Hialeah Park]
The Biltmore Beamed on Miami, by Helen Muir.
An Implacable War Chief, by W. S. Steele. [Halleck Tustenuggee and the Battle of Okeechobee]
Baobab Spreads Out at Fairchild, by Jeanne Bellamy. [Fairchild Tropical Garden]

Vol. 15, no. 2 (May 1988)
An Interview with Sir Launcelot Jones, by Joseph S. Mensch
James Archer Smith: 91 Good Years, by Rose Connett Richards
Life in Miami, as Told by Hattie Carpenter.
A Key Biscayne Resident Reviews Its Earlier Days, by Muriel M. Curtis

Vol. 15, no. 3 (August 1988)
Doc Dammers, Super-salesman, by Emily Perry Dieterich.
Oysters Kept Shuckers Busy, by Mary Linehan. [Lake Worth oyster houses]
Stranahan Recalls Early Lauderdale, by Gale Butler.
From Picnic to Dade Institution, by Congressman Dante B. Fascell. [Labor Day Picnic]

Vol. 15, no. 4 (November 1988)
Lighter then Air Defenses, by J. Gordon Vaeth. [Navy airships]
Boxing Great Suffers Defeat at Sea, by Rose Connett Richards. [Jack Dempsey]
The Little Frenchman, by Helen Spach. [Charles Lejeune]
An Air Hostess Remembers, by Rose Connett Richards.
Florida Historical Society Book Awards, by Zannie Mae Shipley