Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Monday, August 30, 2010
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Photo of the Day
The Cloisters at the Spanish Monastery - Miami
From their site:
The Monastery of St. Bernard de Clairvaux was built in Sacramenia, in the Province of Segovia, Spain, during the period 1133-1144.
In 1925 William Randolph Hearst purchased the Cloisters to move it to his estate in California. The structures were dismantled stone by stone, packed in some 11,000 wooden crates, numbered for identification and shipped to the United States.
Soon after the shipment arrived, Hearst’s financial problems forced most of his collection to be sold at auction. The stones remained in a warehouse in Brooklyn, New York, for 26 years. One year after Hearst’s death in 1952, they were purchased by Messrs. W. Edgemon and R. Moss for use as a tourist attraction. It took 19 months to put the Monastery back together in Miami, where it stands today.
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Friday, August 27, 2010
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Monday, August 23, 2010
Sunday, August 22, 2010
Jack Horkheimer: Star Hustler 1938-2010
I just found out that Jack Horkheimer a fixture in PBS for many years, and one of our local contributors to PBS has passed away.
Here’s a link to the last show he did:
It is a pity that you had to concede to the PC forces and change the title of your show to Star Gazer. I kind of liked Star Hustler better.
So long Jack. We’ll miss you!
Keep looking up!
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Friday, August 20, 2010
Photo of the Day
On a visit to the Miami Seaplane Base (X44) on Watson Island, across the bay from downtown Miami a few days ago, I spotted this beautiful old Grumman Goose G-21A
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Monday, August 16, 2010
Photo of the Day
New entrance sign, after the zoo was renamed from Miami Metrozoo to Zoo Miami. This picture has been posted to Wikipedia for the zoo's article.
Sunday, August 15, 2010
Saturday, August 14, 2010
Friday, August 13, 2010
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Monday, August 09, 2010
Photo of the Day
10-foot-tall bronze statue of Julia Tuttle, unveiled last month at the southern end of Bayfront Park, on the 114th birthday of the city of Miami that she helped create. It took long enough and "it was about time that we had a statute to Julia Tuttle, being that people have talked about doing it since the time of her death in 1898" said Arva Parks, Miami Historian.
Sunday, August 08, 2010
Saturday, August 07, 2010
Friday, August 06, 2010
Thursday, August 05, 2010
Wednesday, August 04, 2010
Tuesday, August 03, 2010
Monday, August 02, 2010
Sunday, August 01, 2010
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