How Miami’s 1926 Great Hurricane Changed Florida . . . . In 1926, a vicious monster of a storm – a Category 4 – walloped the small-but-growing city of Miami. For years afterward, those who survived called it the “Great Hurricane.” My dad was one of them . . . and never forgot the shattering […]
What Killed Miami’s First Doctor?
At first he thought it was the ice collars. When Dr. James Jackson developed breathing trouble in 1923, he didn’t think much about it. He had long been in the practice of wearing an ice collar in the operating room to stay cool in the Miami heat. He brushed his symptoms off as pneumonia. Dr. […]