Miami
The siege of Cape Florida Light, the Fontainebleau spite wall, Clay and Liston, and the 1926 hurricane.
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Bayfront Park shooting
A heroine in the papers, a carpenter who was not, and thirty-three days to the chair.
Cape Florida Lighthouse
A keeper's own letter about two days at the top of a burning tower, and the man beside him he never named.
Clay beats Liston
He came back to his corner unable to see and asked for his gloves to be cut off. Three rounds later the champion was finished.
Julia Tuttle's grave
The woman who talked a railroad south, and what she had left two years later.
The calm of 1926
The weatherman's own typed record of the thirty-five minutes when a city walked outside.
The Elián González house
Five months, one small house, and the picture that ended it.
The Fontainebleau spite wall
Two former partners, one swimming pool, and a court ruling on who owns the afternoon sun.
The tanker off Cape Florida
A flag painted to keep a ship safe, a commander's wrong reading of it, and a country at war.