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Here is a fresh update from the Miami Pioneers and Natives of Dade Historical Society
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Our February Online Meeting Today at 2pm |
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Let's gather together online for another Zoom meeting for members of the Miami Pioneers and Natives of Dade, along with friends. Here's the event link on the MP/NOD web site for more info. |
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 | Charles H. Baker and Java Head presented by Robert Burr and Jorge Zaldivar
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Meeting ID: 876 0396 5139
Passcode: history |
| Please join the Miami Pioneers and Natives of Dade for a presentation about the life of world travelers and celebrated bon vivants Charles and Pauline Baker, creators of the famed Java Head residence on the Coral Gables Waterway.
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Our online meeting will begin with a short presentation of the author, his published work and the residence, before an interactive discussion.
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| Charles Henry Baker Jr. was an American author best known for his culinary and cocktail writings. These books have become highly collectible among cocktail aficionados and culinary historians. In 1932, Baker met Pauline Elizabeth Paulsen, an heiress to the Paulsen mining fortune, on a world cruise where he had signed on as the cruise line's publicist. |
|  | The Eclectic Home After they were married they had built for them an art deco house called Java Head in Coconut Grove, Designed by Robert Fitch Smith and engineer Rodney Miller, in which they lived for thirty years. Javanese influence is reflected in the house’s interior by hand painted murals in the Dining Room.
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The Gallivanting Bonvivant| During prohibition, Charles and Pauline Baker traveled the world in search of exotic alcoholic beverages in addition to interesting people with whom he could share them. The Gentleman's Companion: The Exotic Drinking Book is the summation of Baker's drinking experiences abroad. Baker accents his tales of high adventure with recipes for cocktails and other alcoholic beverages that were considered unusual specimens in the 1920s and 30s. |
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Baker, a captivating storyteller, wrote about food and drink for a number of well-known magazines. In this travelogue he relates how notorious figures, including Hemmingway and Faulkner, numbered among his drinking companions.
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At once a drinking guidebook and haughty memoir, The Gentleman's Companion, initially published in 1939, provides a one-of-a-kind glimpse into the bombastic and glamorous world of travel in the mid-twentieth century.
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The following quote regarding prohibition is attributed to Charles.
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| We are still heartily of the opinion that decent libation supports as many million lives as it threatens; donates pleasure and sparkle to more lives than it shadows; inspires more brilliance in the world of art, music, letters, and common ordinary intelligent conversation, than it dims. |
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| Save The DateSunday, March 7th at 2pmA Short History of the Coconut Grove Sailing Club |  | | In December of 1945 a meeting was held at Dr. Paul Robertson's home on Saint Gaudens Drive in Coconut Grove. About 30 people (men, women and boys) gathered to form a youth membership club to promoting sailing, racing and water safety. |
| The club was titled the "Coconut Grove Sailing Club." |
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Mark Your Calendar for Upcoming Programs| Apr 11 – Don Worth – Miami Marine Stadium |
May 2 – Flight Into Egypt Stained Glass Restoration Project
Jun 6 – Forgotten History of Aladdin City |
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$20 Membership Dues |  |  | |
Use the link to online payments via Pay Pal or credit card or mail your check made to MP/NOD to our Treasurer: Marlene B. Carlin, 14900 SW 71 Ave, Miami, FL 33158.
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| Your contributions to support our programs and services to the community are greatly appreciated. |
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| The Miami Pioneers is Dade County’s legacy historical organization, originally founded in 1936 by prominent settlers and business leaders who arrived in Miami in the pioneer era before the year 1900. The Natives of Dade was incorporated in 1986 by a group of local history enthusiasts born in Dade County. The groups merged on July 8, 2002. |
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| Miami Pioneers and
Natives of Dade Historical Society |
PO Box 144353
Coral Gables, FL 33114-4353 |
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