Fort Lauderdale Historic Tidbits

11/07/2022

10/11/2022

Saturday, November 19th, 10am - 3pm
5 antique dealers will be at the Historical Society to appraise your treasure! Only $10 each item (limited to 5 items so everyone can get an appraisal). While you wait your turn, check out all the great stuff at our Yard Sale! Maybe find a new treasure!
** Got stuff? Don't know what to do with it? Donate it to our yard sale. Help preserve Pompano's history.

08/18/2022

The original painting was owned and donated by Frederick Bartlett (Bonnet House owner).

This small oil on thin wood panel is one of over 20 painted studies Georges Seurat made for his most famous work, "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte—1884."

Although at first glance its composition seems similar to the finished canvas, its figures have little to do with the final version. The trio at right with an elderly seated figure, for example, was completely rethought in the completed work, where they are replaced by a man in a top hat and a woman walking a monkey on a leash. This ironic combination of grand solemnity and wry humor is totally absent from the sketch’s awkwardly positioned figures.

See three preparatory works by Seurat on view in Gallery 240—near the artist's monumental painting "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte—1884."

07/25/2022

REMINDER- if you're near Port Everglades, expect a flurry of activity & potentially loud noises with the arrival of the USS Fort Lauderdale this morning. 🚢

During the Commissioning Ceremony on Sat 7/30, some of you may hear horns, whistles, sirens, and, possibly, a 21-gun salute & cannon salute.

It’s all part of the celebration & no cause for alarm.

07/15/2022

Two Weeks Away From Virtual History Happy Hour!

Join the Historic Stranahan House Museum and historian Jonathan Axler, as we celebrate America’s past time and discuss the history of baseball in the city of Fort Lauderdale. So step up the plate and join us for this home run of a program.

Link tickets here https://stranahanhouse.org/events/

07/15/2022

06/02/2022