The Museum’s Oral History Project features interviews of Coral Gables residents sharing memories and stories about life in the City Beautiful. Museum Board members Arva Moore Parks and Susan Amat spearheaded the project with the assistance of students from the University of Miami’s School of Communication who filmed the interviews. Funding for the program was provided through a grant from the Florida Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

The film will be used in a variety of ways: the interviews will become a permanent exhibit at the Museum, the interviews will be available for research purposes in the City’s archival library, and they may be used for an upcoming documentary on the history of Coral Gables. The next interview sessions will be scheduled in the Spring of 2011.  Do you have stories of old Coral Gables or memorabilia you’d like to share? Please contact Christine Rupp at 305-910-3996 to schedule an interview.

This wonderful photograph was donated by Gables’ resident Irene Pawley Baldwin during her interview. Taken 1930, it is a picture of her husband, Charles Jackson Baldwin when he served as the University of Miami mascot.