Escaping the Holocaust: Precious Gifts: Rescue and Shanghai

Escaping The Holocaust Precious Gift: Rescue and Shanghai Now on display! Richard & Pat Johnson Palm Beach County History Museum Holocaust Remembrance Day, or Yom Hashoah, marks the anniversary of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in Poland.    The US Congress designated the Days of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust, which in 2023 […]

Daisy Emily Butler Lyman: A Lantana Pioneer Story

Daisy Emily Butler Lyman (1871-1964), West Palm Beach’s first teacher and the wife of one of Lantana’s founding sons, was

What Happened to Hattie Gale?

School opened in early March 1886. On that first day of classes, the teacher, sixteen-year old Hattie Gale, greeted seven students ranging in age from six to seventeen.