We have wine and beer and music on the weekends. How many book events do you do on a regular basis . On a yearly basis, about 600 a year. Often kid events, adult events, other kinds of things but we are very active. When did you open . About 35 years ago. Why . Well, you know, the story is basically i was an english major in college. I didnt want to give up the dream of being part of the literary culture and one quick way to do that was to get into the book business. I loved bookstores when i was a kid. I saw myself at the bookstore more than the library in college. I went to law school. Why coral gables . I am originally from miami beach so when i moved back from where i was going to school, coral gables was a community i didnt know very well but i explored it. It was right before an independent book shop at the time ripe for an surrounded by miami . What you think of miami is really about 26 different little cities. Miami beach, miami, miami south. So coral gables is just one of thos
Books in beautiful on this beautiful night here in south florida. So we welcome you to our store. Most book stores dont open in a front yard . No, what we did is this building was built in the 20s for karl it is very old. Historic building. And the book shop runs around the courtyard cafe, and as you can see particular plenty of people who come and partake of this and we have in music on the weekends but we just think that flows beautifully with books. How many book event dos you do on a regular basis . On a yearly basis we do about 600 book epghts year. About 600 events often kids and adults and other kinds of things. But were a very, very active school. When did you open . I opened books about 35 years ago. Why . Because, you know, the story is basically i was a failed law student english major in college an i didnt want to give up u the dream of being part of a literary culture so one quick way of doing that was getting into the Book Business into book stores and i always loved book
Books in beautiful on this beautiful night here in south florida. So we welcome you to our store. Most book stores dont open in a front yard . No, what we did is this building was built in the 20s for karl it is very old. Historic building. And the book shop runs around the courtyard cafe, and as you can see particular plenty of people who come and partake of this and we have in music on the weekends but we just think that flows beautifully with books. How many book event dos you do on a regular basis . On a yearly basis we do about 600 book epghts year. About 600 events often kids and adults and other kinds of things. But were a very, very active school. When did you open . I opened books about 35 years ago. Why . Because, you know, the story is basically i was a failed law student english major in college an i didnt want to give up u the dream of being part of a literary culture so one quick way of doing that was getting into the Book Business into book stores and i always loved book
Thats facing all of the Museum Managers and people that are responsible for generating, producing, and collecting objects that would likely go into a museum sitting such as this is how much do we need to keep . How many things do we need to have to tell the american story and its the great conundrum of our protection. There are those who believe that maybe the time has come to start reducing the amounts of things we collect and be more judicious in how we collect them and what we collect. Is it inappropriate to use representative samples, say at an archaeological site, where things are left at the Vietnam Veterans memorial. Do we need to keep everything . And there are those in the professional field that think we need to keep everything and theres others who think sampling is the more judicious and longterm strategy. Because there is a point of diminishing return. It costs money. There is an inherent cost to storing all of these objects. In many cases the costs can be prohibitive and
Dad used to say as they move it around. Theyre building with very simple machines, ramps, pulleys, ramps. All the way back to the late 16th century 1580s or so they were talking about a way to defend all their Caribbean Holdings because piracy was a big problem. The treasure fleets were being preyed on and the king of spain sent over one of his best engineers, one of his best generals to figure out a way to defend against the piracy. They came up with an idea. Fortifying ten of spains ports. The plan was, puerto rico, havana, all these were going to be fortified. Number ten at the very bottom of the list, st. Augustine. Ignacio daas is the original plan, how theyll use the land in the area. Literally were a onefifth scale model of what was considered a frontier fortification of spain, meaning defending the frontier from the two nations. 16th, 17th, early 18th century, theyll have fortifications all around a city they are laying siege to. Youll see 15 or 16 of these in some places that