me about her strange inheritance and how it turned her into a sort of time traveler, right back to her father s harrowing past. my name is miriam friedman morris. my father, david friedman, a painter and holocaust survivor, left me a diary, tagebuch fuer miriam friedman. as i read it, the diary led me on a remarkable journey that continues to this day. miriam, i m jamie. hi. welcome. miriam wrote us an e-mail that said. it was so impassioned, i had to meet her. my goodness. look at all of this. i feel like i m in fine-art gallery or a museum. tell me about your parents. my parents were both holocaust survivors, and in 1954, we moved from israel to new york. in her mind s eye, little miriam sees only gauzy pictures of her father s past. he doesn t tell her all that much. she knows he was a painter, who, in world war i, drew combat scenes on the russian front and was decorated for bravery. but she s in the dark about the full scope of his artistic career, includin
me about her strange inheritance and how it turned her into a sort of time traveler, right back to her father s harrowing past. my name is miriam friedman morris. my father, david friedman, a painter and holocaust survivor, left me a diary, tagebuch fuer miriam friedman. as i read it, the diary led me on a remarkable journey that continues to this day. miriam, i m jamie. hi. welcome. miriam wrote us an e-mail that said. it was so impassioned, i had to meet her. my goodness. look at all of this. i feel like i m in fine-art gallery or a museum. tell me about your parents. my parents were both holocaust survivors, and in 1954, we moved from israel to new york. in her mind s eye, little miriam sees only gauzy pictures of her father s past. he doesn t tell her all that much. she knows he was a painter, who, in world war i, drew combat scenes on the russian front and was decorated for bravery. but she s in the dark about the full scope of his artistic career, includin
[ wind howls ] [ thunder rumbles ] [ bird caws ] i m jamie colby. and today, i m in kennebunkport, maine. it s renowned as the bush family s summer haven and also for its succulent lobster. but this story has a cast of characters that are up and down the atlantic seaboard. the heirs, they live here, a reclusive aunt from massachusetts and their gilded age ancestor once dubbed the father of greater new york. i m john green. and i m lisa green buchanan. i think it s fair to say that our aunt julie was a hoarder. and when she died in 2009, she left us a mountain of stuff to sort through. oh, what a great house! thank you! welcome to kennebunkport! i got a story. john and his sister lisa belong to a new england family whose history goes back to mayflower days but whose legacy had been largely forgotten. in 2005, that reclusive aunt i mentioned, julie green, is diagnosed with cancer, and john moves her from the boston area into a condo up here in maine, where the s
and how it turned her into a sort of time traveler, right back to her father s harrowing past. my name is miriam friedman morris. my father, david friedman, a painter and holocaust survivor, left me a diary, tagebuch fuer miriam friedman. as i read it, the diary led me on a remarkable journey that continues to this day. miriam, i m jamie. hi. welcome. miriam wrote us an e-mail that said. it was so impassioned, i had to meet her. my goodness. look at all of this. i feel like i m in fine-art gallery or a museum. tell me about your parents. my parents were both holocaust survivors, and in 1954, we moved from israel to new york. in her mind s eye, little miriam sees only gauzy pictures of her father s past. he doesn t tell her all that much. she knows he was a painter, who, in world war i, drew combat scenes on the russian front and was decorated for bravery. but she s in the dark about the full scope of his artistic career, including hundreds of drawings of top per
i m jamie colby, and, today, i m driving into key west, florida, in search of treasure. you know, years ago, spanish galleons and pirate ships sailed upon and sank in these waters. more recently, the island s been home to the heirs of a man who became rich and famous searching for the treasure left behind. my name is taffi fisher abt, and i inherited a wreck. i mean literally a wreck, a spanish shipwreck. it s an incredible archeological find, and we keep bringing up more treasure all the time. you must be taffi. welcome to the mel fisher maritime heritage society. taffi s father, mel fisher, salvaged tons of treasure from the sea. oh, yeah. solid gold. this is an emerald cross and ring that was found in 1982. some of his most precious artifacts are in the museum he founded here in key west. he must have loved the adventure. he did. he was an awful lot like tom sawyer. tom sawyer had the mississippi. indiana native mel fisher dreams up his childhood adventures