100 Years of Coral Gables: An Evening with Patrick Alexander

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In January 1900, a thirteen year old George Merrick arrived in his new Florida home, a wooden shack out in the unpaved wilderness. Over the next twenty years, he converted that humble shack into into a beautiful garden city. One hundred years later Bloomberg would report Coral Gables as the most sought after and expensive city in the United States and the third most expensive city in the world. In time for the city's centenary celebrations, this book tells the story of how one man's vision and determination created a tropical paradise.

Patrick Alexander-Lane is an English born writer who has raised his children in France, Italy, Switzerland, Ireland, and California before settling in Miami, Florida. He has worked on four continents as an international financial consultant, a corporate executive and as a university teacher and administrator. 'The Booklover's Guide to Wine', based on the successful 6-week wine appreciation program that Patrick has been teaching for the past twenty years, was released by Mango Publishing in September 2017, and featured at the 2017 Miami Book Fair. When not visiting his grandchildren in France and South Carolina, Patrick and his wife Jude live in Miami where he teaches classes in Wine Appreciation, History and Marcel Proust. Patrick's website is www.GablesWine.com

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