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<\/a>By Seth H. Bramson<\/strong><\/p>\nUnfortunately, the Miami historic community is rife with jealousy and several nasty and vicious for no reason people who will not be honored by having their names appear in this column are at the top of the hall of shame list. In any case, and as reported in the previous column, the \u201cyou\u2019re gonna\u2019 hear from my lawyer because you are using two words that I have in my title\u201d nonsense popped up again, just a couple of months ago. Different person, same ignorant foolishness. Now we\u2019re getting ahead of the story regarding the books that followed the Plant System book but we\u2019ll definitely get back to that.<\/p>\n
At any rate, I put out, on several lists including Growing Up On Miami Beach Facebook Forum and others that one of the books that I was working on was going to be titled \u201cTraining the Troops in Sun and Sand: Greater Miami During World War II\u201d following which I received an email from a woman who told me that two of those words were in her title, that her title was copyrighted and that I had better change my title. I wrote back quite cordially to tell her that for a PhD she really didn\u2019t know very much and that one cannot copyright a title. (Your work is copyrighted, but you can\u2019t copyright a song, music, play or book title, for the reasons noted last time) At any rate, she emailed back, falsely accusing me of being nasty and telling me that I was going to hear from her attorney. (If you read the last column you know that is a frequent refrain of people who know less than nothing about copyright law, haven\u2019t taken the time to investigate it and what it includes and who think and believe that simply threatening somebody with an attorney will frighten him or her into making whatever changes the bully wants made.)<\/p>\n
I emailed the foolish lady back, as follows: \u201cAs I told you, you cannot copyright a song, music or book title, so please be aware that invoking your attorney\u2019s name does not intimidate me in the least, especially since my beloved stepson, my grandson and my daughter are all members of the Florida Bar, as is our former Florida Supreme Court Chief Justice, whose biography\u2014the first ever biography of a Florida judge or Supreme Court Justice\u2014I am the author of.\u201d And guess what?!! Haven\u2019t heard a word from her since. (As the great line from \u201cCasablanca\u201d goes, \u201cshocked! I\u2019m shocked!\u201d ) Guess said attorney straightened her out, yuh think?!!<\/p>\n
Now, back to the topic at hand. As I wrote, I received a call from Arcadia Publishing and in short order produced four books for them, all of which were happily excellent sellers. I then spoke to the acquisitions editor (who is no longer with them!) and told him that I was ready to propose another four or more and was told that since authors seem to lose interest in promoting their books after several have come out, they wanted me to \u201ctake a hiatus.\u201d My rejoinder was, \u201care you kidding me?!! I get more fervent about pushing them with every book, and look at how well the four are doing.\u201d \u201cEven so,\u201d he told me, \u201cwe are giving you a time out.\u201d I was steaming, especially since I met with the late Richard C. Schulman, administrative aide to the Sunny Isles Beach Mayor and commission and the Mayor himself, a wonderful man by the name of Norman Edelcup shortly thereafter and at that meeting was told that they wanted me to write the city\u2019s twentieth anniversary history.<\/p>\n
I accepted, although, for the moment, without a publisher and then, less than a week later, another phone call, that from The History Press, asking me if I would like to write for them, and, incredibly, that would begin a lengthy and very rewarding for both parties partnership. The Sunny Isles Beach history is now one of my six and one-half histories of Miami Beach and the northern suburbs, those books including the three Miami books, \u201c33154: The Story of Bal Harbour, Bay Harbor Islands, Indian Creek Village and Surfside\u201d as well as the separate \u201cSurfside\u201d book in Arcadia\u2019s \u201cImages of America\u201d series. The \u201chalf\u201d book is \u201cL\u2019Chaim! The History of the Jewish Community of Greater Miami,\u201d the first-ever history of the Jewish people in Dade County, that book being approximately half Miami Beach.<\/p>\n
Following \u201cFrom Sandbar to Sophistication\u201d we (The History Press and I) moved on to \u201cSunshine, Stone Crabs and Cheesecake: The Story of Miami Beach;\u201d \u201cBoulevard of Dreams: A Pictorial History of El Portal, Biscayne Park, Miami Shores and North Miami\u201d and \u201cThe Curtiss\u2014Bright Cities: Hialeah, Miami Springs and Opa Locka.\u201d It was sometime during that period that Turner Publishing, of Nashville, contacted me to write \u201cHistoric Photographs of Greater Miami\u201d and \u201cHistoric Photographs of Palm Beach County,\u201d the latter book now available and on sale in every room in the famous Breakers Hotel on Palm Beach. Each of those two books, incidentally, has three different versions and they are also available in various outlets, including amazon.com.<\/p>\n
At about that same time, the Centennial of the F E C Railway\u2019s Key West Extension was coming quickly and the Key West Art and Historical Society determined that not only did they want to publish a book featuring the single greatest railroad engineering and construction project in U. S.\u2014and, possibly, world\u2014history but that Seth Bramson, the F E C\u2019s Company Historian, should author it. I did, and we\u2019ll keep you in suspense regarding that book until next time. As always, all, be\u2014and stay\u2014well and we\u2019ll be back with you shortness.<\/p>\n
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