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'Design eminence': Ken Fulk to bring trademark flair in Four Arts appearance
Ken Fulk will be interviewed by style expert and author Steven Stolman for “Conversations on Style” series at 3 p.m. Feb. 1 at Society of the Four Arts → Read More
Book offers pro-aging secrets from TV's 'Jean Queen' Diane Gilman
HSN fashion personality Diane Gilman teams with former Palm Beach Post editor to share pro-aging secrets from TV's 'Jean Queen' in her latest book. → Read More
From big name actors to TikTok trends, Boomer women are a force to be reckoned with
The 50-plus represents nearly half of all U.S. adults. Working longer, earning and spending more, they are a force to be reckoned with. → Read More
Two doctors, 10,000 babies and one beautiful friendship
Dr. William Casale retires this month after caring for Palm Beach County women for 47 years. He leaves ‘with a heavy heart’ – and without his late ‘brother,’ Dr. Steven Silverman. → Read More
Philanthropist Elaine Wynn to speak at Four Arts on Wednesday
Billionaire philanthropist Elaine Wynn will speak Wednesday at the Society of the Four Arts in Palm Beach → Read More
How a Jupiter therapist listened to her dreams and found her ‘path of fire’
Author says learning how to interpret your dreams and follow the messages they're trying to impart can transform your life. → Read More
Three secrets to sales from home shopping’s ‘Billion-Dollar Man’
The original Home Shopping Club host believes life is all about communicating and helping — not hawking. → Read More
Stiletto as social statement: Sometimes, a shoe is not just a shoe
How what we wear on our feet is often about far more than just color and style. → Read More
Jan Tuckwood: The lessons of letting go
The only constant in life is change — and we must learn to embrace it while trying to make the most of every moment. → Read More
The Post's 2020 Season to Share charity: Thank you for caring ... and sharing
The Post has partnered with the Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties to spread goodwill and generous gifts to more people. → Read More
How to navigate the new (and still wonderful) world of Disney
How Disney is keeping guests safe during COVID-19. → Read More
Author Jeffrey Toobin on Mueller’s pursuit of the truth — and why his investigation failed
Author Jeffrey Toobin discusses the Mueller investigation and the general state of the journalism business. → Read More
100 Years of the Women’s Vote: ‘Some things you do and wait for your time’
History smacks you in the face sometimes — like it did last week, when Kamala Harris accepted the nomination as the Democratic Party’s candidate for vice president.Usually, though, history sneaks up on you.It hides in small type on property records or city directories, or in tiny references in newspaper articles.That's where Miss Agnes Ballard — one of two women elected to office the first time… → Read More
Golf’s tragic beauty: The 1941 murder of champion Marion Miley
Marion Miley looked like the all-American girl: tall and athletic, with bronzed skin, a chestnut-brown bob and a big smile."Here is a girl with that → Read More
Good Samaritan Medical Center at 100
Good Samaritan Medical Center recently turned 100 — on May 19, 2020 — but let’s focus on another impressive number: $45.50.That’s what it cost Cynthia Bryant Turner’s parents to deliver her and take care of her in the maternity ward in 1940."It was for eight days in the hospital, a far cry from the way things are done now," writes Turner, who lives with her husband, Fred, in the Acreage. "As you… → Read More
Good Samaritan Medical Center turns 100 today
Good Samaritan Medical Center turns 100 today — May 19, 2020 — but let’s focus on another impressive number: $45.50.That’s what it cost Cynthia Bryant Turner’s parents to deliver her and take care of her in the maternity ward in 1940."It was for eight days in the hospital, a far cry from the way things are done now," writes Turner, who lives with her husband, Fred, in the Acreage. "As you can… → Read More
USGA acquires 1,000 vintage golf photos: ‘The collection is unreal’
It was a captivating mystery for a somewhat obsessed sleuth: four small photographs pasted into an old family album, for sale at auction under the category "early women’s golf."Were these photos simply images of anonymous women in hair buns and ankle-length skirts swinging golf clubs?Or were they important to history somehow?The 3.5-inch-square photos came from a Kodak box camera, popular by… → Read More
Lessons from Churchill’s nurse: Keep calm, carry on, contribute
Winston Churchill stayed up late.Often, sleep eluded him, his mind consumed with beating Hitler "I mean beat him and his powers of evil into death, → Read More
The Big Reset: It’s time to reevaluate
Make a list of what you’ve missed.Your coworkers? Your happy hour friends? Your pants that zip up?Now, think about what each of those things you miss during quarantine adds to your life.Think about what’s really valuable to you.Why? Because what we’re living through right now will fundamentally change how we do many things — for a long time and perhaps forever.It’s the Big Reset.If you Google… → Read More
What’s the 1918 flu have to do with a fourth-generation local business?
A tiny clipping in The Palm Beach Post of Oct. 15, 1918, made a major error: It said that Max Greenberg, "a leading Lake Worth merchant," had died of influenza, and his wife and sister-in-law had also died.Max was alive, but gravely ill.The news was still tragic: Max’s wife, Rose, 22, had died of pneumonia caused by the flu. She was sick for two weeks, after bringing her brother, Edward, to… → Read More