News from Palm Beach Post staff writer Michelle Mundy published in Neighborhood Post, May 9th, 2001.

[UPDATE: The latest installment on local history by Helen Vogt Greene is published in today’s Lake Worth Herald. Read a short excerpt at the end of this blog post today.]

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and read the side-caption:

First paragraph of story reads, “Helen Vogt Greene loves history. She loves it so much she becomes a piece of history every time she talks to a group.”

And two more excerpts:

This month [May 2001] Greene will become the Statue of Liberty for two of these presentations, which she first started during her role as curator and historian for the Museum of Lake Worth.

Greene first learned of this passion for history when she was a senior in high school.

“I was asked by my history teacher to take over a freshman class in history while she went to a conference,” she says. “I thought that was a wonderful introduction to history.”

and. . .

Greene then joined the Pioneers of the City of Lake Worth and became a member of the Palm Beach Historic Review Board, which she chaired for six years. The mayor also offered her a chance to start a museum for Lake Worth, she says, didn’t take her long to accept.

“That became a reality only because of the people of Lake Worth,” says the ■■-year-old. The museum is in the city hall annex, which she helped place on the National Register of Historic Places . . . Greene says she is really proud of the 1992 Certificate of Commendation the museum received from the American Association of State and Local History.

“We had to submit papers to qualify, and we were one of 14 in the U.S. to receive the reward,” she says.

on the public interested in City history. . .

“They look to the past, but only to guide them to the future. My love of history is based on the people because people make history.”


The Lake Worth Historical Museum is located in the City Hall Annex in Lake Worth Beach at 414 Lake Ave. on the 2nd floor. The hours are Wednesday and Friday from 1:00–4:00 and tours by appointment. Call 561-533-7354 for more information.


Thank You for visiting once again today. . .

Now the latest
installment in 2019.

Here is the latest by our local historian in The Lake Worth Herald headlined, “The Image Maker” on p. 3 above the fold; two short excerpts:


Every community has at least one person that is accountable for the image it shares to our new comers. Those special places that we take our friends to see and enjoy. This may be a new name, but Professor Louis de Gottrau was Lake Worth’s first ‘image maker’.

From the white dirty sand, scrub pines, palmettos, and sand spurs, Prof. de Gottrau was hired by Bryant and Greenwood to design and cultivate this virgin, pristine land into a ‘Garden of Eden’. He was Lake Worth’s first horticulturist.


There are nine more paragraphs to this story, two archival photographs and a caption that partly reads about the place called Lake Worth circa 1911,

Louis de Gottrau, Lake Worth’s first horticulturist, brought beauty to the virgin, untouched land.

There is Lake Worth the region and a place now called Lake Worth Beach and The Lake Worth Herald is there to cover it all. For this week’s front page headlines click on this link.

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