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This recording features Gerald W. Moore and Anne Paulk discussing the multigenerational legacy of the Moore family in South Florida. Moore traces the family lineage from colonial New England — including the donation of land by Reverend John Moore and Colonel Stephen Moore to the U.S. government, which became the site of West Point — through the family's southward migration to Florida. He describes how Theodore Vivian "T.V." Moore established a pineapple and produce farming operation in the Buena Vista neighborhood of Miami around 1903, earning the nickname "Pineapple King," and how subsequent family members developed the Moore Building on Northeast Second Avenue — a landmark in what is now Miami's Design District — and donated acreage to the City of Miami that became Moore Park. Moore also discusses the family's continuing philanthropic work through the Gardner Foundation, with a focus on educational opportunity for underserved youth, and the establishment of First Serve Miami at Moore Park, a tennis-based youth development program co-founded with tennis figures Butch Buchholz and Arthur Ashe. Anne Paulk then speaks in the character of her great-grandmother, Mary "Monty" Moore, describing Monty's wide-ranging civic activism: founding the Girl Scouts in Miami, leading the Miami Women's Club, managing the Dade County campaign of Congresswoman Ruth Bryan Owen (daughter of William Jennings Bryan), and establishing Bay Oaks, a senior residential community still operating today. The interview documents pioneer family history, women's civic leadership, and community philanthropy in greater Miami. The interview was conducted by John Bachay.

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