点评:I've been a fan of the late Henry Flagler ever since moving down to Florida as a snowbird.
Mike Heney and Stephen Birch are also mentors of mine. So, the Copper River Northwestern Railway, the Kennecott mines in Alaska and the Henry Flagler Florida East Coast Railroad as well as his hotel enterprises in Florida, on the Atlantic coast, all became a reality during the same time period of the twentieth century.
Flagler's "Whitehall" home is now a museum, and one of the best private museum holdings in the world. I wanted to visit this for some time and I'm very fortunate that my wife also loved the half- day tour of the place we took yesterday; we were both exhausted at the end of the day. Interesting to note, is that Flagler had just an eighth-grade education and never traveled outside of the United States, although he was a millionaire before Florida and according to his partner in Standard Oil Company, John D. Rockefeller, Henry was the brains behind their partnership.
An added plus for us was, unknown to me until we got here, was that Henry's own and famous luxury railcar has been restored and is part of the entire exhibit. "This was the same private, luxurious car that carried Henry Flagler to the opening of his "Flagler's Folly," the railroad that went to sea."
翻译:自从我像候鸟一样搬到佛罗里达后,就一直很崇拜已故的亨利·弗拉格勒。
迈克·亨尼和斯蒂芬·伯奇也是我的导师。因此,在20世纪的同一时期,铜河西北铁路、阿拉斯加的肯尼科特矿、亨利·弗拉格勒佛罗里达东海岸铁路以及他在佛罗里达大西洋沿岸的酒店产业都成为了现实。
弗拉格勒的“白厅”故居现在是一座博物馆,也是世界上最好的私人博物馆之一。我一直想去参观,很幸运的是,我妻子也很喜欢我们昨天参加的半日游;一天下来,我们俩都累坏了。值得一提的是,弗拉格勒只有八年级的文化水平,而且从未离开过美国,尽管在佛罗里达之前他已经是百万富翁了。据他在标准石油公司的合伙人约翰·D·洛克菲勒说,亨利是他们合作背后的智囊。
令我们惊喜的是,直到我们来到这里,我才知道亨利·弗拉格勒那辆著名的私人豪华车厢已被修复,并成为整个展览的一部分。“这辆豪华车厢正是当年亨利·弗拉格勒乘坐前往他那条通往大海的‘弗拉格勒的愚行’——铁路——开幕式的那辆。”