BURT WOLF: Travels & Traditions

#2401 Wall Street of The South
For a long time, if you wanted to be in the big leagues of business, you went to New York. That's changing. In this episode Nicholas heads to the Palm Beaches to find out why. He sits down with the people behind Volorige Capital, a quantitative hedge fund that hasn't had a losing year since 2009, tours the $10 billion development that Related Ross is building in downtown West Palm Beach, and drops in on PopStroke, Tiger Woods's reinvention of the miniature golf course.

#2402 Art in The Palm Beaches
In this episode Nicholas looks at art in the Palm Beaches: art that stands still, art that moves, and art that moves through the water. He visits the Norton Museum, tours Henry Flagler's extraordinary mansion, Whitehall, spends time with the Rybovich family who have been building what many consider genuine works of art for decades, and heads to Boynton Beach, where kinetic sculpture has turned the public spaces into an outdoor museum anyone can walk right into.

#2403 St. Augustine
St. Augustine, Florida is the oldest city in the United States. Burt tours the town, looks into the history of Henry Flagler who built a railroad that turned Florida into "The American Riviera." He also visits Flagler College and learns about their Coastal Environmental project. St. Augustine was the place where the Spanish Conquistador, Juan Ponce De Leon searched for the Fountain of Youth. Throughout the program, Burt continues that investigation, with considerable success.

#2404 What’s Cooking in Miami
In this program, Nicholas shows us how the history of Miami was shaped by its geography, climate, and the contributions of various immigrant groups. He visits six popular restaurants in the city, including the world-famous Joe’s Stone Crab, where he meets with owner Steve Sawitz and tries to get the recipe for therestaurant’s “secret sauce.”

#2405 Teach Me Something New
Burt's son Nicholas has been traveling with film crews since he was a year old and on each trip, he learned something new. In this program, Nicholas joins his dad in South Florida, to learn a few new skills — how to surf fish, how to scuba dive, how to take photographs in a bird sanctuary, and how to cook and eat a lobster.

#2406 History of The Resort Hotel
Burt and Nicholas set out to discover the origins of the word "resort," first used in England to describe holiday towns like Brighton, where visitors stayed and dined at local hotels. Then they journey to the Palm Beaches, Florida, where the idea of a resort has transformed the area into one of the world's most iconic vacation destinations.

#2407 Rejuvenation in The Palm Beaches
In this program, Burt and Nicholas explore what it means to rejuvenate your mind and body. They travel to the Palm Beaches, Florida, where rejuvenation takes center stage, offering countless ways to restore youthful energy. Whether it’s fitness, pickleball, hydrotherapy or simply walking on the beach, they discover that this destination has something for everyone, attracting visitors from around the world to rediscover their vitality.

#2408 Gone Fishing, part 1
We discover the history of deep sea sport fishing and why the Palm Beaches of Florida became the world epicenter of the sport. We learn why people like Ernest Hemingway and the Lone Ranger were attracted to the sport. We visit with the slightly dysfunctional family that invented the sport fishing boat and see how those boats and the family have changed over the years.

#2409 Gone Fishing, part 2
Burt takes a look at the nautical phrases that have come into popular use like 'cup of joe' and 'feeling blue'. We discover the importance of catch-and-release programs, and the women who have become stars of the deep-sea fishing sport. We meet a mechanic who flies his plane around the world to fix deep sea sports fishing boats and we witness Burt catching and releasing a 7- (or maybe 5-) foot shark.

#2410 The Beach Vacation, part 1
Until the middle of the 1700s, beaches were considered dangerous. It was where you encountered pirates and thieves and invaders. But shortly after the industrial revolution got started, doctors began recommending beach vacations to improve your health. Burt takes a look at the history of beach vacations and visits the Palm Beach area on the east coast of Florida, which was one of the earliest destinations for a beach vacation in America. He visits a marine center that is saving the sea turtle, an Equestrian competition, the Bear Trap at the PGA National Resort, and sees an extraordinary example of medical tourism.

#2411 The Beach Vacation, part 2
In Part Two of The Beach Vacation, Burt returns to the Palm Beach area of Florida, canoes along the Loxahatcheeriver, climbs a mound built for the rulers of ancient native tribes of Florida, finds out how baseball changed to favor the long-ball hitter, stops into the oldest fishing club in America and goes deep sea fishing. His extraordinary catch is documented in an actual photograph.

#2412 Palm Beaches
In this program, Burt takes a look at how the Palm Beaches were developed, the Norton Museum of Art, a man who was able to change the law so you could get divorced if your spouse was insane, and the history of polo. He also shows us a great place to learn to snorkel, where you can get some excellent antique jewelry, a museum and park dedicated to Japanese culture and a lighthouse with a secret detection station that helped sink over 60 German submarines during the Second World War.