When most people think about the Underground Railroad, visions of black families trekking nervously through the forest under the cover of darkness invariably come to mind. An elaborate system of safe houses in the late 1700s and 1800s where escaped slaves found sanctuary on the road to freedom, the Underground Railroad stretched from the Southern…
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Henry Flagler Watches Over Beloved City
Alternately called cruel, philanthropic, pitiless and visionary in his lifetime, Henry Morrison Flagler (1830-1913) was a complicated man. Though a hard worker, Flagler was widely recognized as a ruthless businessman. His business dealings, along with those of partner John D. Rockefeller’s, were laid out in painstaking detail by one bold muckraker of the era, Ida…
Open for Summer
It’s here! The season of fun, flip flops and fruity umbrella drinks is upon us! In other parts of the country, spring transitions to summer subtly with fewer rainy days, longer daylight hours and the smell of wild honeysuckle hanging in the still air. In northeast Florida, summer enters with floats and fanfare. Since 1946,…
Florida Faces and Places 