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The story (stories) of Riverside High School, formerly Robert E. Lee, including the girl who’d become my mother, how the yearbook editor-in-chief Ted Pappas embraced his Greek heritage, Vaudeville and Southern Rock, and the fierce campaign to change the school’s name.

Riverside High School (formerly Robert E. Lee), Part 1: The Girl Who Would Become My Mother

Riverside High School (formerly Robert E. Lee), Part 2: Ted Pappas Becoming Ted Pappas

Riverside High School (formerly Robert E. Lee), Part 3: History According to Vaudeville

Riverside High School (formerly Robert E. Lee), Part 4: Becoming Riverside High School

Riverside High School (formerly Robert E. Lee), Part 5 — Coda: The Prehistory of Friday Night Drums

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Photo by Wanda Glennon Canaday

It’s been eight years since my sister and I wandered into the Arctic Discoverer. The ship remains in the same place, but nobody can access it now. All it does is deteriorate. Here’s the original story, with photography by Wanda Glennon Canaday.

Photo by Wanda Glennon Canaday

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Warren H. Folks, operating his barbershop at two polarities Downtown, was Jacksonville’s representative of its furthest right politics for decades. He knew best how to terrorize his enemies, but also how to “own” them in his own culture wars. His legacy foreshadows today’s Florida politics.

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Taylor Hardwick never saw the completed restoration of this greatest work, Jacksonville’s Old Main Library, but he walked through the abandoned building with Sherry Magill, president of The Jessie Ball duPont Fund, just before the work began. The Jessie is one of the greatest Mid-Century Modern designs in Florida and its salvation one of our greatest preservation stories.

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Nobody questioned the fact that Gary Lynn Webster, a former gospel choir director and high school music teacher, had murdered and dismembered his teenage bride on Jacksonville’s Westside. The jury still found him innocent. One female juror regretted the verdict.