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The Armory

Posted on January 22, 2021 | Leave a comment

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Truly this story has it all. The old Armory has stories enough for a hundred cities. There’s no way to tease it adequately. Urban exploration. Thousands of concerts, from opera to Janis Joplin and the Allman Brothers. Political debates and politicians’ funerals and boxing bouts. Stories of integration (James Weldon Johnson, Duke Ellington, Marian Anderson) defiant against Jim Crow. And a call for a future.

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El Modelo: Sensational Murder Trials, Cuban Revolutionaries

Posted on January 26, 2020 | Leave a comment

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At El Modelo Cigar Factory, Cuban revolutionaries fomented insurrection. Marie Gato, daughter of El Modelo’s owner, died, bullets to her breast, subject of Jacksonville’s most sensational trial of the 19th century. El Modelo still stands. A practitioner of the law firm that calls the building home claims to have seen Marie’s ghost. Either way, this building’s story shifted history. Click below for the first story in a three-part series.

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Tagged Alexander St. Clair-Abrams, Along This Way, Barnett Bank, Colonel William Kay, Eddie Pitzer, Edward Pitzer, el lector, El Modelo, Florida history, G.H. Gato and Co, Gabriel Hidalgo Gato, Georgia Gato, Hamilton Adams, James Weldon Johnson, Jim Moseley, José Alejandro Huau, Jose Marti, lectores, Lee Adams, Marie Louise Gato, Moseley Prichard Parrish Knight & Jones, Reuben Ragland, Ricardo Ponce, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, Three Friends, Tim Gilmore, Tom Adams