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The 500th Story

Posted on January 1, 2020 | Leave a comment

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The 500th JaxPsychoGeo story. About time. About how my dreams after my father’s death differ from the dreams I had when my mother died. About why I started this bizarre website. About a lynching my friend’s father witnessed. And about the perspective a 1.8 billion year old piece of mountain granite provides.

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New Story: The Whipping Post

Posted on August 3, 2019 | Leave a comment

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Sometimes Gregg Allman felt like he’d been tied, in 1969, to the whipping post. Thomas Frederick Davis, in 1925, author of the History of Jacksonville, Florida, said the whole idea of a whipping post was fiction. In 1911, he praised it.

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New Story: Hemming Park: Race and Brutality in the Genius Loci

Posted on April 15, 2017 | Leave a comment

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Friday night, April 7, 2017. Several Jacksonville police officers hold 155 lb Connell Crooms, an unarmed black man, down on the ground in Hemming Park, while Officer B.D. (Benjamin Daniel) McEwan crouches over Crooms and punches him repeatedly.

Astonishingly. Perhaps impudently. Probably just ignorantly. Which is no excuse. The root of “ignorance” is “ignore.” Sheriff Mike Williams begins his April 10^th statement about the Hemming Park beatings and arrests with the word “Historically.”

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