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Reposting the Story of the Plague Year

Posted on March 27, 2020 | Leave a comment

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Epidemics are not new. Nor the exception, they’re the rule. In 1888, the jaundiced skeleton who walked through Jax an archetype of death and disease, the newspapers called “Yellow Jack.” Political battles ensued. Jacksonville, with Yellow Fever rampant, locked down under “Shotgun Quarantine.” All these years later, this new pandemic, nobody’s firing cannons in the streets. Not yet, at least.

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Anna Fletcher’s Final Home

Posted on September 5, 2017 | Leave a comment

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Photographs of ghosts, of ectoplasm. She died here, in her final home, on Riverside Avenue.

The wife of the Jacksonville mayor and longest-serving U.S. senator from Florida testified before Congress, against Houdini, on behalf of Spiritualism.

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