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Making an Old Church — with Its Many Past Lives — Home

Posted on May 12, 2023 | Leave a comment

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Having renovated this old church and made her home here, Jennifer Raines says she’ll never live anywhere else. When Mike Bennett lived here in 1970, it was a “Jesus Freak” hippy commune. A young Vietnam vet named Larry Colton, missing for more than 40 years now, lived here too. A Haitian church destroyed by arson was the last congregation to call this old church home. What lives this building has lived!

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Project: Cold Case — “Because One Unsolved Murder Is Too Many”

Posted on April 21, 2023 | Leave a comment

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Of all 50 states, Florida has the sixth highest number of unsolved homicides: between 1965 and 2021, nearly 20,000. Yet the motto of Project: Cold Case is “Because One Unsolved Murder Is Too Many.” The advocacy platform grew from Cliff Backmann’s unsolved 2009 murder. Now Project: Cold Case represents families from Florida to Alaska, though every family’s grief is the center of the world.

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When Jax Banned Mickey Spillane

Posted on March 24, 2023 | Leave a comment

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When Jax banned Mickey Spillane, the tough-talking crime novelist and his “blonde bombshell” wife Sherri came to town. Activist Warren Folks wanted all funding for the Jacksonville Public Library system halted until every book was screened. Spillane said if Folks thought this book was bad, “Wait until he sees the next one!”

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Robert Broward’s Favorite Design: The Unitarian Universalist Church of Jacksonville

Posted on March 3, 2023 | 1 comment

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Recuperating from a nearly fatal car crash, architect Robert Broward drew the first sketches of his design for the Unitarian Universalist Church of Jacksonville in his hospital bed. Near the end of his life, he said it was his favorite design.

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The Story of Storyland U.S.A.

Posted on January 20, 2023 | 1 comment

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More than a decade before Disney came to Florida, Storyland U.S.A. occupied 10 acres along the Arlington Expressway, featuring static exhibits of nursery rhymes along dirt trails. Storyland didn’t last long, but it influenced Marc Suttle’s earliest remembered dreams and Cheryl Joseph can still see the witch from Hansel and Gretel.

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The Graveyard by the Front Porch on West 17th Street

Posted on December 17, 2022 | Leave a comment

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The cemetery lies in the front yard. The side of the house faces the street. The earliest grave is from 1879. The farmland that Elder Eugene Lindsley once fertilized with ash from the city crematorium is gone. So is the Adventist church. Who lies in three of the 10 graves beneath the ancient oak, no one knows.

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The Hidden House, by Ted Pappas, a Mediterranean Revival Revival

Posted on October 21, 2022 | 1 comment

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This house hidden behind a house on the river, is both classical and contemporary. Ted Pappas designed it when he was restoring the Mediterranean Revival mansion called Epping Forest. Indeed, you could call this house Mediterranean Revival Revival. Its current occupant must go unnamed. He does not speak into his shoe, though he did once have a STU-III.

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When the City Dumped Sewage Sludge on the Regency Dunes

Posted on October 1, 2022 | Leave a comment

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National headlines announced fecal matter raining across the city. Sewage lines collapsed without being replaced. Treatment facilities were overwhelmed. Tankers dumped sewage sludge on the sand dunes behind Regency Square Mall where kids had jumped their dune buggies and dads shot World War II rifles. The mayor jumped into the sludge wars.

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The Fisherwoman, Poet and Preacher in the Lost Black Community Called Hogan

Posted on September 10, 2022 | Leave a comment

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The 92 year old black preacher woman recalls Bishop Noah Nothing and on back to Sister Savannah, who ate nothing but the fish she caught, recited poetry, preached and carried her shotgun everywhere. She lived in the lost settlement called Hogan. Here’s what story still echoes in the landscape.

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Updating the Mysteries of the Burdette / Clarke House

Posted on September 2, 2022 | Leave a comment

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A significant part of the story is chasing dead ends and phantom leads, balancing contradictory evidence, demanding ghosts stand still and be more present. So here’s the story of the Burdette / Clarke House updated, with its frustrated artist, abandoned sanitarium and moonlight shrimping.

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Making an Old Church — with Its Many Past Lives — Home

Project: Cold Case — “Because One Unsolved Murder Is Too Many”

When Jax Banned Mickey Spillane

Robert Broward’s Favorite Design: The Unitarian Universalist Church of Jacksonville

The Story of Storyland U.S.A.

The Graveyard by the Front Porch on West 17th Street

The Hidden House, by Ted Pappas, a Mediterranean Revival Revival

When the City Dumped Sewage Sludge on the Regency Dunes

The Fisherwoman, Poet and Preacher in the Lost Black Community Called Hogan

Updating the Mysteries of the Burdette / Clarke House

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