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New Story: Bayard Antique Village / Beautyrest Cabins

Posted on December 14, 2016 | 1 comment

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Reports of the death of Bayard Antique Village from the fire just before Halloween were greatly exaggerated.

The old Beautyrest Cabins in the rural outpost of Bayard became Bayard Antique Village in 1967. Between one-room cabins on the Village’s one-lane road loop: stories of murderous sawmills, century-old ghosts of prostitutes, eyeball candy, not “eye candy,” and clowns.

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Tagged Ali Mama's, Bayard, Bayard Antique Village, Bayard Inn, Beautyrest Cabins, eyeball comfit, Flannery O'Connor, Greg Rozier, Hazel Motes, Horne's Beautyrest, Horne's Pecan Candy, Interstate Highway System, Jacksonville, Jax, Jim Antone, Jim Moore, Jimmy Searcy, Mrs. Slowski, Old St. Augustine Road, Pam McCaleb, Philips Highway, Southern Gothic, Stuckey's, Tim Gilmore, U.S. 1, Vivian Searcy, Wing Hotel, Wing Inn

New Story: Museum of Southern History

Posted on August 28, 2016 | Leave a comment

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If this “history” isn’t revisionist, it’s hard to imagine what is, and it’s full of a strange loser’s condescension: anyone who does not know these fictional facts is ignorant of history.

photo by Junah Hanuj

photo by Junah Hanuj

I let myself imagine a time when the South finally leaves the Confederacy behind and allows itself to surge free into a beautiful future.

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Tagged A.L. Lewis, Abraham Lincoln Lewis, Blind Blake, Civil Rights, Confederate flag, Dylann Roof, Eartha White, Evelyn Wright, Frederick Douglas, G. Howard Bryan, Herschel, Jacksonville, James Weldon Johnson, Jax, Ku Klux Klan, Museum of Southern History, N.B. Forrest, Nathan Bedford Forrest, Ordinance of Secession, Sojourner Truth, Sons of Confederate Veterans, Southern apologists, Tim Gilmore