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New Story: Old St. Johns River Lighthouse

Posted on February 28, 2019 | Leave a comment

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When I climbed the lighthouse in the year 2000, we found, in place of the light, the nest of a great night bird of prey. The Old St. Johns Lighthouse should stand for hundreds of years, perhaps a thousand, says Herschel Shepard, the architect who restored it. The door’s long buried in the risen ground. Wanton S. Webb called it a “pretty romance,” the story of a retired maritime sergeant who locked his daughter in the lighthouse a century and a half ago.

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New Story: Potter’s Field (Hillside Cemetery) and Howell’s Morning Glory Chapel

Posted on August 7, 2016 | Leave a comment

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The priests called the potter’s field Haceldama, or “field of blood.”

“There will be about 10 that no matter what we do we will not be able to identify them. One doesn’t have a head or legs, so even if we had a dental chart, what could we do?”

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