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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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Love and Loss in the Harrison Pickett House

Posted on January 30, 2019 | Leave a comment

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Great love and heinous crime have called this old house home. The Thompsons took care of old Mr. Pickett upstairs. Having butchered and farmed all his life, now the former Duval County Commissioner felt a sense of communal love and appreciation at the end of his years. When Patrick Allen Herald committed his first crimes in the house, he probably hadn’t begun murdering prostitutes yet.

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