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LaVilla’s Progress Furniture Company

Posted on February 13, 2021 | Leave a comment

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Climb the stairs and see there’s more missing than remains of 318 Broad Street. Bernie would tell you, at Progress Furniture Company, 80 years ago, “Buy or Sell…We Treat You Well.” His father was one of two Romanian Jewish immigrants in Jacksonville named Isador Moskovitz. This collapsing commercial building provides a microcosm of decimated and mostly vanished LaVilla. A thistle blooms in bricks near the roof.

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Spiritual Lighthouse Church

Posted on January 29, 2021 | 2 comments

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It was home, in the old days, to Southern preaching, bluegrass mandolin, and séances. Bluegrass gospel musicians Billie and Gordon Hamrick were staunch Southern Baptists, but Billie had “psychic visions.” The line of Spiritualist pastors here, almost all women, dates back to training by the famous psychic Edgar Cayce. In one of Jill Cook Richards’s first séances at the church, she says, her guardian angel came to her.

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Republication National Convention in Jacksonville

Posted on July 24, 2020 | Leave a comment

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Here’s the weird saga of the Republican National Convention in Jacksonville, a city plagued with perennial low self esteem and strange sitcom jokes, the story of how a mayor and a governor attempted to trade a city for scrap, how a city resisted an invasion and won, how a city started to see itself and realized it was, already, a real town. Didn’t it? It’s time it did.

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New Story: Sloan / McQueen House

Posted on August 19, 2019 | Leave a comment

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William has lived his whole life here on Spearing Street on the Eastside. Mable lived here almost half a century. Then tragedy struck. The letters on the pantry door spell, “Mable’s kitchen.” The Reverend McQueen took in boarders, but when a choir member couldn’t make rent, the pastor still paid the community’s mortgage.

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