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The Tortuous Tale of Tarzan and Darlyn on Trout River

Posted on August 18, 2022 | Leave a comment

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When Darlyn Finch Kuhn was eight years old, her brother spotted the monkey on a fencepost by the side of the road. Bringing Tarzan into the family for two years was a wild experience. Where did he come from? (And where did he go?) How do we contextualize Tarzan amongst urban legends of the Riverside monkeys and Monkey Farm and Silver Springs escapees or the thousands of monkeys who’ve called Florida home?

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The Triangle Bar and All That’s Left of Old Lem Turner

Posted on July 10, 2022 | Leave a comment

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One block is all that’s left of Old Lem Turner Road where it met the Turner Ferry. Some seem to think the Triangle Bar has been here about that long. This is where Jesse Carver brought his granddaughter on the first night of her life in 1972, where J.W. Rich, who killed Johnnie Mae Chappell, all but lived for 30 years, where the Trout River Bridge burned in the Civil War. Stories still accrue.

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New Story: Poisoning Durkeeville: Fairfax Street Wood Treaters / Howard Feed Mills / American Motors Export Company

Posted on December 5, 2020 | Leave a comment

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It’s a story of an automobile empire that never was, of a “Mediterranean-style” town vetoed by the Great Depression, of a wood treatment facility that poisoned a black neighborhood for 30 years. The multiple lives of the old American Motors Export Building still haunt these 12 acres in the middle of Durkeeville.

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Tagged AMEC, American Motors Export Company, Chromated Copper Arsenate, Continental Can Company, Durkeeville, Ennis Davis, Environmental Protection Agency, Ernest Lundy, Fairfax Street Wood Treaters, Florida Departments of Environmental Protection, George Howard, Granada Jacksonville, Harold Saxelbye, Health and of Financial Services, Henry Innes, Howard Feed Mills, Innes coup, Innes producer, Innes sedan, Innes Touring Car, Jack Spottswood, Jacksonville Brewing Company, Jax Beer, jax psycho geo, Lawrence Webb Howard, Marsh and Saxelbye, Moncrief Creek, Mulford Marsh, R.V. Daniels Elementary School, Reclaiming Jacksonville, Representative Tracie Davis, superfund site, Susie E. Tolbert Elementary, Tim Gilmore, Tracie Davis, Trout River, Veri-Best, Wood Treaters LLC

New Story: Tim Armstrong at Armstrong Farm Has a Message: “Eat Your Yard, Jax!”

Posted on June 12, 2020 | Leave a comment

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Tim Armstrong’s both Old Florida and new. He’s in the business of springing life from compost and earth, constant renewal, though his family’s been in Florida “since the last Indian war.” Three generations ran a steamboat on the Apalachicola River. He walked to his elementary school and high school in Jacksonville’s Woodstock Park neighborhood, but he’s no provincial. His farm, which works with special needs kids across the city, grows and sells native plants and plants from every continent but Antarctica.

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Walking the Vanished Old Panama Road

Posted on April 12, 2020 | Leave a comment

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The Old Panama Road disappeared beneath the Northside of the city 120 years ago. This story tracks it. It heads north from the murder of Marie Gato, past Club Steppin’ Out, through the diary of a black Civil War soldier reading Lord Byron, a Spanish American War camp teeming with Typhoid Fever and the burning of a sawmill the size of a small town.

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Jax Zoo (For Harry Crews, Jiggs and Gandai)

Posted on September 6, 2019 | Leave a comment

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In Harry Crews’s 1992 novel Scar Lover, the Jax Zoo becomes the scene of Southern Gothic anti-epiphany. For years, descriptions of the zoo in the news sounded hardly more pathetic than in Crews. If what happened to Jiggs seems unforgiveable, maybe, hopefully, the baby gorilla named Gandai can offer us all redemption.

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How Mayor Hazouri Defeated Stink / History of the City’s Greatest Offender

Posted on September 29, 2018 | Leave a comment

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When Jacksonville’s air ranked most fatal, when parts of the documentary The Smell of Money aired nationally, when the city was best-known for its stink, Mayor Tommy Hazouri declared war on odor. The oldest chemical plant in the city still offends. It began more than a century ago.

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Tagged Alton Box Company, BMW, Buckman Sewage, Crestwood, Crude Sulphate Turpentine, CST, Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, Druid Hill Lane, Earl Thomas, Environmental Protection Agency, George Herbert, George Robbins, Glidden, Glidden Chemical Company, Great Stocking Rot, Gwen Yates, Gwendolyn Yates, Jacksonville, Jacksonville Environmental Protection, Jacksonville: The Consolidation Story, James Crooks, Jan Hill, jaxpsychogeo, Jefferson Smurfit, Joseph Hagan, LyondellBasell, Mattie Browning, Melissa Bush, Mike Templeton, Mike Tipping, Millennium Specialty Chemicals, Moncrief Creek, Norwood, Pinova Holdings, Prime Osborn, Renessenz LLC, Robert P.T. Young, SCM Glidco, SCM Organics, Seminole Kraft, Sharonda Powell, Standard Turpentine Co., Symrise, The Smell of Money, Tim Gilmore, Tommy Hazouri, Trout River, Union Camp Corporation, Wellington Cummer, William C. Gentry, William Gentry, World Cars, Yellow Fallout

Goat Island, the Bartchletts, and Tim Gilmore’s New Book, Goat Island Hermit

Posted on August 3, 2018 | 1 comment

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On August 23 at 6:30 pm at the Jacksonville Historical Society, Tim Gilmore will launch, read from, and sign his newest book, Goat Island Hermit: The State of Florida vs. Rollians Christopher.

Here’s an archived story about the Bartchletts, who lived on a different part of Goat Island. In it, you’ll find art made on sawfish bills and manatee ribs and a pretty girl milking a goat.

You are invited: https://www.facebook.com/events/314940972382209/

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Tag Archives: Trout River

The Tortuous Tale of Tarzan and Darlyn on Trout River

The Triangle Bar and All That’s Left of Old Lem Turner

New Story: Poisoning Durkeeville: Fairfax Street Wood Treaters / Howard Feed Mills / American Motors Export Company

New Story: Tim Armstrong at Armstrong Farm Has a Message: “Eat Your Yard, Jax!”

Walking the Vanished Old Panama Road

Jax Zoo (For Harry Crews, Jiggs and Gandai)

How Mayor Hazouri Defeated Stink / History of the City’s Greatest Offender

Goat Island, the Bartchletts, and Tim Gilmore’s New Book, Goat Island Hermit

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