Jacksonville, Florida
The City of Jacksonville released the following statement on August 16, 2021, “The State of Florida, in partnership with the City of Jacksonville, will be shifting the Regeneron Antibody Treatment Site to the Main Library Conference Center, 304 North Main Street via the Main Street Read More …
The Title & Trust Company of Florida Building is a historic site in Jacksonville, Florida. It is located at 200 East Forsyth Street. On February 23, 1990, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. From the Florida Division of Historical Resources: Read More …
The Treaty of Moultrie Creek between the Seminole Indians and the U.S. government was signed on this date in 1823 as a result of the U.S. acquisition of Florida two years earlier. Terms stipulated in the treaty included the concentration of the Seminoles onto a Read More …
Open Books is a non-profit, volunteer-run bookstore. Proceeds from the sale of books and donations support the Prison Book Project, operating since 2000. The Prison Book Project currently sends around 10,000 books each year to indigent inmates in Florida prisons, one of the largest prison Read More …
The USS “Florida” (BB-30), a dreadnought battleship, was commissioned into the United States Navy on this date in 1911. She was armed with a main battery of ten 12-inch guns, sixteen 5-inch guns, and two torpedo tubes. The USS Florida served during World War I Read More …
National Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15 to October 15) celebrates the histories, cultures and contributions of Americans whose ancestors came from Spain, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central and South America. Begun in 1968 as Hispanic Heritage Week under President Lyndon Johnson, the observation was expanded Read More …
The late great, Anthony Bourdain called the Negroni his “perfect drink,” saying “it will ‘hit you like a freight train, after four or five” In Italy, a Negroni is what’s known as an aperitivo; something to open your palette, start your evening and get you Read More …
The Prisoners Literature Project is an all-volunteer, non-profit group that sends free books directly to prisoners who request them from throughout the United States. Working almost continuously for thirty years, the U.S. prison books program has gotten (literally) tons of books into the American prison Read More …
The city of St. Augustine was established on this date in 1565. Pedro Menéndez de Avilés sighted land on August 28. He named the site San Augustín after Augustine of Hippo. Menéndez sailed through the inlet into Matanzas Bay and disembarked near the Timucua town Read More …
The infamous “Labor Day” hurricane made landfall near Craig Key in the Florida Keys on this date in 1935. It was the third most intense Atlantic hurricane on record, making landfall as a Category 5 storm with winds exceeding 156 mph. A ten-car evacuation train Read More …
The Space Shuttle Discovery launched from Kennedy Space Center on its first mission (41-D), to deploy three communications satellites on this date in 1984. Since that inaugural flight, Discovery flew 149 million miles during 39 missions and completed 5,830 orbits of the earth, during 365 Read More …
Today in 1965 The USPS issued a 5-cent stamp commemorating the 400th anniversary of the founding of the oldest continuously occupied European settlement in North America; St. Augustine. The stamp was made available at the St. Augustine post office. A stamp identical in design, except Read More …
Timucuan Parks Foundation and the Beaches Museum will host Author and Florida Times-Union Columnist Mark Wood at its Boardwalk Talk at TPF’s “Celebrate & Explore Our Wilderness Parks” exhibition on Thursday, Aug. 19. The event will be held both in-person and virtually starting at 6:30 p.m. Read More …
On this day in 1968, Snoopy walked into a surprise birthday party, so Peanuts officials give the beagle his birthday cake and candles to blow out every Aug. 10. Some older fans believe his birthday is in October as Snoopy was introduced to the world Read More …
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Florida’s Pulitzer Prize-winning author, was born in Washington, D.C., on this date in 1896. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1939 for her best-selling novel, “The Yearling.” Rawlings lived in Cross Creek, Florida, where she wrote six novels, a volume of short Read More …
August 6th is National Root Beer Float Day. Some root beer history: Sassafras root beverages were made by indigenous peoples of the Americas for culinary and medicinal reasons before the arrival of Europeans in North America, and European culinary techniques have been applied to making Read More …
NSFW Forsaken Profits, the guys with jello shots in their pockets, they skate fast, eat ass and punk rock! They’re out of Atlanta. I first caught a performance when they played during the PIZZA FEST 4 Pre Party, here in Jax, at Shantytown Pub back Read More …
On July 31, 1968, a young, black man was reading the newspaper when he saw something that he had never seen before. With tears in his eyes, he started running and screaming throughout the house, calling for his mom. He would show his mom, and, Read More …