Lit Chat with Michael Ray Fitzgerald

Willow Branch Library sits in a corner of Willow Branch Park, a popular location for local musicians during the late 1960s to develop and expand their audience. Named after the “Human Be-In,” San Francisco’s 1967 counterculture celebration, Jacksonville’s “be-ins” spawned several notable acts, including the Read More …

Why do LGBTQ Teens even need a prom?

If you didn’t care about blue lives before black lives mattered, you really don’t care about blue lives, you just can’t stand the idea of black lives mattering. If you didn’t care about white history before black history month, you really don’t care about white Read More …

JPL Director Rogers apologies …not really

Jacksonville Public Library Director Tim Rogers has avoided, and or outright refused, all comment since cancelling the Storybook Pride Prom.  The Prom was for LGTBQ Youth and was to be held this Friday at Willowbranch Library. All information from him has been posted on JPL’s Read More …

JPL Director Rogers is not a good neighbor to the LGBTQ community

Who is Tim Rogers? His previous position was as executive director with The Metropolitan Library in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. Jacksonville hired him after they fired him. The Metropolitan Library Commission voted Thursday August 25, 2017 to end its employment of executive director Tim Rogers effective Read More …