By Hasani Malone | gargoyle@flagler.edu The lively sounds of a keyboard, muffled behind the heavy door of room 323 in Kenan Hall, grew louder when Dr. Carl Williams, a deaf education professor at Flagler, reached the door. As one student sat at the keyboard and…
By Katie Garwood | gargoyle@flagler.edu Led by Compassionate St. Augustine, The Chimes Project at Robert B. Hayling Freedom Park is a commemoration to St. Augustine’s Civil Rights history. The public art exhibit features interactive chimes, and a bench, crafted by sculptor Joe Segal, called “Toward.”…
By Jess Zsiga | gargoyle@flagler.edu I am from the most densely populated county in Florida, and despite the exception of a few blocks of downtown St. Petersburg, Pinellas County is surprisingly limited on options for buying local. So, when I made the move…
By Katherine Hamilton | gargoyle@flagler.edu The same girl who spiritedly waved to her mother from the top of a corn silo she had climbed, and the same woman who wanted Christmas decorations on her house all- year round, is the same woman whose 14-year-old cold…
By Kyra Moree | gargoyle@flagler.edu Plastic bans protect the aquatic and environmental assets and are designed to stop the use of non-recyclable plastic items, which have a harmful impact on the environment. These bans prohibit retail sales establishments from making available plastic checkout bags, plastic water bottles,…
By Adriana Cabezas | gargoyle@flagler.edu At the tender age of 8, Jonathan Orellana left home and traveled alone on a perilous 2,000-mile journey from El Salvador to the U.S.-Mexico border. He risked it all to start a new life and live out his version of…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-wb_JC6InI&t=1s Watch as Flagler College Student, Cody Puckett, details his encounters with racial profiling and discrimination he has faced as an Asian-American.
By Lauren Schroeder | gargoyle@flagler.edu Each year in Florida, manatees are dying from cold stress syndrome due cold winter water temperatures. In Apollo Beach this year, “35 died from cold stress syndrome due to the cold snap here in Florida from Jan. 1 to the…
This three-part series will be covering my experience as I was able to see the process of archiving history in The Old Governor’s House, and most importantly, how that affects historic St. Augustine as a whole. By Nora Heyser | gargoyle@flagler.edu Most people in the…
By Katherine Hamilton | gargoyle@flagler.edu Despite changes to St. Augustine regulations, protestors have continued to gather and have come together since the mid-1980s in an attempt to have horse-drawn-carriages banned from the streets. The dilemma lies within varying perspectives of what constitutes animal abuse, as…