By Stephen Cripps | gargoyle@flagler.edu Every year, hundreds of small Floridian communities will suddenly feel a bit more crowded as millions of travelers descend upon their tropical towns. Even with snowbirds returning to their more temperate climates at the end of spring break, St. Augustine, Florida,…
Listen On SoundCloud By Katherine Lewin | gargoyle@flagler.edu Renda Writer paints love – over and over again. One of his first murals, spray-painted in Wynwood Art District in Miami, Florida, features “I am love” more than million times. In the last five years, Writer has…
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 Many of Flagler College’s…
By Dustin Fletcher | gargoyle@flagler.edu What’s less than five millimeters in length and is in every body of water on the planet? Microplastics are being researched at Flagler College by Coastal Environmental Science students and professors and could possibly affect the city in many ways in the not so distant…
By Connor Reilly | gargoyle@flagler.edu Human trafficking, an international black market enterprise, reaches outside the borders of the United States as well as within. Non-profits, large and small, oftentimes help combat the sale of individuals by tasking survivors to dwell on their experiences to move…
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,…