By Katie Garwood | gargoyle@flagler.edu Less than a mile from downtown St. Augustine, where thousands of visitors stroll around daily, snapping photos, and riding in horse-drawn carriages is a neighborhood that’s seemingly worlds away. In West Augustine, a predominantly African American neighborhood, a Family Dollar…
By Mallory Hopkins | gargoyle@flagler.edu Imagine getting a prescription but instead of a medication it says ‘sunshine and fresh air.’ Ayolane Halusky is the naturalist for the St. Johns County Parks and Recreation Department and he thinks that everyone could benefit from more time outside,…
By Nora Heyser | gargoyle@flagler.edu When people pass by the scene of a car accident, there are a few moments of time in which you are suspended, by both empathy and fear, visual elements taking over the senses. Flashing lights, heavy traffic. Perhaps it’s raining,…
By Mara Mazar | gargoyle@flagler.edu With a blue wagon full of gifts behind her, Ashley Smith, dream manager for Dreams Come True of Jacksonville, was on a mission to find chocolate milk for one of her patients. Dreams Come True of Jacksonville is the only…
By Jordan Taylor | gargoyle@flagler.edu Does your dog repeat actions, develop special routines, not make eye contact and fixate on an activity with abnormal focus? Are they resistant to change, sensitive to sound or light and have social issues? Most people know about the autism spectrum for humans, but…
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…