By Holly Hearn Flagler College added the cinematic arts major three years ago- and since then they have developed a new way of teaching through their film project “A Book of Freedom: The Confessions of Francisco Menéndez.” Led by Communications Professor and Coordinator of Cinematic Arts Tracy Halcomb, PhD., and Visiting Filmmaker and Director Jim Gilmore, students in the program were able to get both class…
By Sophia Cardona A thunder-like noise echoed through the island of Vieques at dusk on a Monday in 1999. It turned out to be two bombs that killed security guard Davis Sanes Rodriguez and injured four other people. They were mistakenly dropped by the U.S….
By Joules Margot 16-year-old Susan “Chubby” Palmer Pollock struggled with arithmetic. She made a 78 in the subject and as most teenagers would, promised to “do better next time.” Unlike most teenagers, however, Chubby did not attend a modern high school. The year, for her,…
Photos by Kaia Wright
By Chloe Smith When Gayle Phillips walked through the doors to the Lincolnville Museum and Cultural Center for the first time, she had no idea the role she would play. Now, after almost eight years of transforming a building on its last legs into a…
A building that once housed St. Augustine’s black high school is open to the public as the Lincolnville Museum and Cultural Center, but its parking lot is empty.
By Shelby Gillis | gargoyle@flagler.edu While walking through downtown St. Augustine, almost everything you stumble across has a story behind it, most of which stretch all the way back to four and a half centuries ago. Next September marks the 450th anniversary of St. Augustine’s founding….
An interview with William (Mayhem) Macrae, St. Augustine’s pirate magician.
By Tiffanie Reynolds| gargoyle@flagler.edu
Historic Downtown St. Augustine will now get much needed restoration under the management of University of Florida.
The university was selected as part of a bill arranged by State Rep. William Proctor, who thought a partnership would better fund the projects without taxing the city.
“It occurred to me at the time that Pensacola has a number of houses of this type and that the state provides some money for their maintenance through the University of West Florida. I raised that issue and the city commission asked to see if we could pass comparable legislation,” said Proctor, District 20 Florida House Representative.
By Kelly Gibbs | gargoyle@flagler.edu
When I moved to St. Augustine from Gainesville two years ago, I never dreamed I’d one day sit on a sidewalk shooting the breeze with two older black men taking pictures of a former slave cabin and sharing neighborhood gossip.
I was excited to find my own cheap apartment down the street from campus in Lincolnville in August 2009. I was told I was moving into a “mixed neighborhood” by my landlady, but didn’t understand the phrase.