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Legendary jazz-rock icons Walter Becker and Donald Fagen rocked the St Augustine Amphitheatre last night; one of over four-dozen stops throughout North America for the Steely Dan Mood Swings: 8 Miles to Pancake Day Tour, and Historic City News special events photographer Mark Cubbedge was in the house.

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Historic City News readers know well that the town of St Augustine was established by Pedro Menendez de Aviles over 40 years before the Jamestown colony in Virginia. A piece of history not known by many Americans in other parts of the country, but one we celebrate today — 448-years later.

448th Anniversary of the Founding of St Augustine By Raphael Cosme Special to Historic City News Eric Johnson, director of the Mission Nombre de Dios, welcomed Commissioner of Culture and Sports, Roman A. Alvarez-Gonzalez of St Augustine’s Sister City, Aviles Spain, this morning for the commemoration of the 448th anniversary of the founding of the…

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The Saint Augustine Tea Party announced to Historic City News that constitutional expert, Ken Wood, will be the next guest speaker at their regular meeting on Tuesday, September 10th at 6:30 p.m. at the Village Inn.

In the last year the Cathedral Basilica has hosted the Vienna Boys Choir, the renowned Spanish group La Folia, and the Thisted Church Choir of Men and Boys from Denmark; and, this Friday evening, Father Thomas S. Willis has invited Historic City News readers to attend another notable performance.

The man whose personal archives are the foundation for the Civil Rights Library of St Augustine, Flagler College’s new Internet-based multimedia archive documenting the St Augustine Civil Rights Movement, will speak at Flagler College on September 19th as part of the College’s “Ideas and Images” program.