City Clerk Dan Davis has invited Historic City News readers to join in as the City of Bunnell Centennial Committee kicks off its celebration with the Historic Tour and Scavenger Hunt on Saturday, January 12, beginning at 2:00 p.m.

Freedom Road managing partner Derek Boyd Hankerson announced to local Historic City News reporters today that as the presidential inaugural parade makes its way down 15 blocks of Pennsylvania Avenue, Monday, January 21; the National Park Service Gullah-Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor Commission will be included.

Historic City News readers are invited to attend the next Archaeology Lecture Series presentation “Flight to Freedom: An ongoing North American saga” on Tuesday January 8 at 7:00 p.m. in the Flagler Room of Flagler College.

Jennie Hamilton Skillman of Crescent Beach passed away peacefully at her home just before dawn on Christmas Day, following a quick but fearless bout with cancer; her daughter Maggie and dear friend Toni Brown were at her side.

Communications Manager Barbara Golden provided Historic City News local reporters with highlights of entertainment activities available to visitors and residents of St Augustine and St Johns County this week.

Our daughters and their husbands were in St Augustine this weekend, so my wife and I picked up our son and the seven of us decided to start a December tradition — we spent the evening together; enjoying dinner at Gypsy Cab and touring the Nights of Lights.

Historic City News readers know that thousands of Jews fled Spain during the mid-16th century to avoid the Spanish Inquisition; giving rise to speculation that some may have accompanied Pedro Menendez in 1565 — which would make St Augustine the first Jewish settlement in the New World.

Derek Boyd Hankerson, Freedom Road 1, LLC Managing Partner, announced to local Historic City News reporters that VISIT FLORIDA, the state’s official source for travel planning, has awarded the organization a Small Business Partner Marketing Grant for the 2012-2013 Fiscal Year.