Applicants will have a two-week window in which to make their application if they want to be considered for the newly created position of Arts, Culture, and Heritage Tourism Development Director for the St. Johns County Cultural Council, according to an announcement received from President Tommy Bledsoe by Historic City News today.
Historic City News has been notified that Florida Memorial University, South Florida’s only historically black university, will officially dedicate the recently restored A. L. Lewis Archway Plaza during a ceremony celebrating the school’s former entryway and historic roots in St. Augustine.
In Monday night’s regular meeting of the St. Augustine City Commission, Commissioner Errol Jones told Historic City News reporters and the public about what he sees as the importance of maintaining local control of the state-owned Excelsior Building in Lincolnville.
Program Coordinator, Marci Poston, with the St. Johns County Education Foundation, informed Historic City News local reporters that she is currently seeking volunteers to become mentors to students in middle and high school as part of the Take Stock in Children Program.
The City of St. Augustine has reported to Historic City News that the federal 450th Commemoration Commission will be in the city to hold its inaugural meeting on Monday, July 18th.
Historic City News has learned from U. S. Park Ranger Jeffrey Edel that, in the colonial era, a peculiar type of cannonball was used in our area with a purpose greater than to blow holes in attacking ships.
As representatives from the federal 450th Commemoration Commission prepare for their inagural meeting in St Augustine, representatives from Florida state agencies have already gathered to finalize plans for the 500th anniversary of Florida’s founding by Ponce de Leon in 1513.
