St Augustine based Historic Tours of America is proud to announce to Historic City News that Patriot Service Dogs, whose goal is to provide trained Service Dogs to our wounded service men and women with PTSD, mobility disabilities or loss of a limb, are visiting Old Town Trolley today.
In honor of Veterans Day, Historic City News readers will receive free entry for everyone at Florida’s state parks, including Fort Mose, on Tuesday, November 11. The Florida Park Service encourages residents and visitors to celebrate veterans and active military personnel by bringing them to one of the 171 state parks and trails to enjoy outdoor activities.
Real Estate developer and general contractor Len Weeks goes before the city Code Enforcement Board Wednesday to answer for a series of violations that led to the emergency demolition of the historic 200-year-old Pedro Fornell House located at 62 Spanish Street in downtown St Augustine.
Veterans of tomorrow thank veterans of yesterday
Michael Isam
Special Features Writer
Special to HISTORIC CITY NEWS
Back in the day, the people that stood out were the “Rainbows”. The name given to those freshly arrived to boot camp. To those yet to receive that full set of green everything; green from the skin out. To paraphrase the verse by Billy Joel; “When I wore a younger man’s clothes”.
Heart rocks the Amphitheatre
Mark Cubbedge, Special Events Photographer
Special to HISTORIC CITY NEWS
Heart has never been a band that shied away from its musical influences of the 1970s and it performed a brilliant mix of cover tunes interspersed with its own mega-hits that kept a sold-out crowd on their feet most of the soggy evening last night at the St. Augustine Amphitheatre.
