Postcards from Christmas Past
For a long time, postcards were the most popular way for the people of Jacksonville to not only send their season’s greetings to those they cared about, but for them to receive letters of holiday joy in return.
Local Personality, International Star
A Riff from the Past…who created WJCT’s weekly jazz radio show, Jazz Corner?
A Victorian Christmas in the Merrill House
The James E. Merrill House Museum was decked out in holiday glory, thanks to Merrill House Museum Coordinator Nancy Gandy and volunteer docents Georgia Pribanic and Duncan Sawyer. Take a peek…
A Glimpse of Jacksonville’s Maritime Past
One of the joys of being an historian is discovering old documents that let us see into the past. The past is what happened. History is how we understand and explain the past, and we are constantly understanding it in new ways. Jacksonville is full of stories, which is what makes it such a fascinating place to practice history.