Looking Back at 2013
By Laura Jane Pittman Resident Community News At the fresh new start of each year, I often take a look back at the inspirational people I’ve profiled throughout the year. This January, however, I want to write about an individual who, though he was never profiled in the column, occupied my heart and mind over […]
Let It Snow
Since I’ve lived in Jacksonville for only 19 years, I am too “young” a resident to have seen one of this area’s rare snowfalls. Apparently, there were a couple of light snowfalls reported in 2010, one in January and one in December. They must not have been very memorable because I don’t remember them. And […]
San Marco in the 1960s
By Laura Jane Pittman Resident Community News Regular Way We Were contributor David Gum has moved us into the 1960s, providing a wonderful comparison of today’s San Marco Square to the Square of fifty years ago. Thanks, David, for the memories! Elegant shops, upscale restaurants, Balis Park, personalized sidewalk bricks, lion statuary – these images […]
Caldwell “Hank” Haynes
By Victoria Register-Freeman Resident Community News Friends of Hank Haynes refer to him as one of life’s prospectors because he sifts and pans for the gold of every experience. His sense of humor is well known. Quoting his mother, he says, “I started attending St. Mark’s Episcopal Church nine months before I was born.” (And […]
Vera Boyle Benjamin
By Victoria Register-Freeman Resident Community News Vera Boyle Benjamin is a lifelong resident of the historic district. Born in the early 1930s, she grew up on Lydia Street, a short distance away from her school, St. Paul’s Catholic. After high school, she went to Florida Community College-Jacksonville (FCCJ) and Jacksonville University and then became the […]
Suzanne Catto
Suzanne Catto By Laura Jane Pittman Resident Community News Longtime Jacksonville resident Suzanne Catto of Empire Point can’t imagine being any more blessed than she felt while growing up in the Miramar area of Jacksonville. The ‘50s and ‘60s of her childhood were wonderful, she recalls. Catto’s parents bought a house near where the Miramar […]
C. Bradley Faughn
By Victoria Register-Freeman Resident Community News Historic District resident C.Bradley Faughn knew how to satisfy the Secret Service. As project manager of Washington D.C.’s Kennedy Center renovation, he dealt with the President’s protectors on a regular basis. If the President was to attend an event, there was always a preliminary visit from his bodyguards. Moving […]
Sally Ann Freeman
By Victoria Register-Freeman Resident Community News The phrase ‘Buy Local’ occurs everywhere now – in shop windows, on bumper stickers, from radio and television pundits and on websites. In the Historic District this phrase might have been coined by Sally Ann Freeman, former Jacksonville resident. Almost a half century ago Freeman was fiercely devoted to […]
