Local Folks: Friends, Ginny and Ward
Amid five decades of change, Ginny Stine Romano and R. Ward Lariscy have managed to maintain a consistent friendship. Living and working close by, shopping and socializing in the same circles, and even traveling together—sometimes a state or two away, and sometimes abroad. These two friends have been doing life side by side for the […]
Theatre Jacksonville Executive Director Sarah Boone Creates Stage Production About Her Mother, Longtime Jacksonville Resident
Once upon a time, there was a young girl named Doris Ruth Lamb, born in 1925. She had hopes and dreams, crushes and relationships, heartbreaks and disappointments … about which her daughter Sarah Boone knew few details until discovering a journal and letters following her death in 2019. Boone, executive director of Theatre Jacksonville, was […]
Theatre Jacksonville celebrates a century
It was January 19th, and the black-tie event was essentially a Who’s Who of Jacksonville, circa 1938. Members and guests mingled on the black marbleized tile floors of the newly-built Art Deco-inspired Little Theatre of Jacksonville in San Marco Square, which had its lobby tastefully decorated in flowers and palms. Theatre members had patiently waited […]
