National Committee for the Preservation and Restoration of Historic St. Augustine just keeps giving. In 1936 this committee became the granddaddy of the restoration of St. Augustine. From its founding in 1936 St. Augustine has lived within the vision of Mayor Fraser who started it. Its absolutely amazing how one man’s vision can change the […]
Archives for September, 2012
Writing History – The influence of Today’s Political Views Distorting Lens on the Past.
Ah the politics of it all. I understand that in writing history we probably distort the past with our current perspective. There are the simple ways we do this: 1. When we write history we decide what’s important and what’s not important. It’s like editing a newspaper where you decide what the news of the […]
I think that the process of history is mostly done through stumbling around and the luck of finding things that you did not anticipate. Last week I found a collection of black and white photos by Frances Benjamin Johnson. She was a very famous photographer at the turn of the century and her fame only […]
I often get snippets of information about something. Not really a lot but information that I don’t want to lose. And trust me I either lost piles of information or its covered in pages and pages of accumulated information that hasn’t made it yet. Sometimes I put it on one of the main Dr. Bronson Pages […]
History is tough to correct. Once a good story gets going almost nothing can change it. St. Augustine is, of course, full of these “stories.” We have the Geronimo in St. Augustine. Never happened. We have a tunnels under King Street for Henry Flagler to go visit is “numerous” mistresses. This list just goes on […]
This post is a tribute to FDR. I’m not sure why he is still so underrated as President but it may be that he is still to close to us. My list would be if anyone ever ask: Washington, Lincoln, FDR…….bottom John Tyler. After the top three it gets very difficult but poor Thomas […]
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