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Hidden Treasure - Folio Weekly
Chip Kirkpatrick is a history hunter. Every morning, he leaves his home in Yulee and ventures to a number of spots anywhere from South Georgia to Central Florida, accompanied by one of his trusty metal detectors. Sometimes he’s invited; sometimes he drives down country roads and knocks on doors to get permission to hunt. “Sadly,” Kirkpatrick says, “the overwhelming majority of what you find turns out to be trash in the ground—rusty nails, buried cans, lumps of lead, rusty metal and so forth.
Flavor In Your Ear
Florida—from the Spanish, meaning “full of flowers.” The mindset of most in America is that if you’re coming to Florida, you’ll need to know some Spanish to get by (and in some places, they’re correct). Our proximity to Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and other Caribbean and Latin American nations has played a major role in the development of the state. Here in Northeast Florida, seldom is there mention of the Latin impact on the First Coast.
Green Grocery Pioneers
For 20 years, from fringe, outsider buzz to mainstream consumption, the term “organic” has been transformed. Companies that positioned themselves as the go-to hub for the “better-living-through-chemistry generation” now pivot with breakneck speed, cleaning up their images, projecting a new greenness in an attempt to win over a new generation of conscious consumers.
Doug Berky's Stories Inspire Kids
The eyes of a child spark the flames of imagination; exposure being the ultimate denominator in determining a child's passion for the arts. An arts community is only as strong as the population that supports, advocates and champions for it to be the essential bedrock of its community. It is our investment in that exposure that guarantees the return of dividends: An engaged community of arts advocates enabling civil discourse.
Abundance Instead Of Scarcity
The format is fairly standard: Take the subject matter, find an intelligent, visceral approach to connect your audience to that subject matter, followed by a structural framework delivered through a rigorous journalistic lens. Except it's not that easy.
Disabled Does Not Mean Unable
Two weeks ago, a visually impaired child ran his hands over replicas of famous international statues, a physically impaired child finger-painted and made a collage from his wheelchair, a young boy pressed clay into the shape of a bird with his palm and the one finger he has on each hand, and more than 2,300 specially abled children had similar meaningful experiences leading to thousands of smiles during a four-day period.
The Sign Lady
In more than three years, Sonja Fitch has produced more than 400 pieces of satirical political artwork-her gallery walls are her fence on Ninth Street South in Jacksonville Beach. As a result, she says, she's been a victim of hate crimes, hate speech, vulgarities and vandalism, and continues navigating the political gauntlet of the city of Jacksonville Beach that wants Fitch to put an end to her signage because it claims it violates the city's temporary sign ordinance.
101* DRINKS You Have to Try in Northeast Florida Before You Die
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A quotation from famed literary drunk Ernest Hemingway had a kind of special resonance with our staff as we prepared the feature to wrap up the year. “Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk,” the king of compositional machismo once slurred. So, after tasting more than 100* drinks and taking copious notes at watering holes and restaurants in all six Northeast Florida counties that make up Folio Weekly’s distribution footprint, we had no other choice but to heed the words of Papa Hemmingway.
By Claire Goforth, Keith Marks, Dennis Ho, Matthew Shaw Verified, Greg Parlier Verified, Rebecca Gibson
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Folio Weekly
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RETHINKING RECYCLING
A one-minute TV ad on Earth Day in 1971 started it all. Iron Eyes Cody, “The Crying Indian,” shed tears as he looked at an America polluted and littered. The spot was a call to action. It was intended to remind every individual of his or her personal responsibility to protect the environment. It was also the beginning of a global marketing push rooted in the concept of recycled consumer waste.
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