“Part of our task is to learn how to make our lives work…we cannot lock them into definite patterns…Through knowledge of the past we can come to understand our present and reshape our future.

Ted Andrews/Uncover Your Past Lives

 

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Check out the Ghost and Gravestone Tour of St. Augustine Fl.

Haunted History of St. Augustine

What to do in the city of St. Augustine

https://www.visitstaugustine.com/things-to-do/attractions

 

 

check out the Alligator and Spoonbills live web cam just south of the CIty

https://www.explore.org/livecams/spoonbills/alligator-spoonbill-swamp-cam

 

 

and learn a bit more about this oldest city in USA:  

 

St. Augustine, FL: Virtual Tours

 

 

 

There’s an interesting mix to ‘Robin Hood’ because it’s kind of modern but medieval. There is a blend of adventure with a very modern feel.

Joanne Froggatt

 

 

 

 

 

Titusville, Florida

https://www.thecrazytourist.com/15-best-things-to-do-in-titusville-fl/

Is not an area that most people think of when they think of places to go in Florida  but Titusville  (as you’ll learn if you click above has several areas, many related to the Kennedy Space Center, that you might find interesting 

 

 

Check here for some of NASA Video Feeds you might find interesting since you can’t visit currently

https://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/countdown/video/video.html

 

 

But there’s other less famous that you might enjoy on just a walk about town.

St. Gabriel’s Episcopal Church

414 Palm Ave

https://nbbd.com/npr/stgabriels/index.html

 

 

 

Built 1887 on land donated:

J. Dunlin Perkinson, a lay reader

and Mary F. Titus, wife of 

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/57061330/mary-evelina-titus

 

 

 

Colonel Henry Titus

https://www.amazon.com/Colonel-Henry-Theodore-Titus-Antebellum/dp/1611176565

 

 

 

An outstanding example of neo-gothic architectural style

https://www.shutterstock.com/search/neo-gothic+architecture

 

 

A cemetery had been planned but the city council opposed one with in the city limits and it was never built.

St. Gabriel’s is known for it’s windows of St. Gabriel  by Tiffany

https://nbbd.com/npr/stgabriels/images1.html

 

 

 

as well as reportedly the largest bell in Brevard Co. (installed 1892)

Check out the church’s Website for more information

https://www.stgabriels.church/

 

 

 

and note they are streaming Palm Sunday service this Sunday 4/5/20 here

https://www.facebook.com/StGabrielTitusville

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Elgin Depot Museum

https://www.elgintx.com/200/Elgin-Depot-Museum

 

 

 

James H. Long Railroad Park and Museum

SMITHVILLE

https://explorebastropcounty.com/listings/james-h-long-railroad-park-and-museum/

 

 

 

 

 

explore the Trail more fully at this site:  https://texasbrazostrail.com/

this site covers so much of history of this particular region  which was a land of major cotton production after the civil war the crops produced mostly by tenant farmers and share croppers.and the rails and boats that were needed to take it to markets.  

 

 

 

 

 

Whitby Abbey 

Whitby, North Yorkshire

Whitby’s distinctive outline makes it not only one of the most recognizable monastic sites in England,  but certainly one of the most photographed, although its popularity may have far more to do with vampires than architectural merit.

Derry Brabbs

Abbeys & Monasteries

 

 

oh interested more in the Vampire and Whitby check here

 

Dracula and Whitby

 

 

 

 

 

Brevard Zoo

 

 

See the Baby Giraffe:  

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/zubehrs61wikywg/AABx2u4DaaEUxUGye71fgG2ua?preview=Brevard+Zoo+giraffe+calf.mp4

 

 

 

 

Meet the animals

 

Animal Wellness

 

and check out the

Treetop Trek Adventure

https://www.treetoptrek.com/

 

 

 

MaVynee Betsch

“The Beach Lady”

 

https://thegedsection.com/ma-vynee-betsch-conservationist-environmentalist-dedicated-life-to-environment-american-beach

 

 

January 12, 1935 (Jacksonville)

September 5, 2005 (American Beach)

 

 

I was leafing thru a “Visit Florida” Black Heritage booklet recently and I discovered this interesting and certainly not your stereo-type  of a black woman born in the early 20th century in the deep south.  

 

 

Her grandfather was Abraham Lincoln Lewis,

who always went by “A. L  who in 1901 founded an African American Life Insurance company in Jacksonville and was the first African American millionaire in Florida not to mention he was one of the wealthiest men in the  southeast during this time.  But for our little narrative we’re interested in his purchasing a  section of beach on Amelia Island in 1935 and creating a beach resort for African Americans that was popular into the 1960’s.  

 

 

American Beach has been described as the African American Hyannisport “where the creme de la creme of Black society came to relax in the Jim Crow South.  

 

Ms. Betsch was brought up in the “lap of luxury” and privilege.  She earned a double degree in voice an piano from the Oberlin Observatory and sang opera in Europe for many years.  

 

 

 

In 1982 she returned to Jacksonville and began to study an promote conservation and protection of the environment, focusing on her beloved beach and the American Beach community.  She eventually gave away her entire fortune to charities that supported these beliefs.  She was featured  CBS and PBS, written up in USA Today and the New York Times among others.  

 

 

She eventually became The Beach Lady with her seven foot long dreadlocks and she gave guided tours of the beach to visitors giving them a view of the beach from a person grew up there during its heyday.  She was a passionate lady with a strong belief in her which was her beach.  She passed away at age 70 having lived as long as the beach.  

to learn more about A.L. Lewis:   https://www.unf.edu/uploadedFiles/committee/AAFSA/A.L.%20Lewis%20-%20Hometown%20Hero.pdf

 

 

American Beach   https://www.nps.gov/timu/learn/historyculture/ambch_history.htm

 

 

The Jim Crow Laws   https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/freedom-riders-jim-crow-laws/

 

 

Before the Beach                                                                          https://thegedsection.com/ma-vynee-betsch-conservationist-environmentalist-dedicated-life-to-environment-american-beach

 

 

 

American Beach Today                             https://catalog.archives.gov/id/77843367

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Harrods

Harrods i a long terracotta building, crowned with a cupola and bedecked at all times with the flags of the nations.   It is like a museum where you can buy the exhibits, which range from the quaint and the curious through the grotesque to the gaspingly wonderful

Nick Yapp

Rupert Tenison

London:  The Secrets and the Splendour

 

 

virtual tour Harrods 5th floor:  https://catalog.archives.gov/id/77843367

 

 

another tour of Harrods:  https://visualise.com/2009/08/harrods-360-virtual-tour

 

 

and one of London:  https://360.visitlondon.com/#