Print ArticleSome say, Jacksonville is a diamond that wants to remain coal. What would it be like if Jacksonville were a city that didn't have such apathy for itself... led by people who acknowledged its achievements?
Ray Mason would have an Institute where international finance and Arabic trade principles were taught, studied and debated. People would know who Raymond Mason was, and have no fucking clue who Ed Ball was.
When the Jacksonville Film Festival opened every year, Wakefield Poole and Chad Hendricks would be the Emcees and Rita Manyette would be the Gala Hostess.
Mandarin would have a trolley tour of the famous writers who lived there over the past century. And even white people would know that Zora Neal Hurston lived here.
People would know who Zora Neal Hurston was.
There would be tours of the old city monuments as well as rubbings over the gravestones at the Confederate Graveyard in the Old City Cemetery.
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