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?
Brochures would direct people to the bohemian district in Five Points, the Gay Mecca in Riverside and the real cracker cooking in the nationally rated southern restaurants of the Northside.
Noel Freidline would be a rich man with a big Jazz Club that he owned somewhere on the Riverwalk.
Marabanong would be a famously discussed historical feature on the Jacksonville tour. People would know that Eliza Souvielle and Grace Trout lived there.
People would know who Eliza Souvielle and Grace Trout were.
Someone would have said "Thanks" to John Currington for resurrecting San Marco.
Or Lex Hester.
There would be a monument and perhaps a college marking the Landing of Protestant French Huguenots, and you could buy well-researched books about their history here.
There would be reenactments of pirate clipper attacks on the Ortega River, and the locals would brag about which French or English pirate they were descended from.
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