Hailey Heseltine ECB Publishing, Inc What was it like to go to Monticello High School (MHS) during the 1940s? Turn the pages of the “Jeffecello” 1947 yearbook to get a glimpse of…
Category: History
Buying, selling and thriving across history
Hailey Heseltine ECB Publishing, Inc. Downtown Monticello is home to a vibrant community of local businesses, many of which operate and thrive in the very same historic buildings that once housed generations…
Women have now been voting for 105 years
Kathy Egan ECB Publishing, Inc. In 1787, the U.S. Constitution was drafted and created the government of the United States. By 1788, all the necessary states had ratified it, so, in 1789,…
Remembering Madison’s World War II hero Captain Colin P. Kelly, Jr.
Kathy Egan ECB Publishing, Inc. Before U.S. involvement in World War II, Madison’s Colin P. Kelly, Jr., having recently graduated from West Point and been promoted to Captain, was stationed in what…
Madison’s monument of four freedoms
Kathy Egan ECB Publishing, Inc. On Jan. 6, 1941, President Roosevelt spoke to the nation through his 1941 State of the Union Address. The speech came eleven months before the U.S. involvement…
Your Four Freedoms
Kathy Egan ECB Publishing, Inc. President Roosevelt’s 1941 State of the Union Address has become known as the Four Freedoms Speech. Spoken eleven months before the Japanese invasion of Hawaii, the speech…
9/11 Timeline
Danny Federico ECB Publishing, Inc. 7:59 a.m. – American Airlines Flight 11, with 92 passengers on board, takes off from Boston, Mass., heading for Los Angeles, Calif. 8:15 a.m. – United Airlines…
When time stood still: The day America united
Danny Federico ECB Publishing, Inc. It’s a day many will never forget and, sadly, a tragedy generations to come will never fully comprehend. On Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001, individuals across the nation…
Keeping it collegiate in North Florida
Hailey Heseltine ECB Publishing, Inc. As most colleges and universities in Florida started the fall semester between Aug. 18 and 25, class is back in session for students around the state. Many…
Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup: a patent medicine that packed a powerful punch
Mickey Starling ECB Publishing, Inc. Any parent can recall the many adventures that came with living with an infant during their teething stage. The frequent crying caused by the discomfort of sore…
Madison County’s first baseball great: Archie Ware
Mickey Starling ECB Publishing, Inc. Before Greenville native Lorenzo Cain made Madison County proud with his World Series win with the Kansas City Royals in 2015, Archie Ware put Greenville on the…
At a loss for words: more idioms to consider
Mickey Starling ECB Publishing, Inc. If you have been to the grocery store lately and checked out egg prices or any number of other food items, you may have thought “this is…
History of tattoos
Leah Androski ECB Publishing, Inc. Tattoos have been around for approximately 5,000 years, with the oldest documented tattoos found on an iceman named Otzi who scientists say lived during 3,300 B.C. Here…
Do you like Shakespeare?
Kathy Egan ECB Publishing, Inc. Language is dynamic. It changes and evolves as a result of the passage of time, common usage, cultural variations, slang and so on. As such, it can…
Back to school, historical style!
Hailey Heseltine ECB Publishing, Inc. To the delight or disappointment of children across Florida, August is passing us by, and the school year is once again in full swing. Today, most students…
Air conditioning across history
Hailey Heseltine ECB Publishing, Inc. The dog days of summer have drawn to a close, but that doesn’t mean the hot weather is anywhere near lightening, especially not for us Floridians. Did…
The Avera-Clarke House seeks a spot on the National Register
Hailey Heseltine ECB Publishing, Inc. Another one of Monticello’s beautiful historic homes is vying for recognition, and this time, it’s the Avera-Clarke House, the yellow two-story house from 1890 that’s served the…
A stroll through the streets of the past
Hailey Heseltine ECB Publishing, Inc. We drive, walk and bike many of the same paths people have been traversing for centuries. Even before Monticello became a community in 1820s in territorial Florida,…
From boom to bust
Hailey Heseltine ECB Publishing, Inc. It was the Roaring Twenties, and the postwar world seemed to be finding new life with its economic prosperity. That decade, Florida entered an era that would…
A tale told between the columns
Hailey Heseltine ECB Publishing, Inc. East Pearl Street is the slow and shaded, oak-canopied road that runs from downtown Monticello until it turns into Ashville Highway. Parallel to Washington Street, or Highway…