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…
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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…
History’s sports hero: Jim Rice
Mickey Starling ECB Publishing, Inc. When we think of an athlete being a hero, it usually means they made an outstanding play that won a game or at least kept a game…
What a scorcher!
Hailey Heseltine ECB Publishing, Inc. Whew, it’s really heating up outside! As Floridians, we’re certainly not strangers to what a hot, humid summer feels like. Florida consistently ranks as the hottest state…
Juneteenth Celebrating the path to freedom
Danny Federico ECB Publishing, Inc. “My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.” – Desmond Tutu Known as one of America’s oldest holidays, Juneteenth (June 19)…
Henry B. Plant, “The King of Florida”
Hailey Heseltine ECB Publishing, Inc. Henry B. Plant was dubbed “The King of Florida” by a magazine called Success in 1898 for his tremendous impact on the development of Florida’s transportation and…
The history of the Watermelon Festival
Hailey Heseltine ECB Publishing, Inc. For 74 years, Monticello has been the home of the annual Watermelon Festival, when Jefferson County has plenty of festivities to be found, old and new…
Sharing memories of Suwannee River Junior College
Hailey Heseltine ECB Publishing, Inc. Before there was the North Florida College (NFC) we know today, it split in two pieces. Madison was home to both North Florida Junior College (NFJC) and…
Dr. John Gorrie vs. Florida’s wrath
Hailey Heseltine ECB Publishing, Inc. Does it come as any surprise to you that the invention of air conditioning had its beginnings through an inventor from Florida? Probably not. About this time…
Picture from the Past
Photo courtesy of Florida Memory Pictured is the 1930 Monticello High School graduating class. Pictured in the back row, from left to right, are: Claude Groom, Skyler Smith, Emmett Kelly, Edward Milton,…
160 years of Emancipation
Hailey Heseltine ECB Publishing, Inc. Tuesday, May 20, marks the 160th anniversary of Florida Emancipation Day, when the Emancipation Proclamation was read aloud in Tallahassee, officially declaring all enslaved people in the…