Day: January 29, 2024

  • Attacks on the city’s history are not new

    Attacks on the city’s history are not new

    Fanatical history deniers are succeeding in rewriting Jacksonville’s past by tearing down statues and monuments, but efforts didn’t just begin recently. In 1969, there was an attempt by the late Lex Hester, one of the chief architects of consolidation, to move the Confederate soldier statue in Hemming Park. It ended with a luncheon with Hester…