Day: July 3, 2025

  • Honoring Our Freedoms — and Giving a Mic to a Bold New Voice

    Honoring Our Freedoms — and Giving a Mic to a Bold New Voice

    The 4th of July is one of our favorite holidays here at Eye on Jacksonville.We adore our homeland — the USA — and the freedoms she guarantees each of us as citizens of this great country. We hope you will celebrate just as John Adams imagined back in 1776 — “with parades, bells, fireworks, and…

  • The quiet collapse of courage and tradition in modern romance

    The quiet collapse of courage and tradition in modern romance

    This summer, Eye on Jacksonville is handing the mic to a new voice — one that’s part sharp observer, part cultural translator. In Coming of Age in the Digital Age, college student and writer Celia Raines explores what it means to grow up in a world shaped by screens, shifting values, and noise masquerading as…