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Keeping their faith
Florida Times-Union, The (Jacksonville, FL)-September 28, 2004
Author: Judy Wells, The Times-Union
It's gaspingly hot on this Jacksonville sidewalk, and the woman swathed in a head scarf and ankle-length,
long-sleeved robe attracts stares of curiosity, derision, sympathy, enmity and suspicion.
Curiosity because it's an outfit seen mostly in newscasts from the Middle East. Derision because some assume she's
backward and uneducated. Sympathy because while everyone else is roasting, she must be broiling. Enmity because she's
one of "them," the beasts who attacked our country on 9/11. And suspicion because, well, despite the little boy
walking along with her, she might be a terrorist, too.
Modern life in a historic landscape ==================================================
Florida Times-Union, The (Jacksonville, FL)-September 28, 2008
Author: JUDY WELLS
Residents of St. Augustine have lived with building restrictions since the 600 Spaniards who arrived with Don Pedro
Menendez de Aviles in 1565 began laying foundations for their homes.
Philip
II, king of Spain, ordered St. Augustine's -- and for that matter, North America's -- first building ordinance.
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