The Way We Were: Joyce & Malcolm Hanson
Her most treasured wall hangings in the charming 1942 painted brick home on Dunsford Road help weave the story of Joyce and Malcolm Hanson’s lives individually and together in the San Marco and Lakewood areas. For Joyce, the drawing that hangs just to the right when you walk in the front door captures the beginning […]
The Way We Were: Allison Watson
Allison Watson said she was born to create art. Growing up in Ortega, Allison Watson spent many hours at the home of her grandparents, Malachi and Lucy Haughton, on the St. Johns River. An only child, she spent time fishing and shrimping off the dock at their house on Ortega Boulevard three houses down from […]
The Way We Were: William H. Rose
William Rose has a lifetime of memories and a postcard art collection that allows him to see Jacksonville through the eyes of his father, Max Rose, as well as recall his younger years growing up in Jacksonville. Rose, 92, has collected postcards produced in the early 1900s of Springfield and downtown Jacksonville that he has […]
The Way We Were: William J. Harp, Jr. & Barbara Parks Harp
According to William J. Harp of Avondale, he was handed “a life that is unbelievable.” Growing up in South Georgia in the 1930s, Harp’s family had a limited income. He worked as a soda jerk at the Rexall Drug Store in Brunswick owned by James Andrews, town mayor and the wealthiest man around. When his […]
The Way We Were: John Allen, Sr. and John Corse
Loon Lake and The Pier are, as the poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti wrote, “Pictures of a Gone World.” But to anyone over the age of 80 who grew up in Ortega or Venetia those terms spark happy memories of youthful fun. John Allen, Sr., 94, recalls when the Timuquana Bridge was made out of wood, the […]
The Way We Were: Bill and Sue Rust
Music and medicine were early influences in the lives of Bill and Sue Rust. Growing up in different times and places, Bill in Brooklyn, New York, and Sue in West Carrollton, Ohio, both performed in their high school concert bands and both entered the medical field as adults. Bill, who was a concertmaster in high […]
The Way We Were: Helen Brinson Covington & Guy Dietz
You can’t ask more of time spent growing up than to reach retirement years with the kind of memories Helen Brinson Covington and Guy Dietz have about growing up in Lakewood and attending Dupont High school as part of the Class of 1962. “I have nothing but good memories,” Helen said. Guy quickly agreed. Helen’s […]
The Way We Were: Thomas G. Hightower, Sr.
Tom Hightower of Lake Side Park has experienced many joys and sorrows during his 86 years. Born December 18, 1932 in Odum, Georgia, Hightower had a hardscrabble childhood. Times were tough in the rural farm community, then tragedy struck when his grandfather was shot and killed by the father of Tom’s stepsister. Later, in an […]
