Arts and culture in Jacksonville, Fla.: music, theater, history, museums, festivals and the people who make Jacksonville creative.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - The Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens is marking its 65th anniversary with an exhibition of recent additions to its permanent collection, and the show stays open through April 18, 2027. "The Cummer Muse...
Nov. 10, 2026
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. - The first coquina stones of the Castillo de San Marcos were laid on Oct. 2, 1672, and the core of...
By Mark Gertjegerdes · Nov. 8, 2026
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - On May 3, 1901, a fire that started at a fiber factory on the west side of downtown burned 146 city...
By Mark Gertjegerdes · Nov. 8, 2026
FERNANDINA BEACH, Fla. - The Island Art Association is looking for artists, crafters and volunteers for the 2027 Isle of...
By Emil Gertjegerdes · Nov. 6, 2026
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. - Fifteen paintings by Dara Dodson, an award-winning painter of Florida's "Cracker" heritage, are no...
By Mark Gertjegerdes · Nov. 6, 2026
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - The Jacksonville Symphony will perform Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 9 on Friday, Nov. 6, and Saturd...
By Emil Gertjegerdes · Nov. 6, 2026
FERNANDINA BEACH, Fla. - The 12th annual Dickens on Centre festival will turn the historic streets of downtown Fernandin...
By Mark Gertjegerdes · Nov. 4, 2026
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - The City of Jacksonville will hold the closing reception and awards ceremony for its "City of Artis...
By Mark Gertjegerdes · Nov. 4, 2026
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. - Across King Street from Flagler College, the twin towers of the former Hotel Alcazar rise over dow...
By Emil Gertjegerdes · Oct. 30, 2026
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. - The red-tiled towers on King Street were built as a winter palace for wealthy Northern tourists, a...
By Mark Gertjegerdes · Oct. 25, 2026
Jacksonville, Fla. - The Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens holds more than 5,000 works of art, and its riverfront grounds...
By Emil Gertjegerdes · Oct. 24, 2026
Jacksonville, Fla. - The Florida Theatre in downtown Jacksonville is 99 years old, and its history includes a 1956 stand...
By Mark Gertjegerdes · Oct. 24, 2026
Jacksonville, Fla. - Before Hollywood, there was Jacksonville. By 1916, the city's telephone directories listed more tha...
By Mark Gertjegerdes · Oct. 23, 2026
St. Augustine, Fla. - Cattle drives at sunset, a mule turning a cane grinder, a boy and his horse outside a palmetto-sha...
By Mark Gertjegerdes · Oct. 23, 2026
Forty-nine years ago today, on Oct. 20, 1977, a plane carrying Lynyrd Skynyrd crashed in the woods near Gillsburg, Missi...
By Emil Gertjegerdes · Oct. 20, 2026