Jacksonville, FL, History

• 2007 Christmas Boat Parade
• Bay Street Jacksonville
• The Mandarin Massacre
• Manatees of Jacksonville
• Yellow Jack In Jacksonville:
  The Epidemic of 1888
• Jacksonville’s Motorcar History
• Through Hell On Horseback: Fla. Circuit Riders
• The Burning Wheel: Gory Horror On The St. Johns
• After The Fire: Architect
  Henry J. Klutho Rebuilds Jax
• The Treasure of Moncrief Springs
• Jacksonville’s Titanic Hero
• Bateman/Titanic pix
• Earthquake in Jacksonville
• History Underfoot
• Early Days In Banking
• The Praying Pirate
• The Great Telephone War
• Gentleman Jim’s Big Fight
•  Millionaire Philanthropist
•  Jax Aviation History
• Jax Railroad History
• Telephones in Jax
• Jax Medical History

1.      Duval County Medical Society

2.      Old-time Docs

3.      Crisis in Nursing

4.      Nurses in Crisis

• The following may take a long time to load but the photos and information is there; please be patient:
• NEW In The Shadow of The Lighthouse: A History of Mayport, Florida by Helen Cooper Floyd
• NEW Baldwin Florida History by Lillian Adams
• Old Photographs of Jacksonville, Florida
• Ponte Vedra Shipwreck
• Jax Junk Yard
• Unique Jax Home

• Jax History Links

Cool Stuff I Like

• Many Smiles
• NEW Jokes
• Want To Hear God Laugh?
• Art that pulls my chain:
• Great Chelonian Art
• Dog Stuck In Tree
• My taste in inspirational music
   Many Smiles
          Drums
          Dance
  (For others check out Links for Kicks below)

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A Thought From The Book:

    
.... Thou shalt not steal. .... Exodus 20: 15 ...
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Short Stories

·        The Transfiguration of Whats-His-Name

·        One Crazy Lady

·        Bad Children/Good Children

·         A Preliminary Report On The Bluegill Mound

·        BULL!

John’s Books

• NEWAucas: The Worst People On Earth
• Why Don’t I get What I Pray For?
• Gravedigger’s Christmas
• From the book People Whose Faith Got Them Into Trouble:
•  St. Patrick
• The Day They Killed Polycarp
•  A Virtuous Woman in a Corrupt Court:  Madame Jeanne Marie Bouvieres de la Mothe Guyon
•  Mary and the Bean Stalk: Mary Slessor of Calabar
• Men of Valor: A History Of Jacksonville’s Fire Department Note: A new 2008 edition of this book with the title Heroes All: A History Of Firefighting In Jacksonville, is now available at www.bluefishbooks.info

Americana

·Star Spangled Banner

·  Christopher Columbus

· A Heavenly-minded Little Devil: Thomas Coke, 1747 - 1814

·  Dr. Mary Edwards Walker

Family Life

· The Boomerang Food Basket

· The Fig Factor

· The Mattress In The Middle Of  The Bridge

· Move over Paul Revere

· The Hand of the Almighty Smites a Seagull

· Where 2 or 3

E-Mails I Fancy:

Folks send me as many as 15 e-mail offerings a day. I read them all but as a matter of policy I never forward chain letters. Here are a few samples of e-mails I fancy:

·A Little Child will Lead...

·The American Soldier

·50 State Constitutions Wrong?

· Good Old Days

·A List To Live By…
 from a religious person

·A List To Live By….

from a porno film lady

  NEWAging Gracefully

 Links For Kicks:

These links are included for no earthly reason other than I get a kick out of them. Some are serious, some are funny. No telling what you’ll get when you click:

NEW  John’s Links For Kicks

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A Thought From The Book:

    
.... The wrath of God is revealed from Heaven against all ungodliness .... Romans 1:18 ...
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“Tis better to be sacrilegious than not religious at all”. -- jwc

Patience Please, I’m uploading as fast as I can!

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A Thought From The Book:

"I know The plans I have for you," says the Lord, "They are plans for good and not for evil. to give you a future and a hope"..... Jeremiah 29:11

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  This Month’s NEW Features:

Donald's Geek Bible

An ongoing project in computerized Bible translation to update the King James Version using a computer program.

Bluefish Storefront

For John's Books

Latest Book: The Lazarus Projects

Features Archives:

• Jacksonville's Statues
• &
• Sandy's Garden
• A Unique Home in Jacksonville:
  A Photo Tour
• Photo Tour of Jacksonville's Old City Cemetery
• The Manatees of Jacksonville
• Daily Email Devotionals
• The Boomerang Food Basket
• There Is Hope For Cavemen
• Illuminated Bible Manuscripts:
  Wallpapers for your desktop
  Prepared by
  Donald Z. Cowart
• The Suspicious Seeds
• Robert J Bateman:
  Jacksonville’s Titanic Hero
  &
  Bateman/Titanic Photos
• The Ugliest Picture In The World
  …or the most beautiful
• Go-Go Girls In The Church
• The Day They Killed Polycarp
• Paddlewheelers On The St. Johns
  by
  Virginia M. Cowart
• Was Jesus A Ghost?
• Personal Peace
• The Man In The Moon:
  Johannes Kepler(1571 - 1630)
• Ephesus:
  A Wonder Of The World

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Talk to John at:

cowart.johnw@gmail.com

or Snail Mail:

John Cowart
2805 Ernest Street
Jacksonville, Florida
32205

*This site designed by Donald Cowart

For Donald’s Web Development Page:

click on http://www.rdex.net/

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A Thought From The Book:

.... Behold, now is the accepted time; Behold, now is the day of salvation.... II Corinthians 6:2
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Click here
 for a link to
a GIANT-PRINT  edition of
 

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 NEWUncle John's Bible Stories For Kiddies:

  When they were little, my own children loved such gory stories. That may say a lot about how they turned out as adults :

• Gideon and the Camels
• The Pride of Sisera
• Rich Man, Poor Man

New: John's Daily Blog

I update my blog more or less daily and I welcome your comments.

--- jwc

Rabid FUNdamentalist Columns

• NEW How This One Lone Guy Seeks God's Will -- Sometimes.
• Fun with Fundamentalism
• Party at the End of the World
• The Girl in my Shower
• NEW Fooled
• Antlers, Horns & Haloes
•   CAT FIGHT!
• The Elder Brother's Story

• The Tale Of Three Little Devils

• RATS!!!
• Jesse James & Me
• What Happened At Theo’s
•  You Can’t Find God in North Carolina
• It Costs What!!!
• I Get These Urges 
• Bible Transmission
• Are There Reindeer in Heaven?
• A Red Feather In Paradise: the odd story of Pitcairn Island
• Scary Change
• Warnings & Illicit Kissing On Christmas Eve
• Rejected by the Crusade
• Your name is in the Bible
• Animal Theology
• Counterfeits
• Hearthunger

• Thanksgiving At The Little End Of The Horn

Blatant Self-Aggrandizement

• John’s Resume
• NEW Seminole State Park 2007
• Port St Joe State Park 2005
• Port St Joe Cabin Photos

• Whale Watch Motel Photos
• July 4th Garden
• Our 2005 Spring Garden
• Cowart Family Vacation, 2005 for a verbal description of the chaos, see my blog for April.

NEW Web Site Statistics

• Photos of John & Ginny’s Garden
• Testimonial
• 2003 November Vacation Photos of Port St Joe State Park
• 2004 March Vacation Pix of St. Simons Island, Ga.

Journal Extracts
 (I’ve kept a daily journal of life since 1982; here are a few pages of interest).

• Christmas Frenzy
•  Run Around Day
•  Thrown Beer
• The Frog
• Brassier Hunt
• Books, Alligators & Ovid
• John Burns His Own Stupid Foot
• Shrimp & Dog Days of Summer

Today in former years:
(These journal extracts trace a single date, and related days, over a span of years).

• January 1^st, 1982 to 2003
• February 6^th, 1982 to 2002
• March 7, 1992 to 2002
• March 20, 1982 to 2003
• April 1^st, 1993 to 2003
• May 11^th, 1991 to 2003
• June 6, 1991 to 2003
• July 24, 1990 to 2003
• August 28, 1992 to 2003
• Nine Eleven, 1980 to 2002
• September 28th, 1979 to 2002
• October 31st
• November 2^nd
• December 2nd

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A Thought From The Book:

"Men ought always to pray, and not to faint".....

-- Luke 18:1

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Speeches

• Value

Given March 1. 2003, to the Men’s group at

First United Methodist Church, Gainesville, FL

• Guts, Feathers & All -- Given Sept., 1996, at Good Shepherd Episcopal Church, Jacksonville, to a Discover group who asked for a biographical talk.

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MED Neighborhood Crime Watch

• Who, What & Why
• NEW October Meeting Announcement
• May Meeting Announcement
• March 2008 Crime Stats

• Planting Pix 2002

•  Blessing on Homes
• Tree Planting Photos 2003
  Part One Slow to load; worth the wait.
• Tree Planting Photos 2003
  Part Two Slow to load; worth the wait.
• Outside MED Links:
  Mosquito Control, FBI’s Most Wanted, Sexual Predators, Computer Security, etc.

Notes:

cat show

Glog shirt

Slessor

Gimp dirty cover

WesBC

stamp rej

Writing tee shirt

Blog Pix

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PH Ad

Test

Gort

Isaiah 42